flabbergast
601 2016-04-27 13:10:03
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
602 2016-04-06 17:04:02
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Botox
603 2016-04-04 21:03:51
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
world beater
604 2016-04-03 16:47:35
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Book Worm
605 2016-04-02 23:30:48
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Twist?
Stick!
606 2016-04-02 23:28:57
Re: Write the first sentence of this novel. (30 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Talulah reflected that answering "No" to the question, "Hello, is any one in?" might have blown her cover.
607 2016-03-30 20:17:26
Re: WHAT ARE YOU READING RIGHT NOW? (326 replies, posted in The Write Club -- Creative Writing and Literature Discussions Group)
The Death of Halpin Frayser
by Ambrose Bierce
608 2016-03-27 16:11:24
Re: One-liners that mean a lot (34 replies, posted in The Write Club -- Creative Writing and Literature Discussions Group)
He could trace his genealogy all the way back to his parents.
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
609 2016-03-25 01:14:30
Re: Trivia and Trouble. Get it here! (46 replies, posted in The Write Club -- Creative Writing and Literature Discussions Group)
I got that. I just wasn't sure if you blamed the mass market appeal on Harper Lee, the readers, or the people who marketed the book.
I think it was fairly clear at the time that I blamed you. Sole responsibility.
610 2016-03-21 12:41:07
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Har! Are you insinuating Dickens is the ass?
No, Mrs, Bumble, it were Dickens, himself, insinuating that the Law is the Ass.
And therein coining the George Chapman phrase for all time. (Sorry for the Twist in the order of things M'lady ).
611 2016-03-21 12:32:58
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
612 2016-03-21 04:35:48
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
613 2016-03-20 22:37:21
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
... would love to see this!
You would love to see the invisible woman that you forgot about?
614 2016-03-20 18:40:40
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Apparently I am
still
invisible.
Heavy is the hand that wears the ass.
x
The Invisible Woman.
I saw her.
615 2016-03-20 18:29:35
Re: The 'Do Not Discuss List' (18 replies, posted in The Write Club -- Creative Writing and Literature Discussions Group)
That said, I think it's poor form to use the do not discuss list to discuss the topic not to be discussed.
Misappropriation of a phobia or fear overrides the do not discuss rule and that is clearly stated within the unwritten rules, just as 'you must always respond in context to, or direct response to, the word immediately preceding your entry....' is unwritten within the 'invisible' rule within the 'say the first word..' thread on the other channel.
616 2016-03-20 18:20:30
Re: Literary Openings (37 replies, posted in The Write Club -- Creative Writing and Literature Discussions Group)
I read the first half of this novel a couple years ago....)
Your Anna is my Tess then? We unfinished these novels with a spooky degree of synchronicity.
I have the Kindle version for the train commute and aeroplane journeys, it only cost a few pence, but if I like it, I'll miss having a book on my shelf.
617 2016-03-20 02:05:41
Re: Trivia and Trouble. Get it here! (46 replies, posted in The Write Club -- Creative Writing and Literature Discussions Group)
WHAT IS THAT? "When Rhett Butler meets Scarlett O'Hara," the trailer says. As if he is the protagonist! AND WHERE are all the scenes with Melly? Or with Scarlett standing alone?
"A love affair you'll remember as long as you live, filled (by the way) with all the fire and fury of the times in which it happened." Oh, yes. The whole story is Rhett Butler and Scarlett, and the rest of that stuff -- the war, the human survival, the "I'll never go hungry again" no matter what I have to do, ladyhood being a minor point, after all -- all of that is just a side note in the actual story, which is that RHETT MET SCARLETT AND IT IS A LOVE AFFAIR YOU'LL NEVER FORGET AND HERE ARE ALL THE SCENES WHICH INVOLVE THEM KISSING. WE PICKED THEM OUT SPECIAL FROM ALL THAT OTHER RUBBISH ABOUT SCARLETT.
Here's the icing on that bad cake:
http://www.movieposter.com/posters/arch … /MPW-15218
http://www.conservapedia.com/images/thu … -Gwtw2.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5 … _QL70_.jpg
DISLIKE.
CLARK GABLE's name is on the top, and so is his face! I protest. Also, pardon me, but he's hardly even in the novel until the last third. Not that I don't love the character, but let us all keep things in perspective. This cover belongs to Scarlett & Melly.
I totally agree. Those posters and trailers do not represent the novel that I know.
Marketing to the masses. Dare I say, this is related to the point I was so clumsy in making about that other book on the other channel.
Mass market appeal.
618 2016-03-20 01:10:31
Re: The 'Do Not Discuss List' (18 replies, posted in The Write Club -- Creative Writing and Literature Discussions Group)
Dill's fear of penguins.
This myth follows me around and and seems unshakable.
Just for the record, I don't fear penguins, I despise penguins, and as such penguins should fear me.
I am not frightened by the prospect of getting very close and personal with a penguin. I simply loath the creatures and would merrily cull the animals if such an opportunity arose. By cull, of course I mean mass slaughter with a claw-hammer or chainsaw.
As much as I hate penguins, I despise the way that the remote public masses and media seem so fond of them. Seen as some kind of adorable, comical Spanish waiter of the fat midget variety, with their legs bound together four inches above the ankles and wearing flippers as they waddle uselessly around. That is not fondness, that is extracting fun from the afflicted.
Whilst serving in the British armed forces, I spent some time (four months) on a remote Antarctic island called South-Georgia.
This is the view;
It is like that if you turn 360 degrees, for as far as you can see.
At first the sight is awesome but you soon realize that these things eat only fish and that they shit constantly. The excreta they produce is beyond description in terms of slimy mess and stench. They squawk whilst they shit and do nothing else except squabble and they never stop. Six hundred thousand of them trying to huddle as close as they can, shitting and squawk squabbling. During the mating season they indulge in extra shitting and more vociferous squawking. I would challenge any soul to exist for four months within close proximity of these creatures without developing a loathing for them.
The fact that they swam in intolerable numbers is compounded by just how plain useless they are. The colonies seem to attach themselves to breeding grounds that are in totally stupid (illogical) places where they struggle to get to the sea and back in order to feed. "As daft as fuck." is the way the penguin colonies on South-Georgia were described to me by a resident penguin expert.
A joke of evolution; a flightless bird. What is the point of flightless bird? As idiotic as the concept of a fish that cannot swim.
A shitting squawking paradox; they swim well but are useless on land with their stupid hobbled legs and flightless wings.
They swim well but cannot stay in the water. They cannot breathe underwater and are Orca and Leopard-seal bait when in the sea. On land, they are both useless and ridiculous.
They don't make for good pets and they are no challenge to hunt.
The only good thing about penguins is that they provide sport and protein for killer-whales.
I don't fear penguins, I sneer at penguins.
619 2016-03-19 19:24:06
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
vern wrote:talking out of your ass
Memphis Trace wrote:onolatry
corra wrote:Apparently I am
still
corra wrote:invisible.
620 2016-03-19 14:18:45
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Zoilism?
621 2016-03-19 04:47:13
Re: The 'Do Not Discuss List' (18 replies, posted in The Write Club -- Creative Writing and Literature Discussions Group)
Atticus Flinch. A fictitious (malformed cardboard, sounding-board) character.
622 2016-03-19 04:46:54
Re: The 'Do Not Discuss List' (18 replies, posted in The Write Club -- Creative Writing and Literature Discussions Group)
Stereotypical national behavior myths
623 2016-03-19 04:45:37
Re: The 'Do Not Discuss List' (18 replies, posted in The Write Club -- Creative Writing and Literature Discussions Group)
To Kill a Mocking Bird. Novel, Film or T-shirt
624 2016-03-19 04:45:10
Re: The 'Do Not Discuss List' (18 replies, posted in The Write Club -- Creative Writing and Literature Discussions Group)
Tess Durbeyfield
625 2016-03-19 04:44:46
Re: The 'Do Not Discuss List' (18 replies, posted in The Write Club -- Creative Writing and Literature Discussions Group)
corra's hair-do