Writers if you had to choose between fiction and poetry, which would you choose?

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Writers if you had to choose between fiction and poetry, which would you choose?
My school only allows you to specialize in one or the other. Im relatively decided but curious about what other people prefer and why.

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Fiction. I love poetry too, but theres something so engrossing about the elements of telling a story and making a compelling plot. I also think that to some extent, poetry can be incorporated into prose I mean, look at some modern authors, Neil Gaiman comes to mind, and they reeeally have a way with language, some very pretty turns of phrase.

Writers...how alike are we all?

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Writers...how alike are we all?
So yes or no answers

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Bowser.brbr You prefer to write alonebrAbsolutely. I get very selfconscious if I try to write in a room with others, so I tend to just wait until Im alone. And Id never, ever be able to cowrite a novel with someone.brbr You are an introvertbrHa! Yes. I think I take, quotintrovertquot to a whole new level. My brother has Aspergers, and my Mum wanted to get me tested for it as well because Im so antisocial. But I assured her that I just dont like people, and its true.brbr When you go to bed, you usually have a predream, where you control the dreamstory in your headyou think about your own storybrOn occasion, yes. I dont do it every night, but a few times a week I find my mind wandering to Glendeyn and figuring out whats going to happen next.brbr You daydreambrLets just say my minds in the clouds.brbr When you get an idea when you are out, you think about it for the rest of the day until you get in and have to write type it down and you end up forgetting where you even were or what you were doing, lolbrYes! But my mind is so erratic that I very rarely manage to remember the entire idea. Its so annoying gtbrbr You prefer to stay in and write than go out to a partybrYuck, parties.brShuddersbrThe last thing I want to do is stand around in a room with a bunch of drunk teenagers getting hit on by people that repulse me.brbr You are femalebrYes brbr You hatedont like exercisingbrWell. Only because its so damned hot in this country. Id probably exercise if I had some form of equipment in the house... Like an Ab Twister! Ah, Id love one of those. But most of the time Im just sitting around on my a. Thank God for my fast metabolism.brbr You are creative in other things, such as art, music, dancing etc...brNo brIm the most uncreative person in the universe. Im also terrible at analytical things, like math and science. Writing is pretty much the only thing I have, and even then Im not that great at it.brI used to play bass and write songs, but I pretty much sucked. And then my bass broke so... That was the end of that fiasco. I also used to play the violin, but I was so terrible that my teachers hair actually started falling out. And as for art, well... I like to doodle.brbr When you read, you sometimes roll your eyes if the character does something stupid or you mumble out something like quotWhat was the point in that?quotbrYES! Eurgh, Im doing that a lot in the book Im reading now.brbr You are more of a jogging bottoms and a hoody type of person than a quotI have to wear makeup and look best MOST of the time.quotbrEh, kind of. I dont own jogging bottoms or hoodies, but I do spend most of my time in comfortable clothes like tshirts and what have you. I dont like to leave the house without makeup because my skin is so atrocious, but thats just me.brbr Your books have many creases on the spinebrHow did you know?! Dbrbr You prefer hardbacks to paperbacks excluding the costbrYes! Hardbacks make me feel smart, not to mention I prefer to hold them.brbr You are in no rush to get published you have a long while yet to get your book out therebrYahuh. I recognise that Ive got a LONG way to go writing wise, and I dont mind spending a lot of time perfecting it.br All your stories in your notepad or word doc that are unfinished, you see them as writing practise and not as failing stories.brHahahah, pretty much. But all of my unfinished stories have been deleted over the years by spiteful siblings. So I never did get to finish them.brbr You seem to do better when writing in rd personbrWell, Im not exactly sure. I dabbled in writing the first chapter of my novel in both to see, but the people I showed it to had really mixed reviews. So... I still dont have a clear answer on which Im better at.brbr You read and write so you can escape mundane lifeproblemsbrYes brbr You love book trailers more than reading what its aboutbrBook trailers? Oh, those things on YouTube? No, I dont really like those. I like to read blurbs though.brbr You are a fast typerbrYep! And a fast texter. Like lightning.brbr You used to be an outdoor person but now you are more of an indoor person so you can write.brYes, but I think that has more to do with where we live now, and also not being a kid anymore. When I was younger and living in a totally awesome neighbourhood in New Zealand I used to spend all day running around getting up to mischief with my brother. We explored all the creeks in the area, and went on bike adventures every weekend. Damn it was awesome. Curse you Australian suburbia! Curse you!

Would you stoop to the pavement to pick up a lose coin lying there?

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Would you stoop to the pavement to pick up a lose coin lying there?
I have experience of doing this myself that I found very intense, as I could not help thinking what people think about it? But there is a limit regarding amount of money involved after which everything become ok by everyone. Would you for example pick up a penny from ground, or would you only consider ten or twenty pence coin, or may be not. If not then will a brand new shining mint of a pound will do the magic. Or may be you are into currency notes. Whenever I, if ever, see a precious currency note lying on the ground, I find the glimpse as subtle as the sight of the skin of a snake lying in the grass the only difference being I am more likely jump away from the later and jump at the former.

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For pennys, not worth the effort but for anything above ...hmmm..one has to start to wonder at what height does you arroganceego start to show ? At what amount do you still think you are too good and couldnt be seen.A good question , one that makes you ask one or two to your self..thank you, I needed that..

Would you stoop to the pavement to pick up a lose coin lying there?

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Would you stoop to the pavement to pick up a lose coin lying there?
I have experience of doing this myself that I found very intense, as I could not help thinking what people think about it? But there is a limit regarding amount of money involved after which everything become ok by everyone. Would you for example pick up a penny from ground, or would you only consider ten or twenty pence coin, or may be not. If not then will a brand new shining mint of a pound will do the magic. Or may be you are into currency notes. Whenever I, if ever, see a precious currency note lying on the ground, I find the glimpse as subtle as the sight of the skin of a snake lying in the grass the only difference being I am more likely jump away from the later and jump at the former.

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For pennys, not worth the effort but for anything above ...hmmm..one has to start to wonder at what height does you arroganceego start to show ? At what amount do you still think you are too good and couldnt be seen.A good question , one that makes you ask one or two to your self..thank you, I needed that..

Would you say that despite everything he done, Hitler was a nice guy?

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Would you say that despite everything he done, Hitler was a nice guy?

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This is such a sensitive topic, considering all the things that happened in the Holocaust,brbut I believe the right way to put it would be with this Anne Frank quotebrquotDespite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.quotbrbrBut even if he does have an ounce of good in his heart, it doesnt erase all the terrible things he has done, brbut at the same time it makes you wonder what happened to him in the past to make him such a corrupted, hateful person.brbrI once read somewhere that he wanted to become an artist as a child, but his father didnt let him. Im just guessing that many bad things must have happened to him as a child to make him such a resentful and powerhungry being, but then again that doesnt really justify any of his actions.brbrI hate him for all hes done,brbut at the same time I feel sorry for him.brbrI dont really think quotnice guyquot is really adjectives that is fit for Hitler, but somewhere deep down he may have goodness in his heart hidden behind his hurt feelings that were twisted into hate or some kind of want.

Would You Read My Story?

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Would You Read My Story?
This is the first chapter.

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Sometimes single words can mean everything. Did you know Hemingway once threatened to throw his editor out of a window of a NYC skyscraper over a single word?brbrI read this and every now and then a single word knocks me for a loop. The first one ... I examined my hand with the unscrupulous eye of a nervous monster. Define quotunscrupulousquot for me in this sentence. I dont see anything in my thesaurus that makes that sentence work. brbrquotThe full moon inspires terror in mequot... here I think you are one word short. For a lycan, by the time the moon is full, they have already transformed. They are out of control. There is no terror in the full moon for them. There is only lust for blood. However IF you said quotthe THOUGHT of the full moon inspires terror in mequot, then Id buy it. brbrThere are many little places like that. And what it adds up to is really bordering on being a little heavy on the purple prose. brbrMy question is this ... what kind of a person is this in human form? Are they the kind of person who would say quotI spilled onto the forest floorquot? Or are they the kind of person who would say quotI fell down in the woodsquot? BIG difference in the characterization. brbrRemember that in first person narration, you are using words as a part of your characterization. Right now, I dont know what kind of a person this is but they talk rather flowery. Is is a contemporary person? Male or female? brbrWould they say quotI feasted on the sight of it allthe azure framed by treetops, with a shy sun peeking through the gaps in the trees.quot?? Or something simpler?brbrYou have to go one way or the other. And it all depends on your characterization. This characters voice has to reflect who they are. Right now, from what I see, I would guess someone in the th century perhaps England older person. I cant picture a young person speaking like that. But I am not so sure that is who this person is. If this is your first chapter, the characters words have to TELL me that. They are all you have. See??brbrI think you need to do more work on the character study. I can see you like flowing, purple prose, and in its place, it can work. But for the right character. brbrAlso, I think you need more of a transition in the beginning. You begin by describing this person turning human again. Then you go into a description where they say quotI will never be able to describe itquot But you DO describe it. Then it seems we are back to this person unconscious on the ground in the woods with the body of his or her sister beside them. The transitions arent strong if you are going to tuck that section in the middle about how it feels to be a lycan. Perhaps you want to reverse it. Begin with The full moon ... give the description kind of like a mini prologue and go from there then you can hook the entire changing process together. Try it that way and see if it works. But if you intend to frame the chapter with that description in the middle, your transitions need to be stronger. PaxC

Would you read my book?

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Would you read my book?
These are excerpts, but they are in order...

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I thought about this for a while. You have an ability to draw in the readers because of your ability to describe the situation, physical and psychological, by appealing to the senses in a way that a reader feels or sees it and wants to learn more. I dont know how important your punctuation is when submitting something to be published, but you should either learn the details or get a proofreader.brDont get overly involved in description sometimes you are saying the same thing twice as in your overly sensitive sensations and your response of being washed over and indulged. An overhead fan doesnt wobble sturdily, and you wait for someone. Waiting on someone means you are serving them.brAll of your story is in the past, even your quotations. You may want to draw the reader to a present action.brPlease dont take this critique as all negative and forget what I said in the beginning. Your mistakes are amateur and can be corrected. Good luck. Let us know the title when you publish this.

Would you rather stand up for what you believe in, even if it means standing alone?

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Would you rather stand up for what you believe in, even if it means standing alone?

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I do and will most of the time in real life. Of course, everybody does it on the Internet which is the beauty of this forum. Good or bad everybody has a voice. brbrIn real life its a bit more difficult to do because we cant turn quotitquot off so easily or walk away from a mob of angry racists or tell your grandmother that you decided not to be a lawyer or a christian. However, at some point in life we all do.brbrEver dated that guy or girl that nobody including your mother liked, but you dated himher anyway? You were alone with that until the breakup or maybe you even married him or her. Ever had a friend that nobody but you liked? I am sure we all have similar situations that we have all come across. So in short, the answer is yes.

Would you rather stand up for what you believe in, even if it means standing alone?

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Would you rather stand up for what you believe in, even if it means standing alone?

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I do and will most of the time in real life. Of course, everybody does it on the Internet which is the beauty of this forum. Good or bad everybody has a voice. brbrIn real life its a bit more difficult to do because we cant turn quotitquot off so easily or walk away from a mob of angry racists or tell your grandmother that you decided not to be a lawyer or a christian. However, at some point in life we all do.brbrEver dated that guy or girl that nobody including your mother liked, but you dated himher anyway? You were alone with that until the breakup or maybe you even married him or her. Ever had a friend that nobody but you liked? I am sure we all have similar situations that we have all come across. So in short, the answer is yes.

Question for Twilight lovers?

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Question for Twilight lovers?
First of all, does anyone know when the Twilight movie comes out? Also, I just finished Breaking Dawn and it was amazing! Does anyone know when Midnight Sun comes out?

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The Twilight movie will come out on DVD March . Stephenie Meyer has postponed the release of Midnight Sun indefinitely because some people leaked it onto the Internet. But she posted the first couple of chapters here. httpwww.stepheniemeyer.commidnightsua I loved Breaking Dawn too. I didnt love Jacobs part that much but he isnt one of my favorite characters. I kept crying with joy!