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This has to be a joke. Haha.

There is actually a museuem showing dedicated to poop pieces. So yeah a good dump can be art. Art is very complex, the meaning that is. As an art major we always have this discussion with this very topic in some of my classes. It gets intense at times. Very intesne as some people's perception are very different. Take for example, Damien Hirst. I personally do not see some of his works to be art, but he is an artist. A very famous conceptual artist at that and one who makes a crap load of money. But crumpled piece of paper or a formaldehyde half of a cow for me ain't art. Or a pile of trash too. Yes these are all his real art pieces. But for me these things aren't art. That's my opinion. I don't think art can be explained simply by a few words. I do believe art takes creativity and a capacity to explore and understand emotions and feelings.

Heh, well Ricky... hopefully chapter 3 will meet your standards. It's my first attempt at writing fantasy. And I do agree with you. I am surprised at the amount of characters I have to introduce in my story as you guys will meet new characters in chapter 3 and I am certain more will have to be added. But please talk about it and love it and spread it. It gives me the motivation to continue writing. Thanks!

Heh you guys know how to make a person blush. Haha. It's good to hear that my characters are doing what they are suppose to do. I did have a little fun writing Merlorna. I had a comment made about the difficulty in the names I have given the class representatives and I did write a reponse to that comment but I'll explain here as it seems right to do so. The representatives make up the student council for the Academy. They are an integral part of the functions and life at the academy. They are the law enforcers and also passes any news, new rules, etc from the instructors to the rest of the student body. Though this is all planning in my head, the roles of being a representative, the Student Council itself, will be important to the story as it 's going to influence how characters act towards each other and the decisions they make. The "complaint" (in quotes because I didn't see as such, just couldn't think of the right word) was that the <original> titles were confusing. I tired to use words and come up with a new way of saying it so that it doesn't seem so boring and to add a characteristic detail to my story. Here's my explanation of the titles... Novista... comes from the word novice. Beginner. Interiums... from intermediate. Middle. Eldalist... from Elder. Top. Older. I did have a different title for the different class representatives. I wanted a different title for each different class level. A distingusher as class rank is important in the Academy. But I can see why it is hard to grasp and as I was replying to the comment an idea came to me. Initially, I had the names be completely different and made up with no origins of word tracing. Meaning I kinda made them up. But the comment of confusion made me think and this is what I have changed the titles to. Explanation below... I used the suffix of the word senator to my representaives: sen. Before the attachment word was made up (which adds more confusion) but now I decided to use the first two letters of the class ranks, thus, Senno= representaive of the Novista class Senin = representative of the Interium class and Senel = representative of the Eldalist class. The concept is the same for the leaders of the representative groups. The suffix acro means high (upper) thus... Acrono = leader of the Novista representatives Acroin = leader of the Interium rep. class and Acroel = leader of the Eldalist rep. class Hopes that makes sense and I am excited to hear for you all. Thanks Cia for starting this for me!

And it seems to me these rules are more suitable writing research papers and/ or essays. Fiction doesn't apply though for some people out there yes it does. LOL.

LOL james that's a hilarious link as well. I love those kinds of Twilight stuff.

My recommendations are Japan and South Africa. Oh and Thailand too... though I've advise some "to be wary of strangers" in Thailand and South Africa. The movie Brokedown Palace explains it kinda and although it's a movie, it happens. Japan on the other hand is a very safe country. I left my wallet on the shinkansen station, wandered around for 3 hours and realized it was gone went back and someone turned it in to the station attendant and the best part... my 500 dollars worth of yen was still there. I want to go back and stay longer than the two weeks that I went.

SERIOULY!!!! Wow... I cannot believe that. I'm sorry guess people aren't in witty humorous moods today. I'll one up ya!

I agree with the first two replies... if everyone followed the rules we'll have boring stories. You just need to do it with flare and creativity. Like this post.

Sigh but here THESE TWO LINKS ARE A MUST SEE!!!!! This is HOW IT SHOULD BE DONE...AND HILARIOUS and I'm serious... Buffy meets Edward. Now this is how a story with a kick ass female lead should be like... girl power... not some wimpy whiner who thinks about killing herself because some guy ditched her. And link number two is hilarious... talks about how Breaking Dawn the last book of the saga should be a movie and the best part.... every single thing he says IS true. He doesn't lie about the book, all completely true ( I know cause I read all four books.... and I own the fourth...I know)This is why Breaking Dawn should be a movie... Really you have to see this...

Indeed an awesome person... always so encouraging to others about their stories. As she the first to comment on mine.

LOL... finally I was waiting for this... and then they should protest all other things in the Bible. Basically if we were to go accoding to the Bible the whole world should just commit suicide as no one in this world could abide by those laws... except Jesus and well you know what happened to him. The brave man died so that others could continue to prosecute those they deemed beneathe them. They never got Jesus' message. *sigh*

I keep thinking to myself that I should spend more time writing and less time in the forums but I have to familiarize myself with this place as I suck as navigating thru forums... okay that was my tangent. This is a good topic to talk and read about. I agree with everyone in that the characters in my story come to life and basically write their own tales. Sometimes I do wanna be the almighty creator to them and throw something randomly at them but then it either is way too weird or the characters no longer act like themselves. I also agree that it is very normal for a writer to be attached to one of their characters. I am writing a story now and I have to kill off a character I really like... and it breaks my heart to do it. I keep putting it off but now that I read this post topic I've come to accept that character's death. The characrter's death is needed because of the events and actions of the other characters led that character to that point. I want to be God and be like... "YOU SHALL LIIIIVE!" but seemingly as the real higher power just sits back and let things happen I guess I have to too. I think writers should have a relationship with their characters. Becuase to have a relationship is to know and to know is to understand and to understand means a complete picture meaning you'll have a decent good story.

I write what I like to write. I feel like writing is very much like living your life. You should write and live your life how you want, not by anyone else standards but you're own. Yes there will come times when you'll have people who want you to do this or that and it's at that point that you have to make a decision. The more you write the better your skills become. The longer you live the more experiences you get to pull and learn from. Same ideal really. You have people whose opinion you trusts and people who opinions don't really matter. I think it's fine to write what people like so long as you are okay with it... kinda like doing something with a friend you didn't enjoy before but because it's with that person you find it enjoyable. Writing again is the same. I did this too. In my story Get There, I had a fan complain about not having enough sexual tension or activities and I decided to add a few scenes and posted it. I absolutely hated it. Although they were "solo" scenes I just couldn't bare with it. I felt it killed the character and made the story strange because that story is about the relationship and emotions of the characters and the situation they are placed in. Since then I told myself that I will never ever write a scene like that in again (unless it's revelant to the story) just because someone who really liked my story wanted something like that. I still need to go back and edit it out. And lastly, I write because I want to get better. I believe the more you write the better your stories become. I forget what letter option it was or if it was on there, but I think a story's character, plot, setting, characterization all add to the story. I believe a good writer can use all of these at the same time to help each section. I believe these elements all live and breathe off one another. I don't believe one should be more important than the other because it shouldn't matter when you write well. Your (and mine) story should evoke and bring to life the writing. The places should feel real. The people could be someone you walk past in your day to day life. The emotions are ones you know and feel. I am still aimming to get there and hopefully some day I will.

No I wouldn't, I'm too modest. If you were housing sitting for someone, who was hot, would you jerk off in their bed?

Well since its just a kiss on the lips with no tongue, yes. Would you jerk off in a computer lab, since you haven't gotten off in weeks and you were the only person there but there are security cameras all around?

I just want to say that I wished that someone could come up with a way/invent the technology to incorporate music into what we write (I'm coming from an author's viewpoint). Like, you know, my character is sad, standing alone on the edge of a cliff, and when the reader turns the page to that scene a set of violins starts playing a sad songs as background music. Kinda like in movies where they have instrumental music to reflect the tone and feeling of a scene I think it would be awesome to incorporate it into books and stories.

I agree with the author for the most part. Summed down it's about defining and writing the character to the character. Meaning the characters we write and/or read have a persona, a personality, a belief they follow. The character that we read in stories are essentially people. They have a life they go about (in the story). So long as the character is consistant and stays consistant then I believe you have a believable character. About the cliches and overdone, yes they are what they are but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't write in a character who is like that. The fact is that they do exist. The point is though... are they relevant to the story the way that they are and is that "stereotypical" personality important for the story.

This woman.... ugh... cannot stand her. I would have more respect for her if she at least did her job but no, she spends all her time on shows trying to up her image and then she quits halfway so she can write a book. Bleh.

Vote for pockets here too. To buy no pocket jeans just because they look on you is not enough reason for me. If I'd go with that reasoning... I think a lot of guys should go without clothing because they look good in their birthday suit. Anyway personally I have about two pairs of relatively form forming that I am beginning to hate because I can't put anything in my pockets because it's a bit tight and uncomfortable. Not that I carry much anyway: car and house keys, 3 debit/credit crads, and my cell phone. I stopped carrying cash when I was 16... haha.

So someone nice just notified me that I posted this in the wrong section, which I thought I posted it in the right section but clearly this kind person was right. Gah my head hurts trying to navigate forums. I suck at this stuff. Sorry folks. And I tried to delete post but I can't figure that out too. I feel like my grandfather when he met the internet for the first time.

It is an awesome movie. I live in a conservative state and it's in an uproar here on campus, people saying how its a ridiculous movie about the annhilation of the Native Americans and that it's a movie to make us (and when I say us I mean they <the stupid white republicans> cause I ain't a white person plus I got no heart) feel bad. BAH! Damn stupid college republicans. (though not all of them are stupid...)

So I'm am browsing around, looking through stories and reading them. I read the little box "showcasing" the story and what it's about. I find the reviews and read them too and then I notice some of them have these 5 points things beside them and I'm like whoa... hmmm... I wanna put 5 pointed thingys into stories I read. Is that something special cause I can't seem to find a review or rating thing that I can give stars. Let me know. Thanks!