Post nr: 3646 Thread: [3646] |
Author: iippo (The Rater's Guild - Rate writings, kids!) | Posted: (6663 days ago) |
Subject: Letter writing |
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Some people are saying that due to e-mail and SMS and all that jazz, the art of writing proper letters is vanishing. So as I'm not much of a fiction-writer |
Post nr: 3647 Thread: [3646] |
Author: Emily (Post your Faves :) favorite quotes) | Posted: (6663 days ago) | Previous in thread: 3646 by iippo |
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I really like this project! :D |
Post nr: 3652 Thread: [3646] |
Author: Kiddalee (I'm here. Bwahahaha!) | Posted: (6662 days ago) | Previous in thread: 3646 by iippo |
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I write proper letters in my email, when I have enough to say. |
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Post nr: 3653 Thread: [3646] |
Author: iippo (The Rater's Guild - Rate writings, kids!) | Posted: (6662 days ago) | Previous in thread: 3652 by Kiddalee |
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A tutor of mine spoke about one book like this (called Clarissa or Christina or some other woman's name that begins with C :S), the entire book is just letters that these characters wrote to each other. |
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Post nr: 3718 Thread: [3646] |
Author: dmeredith | Posted: (6646 days ago) | Previous in thread: 3646 by iippo |
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That really depends on your purpose in doing this. If its a "slice of life" kinda thing just try to think of all the stupid little mundane things people are excited or worried about from day to day, what they confide in other people, how the same person writing about the same thing will write very different letters saying very different things to different people, that kinda thing I think. |
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Post nr: 3719 Thread: [3646] |
Author: dmeredith | Posted: (6646 days ago) | Previous in thread: 3653 by iippo |
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I don't know who said but... "...Nothing new under the sun..." right? |
Post nr: 3745 Thread: [3646] |
Author: iippo (The Rater's Guild - Rate writings, kids!) | Posted: (6644 days ago) | Previous in thread: 3719 by dmeredith |
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I've been taught that Mika Waltari said that (in his book Sinuhe the Egyptian), but I'm not sure he'd be that famous to have been the original sayer so other-than-Fin |
Post nr: 3746 Thread: [3646] |
Author: iippo (The Rater's Guild - Rate writings, kids!) | Posted: (6644 days ago) | Previous in thread: 3718 by dmeredith |
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Hmm, I do slice-of-life more in my other project "Human-People, |
Post nr: 3748 Thread: [3646] |
Author: dmeredith | Posted: (6644 days ago) | Previous in thread: 3745 by iippo |
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six of one half a dozen of the other... I'll take your word for it. |
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Post nr: 3750 Thread: [3646] |
Author: iippo (The Rater's Guild - Rate writings, kids!) | Posted: (6644 days ago) | Previous in thread: 3748 by dmeredith |
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Wow, did my research. And it's Biblical. :O Old saying. |
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Post nr: 3752 Thread: [3646] |
Author: dmeredith | Posted: (6644 days ago) | Previous in thread: 3750 by iippo |
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Oh well... The bible IS universal intellectual property so I guess it's not REALLY ripping it off. |