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[Minielf]

Oops, my mistake, I confused Niph with Sin. xd It was meant to be Sin's birthday yesterday. Oh well, let's say happy belated birthday to her.  

[Niphz]

No way! Mrs Mackay is the only one who really.. appreciates style in both essay creative writing and awards marks fairly for it; the other teachers are too obsessed with making you jump through the hoops. And she never got on my back about handing in stuff.. I think that was 'cause she realised I wasn't the kind of person who could be restrained to deadlines XD (in other words, if you do it consistently enough, she'll give up making you hand stuff in).

@'elfy - D; I miss my sin-chan, she should come back <3  

[mymiridon]

haha niph is so violent.


Is currently making care packages or as I like to call them, adult survival kits >.<  

[tamcharles]

ninja  

[Niphz]

Lol I want a care package!  

[Sphenni]

Uh, well my friend asked me to read an essay that she had written, and she used the phrase "her eyelashes fluttered like butterflies" at least 3 times, which is not only waaay too much repetitiveness, but the sentence is cliched in the first place. Mrs Mackay marked it as: "Beautiful description!" scream
I would never read a book if it started like that!

We have a whole half-term to write the draft of our creative writing coursework...

WTF you can just write about anything?! At least give us subjects to choose from! I am actually going to die...

What did you write about, Niphy? -steals ideas- ninja

Haha, we were mocking Mrs Robertson in our English lesson today. We were asked to write a six-word story, and I wrote: "Coram Boy- one page per lesson".

@ Yalie: Are there any "Survival Kits for Art Students?" -faints-  

[mymiridon]

lol!!! "her eyelashes fluttered like butterflies"? rofl! Should your eyelashes be fluttering? and if they were fluttering like butterflies then she wouldn't have eyelashes. They'd all have fluttered away.

but yes, there are survival kits for art students. Involves lots of candy xD  

[tamcharles]

Once upon a time, in a gaia forum, far, far away... ninja  

[Niphz]

Mrs Mackay is very.. encouraging. And she's only really demanding if she thinks you can do better. So.. maybe your friend's just not that good xD

I got full marks in creative writing coursework ;D I'll send you mine if you want. Add me on msn: linnie.niphredil@gmail.com
I wrote about.. writing. LOL. It's meant to be really short right?

Repetitiveness is shitty though. And that sentence didn't sound that great, no. P;  

[Sphenni]

You got full marks?!
I barely scraped an A* in my first piece of coursework, which was a presentation about Culture and Identity...

Mrs Steer said that there is no limit, but you should aim for 1000 words! I mean, how can you write anything in only two pages? Unless it's my: "Coram Boy- one page per lesson"...

I had you on my MSN anyway... Bah, I just logged off ¬.¬

I can't get my MSN account into Microsoft Outlook! It's so inconvenient to have to sign in and out every time...

@ Yalie: I think the girl was just waking up and she was blinking or something...
She could have just used "blinked" instead of the butterflies simile... -_-'

Haha, my classmates write the funniest English essays ever... One girl described the clouds as "Baffling clouds"- I said they were only baffling because we didn't have a clue what she meant by it xD  

[Niphz]

I prefer writing short pieces. The art of writing is in distilling what you want to say into the fewest possible words which have the highest possible impact.  

[Sphenni]

I've no problem with distilling what I have to say- but the problem is I don't HAVE anything to say in the first place.

My "words of high impact" are all exteedingly cheesy and heroic as a result of reading too much manga O.O  

[Minielf]

Niphz

I prefer writing short pieces. The art of writing is in distilling what you want to say into the fewest possible words which have the highest possible impact.

I'm the complete opposite of you. I like writing very long and extended stories with complicated plot structures and character arcs. I suck at writing short pieces, especially if they are one-shot pieces about character. I guess I'm like Liani-read far too much manga and now every single story I write is full of Shonen tropes. xd

On the other hand, I am brilliant at writing intellectual non-fiction pieces, such as analytical essays and resports, whether they are short 500 word pieces or 12000 word theses. If I was to publish something, I would more likely be a book about politics or history than a novel.  

[Sphenni]

For non-fiction, I am good at writing short poetry analyses, but other than that, all my essys are 5 pages+ ¬.¬

My friend has already written a book and is waiting until she's old enough to have it published (I think the publishing agency that accepted it has a minimum age limit of 18 ). I looked it over and it was full of horrible sentence structures and cliches.
Fortunately, I can criticise it to my heart's content, because she's not that affected by people being mean to her, and she knows I'm not the most generous person in the world xD  

[mymiridon]

@mini: lol, short stories are for those of us who get bored easily.

@niph: I'll send you one in december Xp maybe

@lv: wow... lol the publishing company accepted it with all the horrible sentence structure? lolz