RikuDrak

N: Nanabozho (Native American god of medicine and humanity) Proof

and instantly felt his insides

Yeh. Or the wee hours of the morning, whichever way you want to look at it PM is just after lunch. Netherlands -> 13:49 [1:49pm]

I'm just strange in thinking that rougher languages are more pleasing to hear than soft ones. Therefore I like mainland germanic languages over norther germanic, germanic languages over romanic languages, and japanese over chinese. Whoops, sorry for off topic. I'm glad you got your question answered. I would definitely not be the one to ask since I'm not a native speaker and still learning.

Not guilty... I've never been a trouble maker D: G/NG: Placed unusual objects in a microwave (ie. things not supposed to be put in there and turned on- like animals ( ) or toys)

B: Bastet (Bast, the Egyptian cat goddess)

"Plastique" by Dahlia

I don't think I can call any of my fondnesses of fictional characters love, but I want to play this game anyways. Vash the Stampede from Trigun Maximum (the manga where Vash is actually pretty cool, because in the anime I liked Knives and Legato more).

Clouds

Catagory name: The Night's Dawn Trilogy Section catagory to be in: Books Do you have any stories for it?: Not yet

The Netherlands, it's 18:32 here. That's 6:32pm to those of you who only use twelve hours. ô.o

What about all the flames about nonhomosexual relationships? And plenty of people instantly assuming heterosexuality is close minded and homophobic? Everyone's a victim.

Get well soon you sick people ^-^ As for the friend: Definitely just trying to nab attention in the form of sympathy or something. Almost like "you feel bad but I've felt worse pity worship love me," which can only be remedied with time on her part. On the note of people who think they know it all, my mother is the most annoying kind. She is right. She has to be right, even if you shove evidence of the contrary in her face, she'll ignore it and rant on about how rude you are and how right she is. And that she's a victim. But that's another story. She gets these wierd ideas and passes them off as truth (if she could). She did it when I was younger a few times, which led to a lot of very humiliating and embarrassing moments when a bunch of people laughed in my face for repeating my mother's "truths." For example, all languages to her resemble spanish. Doesn't matter if they're germanic or slavic (etc.) in origin. They're all share a smiliarity to spanish. The umlaut u vowel (ü), originally derives from German and since it's used in Argentina (where she was born) obviously argentine spanish is derived or majorly influenced by german. According to her. =/ And if you tell her she's wrong, she just raises her voice and talks over you about being right.

I think people think too much about this sort of thing, like the fact that humans no longer need to constantly worry about pertaining food so they just start thinking too much about sex. Either way, I have no opinion. People are attracted to whatever they are attracted to for whatever reason, usually combining a whole lot of factors together that can't be represented in a single formula. Some people forcefully try and think about themselves as being bisexual or homosexual or whateversexual because they feel the need to rebel against society, feel the need to fit in or impress some one else or themselves, and some people wind up that way by being who they are where they live and in their environment. In other words, erm, actually there isn't an option for me because I'm cheap and saying "things are what they are and there is no truth; it's all relative." I know what I am myself (heterosexual, which is sadly becomming more and more a synonym for "close minded" among those silly younger teens), why I am that, and I'm comfortable with it.

I'm a Novemberling, a fall child. I hear stories of my mother having me wrapped up in several blankets my first night coming out of the hospital and into the house. Can't remember what day it was, but every now and then it's the Thursday of American Thanksgiving XP

Technically, all that I learned in school that elipses were used for, was when (for example) you quote a portion of text from somewhere in the middle of a full text. The elipse is then used to indicate that there is more to the original than just what you put down. The use of the elipse to indicate a pause or hesitation in dialogue or thought stems from the "final fantasy generation." The older final fantasy games used an elipse for these reasons, and with the help of the internet has become a popular method of portraying such. At least that is the only theory I can come up with. As I'm sure my English teachers might have slapped me for using an eclipse in such a manner. Granted, it's much easier to use an eclipse for a hesitation, I don't think it's an actual grammatical law (yet). If you want a hesitation, you should literally say the character is hesitating. Or studdering. Or stalling. You get the point

Hmmm okay, thanks for the reply. I'll keep this in mind and play with it

I'm really picky about this, because it frustrates me when I barely get reviews but I'd also prefer if the comments (good or bad) were a little more than "omg so awesome moar pls UPDATE." Tell me what works, what doesn't, something that seemed awkward... I'd even appreciate negative comments so long as they were critique.

Well, hello everyone. I'm new here, go by the name Riku, and try to stay as far away from fanfiction as possible (some sort of trauma derived from badly written fanfiction by pre-teens and early teenagers that was not only written with horrible grammar, misspellings, and internet speach but also lacked a plot beyond two characters wanting to have homosexual sex despite never having been hinted at in the original story it comes from) and hang out around the originals. Haven't been legally an adult for all that long now, but I hope I'm mature enough for that not to matter. So yes, uhm, I'm a visual artist actually, but that doesn't mean I don't want to try my hand at writing. At the very least, me being a visual artist shouldn't be an excuse to slack on my writing. Hello.

I'd like to ask a question that has to do with me trying to plan a story I'm writing. Now, I'll begin by saying I'm definitely more of a visual artist myself and haven't studied nor plan on studying the art of the written word, therefore any and all help and advice is appreciated. Criticism is also nice. So, I've been trying to write (and rewrite) a story of mine. Whether or not it makes an actual good story remains to be seen, but I hope I can pull it off. It's centered around an original character and his life, essentially. My original idea was to write it in third person, following the life of a character that the main problematic character will influence a lot. It had no specific point of views, just disjointed observation that would follow a series of events from beginning to end. When I wanted to rewrite it the second time, I decided to make it from the point of view of a third party that simply happens to be recording and observing the events from beginning to end. This time around, I'm considering making it a first hand account of the main troublemaking character. I was also thinking of making it something like "Interview with a Vampire" (or even Fight Club) in the sense that you start at the end and explain the beginning up until the ending (beginning of the story) point. This character has a lot of mysteries and interesting truths that occur at the beginning of his life, and therefore sort of take the suspense out of learning his true nature. I'm afraid it will dwindle to be super boring recount of some strange guy's life. I guess the questions I'm asking here is, what course of action do you suggest I take (begin at the end or linearly start at the beginning and end at the ending) and what course of action is more appealing to read? Should I make some sort of oddly arranged line where he explains bits that do not reveal his full mystery until much later?