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rosalinda-143.livejournal.com

How do I know when to use:

These ---> ()
These ---> -
These ---> ,

What's the difference? Well I mean, I know the difference but I mean like in writing? Could you go into detail and give me examples?

Also, I hear that if you want to publish a book you send out a manuscript to the publishing companies. What's a manuscript?

Much appreciated!

Thanks in advanced!

peace.love.happiness.

~ Rosie

Current Mood: chipper
Current Music: Paranoid

neensz.livejournal.com

Our darling Morph from Laundry Hell somehow managed to spawn his own universe.

A/N: I'm desperate for critiques. I keep vacillating between thinking this is one of the best things I've ever written, and thinking it's utter crap. Please heap on the constructive criticism! I'm posting one short, fairly stand alone excerpt. If it catches your interest, the beginning of the Long Time Gone saga is here. Please leave me feedback so I can improve my writing! Thank you.
Summary: In which we catch a glimpse of Liam's infamous blog.
Rating: R for language

( Trippy Sci-Fi Ravings )

Current Mood: chipper
Current Location: Laundry Hell

clear-sarcasm.livejournal.com

Hi everyone,

I believe this is my first time posting here.

I just had a question for anyone who may be able to assist me.

I'm currently working on a novel (fiction - thriller). The opening chapter is to begin with a 911 call being placed by a woman in distress. The novel is written in third-person perspective, past tense. So, how would the conversation take place?

Every time I try to play it out, I think of news segments or scripts in which it is written something like this:

Dispatch: 911, what's your emergency?
Caller: Someone's been shot.
Dispatch: Who's been shot? Where are you calling from?
...etc.

This, obviously, won't work in my novel...so...what are my options?

Any and all advice, criticism and/or opinions are welcomed and appreciated.

Thanks!

rosalinda-143.livejournal.com

So I have this short story that I want to get published and I really need someone to critique it. Leave your critiques on this community please and not in my journal. Thanks in advanced!

Among the Dead Part 1/3

Part 2/3

Part 3/3

Like the title says it'd be greatly appreciated!

peace.love.happiness.

- Rosie

Current Mood: determined
Current Location: Lair
Current Music: Bye, Bye, Bye

rosalinda-143.livejournal.com

Okay so my book is written in first person and people are usually saying that authors' don't give a full despricption of the protagonist so they can slip into his/her shoes. Well I don't want that but I think it would be weird if the protagonist described themselves. I mean how do you fit that into you story? It just sounds weird that they would be describing themsevles even if it were for the sake of the reader.

So if anyone could tell me how I should do that, that'd help temendously. Oh and what is second person? I mean I've heard third and first but second? I didn't think there was a second.

Thanks!

peace.love.happiness.

- Less Squeaky, More Sneaky

Current Mood: lazy
Current Location: Couch yet again
Current Music: Jump Then Fall - Taylor Swift

rosalinda-143.livejournal.com

So as you know I've decided to take on a project about writing a book about bullying, and not just an informational book a story book about what was happening in my mind. If you want to know more just click here.

So here's the first chapter of the book. It's not long because I don't remember much but I'm sure it'll make a big impact on kids/teens and it might not be a novel but it definitely get's the point across.

Also it starts out a little blunt... so any suggestions on how to change that?

( Are They Really Your Friends? )

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: In Fornt of T.V.
Current Music: Send it On

rosalinda-143.livejournal.com

Friends... Romans... lend me your ears, and please hear me out.

( Short Story Coming Your Way! )

So please, please. Anyone. Maybe more than one. That'd be great! Thanks for listening. Sorry I must've bored you to death and wasted your time.

peace.love.happiness.

- Rosie

Current Mood: I can do this!
Current Location: Bedroom
Current Music: Let's Do This

x-darshee.livejournal.com

Hello! (:
First, I’d like to say thank you to the creator of this community! Creating this community was an excellent idea, because I think
writers can communicate with other writers and definitely learn new things to improve their writing skills. Kudos, my friend.

Okay, now to introduce myself.
My name is Darshee, fifteen, from Malaysia. I'm currently half-way through finishing a fantasy-genre novel. However, I myself have noticed that I have problems with grammar and similar ballparks. In where I'm living, they don't teach us stuff like this, so I rely on dictionaries and reading. Therefore, please excuse my wrong usage of language. I'm still learning! Hahaha.

What I really want to know, right now, is the main and most important rules on writing a novel.

For example:

"Thank you." He said?
"Thank you," he said with a smile?

I'm confused, and was hoping someone could explain the whole concept to me.
Thank you so much!

Darshee.

Current Mood: confused
Current Music: Give in to me - Michael Jackson

rosalinda-143.livejournal.com

This is for school and I need someone - just one - to critique my -- I mean our story. Our being my group I was in. I'd just like to say: bear in mind I was working with three teenage boys so I don't care about the logic, the characters, and the fact that this isn't very believable. I just need spelling, and grammer and maybe a pinch here and there where it doesn't add up because of past evidence. So please, please help a girl out here!

Also, to wrap it all up I need you to take a poll to rate my story. It's 1-5 and you can make any comments (with your edits in the commet box) to support the score. Thanks!

( Cookies: a Lovely Treat or a Death Sentence? )

Thanks again for doing this for me. I really appreciate it.

peace.love.happiness.

- Rosie

Current Mood: God, I have too much homework!
Current Location: Couch -- Still
Current Music: Naturally - Selena Gomez

i-arr-pirate.livejournal.com

We were just recently assigned to do a 5-10 page short story in my English class, and I was wondering: Does anyone else feel pressure when it comes to writing as schoolwork? :/

There's so many things that weigh down on me when I'm writing anything for school. Especially for this assignment in particular.

a.) It has to be as flawless as I would make any of my personal stories. I always keep a dictionary and thesaurus at hand, triple-check my words, and proofread like a mad woman. And I do this even when I know my classmates are just writing with a detached: "Joe ran. He likes to run. It felt awesome. The end."

b.) The deadline always freaks me out. I mean, I've never finished a story that wasn't for school. NEVER! D:> For our short story, we had about three days to write a rough draft and only ONE to write down the summary. Which to some is fine, but I hadn't even thought of a decent plot line. And I knew I'd have to use up my personal time to research some satisfactory names, plot-hole fillers, etc.

The final draft is due Monday (we got lucky because a power-outage destroyed a lot of the work we did in school) but I'm pretty much done. The only reason I managed to finish so much, though, is because I took it home and worked on it there. And if you knew me, you'd know it's incredibly out of character for me to do ANY SCHOOLWORK at home, much less DAYS before the due date. My mom was verbally aghast: "You did something without waiting to the last minute?!"

But nevertheless, I feel frustrated that I could've just written it like my classmates did, but couldn't bring myself to do so. And the worst part, I don't even want to be a writer when I grow up! It's just something I do passively in my spare time! It's crazy! x'D

So basically, I'm just curious. Does anyone else do this as well? Are you able to make yourself write like an regular person, or do you obsess over every word? If you do, is it out of pride or just because you can't bring yourself not to? Do you write better or worse when under pressure?

Current Mood: curious
Current Location: Writing in the Loft.
Current Music: "As Good As I Once Was" -- Toby Keith

rosalinda-143.livejournal.com

So I can't decide on whether or not I want to kill off my main male character in the end of the book. I keep switching back and forth. Yes, I should because every book has a happy ending and it's getting a little old. No because Bree (my main female character) should have a chance at a happy ending after all she's been through.

If you need something to base your vote on you can go look at the summary of Shadow's Light.

I'm holding this poll because I want your opinions. Have you seen too much happying endings, That you're just so sick n' tiered of them? Or do you think that it would be stupid if I kill off my main character just because I don't want to be a stereotype 'oh this is going to have a happy ending anyway, so I'm not going to worry about this guy/girl dying' kind of book. Please tell me why you picked whatever in the comment box. Thanks!

[Poll #1465691]

Thanks again!

peace.love.happiness.

- Rosie

Current Mood: ...
Current Location: In the Woods
Current Music: Let's Go Fly a Kite!

etherealkittens.livejournal.com

Title: September Valleys (title in work)
Author:

etherealkittens (Tori Lo)
Genre: Fantasy/supernatural, romance, adventure, horror
Rating: T
Warnings: Gore past ch10!
Summary: With her demonology-interested philosophy professor recently murdered, being captured by an awful band of demons and being forced to work for them, Susan Moore also has to juggle a boring part-time clerk job, university, and the aimless ramble directed at her from random suitors. Just what did the professor trigger?
Authors note: First real horror story! Don't mind any lack of gruesomeness; it'll come in time! So far, I've only planned so much, and am currently winging this story for the most part. I've only actually written 1.5 chapters, which is on Susan's journal.

To read, please click »here«
☇casual updates friends only. PM

september_ii for info and questions!

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: goo goo dolls - slide

pizza-pimp.livejournal.com

Hey everyone here I am here once more, and I am back with a new story.
Please make sure to check it out if your interested it's called

"Diane the Dead"
Sci-fi/Romance/ Mystery
Rating: 17+
Summary:If you could whisper to the dead what would they tell you

*Section 1 is up for reading*
(Feedback and avid reading is welcomed <3)

Current Mood: calm

rosalinda-143.livejournal.com

So I need a title for my book and I want suggestions. One condition: it has to be an oxymoron and it has to be about nature (okay, so two conditions).

Ex: Midnight Sun.

So something like that please. Thanks!

Oh and almost forgot, if you want to know the theme of my story just go here, and read my summary.

Thanks again!

peace.love.happiness.

- Rosie

Current Mood: Grrr!
Current Location: The Laugh Lounge
Current Music: Tear Drops on My Guitar

etherealkittens.livejournal.com

Title: The Sun Shines Down on Our Future
Author:

etherealkittens (Tori Lo)
Genre: Supernatural, mystery, romance areas. Can't pinpoint it.
Rating: T
Warnings: None.
Summary: Not very good at summaries but...
Kusui Hayase has no memories between and including the ages 12 to 14. She first woke up in a jail-like school completely alienated and lonely... but this isn't what this particular story is about. This one is about a year later. Kusui has left the jail school and moved to a small fishing and docking town called Plato on the Pacific coast of Vancouver Island, Canada. Her life seems fixed and perfect, except for the chunk of three missing years of her life, which troubles her daily. The day comes when she starts recieving threatening text messages on her cell phone, threatening both her and her friends. This frustrates her, and on the third day, when he wants to finally meet her, she goes. Little does she know, by meeting this man, her past, horrors and all, will be revealed to her and our audience. Please follow her tales as she heroically, and stupidly, bashes through them.
Authors note: I wrote this in about eight hours, and only about 1/3 of it has been edited. Sorry D:
Oh! And I've already written the second chapter, and started on the third. They'll be on my livejournal and fictionpress before I post them here : /

( chapter one - 7,100 words )

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: B'z - FRICTION | Powered by Last.fm

rosalinda-143.livejournal.com

This'll be short... so don't go anywhere.

I just want to ask you one simple question: what do you think consists of a romantic bouquet? I mean I know like roses but I want more than roses I want an array of different romantic flowers (kind of like a wedding bouquet, but not exactly; they aren't getting married).

So anyway thanks again! ^.^

peace.love.happiness.

- Rosie

Current Mood: My Mind Whirls with Questions
Current Location: My Laptop
Current Music: Locker Combo Song

rosalinda-143.livejournal.com

Okay, so I'm just so confused right now. And I want your guyses advice on what to do. My book involves vampires and yes they are teenagers at a school. Sounds like Twilight doesn't it. Well I don't want it to sound like Twilight. I want it to be my own (with secret agents and strong, independant women), and I have had some people suggest that I change them to adults, so that they're older and more mature.

And I don't know which to choose. I've been thinking about it and I just can't decide, so I'm holding a poll. If you pick yes or no please tell me why in the comment box. Thank you.

[Poll #1444798]

peace.love.happiness.

- Rosie

Current Mood: S.O.S.
Current Location: Incognito
Current Music: Remember December - Demi Lovato

rosalinda-143.livejournal.com

Hey all you writers. I need advice. And this is for anyone who knows about 'Sweeney Todd.' Here's the atmosphere of the story to help you vote...

*NOTE* The character's names are not the real one's due to spoiler's.

Collin broke up with Luna about two months ago. Collin is over Luna and is now dating Mitchie. Luna is taking it one small step at a time. Then suddenly she sees that her, Collin, and Mitchie have callbacks for the play 'Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street' and I think the poll below explains the rest.

Now that you know the atmosphere of the story please vote.

[Poll #1440862]

plsethnxbai!

peace.love.happiness.

- Rosie

Current Mood: content
Current Location: Lair
Current Music: These Are My Friends

rosalinda-143.livejournal.com

What kind of coffee do you like to drink? Be specific and I only say that, because I want it for my book (just because I want too) and I need things like 'A double tall mocha hold the foam with double shot'... or whatever, and I don't really know what any of that means, or if it's real, or if that's what people say. I don't drink coffee, so I just need suggestions like that...

Plsethnxbai!

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Location: Lair
Current Music: Lo (Apple Bottom Jeans)

rosalinda-143.livejournal.com

Hey guys. i need someone to tell me something, that I can't find anywhere... that is if you know how to answer the question.

You know how in those mafia movies when one of their brothes goes up on trial and you are testifying against them and so his brothers target you or your loved ones? Well whats that called. Is it plain and simple targeting or is getting marked... I just feel like it has a certain name and I can't think of it...

So if you could answer as best you can please. I really need to know the answer for my book.

Plsethnxbai!

Current Mood: restless
Current Location: Lair
Current Music: I Wanna Know

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