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[Detail.]

Your not the only one who thinks haikus... Just.... Ack, it puts a bad taste in my mouth.

On the note of poetry, my counselor wanted me to write a poem about not fitting in. HAHA, NOPE. I do NOT write within a prompt, it just won't work, ima do my own thing.

[chihirofujisaki]

Username: DragonCommander
What we will call you: (a maximum of four.) Call me whatever you like. I respond to my username best.
Will you critique other's work?: (yes, no, or possibly.) Definitely. I love to critique short stories. If I critique a longer story, I probably won't be as detailed. But with short stories - yes, I am a huge grammar Nazi, and if you make one *tiny* little mistake, I will point it out. I'm brutal - just warning you - so if you ask me to critique your writing, expect devastating honesty. One good thing does come out of this, though - I can guarantee that your writing will be much improved.
Links to your story if you have any: Chronology of a Survivor is a Create-Your-Own-Adventure game on the CS creativity boards. I only just started it (April 21, 2014) and would love it if people would join or read! Critiques and comments on what I have so far are greatly appreciated, and I'd love it if some people would vote on what happens next so I can continue the story.
Anything you want us to know?: My above-mentioned brutality when it comes to editing, for one thing. Also - at the risk of sounding self-absorbed and/or boastful, I do believe that I have some talent when it comes to writing. I make a big point of knowing what I'm doing. I always spell things correctly, and I do not make grammar or language mechanics errors - I am scrupulous about this. Don't hesitate to ask me if something you've written has a mistake in it. My word choice isn't too shabby, either. Also, I WILL be careful about the writing I post on here; I know that this site is well moderated, but you can never be too careful, and I don't want to risk somebody plagiarizing my work.
Thank you, and I look forward to working with all the young writers here on CS!

[Schuyler]

Is it just me, or does anyone else LOVE it when a character dies a bloody death or turns to the dark side? My friends are kind of scared of me because they think I'm crazy for liking my characters dying.

Oh yeah. In the book I'm writing now, I end up killing off almost all the main characters: disease, suicide, execution, battle wounds, you name it. The ones I can kill, at least. It's historical fiction and I can't really have the actual historical people die whenever I want (well, I guess I could, but I do want to stay relatively true to history.) XD

It's not so much that I like killing my characters, just that I think it makes the story more interesting and realistic. I can't stand books that are all happy and light and sunshiny with everyone living happily ever after; real life isn't like that, and especially when the majority of the story takes place two hundred years ago in the middle of a war, someone has to die.

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[catra]

DragonCommander - I'm the same way XD
Even in school I'll point out to the teacher that she made a mistake writing something and she'll sigh and fix it XD

Huge Grammar Nazi right here ovo

[arte]

Gah, now I'm writing 3 books at one time. I don't get confused, by put it's delaying my writing in Faltering Flight.

Is it just me, or does anyone else LOVE it when a character dies a bloody death or turns to the dark side? My friends are kind of scared of me because they think I'm crazy for liking my characters dying.

Oh and I believe that every story needs a couple of dark turns. If it weren't for those, they would all most probably be gushy, too sweet, overexaggerated, and rather boring. I mean, twisting the plot a little makes your story a bit more unique and interesting, and it shows that you have a tendency to step out of the guidelines of general and common story-telling. So nah, it's not just you XD Dark turns are awesome and rather fun to write, muhahaha ~(o.o)~

[Kaerie]

DragonCommander - I'm the same way XD
Even in school I'll point out to the teacher that she made a mistake writing something and she'll sigh and fix it XD

Huge Grammar Nazi right here ovo

*high fives* until the end xD

[NopesaurusRexx]

Gah, now I'm writing 3 books at one time. I don't get confused, by put it's delaying my writing in Faltering Flight.

Is it just me, or does anyone else LOVE it when a character dies a bloody death or turns to the dark side? My friends are kind of scared of me because they think I'm crazy for liking my characters dying.

I write so many books at one time, I'm surprised I actually can keep track of them all!

One of the stories I am working on now has sooo many deaths in it! I never used to like killing off characters, now I feel if I don't have at least one character die I'm letting myself down. They're not always gruesome, but someone just has to die!

[ailurophile.]

I sometimes will write like evil characters will die and good ones survive, but sometimes.... Reverse version, like the darkness will rule the world forever or something like that. I'm weird....

[SilverBlade]

Gah, now I'm writing 3 books at one time. I don't get confused, by put it's delaying my writing in Faltering Flight.

Is it just me, or does anyone else LOVE it when a character dies a bloody death or turns to the dark side? My friends are kind of scared of me because they think I'm crazy for liking my characters dying.

Well, I ensure you, you're not the only one! c;
I don't really like it when a character is dying. But I know that it has to hapen.
Some time before, I hated killing characters. I felt like someone would show up from a corner and shout: "MURDERERRR!" cx
Or I would just hate myself for the rest of eternity. Now [after reading Mockingjay and Allegiant] I know that a writer has to do sucrifices. My book is about a war. People die at wars. It won't be realistic if hundrends of people die but noone close to the main character does, especially if they are young (like my characters). Now that I have accepted that fact, I meke their deaths as dramatic and painful for the reader as I can. Because if I am going to hurt killing my characters they are going to hurt too! c':
And oh my gosh, I adore it when characters turn to the dark side! Just... LOVE it! All those struggling emotions, all the drama! <3