Search found 15 matches
- Thu Sep 16, 2010 12:01 pm
- Forum: Results and Highest Rankings
- Topic: Winning Entries for THINK
- Replies: 20
- Views: 21852
- Tue Aug 31, 2010 5:11 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: #15--WELL-CONSTRUCTED NON-FICTION
- Replies: 46
- Views: 70727
Wow, I haven't been here for ages! Life's been a bit hectic at home. Anyway, now I'm back I'd better get to it. Non-fiction really isn't my thing, but I'll give it a go. I'll do the musical instrument. Clap, tap, slap, boom, wham, click, pound. Since the dawn of time birds, beasts, and probably men ...
- Thu Jul 01, 2010 8:50 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Beginnings (#1)--the 4th judging criterion
- Replies: 104
- Views: 217165
Question : Is it okay to start a story with the character's thoughts? For example, This is so stupid. What am I doing here? Everybody else who braved this tomb died horrible deaths. What's to stop it happening to me? That, of course, would be the thoughts of an Indiana Jones-type character investiga...
- Wed Jun 09, 2010 1:49 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: #14--THE WELL-CONSTRUCTED POEM
- Replies: 37
- Views: 59381
Well, Jan, that taught me something. I never knew that tankas should be a moment in time, whereas haikus should describe something in nature. I guess that according to that criteria, my tanka would be better as a haiku. Thanks for telling me that. Aren't haikus shorter? There was a kind writer named...
- Tue Jun 08, 2010 3:13 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: #14--THE WELL-CONSTRUCTED POEM
- Replies: 37
- Views: 59381
Hey, Jan! I've always enjoyed poetry, though obviously some of my early poems were pretty naff. Right now there's a question I want to ask you. I noticed that in your lesson you didn't mention the japanese style poems, which, if I remember correctly, have to have a certain number of syllables to eac...
- Tue May 18, 2010 3:00 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: #12--PREDICTABILITY
- Replies: 29
- Views: 49372
I don't really do romance stories. Science fiction and mystery I'm familiar with, but my strong point is fantasy, and so once again, I'll do my homework on that. So then, one typical fantasy storyline: Hero is a young lad who's special but doesn't know it - is thrown into trouble and everyone is try...
- Tue May 11, 2010 8:37 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: #11--Creative, Unique, Fresh
- Replies: 74
- Views: 153399
- Tue Apr 20, 2010 2:12 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Writing Basics #8--Developing Interesting Characters
- Replies: 69
- Views: 131828
Hey, Jan! Welcome back. Glad you had a nice holiday. I couldn't find any bits from old stories that seemed to work for me, so I'll just write this one as it comes to me. An empty beer bottle shattered by the side of her bed. Startled, Marie leapt up, and winced as her bare feet met a few small glass...
- Mon Mar 08, 2010 8:22 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: #8--Writing Out of the Box
- Replies: 94
- Views: 139159
As soon as I saw that word Fire, my thoughts started racing. I came up with thirty words ideas in the first five minutes, so here's a list of a third of them. Gates of Hell, burnt dinner, Guy Fawkes, tongues of fire, fireman, The Human Torch, the Sun, fire and brimstone, Vesuvius, and burnt fingers....
- Tue Feb 23, 2010 4:17 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Dialog #2
- Replies: 52
- Views: 122222
- Thu Feb 18, 2010 3:15 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Writing Basics #4: Overusing Exclamation Points
- Replies: 62
- Views: 83781
This is a part of an English assignment I wrote in school some time back. The story was about a theft of mulberry trees and silk worms in Medieval England, and had at least ten exclamation points in it. The whole story was about 6000 words long and now I see that ten is too many. Fredrick's men ran ...
- Wed Feb 17, 2010 3:25 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Dialog #1
- Replies: 103
- Views: 207044
- Fri Feb 05, 2010 2:50 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Writing Basics #3: Choosing a Tense and Sticking to It
- Replies: 81
- Views: 167678
Okay, all I really noticed was the tense changes, but then I had been told by a family member that it was about tenses, and so I was looking for that particular mistake. Here's my one: The great dragon swoops down and the party and carries them away into the night. With a great thrust of her wast wi...
- Fri Jan 29, 2010 11:42 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Writing Basics #2: Beware of Adjectives and Adverbs
- Replies: 129
- Views: 310343
It was an exhausted Jan who staggered into her house at the end of a seemingly endless day at work. She slipped off her dark shoes at the door and plodded unenthusiastically toward the kitchen. All she wanted was an ice-cold soda and something sugary to chew on—perhaps there was some leftover cake i...
- Fri Jan 29, 2010 11:40 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's New "Class"--Writing Basics
- Replies: 115
- Views: 147000
J.R.R Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Another harsh horn-call and shrill cries rang out. Feet were coming down the corridor. There was a ring and clatter as the Company drew their swords. Glamdring shone with a pale light, and Sting glinted at the edges. This whole passag...