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Subject: New Writers Gallery & Community - New TOS changes

tammymc opened this issue on Jul 10, 2003 · 21 posts
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tammymc ( ) posted Thu, 10 July 2003 at 5:01 PM · edited Sun, 01 February 2026 at 2:03 AM
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Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/index.ez?viewStory=3955

Please read the article link above on the launch of the writer gallery and community. We have updated the TOS to include the new writers' gallery. Please review the TOS. [TOS update](http://www.renderosity.com/index.ez?viewLink=193) [Writer Guidelines](http://www.renderosity.com/index.ez?viewLink=463) thanks tammy

Crescent ( ) posted Thu, 10 July 2003 at 5:30 PM

Don't mind the happy Mod dancing through the site!!! Crescent Writers' Community Moderator

Shoshanna ( ) posted Fri, 11 July 2003 at 4:24 PM

Okay, I have a question about one of the things you're not allowed to describe in the writers guidelines Body parts. Do you mean, for instance, that I cannot accurately describe a leg? Or a finger? Or do you mean I can't mention them if they've been chopped off or turned all, um, oozy? Just asking...while trying to avoid being knocked over by Crescent doing the her victory lap round the site :-) Shanna :-)


Crescent ( ) posted Fri, 11 July 2003 at 4:50 PM

Accurate is okay; graphic is not. It's the written equivalent of a nude study versus a "money shot" or a scene with violence vs. one of torture. Example: "Crotch" is probably okay. "Throbbing, pulsing _____" is probably not. (I say probably because it depends on the context of the scene, but hopefully this gives a rough idea of the boundaries.) The way I look at it is: Are you likely to read the passage in a book sold at a local bookstore, or one sold at a store that also features whips and leather? ;-) Cheers!

hauksdottir ( ) posted Fri, 11 July 2003 at 5:05 PM

Foothills golden with poppies... His disarming smile... Nosy-parkering neighbors... Her mindless confusion... The heart-breaking news... Pedestrians rubbernecking... A frog in his throat... Blue-blooded families... I only have eyes for you... Tiptoe through the tulips... A cheeky lad! The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve... A sad case of nerves... Down at the heels... Elbowing his way to the top... Lily-livered coward... I have no stomach for this! Carolly

Shoshanna ( ) posted Fri, 11 July 2003 at 5:32 PM

Fair enough lol Shanna :-)


mateo_sancarlos ( ) posted Sat, 12 July 2003 at 2:46 PM

Carolly, you forgot this one (the required opening phrase in entries for the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest): "It was a dark and stormy night, ... "

hauksdottir ( ) posted Sat, 12 July 2003 at 4:20 PM

Mateo, "dark and stormy night" doesn't have any body parts in it, whereas all of mine do. I should have saved "tiptoe through the tulips" so that I could start a second list of phrases/titles with TWO body parts mentioned. Barefoot Boy with Cheek What a handsome wristwatch... By the hairs on my chinny-chin-chin! Rumpelstiltskin is my name... Carolly

mateo_sancarlos ( ) posted Sun, 13 July 2003 at 3:13 PM

Oops, sorry about that, Carolly! I thought you were preparing a list of "cleeshays" that would be banned from the Writer's Forum.

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hauksdottir ( ) posted Sun, 13 July 2003 at 4:23 PM

You weren't mistaken! If people will be banned for mentioning body parts, they will have to scan every single word for possible malfeasance. Sales of thesauri will multiply. Writers will originate new words to replace the forbidden ones. And the language will florish as never before. Carolly

Crescent ( ) posted Sun, 13 July 2003 at 8:43 PM

If you wander in to the Writers' Forum, Carolly, you'd better toe the line or else. If anyone fingers you as a trouble maker, I'll nail you for a TOS violation.

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Shoshanna ( ) posted Sun, 13 July 2003 at 8:59 PM

Where did you get those smileys from?


hauksdottir ( ) posted Mon, 14 July 2003 at 1:41 AM

Crescent Nails? Oh, no! Not nails! You can put that blackboard away... I'll be good!!! Wait... those were THREE body parts! :slow evil grin: The ante has been raised! The footman handed the lady into her carriage before facing her skinflint of a husband. Brow-beaten conscripts unwillingly shouldered their arms before shuffling into the lineup. The prisoners were crowded cheek by jowl in the bowels of the ship. She kneeled nervelessly at his headstone. Even in his cell he keeps abreast of the headlines. ... Sawtoothed mountains reared over rumpled flanks. Carolly

Crescent ( ) posted Mon, 14 July 2003 at 2:38 PM

Eye can't stomache any more puns! Who nose where this will go if I don't head off this face-off now by admitting defeet.

hauksdottir ( ) posted Mon, 14 July 2003 at 3:01 PM

:chuckle:

mateo_sancarlos ( ) posted Mon, 14 July 2003 at 6:46 PM

Attached Link: http://market.renderosity.com/~carrara/emoticons/index.html

See attached link for Kixum's Emoticons.

P.S. in the Writer's Forum, one of the rules is that prepositions are something you can't end a sentence with. No ifs, ands or butts.

Jumpstartme2 ( ) posted Mon, 14 July 2003 at 8:16 PM

UGH! Thats too much work to use those smilies...no wonder I dont see them used much here ~lol~

~Jani

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Mehndi ( ) posted Tue, 15 July 2003 at 3:26 AM

How odd on the purple prose rules. My Barnes and Noble is full of romance novels full of purple prose. It is a respectable trade these days ;p

hauksdottir ( ) posted Tue, 15 July 2003 at 7:52 AM

Mateo, Locking prepositions into rigid heirarchies? Ye, gads! Whatever were they thinking of? Maybe they were using their toes to think with? Rules are too leaky to hide under. They are better to stand on. Oh, well, they'll come to their senses by and by! Carolly

mateo_sancarlos ( ) posted Tue, 15 July 2003 at 3:16 PM

Well, in Latin (and Spanish), it's impossible to split infinitives and insane to end sentences with prepositions, so I guess that medieval logic got transferred to English somehow.

As Churchill said about ending sentences with prepositions,
"That is something up with which we shall not put!"

hauksdottir ( ) posted Wed, 16 July 2003 at 1:28 AM

I have started putting my writing up on my website... no problems with rulesmongery there! Carolly

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