Papa Was a Rolling Stone (Temptations)
And lots of Chris DeBurgh stuff: A Spaceman Came Traveling, Old Friend, Spanish Train, and pretty much all of his songs.
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- October 7th, 2010, 11:44 am
- Forum: Procrastination
- Topic: What's your favorite song that tells a story?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 29081
- October 7th, 2010, 11:39 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Ambivalence and the murder mystery
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2864
Re: Ambivalence and the murder mystery
Does he have to get off completely in every way/shape/form? Maybe he doesn't get prosecuted by the law, but it would be satisfying if he was punished in some other poetic way: like he gets a deep cut during the murder (or as he is getting away...and stops on a rusty dirty nail), and the cut gets inf...
- September 9th, 2010, 8:11 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Hi, my name is Regan and I’m stuck in a plot hole.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8198
Re: Hi, my name is Regan and I’m stuck in a plot hole.
Hi, Here's my take on plot holes: when you identify them, take care of them ASAP! Your plot is like the engine on a jumbo jet. If there's a hole in your engine, and you are lucky enough to still be on the ground (and haven't taken off yet), then you haul everyone off the jet, get the engine manual o...
- August 27th, 2010, 1:22 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: How much detail for readers outside the USA
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4783
Re: How much detail for readers outside the USA
Hi, I live in Europe in a country where the main language is not English...but lots of people speak and read English and therefore the bookstores carry lots of English language books. This is quite common in lots of countries all over the world. Don't think of your book only being read by Americans ...
Re: Moving on
Here's a bit of advice I got in one of my writer groups a few years back when I was having a similar problem. Put the story in a drawer and don't touch it for 6 months. In the meantime, try something brand new, using the techniques you learned the first time around plus some of the newer stuff you'v...
- August 18th, 2010, 5:04 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Naming protagonists
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4419
Re: Naming protagonists
Hi,
good names. I'm Italian and just have a couple teeny things to mention:
-Luca...is actually spelled Lucca
Joe: this the English translation of Giuseppe. The short form or nicknames for Giuseppe are: Pino, Beppe, G, Geppino
Hope that helps!
good names. I'm Italian and just have a couple teeny things to mention:
-Luca...is actually spelled Lucca
Joe: this the English translation of Giuseppe. The short form or nicknames for Giuseppe are: Pino, Beppe, G, Geppino
Hope that helps!
- July 30th, 2010, 10:33 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Naming / Numbering -- Help???
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4021
Re: Naming / Numbering -- Help???
If you know any IT people who work in large companies...give them a call and ask them how they name their servers. Techie people tend to love sci-fi, and often the servers in their server farms reflect this love. I worked at one place where each new server was named after an asteroid, or a famous ph...
Re: Canucks
Hi, I too am from Hamilton, Ontario (I lovingly refer to it as Hamilrock, some call it The Hammer, Steeltown, etc). I live in Europe now, and my Canadian-ness stands out all the time in ways I could never imagine, and it definitely comes out in my writing themes (although not consciously). I've noti...
- July 2nd, 2010, 8:09 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Of the characters you've written, who is your favorite?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 20232
Re: Of the characters you've written, who is your favorite?
My fav character I've written is a lanky red-haired 20-something guy named Marvell who works in an advertising agency, and is too lazy to get up and walk so he likes to sit on his office chair and roll to wherever he needs to go. He is very creative and mostly thinks about his next sugar fix. Marvel...
- May 20th, 2010, 3:31 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Two Competing Ideas...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4487
Re: Two Competing Ideas...
Take some extra time now to write up the first 25 pages of a rough draft of each of your two ideas. By the end of writing those pages, you'll know which one feels right and which one feels like it just isn't ready yet. Now, if you still feel exactly the same about both ideas after this exercise, the...
- February 19th, 2010, 11:19 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Share your opening sentence!
- Replies: 236
- Views: 86554
Re: Share your opening sentence!
From my romance/mystery entitled: Annabel Pitkeathely: Food Detective
Wolf never called on Sundays.
Wolf never called on Sundays.
- February 18th, 2010, 2:21 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Should you share your writing before it's finished?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12264
Re: Should you share your writing before it's finished?
Well, I look at it like homemade waffles. I can let someone dip their finger into the lumpy batter, and I can spend time explaining that the finished product will be lighter, fluffier, tastier, smell like heaven, and will gently hold tiny pools of butter and maple syrup within the crispy indentation...
- December 31st, 2009, 1:09 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: A shallow book - what to do?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6876
Re: A shallow book - what to do?
Could it be that this is your second book? Maybe you could start a new novel, using all the tips/tricks/strategies you learned from writing the previous novel. Then send the new novel out for representation. By the end of writing the new novel, the problems within your 'shallow' novel should become ...
- December 22nd, 2009, 9:19 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Confession time
- Replies: 33
- Views: 14113
Re: Confession time
I wear comfy 'grubbies' which sometimes double as PJs ;-)
- December 8th, 2009, 12:53 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Outline or Out of the Mist?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 27845
Re: Outline or Out of the Mist?
Outline-a-rama for me!