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Subject: If We Had Writers Freestuff.......


Shoshanna ( ) posted Mon, 14 April 2003 at 8:21 PM · edited Wed, 27 November 2024 at 12:29 PM

What would we put in it? Free for non commerical use only this line ..."It was a dark and stormy night" new plugin klingon dictionary for word add a little star trek to your story... I'm all out of ideas What do you think? Shanna, Obviously got too much spare time on her hands :-)



dialyn ( ) posted Mon, 14 April 2003 at 9:32 PM

I could contribute free margins, white space, and paragraphs for those challenged to give space to their words. How about the modelers providing writer's blocks to those fortunate few who have never experienced any? How about a whole collection of apostrophes that will only parent to possessives and will automatically delete themselves if placed on plurals? A box of commas...I know someone who needs a box of commas!!!


pakled ( ) posted Tue, 15 April 2003 at 12:05 PM

Attached Link: http://members.internettrash.com/godawful/

I'm working on something right now, all of my 'non-art' kinda URL's..here's a site that's a perfect example how *not* to write. Even as an object lesson, if you ever had the need to release the savage critic within you, this is your place. It's morbidly fascinating.

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)


Shoshanna ( ) posted Tue, 15 April 2003 at 9:23 PM

apostrophes that will only parent to possessives....um, if that's what they are supposed to do, chuck them my way :-) Here's my freebie solution to writers block. I go and look at my oversized ironing pile. Suddenly I'm full of ideas that just have to be written down now. Lol pakled That is truly awful. There's hope for me yet Shanna :-)



dialyn ( ) posted Tue, 15 April 2003 at 10:24 PM
dialyn ( ) posted Tue, 15 April 2003 at 10:28 PM

Attached Link: http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/a.html

*Apostrophe. The most common way to form a possessive in English is with apostrophe and s: "a hard day's night." After a plural noun ending in s, put just an apostrophe: "two hours' work" (i.e., "the work of two hours"). If a plural doesn't end in s children, men, people plain old apostrophe-s: "children's," "men's," "people's." It's never "mens'" or "childrens'." There's also the opposite case: when a singular noun ends in s. That's a little trickier. Most style guides prefer s's: James's house. Plain old s-apostrophe (as in James' house) is common in journalism, but most other publishers prefer James's. It's a matter of house style. Note that the possessives of pronouns never get apostrophes: theirs, not their's; hers, not her's; its, not it's. See It's versus Its. Apostrophes are sometimes used to make acronyms or other abbreviations plural (another matter of a local house style). My preference: don't use apostrophes to make abbreviations plural not "They took their SAT's," but "They took their SATs." The only exception is when having no apostrophe might be confusing: "Two As" is ambiguous; make it "Two A's." Never use apostrophes as quotation marks to set off words or phrases (unless you need a quotation within a quotation). To refer to a decade, don't use an apostrophe before the s. Refer to the 1960s or the '60s (the apostrophe indicates that "19" has been omitted), not the 1960's or (worse) the '60's.*


Shoshanna ( ) posted Tue, 15 April 2003 at 10:37 PM

Dialyn, you are an eternal delight with your amazing links, but I still like the wonderful page best. Shanna :-)



dialyn ( ) posted Tue, 15 April 2003 at 10:37 PM

;) Me too.


Charmz ( ) posted Wed, 16 April 2003 at 8:39 AM

I am thinkin that someone could offer a punctuation program that knows where the darn punctuation goes cuz i dont know where to punctuate and just havent time to figure it out see what i mean?


Mestophales ( ) posted Wed, 16 April 2003 at 3:26 PM

Attached Link: It can be done

I have seen it done on the Sci-Fi Web Site. The forum Moderator begins with the first couple of paragraphs from a given theme. The community then chimes in with a sentence, paragraph, or whole chapter on the story, in the end you will have a pretty unique story.


ChuckEvans ( ) posted Thu, 17 April 2003 at 6:19 AM

"How about the modelers providing writer's blocks to those fortunate few who have never experienced any?" My guess is there are as many writer's blocks as there are Vicky swords. Please no writer-block freebies! "How about a whole collection of apostrophes that will only parent to possessives and will automatically delete themselves if placed on plurals?" Now! There's a pie I can sink my teeth into.


pakled ( ) posted Thu, 17 April 2003 at 9:27 AM

I'm still hoping for a 'to/two/too' plugin for titles..;) A writer's block freebie..hmm...;)

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)


pakled ( ) posted Thu, 17 April 2003 at 10:19 AM

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Ya mean like this?..;)

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)


dialyn ( ) posted Thu, 17 April 2003 at 10:22 AM

That is too funny...!! Thank you for the laugh as I exit toward jury duty (where all amusement ends). :)


Crescent ( ) posted Thu, 17 April 2003 at 3:14 PM

That looks like a whacked out dreidl/ship steering wheel hybrid. ;-) I love the opening lines.


ChuckEvans ( ) posted Thu, 17 April 2003 at 5:34 PM

Cute, REAL cute!


dialyn ( ) posted Thu, 17 April 2003 at 11:13 PM

When a politician in Columbus was asked why the Veterans Memorial Auditorium didn't have the apostrophe on the front of the building, he said it would have cost $500 more. The metal letters were huge and costly. An apostrophe would have made the building "over budget." Sometimes, it's all about the money. Of course I don't know if the story is true or not.


ChuckEvans ( ) posted Fri, 18 April 2003 at 2:15 PM

Sounds like "political spin" to me...hehe.


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