{ ＩＮＫＬＩＮＧＳ } A Thread For Writers

[OrangeNeon]

{{Well, in past tense, you can use both -ing or -ed or the ending of your two brush strokes that have that option, participle/participle phrase or absolute/absolute phrase. Examples of both with each ending in past tense follow:

Participle -ing "He walked around the block a few times, pausing at the corner before crossing the street."
Participle -ed "Outraged, he flung the table over in a furious fury."

Absolute -ing "Hands shaking with each note, she tried to strum the melody on her guitar in front of the judgemental crowd."
Absolute -ed "He cried silently, his head hung low to keep others from seeing."

I'm not just the all mighty grammar wizard, so I myself might be wrong since I only have a basic college knowledge of writing and grammar. Literature wasn't something I majored in. I can dig up some of my own work to show better.

That's really useful information. Could you like at the thing I wrote and see if it would be invaded or invading? Also spread or spreading? I'm really not sure. Thanks (:

[Umbrellas]

I get ideas for things pretty randomly. xD I just sort of start thinking about something and then I say to myself, that would be a cool story!
I actually spend a lot of time doing plotwork before I write. I spent three months figuring things out in my head before starting my novel and a whole lot of time since. I get inspired by really weird things, like people or things that happen to me. I think though that I come up with most ideas when I'm outside walking with my dog. Even if it's just for like half an hour

[Silverhart]

I find inspiration everywhere. In the stories I read, the movies I watch, the music I listen to, the art I look at, the things I talk about. I'm inspired by mythology, and history, and science shows on TV. I'm inspired when I take a walk down the block. It's impossible for me to not be inspired by anything and everything.

[abbie-sama]

Hmmm... I really need to think about this question. xD
I'll get back to you on that.

[aphelion ✧]

{{Haha, glad I could be a help!

Well, for your sentence "The taste of smoke lingered on my tongue, the smell of it invaded my nose." if you leave it like that, you would need a semi-colon instead of the comma since "the smell of it invaded my nose" is a sentence by itself. Now, if you were to change it to invading, then you can keep the comma! Personally, I like invading much better, but it doesn't hurt to get some more opinions.

Same applies to the other sentence "Roger said, rage spread across his face." Rage spread across his face is an independent sentence and would need a semi-colon, but if you use spreading, then the comma could stay. I'm not a fan of the sentence either way though. I tend to make anything after dialogue either pertaining to their voice or actions, then follow into how they look.

[OrangeNeon]

Thanks again, I'll keep that in mind when I actually get to this part. That will be near the end, and I'm still on the first chapter xD

I wrote it because it came to mind suddenly, and I knew I'd lose it if I didn't write it down.

[MacGyver]

I also get inspired by my readers' reviews and by reading other fanfic writers' stories; or by reading scripts of that particular show. Or even reading old newspapers. I mean like old, old newspapers; like 19th century. You'd be amazed at just reading the ads and notices. xD You can find tons of old newspapers on the Library of Congress's website.

[RecklessXRaven]

Username:~♪MechanicalMelody♪!
What we will call you: mouse
Will you critique other's work?: of course inless they dont want me to.
Links to your story if you have any:none sighh
Anything you want us to know?: im not verry good my ideas are good but my exicution dear god i will nead alot of work lol
(did this awile ago but i was not added i am on and off alot due to my compiters issues XC aghdhjkd
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[candu]

Username: I'm Aqua~
What we will call you: Emma, Emmy or Aqua. Any are fine with me
Will you critique other's work?: If they want me to.
Links to your story if you have any: I have some on other sites, here's a link to my writing page on my blog http://emmyobsessions.wordpress.com/writing/
Anything you want us to know?: I thought I may add I did NaNoWriMo YWP in 2011 and 2012 I wrote 9,500 in 2011 and 11,000 in 2012.

[breath.]

Dream

I dare to dream,
When others don't.
Because life is not what it may seem,
There is still darkness,
In the brightness sun beam.
Like the Titanic,
How it crashed and burned.
We fade away,
All in turn.
But unlike these,
Memories stay.
Until even time,
Fades away.

By Free Wolf



Friends

You were always there,
By my side.
No matter where it took us,
You stayed on the ride.
When others tried to make me frown,
We would laugh at them,
And turn around.
I know that you will stay by my side,
Till the end,
And that's what make you,
My one, true friend.

By Free Wolf


Smile

I hide in the shadows,
Not daring to speak.
For they are the strong,
And I am the weak.
Sometimes I feel like running away,
To not see another day.
But them I turn around and see my friends smile,
And then I realise my life is worth while

By Free Wolf