So I made this uber post on The Crazies but when I went to post it, everything broke and it got lost.
So here’s the first chapter to my supposed novel. Featuring a brokeback relationship I added for humour but seems to have worked out with the critics I posted last week. – Comments from students [...]
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Rather than post course materials, the idea of this exercise was to create a character quirk and pop it in a story. A Very short one.
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It was like a comforter for Charlie the gnome whose nerves had been on edge ever since the news had broken. <Excellent [...] -
Right so I’m not going to post my first chapters but I am going to post the critique that came after. I find that when I share things at large, I get bored with them very quickly and they never get finished.
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I’m dysfunctional like that.
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… That is me!!!
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So over the past couple of months I’ve posted some assignments from my course, how they’ve been marked and what not. here’s some more!
February 9 Writing Exercise
Write five similes or metaphors. And with each simile or metaphor, reveal something important about Charlie the Gnome’s past or psyche or spirit. Feel free to [...] -
We had to rewrite some sentances.
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The green snake slithered across the table.
Wound so tight he could have been a spring ready for action, Freddy the snake viewed his life as a dance, every move was a calculated gesture of seduction and threat. A snake has to eat, not be eaten so imagine Freddy’s surprise [...] -
I’ve just posted this over at the writing course, if you check out the previous post in the catagory you’ll see what ammendments Mr Shipp suggested I make.
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I have changed the grammatical errors and also added/deleted stuff. There’s also an underlined section which is the old paragraph with the newer one beneath, not sure if [...] -
So another HUGE thanks to Helen (@hmanley82) for helping me fill up some banner space at the top of the blog with a Zombie-esque tribute to the wookie. Perhaps a story should be written to go with the image she created for the site. I love it, although one question… do Wookie’s were shoes and [...]
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Okay so Jeremy C Shipp, he’s a guy that writes books. Even has his own website with testimonials from people like the great Jack Ketchum who screwed my head up with The Girl Next Door, I’ve not read another book since that. So disturbed by it all, that and I’m just so lazy it sometimes [...]
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So, yesterday Microsoft announced it would be bringing the god awful Ban Hammer down on those who are running modified Xbox 360’s as it was against the Xbox Live terms of service and are more than likely used to play pirated games. Close to a Million gamers have been affected by the Ban Hammer. Smooshed into little geeky [...]
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