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Word Of The Day
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BenevolentDemons
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Mar 18, 2024 at 12:43 PM
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Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself...
Today's word of the day is ZEN. I refound my Zen today. I didn't even know I lost it. I was mowing the lawn, giving it a scalp cut, 1st cut of...
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First Person Narration
Stream-of-consciousness narration
My Life
Word of the day
Funny things about my life...
About me
funny story
ME
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Temporary Blindness -True Tales
By
BenevolentDemons
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Mar 18, 2024 at 12:32 PM
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Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself...
SoberDate 8041 A couple nights ago a series of thunderstorms rolled thru our area at nighttime. Around 11pm I got up for a late night snack from...
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Personal Life
Funny things about my life...
Real Life
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Horror Story Devices via Fritz Leiber
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Xoic
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Mar 15, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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Steaming Mess-O-Xoic
First some links to several online articles about how to write horror: Notes on Writing Weird Fiction by H. P. Lovecraft Supernatural Horror in...
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Theme & Style
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Horror
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horror
leiber
lovecraft
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Clarity, Power, and Discovery in Writing
By
Xoic
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Mar 10, 2024
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Steaming Mess-O-Xoic
[MEDIA] This is actually stuff I've known and been doing (and promoting in here) for a long time. I usually talk about it in relation to...
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General Writing
Personal Writing
Thoughts
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Musings on Fritz Leiber
By
Xoic
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Mar 5, 2024
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Steaming Mess-O-Xoic
[IMG] Here's a rather massive paragraph from the beginning of the book Witches of the Mind by Bruce Byfield, a critical assessment of the overall...
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Personal Writing
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LocalScriptMan videos
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Xoic
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Mar 3, 2024
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Steaming Mess-O-Xoic
I already posted several of his videos on the topic of Character Web, but he frequently puts out great videos I want to collect where I can...
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Theme & Style
Character Development
Narrative & POV
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A way to explain the Dunning Kruger effect
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Xoic
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Mar 2, 2024
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Steaming Mess-O-Xoic
Put simply, the Dunning Kruger effect says: Beginners are unable to see that their work isn't as good as the work of more skilled artists. First...
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Personal Writing
Thoughts
Personal Life
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Writing From Life Experience
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Xoic
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Feb 27, 2024
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Steaming Mess-O-Xoic
Often when people hear you should write from your own life experience, they think of it on a very surface level—like if you played a lot of...
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Character Development
Social Commentary
Personal Life
Tags:
visual imagination
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Beginnings...
By
cynicalmandate
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Feb 25, 2024
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The Submissive Tyrant
I've begun to write again... Let's see what happens.
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Personal Writing
Personal Life
Personal Writing
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beginning
failure
writing
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The Wagon
By
GrahamLewis
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Feb 24, 2024
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Reflections on My Golden River
When I was around 12 years old we lived at the far edge of a large city, where the houses on land lately-wrested from farms being pushed aside by...
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Personal Writing
Motivation & Writer's Block
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Getting all Emotional
By
Xoic
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Feb 23, 2024
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Steaming Mess-O-Xoic
Almost a year ago I made this post: A few really good articles on Deep/Close POV A recent post on the First Three Sentences thread made me look...
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Character Development
Narrative & POV
Tags:
deep pov
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Military Youth Camp Days
By
Madman
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Feb 18, 2024
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Madman's Journey
When I was a teenager I attended a week long military youth camp. There I learned a lot about myself. I learned that I sucked at guiding an...
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Personal Writing
Thoughts
Personal Life
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232
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2
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1
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