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  • Writers Corner Re: Are the politics too controversial...?

    Alright, I completely understand your point. However, this is just a fictional story. Perhaps, if it played out on a different planet, with aspects so unlike our own world, the ...

    Aug 6, 2010
  • Writers Corner Re: Are the politics too controversial...?

    Your map is fairly accurate. I forgot to mention, and had to look back in my writing to find this small detail, that Svetzar's section of France extends all the ...

    Aug 5, 2010
  • Writers Corner Re: Are the politics too controversial...?

    Thanks Rosey! I understand my excerpt didn't exactly make since. I was just talking about the politics, not about how this girl knows so much, and what in the world ...

    Aug 4, 2010
  • Writers Corner Re: Are the politics too controversial...?

    I wrote a novel about two years ago. I'm just now sending it into the editor, who is also my mom. We have strong political views in my family, which ...

    Aug 3, 2010
  • Writers Corner Re: Is this totally too discriptive...?

    Yes, it does! Thanks! I'm reading "Eragon" (by Christopher Paolini) right now, and now that I think about it, I do notice how the fight sequences are. Short, sweet, and ...

    Jul 5, 2010
  • Writers Corner Re: Is this totally too discriptive...?

    Rosey and Blink: Thank you so very much for answering my question. I had determined my initial error already, I just wasn't sure what was making it sound so terrible. ...

    Jul 4, 2010
  • Writers Corner Re: Is this totally too discriptive...?

    Hey everyone! Just starting a new novel. It's a twist on the story of Beauty and the Beast. I really like to be descriptive. I mean, when J.R.R. Tolkien is ...

    Jul 4, 2010


That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.
— Ramy (Babel by R. F. Kuang)