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    pictures

    Sorry? You're the same age as your daughter!?
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    Edie Dawkins

    That is definitely not it. I don't think it is a kids book as such, even though I did read it when I was a kid, but then again, I was reading adult books by the time I was 9 or 10, so this book could just have easily been a teen or adult story, more likely a teen. I remember at one point in...
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    Edie Dawkins

    I suddenly remembered the name of a character in a book that I read as a child, and her name is Edie Dawkins. I would desperately like to know the title of the book, because I cannot remember any details apart from thsi one characters name. So if anyone knows it, please let me know. Thanks!
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    Water Music

    I've been trying to write a book for some time, but am not quite sure how good it is. So here is part of one chapter, called 'Water Music'. It is supposed to fit in towards the end of the story, so I know some things won't make much sense. Well.. here it is. 'Water Music' Staring at the...
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    Lyrec: rewritten first chapter: the final battle.

    I thank you for some of your criticism. You have made some very valid points that I will look into further. Since this is a first copy of this version of the beginning, I had realised that it needed some work, but just had not done any. Some of the points I will not change at all. There are...
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    'Amazing Grace' - A short story.

    I wrote this when I was 16/17. A new interpretation of the well known folklore song. Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me… Sweet Grace, my angel. Your sugary voice, so sweet, trickles over me like hot butter, cascading into my dreams. And those hands. Soft. Small...
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    First chapter of possible novel...

    i want to thank both roddglenn and libra for supporting me.. i also think the same thing. Being told you are not good enough by someone else.. is not only patronising, but also bad manners. I was only trying to help.. and if you did not want it.. then why bother posting in the first place? Oh...
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    First chapter of possible novel...

    I, in fact, hate the way you have rewritten it and prefer the first original version of the passage you gave and would not even consider writing it in the way you just did. That was dull. Perhaps that is your problem. You are attempting to immitate a style of writing which is difficult it...
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    First chapter of possible novel...

    You say that you think that I am inexperienced. Well, even if I were, I would find you the same. Your way of writing is very.. unstylised. And what is wrong with choppy and unpoetic? Whoever said a story had to be otherwise. Some of the best things I've read have been altogether.. illogical. Do...
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    Best place to read

    I always have found, and may be because I have a hectic home life, that sitting in a place where there is some noise, but not much in the background is the best place to read. Such places, like on a bus, or in the front room when the football is on, are two brilliant examples. The 'white-noise'...
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    Bonk's Bar, Chapter 1

    I would like to disagree with Morgolemtheau about the lack of emotion within the character. I personally found this quite nice for a change. Why can't he be uncaring? Sure his brother died and his drunkard father blames him for his wifes death, so why shouldn't he be bitter and uncaring? I quite...
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    First chapter of possible novel...

    Even after you edited it, I think that you describe things to much, or just in a strange way. Let me take the first sentence from your work to suggest how you could change it. Before: On the school bus maneuvering down the uneven roads on a late wintry afternoon, through small patches of...
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    A poem..

    A short poem I thought up as I strolled down the road near my home. Chiseldon Camp: July: 10pm No sounds. Nothing, but the whispering wind And the crunch of my footsteps And my quiet breath. Occasionally, the rattle of a stone As it is kicked across the worn road. Far-away...
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    "Beneath the Low Limbs" - New Short Story

    it was good, and the use of so much dialog was good. However, the ending puzzles me, as well as the entire plot. Why are the parents sad that their son is married and he has started his new life? I'm not sure whether they are really sad of sad in a happy way? But the ending. It seems very...
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    Lyrec: rewritten first chapter: the final battle.

    I have recently rewritten the first chapter of my novel, saving what I had written for later. After some of the crits I got, I figured the beginning definately needed a big bang to it. So here it is. Lyrec: Chapter One The Pads and their Riders were few and far between. The Fire Maiden...
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    Books you would NOT SUGGEST to your kids. Why? At what age would you recommend it?

    That is exactly what has happened with me many times. Reading adult fiction as a child, I skipped over things I didn't understand. Having re-read a few of them, with more understanding, I have very often amazed myself that I didn't understand before. Children will not take in anything they don't...
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    Does anybody remember this book?

    I think I read that, but I remember it being the other way round. The rock was already in front of the kitchen window, and they lived on top of a hill. The husband moved the rock, and they shrunk into a valley. So the rock was put back and he painted a scene on it. Exactly the same, but...
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    pictures

    I would not personally agree with that last statement. I have memories of looking at pictures books and wondering how they drew the pictures. I must have been only 5 or 6 at the time. I used to stare for long lengths of time at illustrations in books, not because they were there to look at, but...
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    Books you would NOT SUGGEST to your kids. Why? At what age would you recommend it?

    What the hell are you all talking about? So what if a book is cruel or full of obscenities. I was reading adult literature by the time I was ten, and I'm no worse off for it. If anything, it's made me more wise to the world. Let your kids read what they want, and let them decide for themselves...
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    Book recommendations for a preteen?

    How about '13 1/2 lives of Captain Bluebear' by Walter Moers. I read it when I was thirteen, so your son's opinion on it will be entirely different. It is a very thick book, almost textbook thick actually, but it has so many things happen it in, right from the start, that it is quite hard to put...
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