Rilbur

Happy that 'That Bitch' is dead? How could you! That's absolutely.. the right reaction

:Blushes: Thanks! I hope you enjoy some of the other material I'm turning out!

Doing it Right, Dreams of a Father by dkstories (I'd include Dawn of Tears, except for the cop-out ending). Dangerous Liasions, by Neph In Due Time -- can't remember the author's name

A brake line slashed creates a family emergency. And the creature didn't even have to be seen to manage it. And from this little family emergency, with a little luck, might just arise despair deep enough to cause a young man to kill himself. The next morning, Jer stretched through a yawn as his alarm clock announced that it was time to get his lazy butt out of bed. Slipping out from under his covers, he grabbed at his dirty laundry before realizing it wasn't in the usual heap at the bot

Its 'true stories' like those that remind me of Hamlet's admonition to Horatio... "There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

"He's a child molester... you don't need to do your job that well with him..." a voice whispered unheard as the lawyer drove to the police station. "He's guilty as sin, just look at how he was found... no need to help him... just play the role..." "Let justice take matters into her own hand." "Listen, lady, I don't know who you think you are-" Eddie began angrily. "My name is Emma Tate, and I'm here to help you Edward," the tall brunette told him. "I know your parents have left

Um, what? Please justify your statement, because I can't make heads or tails of it.

OK, that's just it. I don't write the ending before I get there. I may know every single last detail -- in the case of Guardians, about the first 2/3ds of the prologue was written in my head well over a year before I actually reached the point of writing it! -- but I don't put 'pen to paper' (or fingers to keyboard) until the time is here. You never know what details are going to shift, change, or mutate on you.

I can provide ideas, thoughts, and tools, but I'd like to emphasize that this post is probably not intended as solution in and of itself. Just discussion. Personally, I always start with a defined story idea, start to finish, even though it's not 'fleshed out'. I know the start, I know the story lines, I know the end. In general, this happens because the story has been simmering in the back of my mind for a while. The big problem is that as I write, I discover there are details I overlooked, plots that wind up larger (or smaller) than expected, and the final shape of the story is nothing like what I thought it would be heading in. I know you said you're too lazy / spontaneous, but outlines really do help with writing. You don't have to follow 'em (I don't!) but they can give you a way to work on the story without writing it, reducing it to it's elemental parts so you can work with them easier. You can plan out storylines and events, see how they might have to fit together. If one winds up being way way bigger than the other, then you know you need to keep the other slowed down, don't do it so fast, maybe leven it out a little with a third plot or something. Take the time to think about a story before you put pen to paper. Don't just get the urge to write. Outlines can help with this, but you can also do it just by thinking about your story as your walking from class to class, driving to work, eating dinner, etc etc. Even when you're suffering from writers block, keep trying to write. One piece of advice I read years ago was to set a certain portion of your daily schedule aside for writing, and spend that time writing -- even if that means staring at the blank screen! It helps teach your mind that certain times of the day are for writing, so your brain will be 'in gear' when you do write.

It's easy. Download it, and open it up in an editor... that way, you can freeze on one frame

My biggest concern would be how to counter 'mugging' -- with the chip implanted the only way to mug someone would be to cut off the hand. <i>Not</i> something I'd care to invite. Frankly, that's the only concern I see in a simple RFID chip. The GPS one might be more worrisome, or it might not. Health concerns are exceedingly unlikely for a chip like that; we're already continously exposed to all sorts of EM radiation by everything ranging from lightbulbs to cars. The current 'oh no, it's radioactive!' scare is an (over) reaction to the overuse of X-Rays before we understood that their danger was cumulative, a lifetime's worth of exposure rather than specific, individual exposures. As for all the 'big brother' fears, frankly they already exist. Deal with it.

Is North Korea trying to start a war? Pushing a little makes sense, from one point of view -- if they don't push, they'll be perceived as 'weak'. But pushing this hard is going to cause a war that they can't possibly hope to win. Their ground forces are hopelessly outdated, outnumbered, and outgunned. Their air force is a joke. Their navy an annoyance. They can't hope to win a conventional war, and if they try to start a nuclear, biological, or chemical one, they'll bring every major nation together to quash them. They have to realize that -- even China won't support them if they keep pulling this shit. (Oh, and I will admit that it isn't proven that they launched bio attacks, but as one of the articles above mentioned, the odds of two 'economy' oriented diseases striking in the same area, at the same time, is simply too slim to be believable.) Still, I can't blame this one on Bush Sr. or Bush Jr; I can't even really blame it on McArthur, even if N. Korea would be far weaker if he hadn't crossed that damned river!

I drop by once in a blue moon. I'm not much of a chat / IRC person, but I have been known to drop by occasionally.

Hey, anyone out there still interested in doing this? I've had zero people actually provide a story or sign up to get into the forums I built for it. I am not even going to try and do this if I'm the only person posting stories!

The wheel of time turns, and ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the age that gave it birth comes again. In one age, called the Third Age by some, an Age long past, an Age yet to come, a wind arose. The wind was not the beggining. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning. From the Wheel of Time books -- pick any of 'em.

Glad you liked it, and I hope you like where I take it in the future.

"That's strange," a clerk commented. "What is it?" his superior asked. "Nothing big, just a few samples that got routed through our labs by mistake," the clerk answered. "Naturally, the lab techs did a full work up despite it not being in our juris-" The clerk double checked the file he had open in shock. "Fucking-double-A hell, I don't believe it, I've got a live one Joe!" "What?!" the supervisor asked, shocked. "Route him into our facilities then!" "Can't, he's in the judici

The dark creature glanced around, unwilling to be seen so early in the game. It had it's duties to do, and being seen was not one of them. Not yet. Hands that had once been human reached out and slipped open the window, a slight trickle of dark power unlatching the lock and countering the alarms. Slipping through, the creature drifted on light feet to the sleeping man's bed and leaned over. Mouth over the man's ear, it began to whisper dark secrets and evil words, the beginning of a spel

A phone call in the night... anonymous... a warning... danger at home... And things began to fall into place for the Dark... Edward Jason Terrance stared out the window, absorbing the panoramic view of the terrain outside. He hadn't wanted to come, but there hadn't been much choice in the matter. Both of his parents were going on the trip, and they weren't going to leave him alone for the weekend, much less the full week their business could end up taking. At thirteen years of age

Three stories are rolled together into one, over-arching storyline. Follow Jer and Billy as they live their innocent, almost-teenager lives; follow Hector and Eddie, who though they have never met will soon change each other's lives, forever; follow Dillon and Brian as events force them to live seperate lives, still desperately in love with each other. Follow, as all three stories grow closer and closer until they merge into one.

Darkness crawled around the DA's office as the phone call continued. Under his chair a small blob bubbled and oozed, raising a stench that could not be smelled. "I'll have to think about it," the DA answered his phone. "The case file doesn't seem to suggest..." The blob boiled faster, growing warm as its power was expended and a mind twisted. "Yes, you're quite right... I should have seen that before..." The blob vanished, every trace of its physical existence expended to open a mind

The boy tossed and turned, moaning, as dreams ran through his mind. Dreams of power, position, wealth. A life of ease and luxury, with his father smiling joyously at his successful son. And at the beginning of his rise to power, a simple thing he'd love to do. And a promise that he'd be protected from the consequences... Jeremy and Billy idled along, chatting lightly as they waited for lunch to start. "So, turd-head," Jer teased as he added a little dancing slide-step on top of the sly

Foreword Hello, and welcome to my "Redemption" Saga. Before you dig on into the story, which I hope you will enjoy immensely, I'd like to say a few things. This is not simply one story, it is in fact three separate stories that tie together, tightly, as they grow towards a single, unified climax. These stories are set in the same universe as my other story, The Guardians, but several years down the line, so the events which will be told in future chapters of The Guardians have already o

I'm going to have to keep that link, funny!

OK, I kinda took the story offline so the entire thing could go up on GA.Stories once the system is ready -- and I just finished chapter 13 last night, so I'm getting pretty close to the new ending, which hopefully will be a little better than the hacked up one I had before. That said, I ran into a small issue while writing. I'm trying to come up with ideas to match a theme. The basic idea is that morality isn't set in stone across all species -- that sometimes, biology informs morality. The basic idea is similar to what was shown in an early Star Trek Enterprise episode, when a woman keeps on denying her child a breather unit, and when a human goes to intervene, it's explained that the infant is being weaned off methane. So far, I've come up with the following 'acceptable' ideas: 1. A sentient version of the praying mantis, where murder is necessary to get the 'female' to implant her eggs into the 'males' sperm sac. (Justification: Praying mantis) 2. A spider and wasp type species where the male has to (violently) implant the female, who is then eaten alive by the (many) resulting offspring. (Justification: sounds cool, and would be an effective reproductive system so long as females heavily outweigh males in birthing ratios) 3. A species for whom PMS is so severe, it counts as an immediate get-out-of-jail-free card for murdering other women. (Justification: PMS means you didn't get pregnant. Which means either there aren't enough men to go around, or there isn't enough food to go around to make children possible. Either way, killing other women solves the issue) Problem is, I want more -- preferably ones that aren't rooted in sex. Cause, ya'know, the entire universe doesn't revolve around sex. (Just most of it...)