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A Eulogy for Religion by *FetusHead

Angsty writings of a socially awkward teen IRight then.

Bullying

A thing most schools try to obliterate and/or claim will never be in future years of school, which we all know is a downright lie. Though bullying is a natural occurrence in the casual day to day life, we all known on the effects it can gain upon a person physically and emotionally. But we'll get down to the effects later on. As a starting point I plan on starting with what typically people go through.

Bullying can come in all sort of shapes an forms, be it from the physical side of people beating the shit out of you, to the psychological of name calling, threats and the like. Cyber-bullying is also a true form of bulAngsty writings of a socially awkward teen I by ~Explosms

OC Exercise: The Best Cure for Writers Block'Ello, Kitsune here. As many of you know, I'm currently working on a novel that is taking over my life. Recently, I've been having trouble keeping the personalities of my characters (who have changed a lot over the near eight years that I've been working on my novel) completely straight. I know my main character well enough, since the story follows her life closely, but sometimes I feel like I don't know everyone else in my world enough.

I'm sure you've all seen the character profiles before. (Name, age, height, physical description, likes, dislikes, etc.) I have filled out more of those than I care to admit, but they very seldom help. Therefore, I came up with this "OC Exercise" to help you get to know your characters better. The best part is, it will even get you some writing practice!

I highly suggest posting your finished products on deviantart and requesting a critique. This will not only help with your actual writing, but it miOC Exercise: The Best Cure for Writers Block by *Kitsunechann

Scott Cook by =drewhoshkiw

Finding Answers: The Age of the Universe by *hunapo

A babble on dreamsWhy do we have dreams? Are they a way to warn us about something? Or perhaps they merely act as visions to which we cannot hold, forever out of our grasp like smoke curling around our finger tips. I am sometimes naive enough, maybe sentimental would be a better way of putting it(?), to believe that my dreams try to tell me something important. Most of the times though I'm pretty sure my dreams are just another way of me trolling myself. Inception taken to all new/low levels depending on your way of looking at it.
Dreams for me are barely remembered flashes of what a drug-haze would probably feel like. One moment I could be hanging out with a few of my friends at a café and the next, for no apparent reason, I'll probably be running for my life. From whom, what - I can never tell. It's like an enormous shadow that sucks in all the light just as a black hole would and you're usually just leftA babble on dreams by ~kiwi2191

What Doesn't Kill Me... - an essay on MRSA“What doesn't kill me... had better run like hell” – I'm not sure who came up with that variation on a common and annoying platitude, but I like it! However, it's not so great when the one saying that is a really pissed off bacteria.

It's a bird, it's a plane... it's gnawing on your leg! It's super-bug! And boy, is he pissed.

The thing that all life has in common is adaptability. If anything cannot adapt, it eventually dies. In general, this is simply evolution. Evolution, of course, takes place over countless generations. Some of its notable achievements are bringing whales out of the ocean, then sending them right back iWhat Doesn't Kill Me... - an essay on MRSA by ~desert-druid

The Most Wonderful Things

Sometimes you look up at the sky and think, just think, like something in the stars or that great blue open sky councells you, and you ask questions, discovering. Thoughts come seeping out of your brain like a faucet turned full force. Worlds and people flash through your vision that you swear you've never seen before, but have created first hand. The writer stares through open windows not of boredom, but of deep thought, his or her mind creates an entire universe, an infinite playground of twice infinite wonders and adventures that only they can enjoy, until they use those ideas, they use the ink in their very veins, pumping through their heThe Most Wonderful Things by ~Mugeenman

Peter Katz by =drewhoshkiw

Review of The Lost Code
~The Lost Code~
The Atlanteans
Book 1
By Kevin Emerson
Amazon ~ Powell's ~ Jan's Paperbacks
What is oldest will be new,
What was lost shall be found.

In the year 2086, Camp Eden promises summer “the way things used to be,” baReview of The Lost Code by ~StormyWolf

The Beauty of Today

So, recently I came across a post about women getting these ‘brilliant make-overs,’ and I got a tad uncomfortable. I suppose it is because, despite being only eighteen, I have never understood why people were so focused on make-up and the way they look. Personally, I have always found that women tend to look far better without make-up. Now, please do not think for a second that I am attempting to sway you one way or the other or that I am simply disregarding make-up all together. I remember that in eighth grade and ninth grade, I was notorious for wearing too much eyeliner (my mother told me I had raccoon-eyes.) However, if dThe Beauty of Today by *hunapo

100 Questions to Ask Your OC

Hello, folks! The purpose of this exercise is to delve deep into a character's mind and tease out interesting eccentricities about them, the bits and pieces of unique information that make them special. Each question is designed to help think about the character more and understand them. Whether you're responding to one question or all of them, hopefully your character speaks to you all through it!

PERSONALITY PROFILE
1. People don't behave the same way all the time. In fact, they generally have a mask for every social group -- friends, family, business. Sometimes they have a different mask for different groups of friends. How does your100 Questions to Ask Your OC by =viralremix

Sarah Smith by =drewhoshkiw

The Problem with Self Inserts The Problem with Self Inserts

There is nothing wrong with inserting yourself into a story. Like anything, it can be well done or... not so well done. The fact is, the majority of people who tend to write about self inserts happen to be beginners. Naturally, that causes there to be a pattern of certain, specific mistakes that are frequently found whilst reading anything on the internet. The purpose of this deviation isn't to say that self inserts are bad. I'm simply going to point out the most common mistakes that we usually encounter.

1. Making ourselves better than we really are.

Don't be fooled by the word "better." This can be replaced The Problem with Self Inserts by ~MakingFunOfStuff

New Laws On Bullying The topic I have chosen in bullying/suicide and what schools/state governments are doing about it. I am making a proposal argument that schools and state governments should redefine the term bullying and create more laws in order to fight it. My reasons why are as follows:

1. Bullying is starting at a younger age than ever before; more and more students in primary schools suffer from harsher bullying by their peers, and those peers doing the bullying are not being punished correctly.

2. We live in a world where there is no ‘number one.’ Students are taught that everyone is a winner and no one iNew Laws On Bullying by *hunapo

Film Star Focus: Wreck-It RalphOr, why I think Disney's Wreck-It Ralph deserved its Oscar nomination. Let it be known that I have not yet seen the other nominees (including the winner, Pixar's Brave), but I still think what this film was able to accomplish was more than deserving of its nomination, if not the win. Wreck-It Ralph might seem like a blatant cash-in, or a movie that would only appeal to the gaming demographic (and even then, only the younger one), but I'm here to put that theory to rest. The setting and slew of cameos might draw in the gaming community, but the characters and their journeys are what will bring people back for their 2nd, 3rd, and 50th viewings.
And so this brings me to the first of my latest line of features, the Film Star Focus. I may not be well versed in cinematography or film history/techniques, but I can at the very least spot a great character story when I see one. Thus, in this series I will be trying my best to flesh out the great (and not so great) characterFilm Star Focus: Wreck-It Ralph by ~StormyWolf

How Not to Tell a StoryAfter being on DeviantArt for a few years now, I've noticed patterns in people's stories. Patterns, that I can't say I've ever seen until I started using the internet. I believe that's because these kind of patterns are thoroughly unprofessional. The pattern in short is this:

Character = victim
Plot = bad things happening to said victim

Maybe this sounds harsh. It's not if you understand that is ALL there is to these stories. They take any character, hurl them into a tragedy and that's it.

Let's get this straight: We do not know your character well enough to care about them yet. No matter how bloody and gutty their injuries are, no matter How Not to Tell a Story by ~MakingFunOfStuff

Narrative EssayYears spent in a town which I still have no choice but to loathe. I was nine, nearing ten and I had a secret, one of which the world could see: I was abused from both home and school, ruined physically, emotionally, and mentally. The ruining took my life after nine-eleven when I was six, after the souls of that town had grown harsh and cold. I had done nothing wrong. I had only stayed quietly with my grandmother, liked games all others believed to be 'strange and abnormal', and I happened to be a unique person with rare features: long, flowing campfire glow locks of hair, eyes like shining emerald crystals whilst the moon hovering over full aNarrative Essay by ~TheeChange

IdeasAs my fifth written piece I decided to try and talk about ideas:

Ideas are of course a subjective matter but some ideas are blatantly wrong and ignorant to any person with individual thoughts and compassion.

For example if someone believes the idea of a certain religion imposing its law on all of Earth's life then obviously this is a corrupt and dominating idea which should never be imposed, but if someone had the idea to rid the world of religion as a whole, I believe that to be a harmful idea also. We should naturally progress and continue education so that the people who are intelligent and free thinking will choose to turn away from theIdeas by ~Solilska

Donate Your Blood, Don't Be So Vein!As the new year has arrived, what better New Year's Resolution to make than to donate blood at a local blood drive? Knowing that you can save someone else's life by donating blood is a great feeling. The Red Cross says you can save up to three lives by just donating once! This is because your blood has three components—red cells, white cells, and plasma. When you donate your blood, medical staff separate it and usually send it to three different people.

Not only is donating blood vital to the community and saves lives—but by doing so, you can also find out your blood type. After the first time you donate, a donor card will be senDonate Your Blood, Don't Be So Vein! by *Creativity-Squared

Drug moralsAs my fourth piece i decided to try to at least get a decent perspective on drugs and its legality, Heroin being the main one:

So the world has the audacity to serve you food, let you purchase and wear clothes and buy paper that is all made out of a Cannabis plant that contains 0.2% THC instead of the standard illegal 2-20% and say its medicinal cousin is wrong and keep it illegal.

And while at the same time treating serious amounts of pain in hospitals with a drug known as Morphine which is a opiate, which is from the same plant as Heroin and is in fact as addictive as this illegal drug.

If you made Heroin legal you could administer it inDrug morals by ~Solilska

Proofreading Tips #7: Introductory Clauses

As the name implies, an introductory clause is a dependent clause at the beginning of a sentence. The preceding sentence, in fact, contained such a clause. Use commas to separate introductory clauses and certain phrases from independent clauses. Introductory phrases of more than five words or phrases containing verbal elements also require commas. Dependent clause openers include:WhenIfAsAlthoughBecauseAfterThoughDuringBeforeWhile
Some examples are:
"As expected, she could not turn in the homework on time."
"In the fall of last year, we held a family reunion." (use a comma after a phrase containing five or more words)
"To decide, they held a Proofreading Tips #7: Introductory Clauses by ~GoldCoinComics

Icarus thought patternsMy second piece is to point out and see Humanity's power and this is what i came up with:

Some of us seem incapable of real individual thought, but the majority of people i have encountered (Especially my own generation and those younger than me) Have shown great powers in being able to absorb ideas and improve on them, we are advancing at a continually faster rate.

It seems a common trait of the older generation to be stuck in ways of thinking I *consider* ignorant and unchangeable, yet we are still progressing and opening up more and more of our minds daily. It seems nature is too slow for our brain, so we are going into genetics to contrIcarus thought patterns by ~Solilska

The Rules of Fiction1. Use words to convey meaning rather than meaning to convey words.
2. You cannot mutate reality in an attempt to replicate it.
3. Purple is neither red nor blue.
4. Every character you create can't be as smart as you think you are.
5. Circumstance and perspective can change. Human nature cannot.
6. Plots are good recipes, but the meal doesn't always need to taste good.
7. If you love your characters, you can let them go.
8. Always disregard the rules.The Rules of Fiction by ~craazhy

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