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I would disagree that his personal style makes Stephen King a poor writer. By adhering to an overly rigid structure for literature, you run the risk of sacrificing creativity for form. While form has a place in things like sonnets and waka, one of my absolute favorite writers, Samuel R Delany, tossed the style book out the window when he wrote some of his most amazing works. "Dhalgren" can still leave me breathless, and "Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand" is sheer gorgeousness. On the other hand, the relentless predictability of Barbara Cartlandt is what gave romance writing such a bad name.

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I think the issue readers, including myself, can have with that is if they need to run to Google Translame to get through a bit of dialogue. You can pretty much assume a term of endearment is something sweet and loving, and move past without needing to go see exactly what "watashi no kokoro" means. But if you're writing primarily in English, for readers of English, then you really should try and stick with one language except where it's a concept that can't readily be translated. If you're writing for Japanese speakers, you should be writing ござる, which is the polite form of "to be." I'm pretty sure "de" is either an example of inaccurate Japanese from anime use, or one of those hangovers from katakana, like daylight = deraitu.

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If the author has taken the story down, and does not wish to publish it, then that is the author's choice, and must be respected.

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I'm so glad to hear the news about the biopsies. I can only imagine how hard it is to go through scare after scare, though.

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Link for above: WONKY CROSS by Qtness.Quill

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Not to mention those of us who volunteer our time to try and moderate this site, to make sure it's viable. Unless you're willing to put a considerable amount of money or time where your very big mouth is, then you can feel free to go get stuffed.

Kyo-nezumi posted all her stories here prior to her 18th birthday, and the stories were removed.

I'm not showing any author by that name, and no record of an account deletion for an author by that name. I'd hazard a guess that it was posted elsewhere.

Link to the above: Passion Play by BittersweetAlias

Allow me to quote the text at the top of this search thread: That means we do not want you asking for copies of stories. At all.

I've moved this to a more appropriate thread here on the forums, since it's not exactly an "Ask the Staff" thing.

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