Recent content by Jace

yeah, cliche's can be used, and can be fun in using them as long as you... play with them. Altering a cliche in a clever manner can create an innovative piece if your very careful... but yeah, you have to be very careful. My, my. if we all thought like that, no one would achieve anything...

About someone trying to copy... it'd be fairly stupid concidering the copyright laws... i mean thats the reason the logbook is requested, if someone copied this it'd be fairly easy to slap them down and sue 'em. As for the story. it needs a fair amount of work, most of which has already been...

Be careful though, the people that chose the showcase are just a select few of the markers, and they were choosing for the purpose of a book that they wanted to sell, its probably not a trustworthy way of trying to gauge what the markers want. As for why i didn't like the stories... i didn't...

I dunno if that date being told it right... we got notified the due date was the 26th, though their might be a specific reason for us having a different date... meh.

Mines called "...delusions of adequecy."

i read through the 2004 showcase (of last years best of the best ext 2 stories etc) and generally i found them to be shallow stories with a strong political, social or philosophical ideal so clearly the markers dig that, but that being said, it is still a short story, so you may want to be careful.

14000 words over my two drafts. so yeah, a complete story of 7000

Alternatively you could have him have no reaction or cover a happy reaction... like when he hears he whipes his mouth with distaste, but for a moment it had almost looked like a smile. Like do something opposite of what a normal reaction should be.

I printed it, went through and like commented on the entire thing, and stuck that in my logbook, then i i wrote up a new plot progression, rewrote it (only because it was nessasary, usually i dont) ive done the same thing with the second draft, but now im just going through and changing stuff as...

Well altogether i've done 14000 words over my two drafts because i completely rewrote my second, even though its the same story. now im just going to be using the second draft and editing within the story structure. technically i suppose i could say that im done, but i don't think ill say that...