Thrill Me

Have you ever had to deal with people that just won’t shut up about how great they are?
Well let me share something with you as you go about being on the net and posting on forums and all the other things we plan to do to promote our work and ourselves.
Don’t brag. Trust me, no [...]

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Copyright

Ok, we all deal with this. The worry that our work will get stolen.
First off, it can’t get “stolen” unless someone physically takes it from you.
But the fear is that it will be copied, or more to the point, someone copying the concept, idea or work and then claiming that they did it, or even [...]

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Every Site Has One.

Ok. so here I am on a writing site, since I bounce around though several writing sites, and I learn that we as writers always have to deal with a special kind of person.
The Dregs of Netizn society.
We all know the kind of person I am talking about, some forums have several of them.
From the [...]

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Let Nothing Stop YOU !

Many times we might feel that what we have to work with will affect the quality of our work.
We blame the Programs we have, or the access we have to things on our progress or ability to create.

There are tons of Word Processors and spread sheet makers and things like that,
so much so that we [...]

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What is a Cliché?

Admit it, many of us have heard this term but few of us really know what exactly a Cliché really is.
It seems to be this big bad evil dark cloud that hovers over our work like some hungry beast ready to strike.
Well, maybe not, but unless we know what a Cliché is, we just will [...]

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Something I just stumbled upon.

Well, I was wandering the internut like I normally do in search of subject matter to discuss, well, really I am trolling around looking for how creativity is being extinguished or attacked and lo and behold I met this wonderful dynamic person named C.F. Jackson.
Everything she said had this wonderful positive feeling to it, this [...]

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That is so cliché

Have we all heard this line in our life? Maybe a bit one too many times? Hummm? What gets me if how it is used too. I think it is about time for a good old fashioned language lesson. (Gotta love Dictionary.Com!) with something called cross-referencing!
First of all,I bet most people do not [...]

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What makes Good Fantasy.

I was told by someone that my answer was a “Nothing” answer to the question.

I was told that it is a ‘self evident’ truth that a good writer will make a good story, no matter what genre they write in.

Ok, I could admit to that, but I have to question that whole “self [...]

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What Makes Great Fantasy?

I saw this question while lurking around on the internet, and decided that this would make a great post.
There is only one thing that makes a Great Fantasy story.
It is not: elves, magic, orc’s dragons, or anything else that can be listed. There is only ONE defining factor between great fantasy and miserable fantasy.
That one [...]

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Get the Torches and Pitchforks!

Well lo and behold I was checking out thins and came across someone called Kenneth Goldsmith, a person that makes the claim creativity is dead or something equally stupid.
Which sounds like a rip off of:
“Everything that can be invented has been invented.“
– Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
(Take a look [...]

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