Hypothetically, if a writer had to fill 16 pages in the back of a book with "extras"- like DVD extras but for, like, a book- then what should he fill those pages WITH?
An interview? A list of his influences? Deleted/discarded scenes? Something else?
Or maybe you'd just like 16 BLANK pages at the end of a book. You know, for your own doodling and such...
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- Derek Landy writes the Skulduggery Pleasant series because getting a proper job is so overrated.
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«Oldest ‹Older 3801 – 4000 of 4811 Newer› Newest»one teacher said my writting was like a block of cheese.
He was an idiot
Awesome. You can do that? Sweet. All can do is the stupid Mozart 4th Symphony 6th movement on piano.
everyone else loved my writting, but he said it was terrible. My stories never used to really end, you know. It left you wondering, and he said it had to end, why didn't it end
his idea of great writting was an acurite news piece about weather
That would suck. Weather, seriously?
yep. lucky he was only a sub
who here likes my writting? honestly, and give me some ideas for improvment
I haven't read much of your work. Waiting for your "Dark" chapter to come out.
oh, that'll be sometime tomorrow
I once wished I took up guitar instead of piano. Then I gave up on music altogether.
I like it Nix. Improvement, mainly grammar and don't be so dramatic all the time.
I learned piano for three years and understood none of it.
So now I'm doing guitar. :D
... then you'll not like my new story...
I have located the start of the story, Shadow!
And now to reading it.
I like how the hero in your stories is always a tortured soul. That makes the story even more sinister.
I do quite a bit of music. I don't regret doing any of them in stead of guitar. My school has two many guitars. But Will is defiantly the best. Will's cool. *mumbles something about Will's improv in Fake Turquoise*
then you'll definatly like my new story
my new one has little or no humour. It's dark, and depressing.
I think I'll like your new story anyway.
I like a lot of things.
Your grammar does need to be improved though. xD
Wouldn't worry too much about it though.
Most kids suck at it at my school.
screw grammarity
*floats away*
*sighs*
1st
1st?
I like dark and depressing. It kinda makes me feel better.
Really, Lynxia? I like the drama.
People say guitar Is easier than piano. And then I say, "but piano is so straightforward! You press the keys and it makes a sound! With guitar, you have to be holding down strings and plucking others...it's like patting your head and running your belly, and then swapping!"
I need to practise Beethoven's 6th symphony 3rd movement later on piano. Quite difficult.
Here's an orchestra cover. Can't find a piano one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbFxVVLM2zc
The dramatics in a story should be for emphasis not constants. With dramatics as a constant what would be the feature?
Feature - blood, blood, and more blood!
*starts stroking bare feet* I like my feet.
That counts as dramatics. Features should be used for emphasis is a feature has no emphasis it remains a constant and then people lose interest. What I like to do for dramatics is kill off (or in the case of B&W make it looked like I've killed off) someone the audience cares about. Puts a nice little twist in the story.
Are you going to dedicate the page, Mist?
*if not is
Naw I think Nix is talking about the sinisterness of the story.
I'm just going to add ness to everything now.
This song is so sad. I wish I could compose music like this... Mine is always darker not sad, dark...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69vfQtkTqLA
This page is dedicated to...to...Forget it, dedication rights go to Evie.
sorry, i had to go... not that anyone noticed i was gone
brb in 10
K Nix, and we did notice, Mr. Grumpy! We just thought you were writing! Humph!
I wonder if I could sing 'Lily's Theme'...
Evie. Huh.
I dedicate this page to Mist for the fourth time. I'm on a roll.
*grins*
Thanks. I forgot to thank you for the other three pages too.
*hugs and hands third box of live chicken chocolate*
Yeah, Im always on the brink of tears when I think about how we're not going to see any more of Harry...
What happens when we've finished book 9 of SP? What will we have left?
*eats live chicken chocolate*
Not much but I've composed some songs for the films. Not that they're any good...
The Tomorrow series!!
Tomorrow When the War Began.
I can play most of the songs from all the Harry Potter films off by heart.
And, Lynxia? Your blog is really hard to read with the font and the background. Just sayin'
I adore that series Zath! It's amazing.
The tomorrow series???
I'm sure they're great, Lynxia. Wait, the SP films?
Wait, the SP films! Well have that!
I like it. I know it's a little hard to read but it reminds me of the walls of my room where I make the rules. I write on my walls with tip ex, the white writing, and that looks kinda like my hand writing.
*shrugs*
Just hard to see against the background is all.
I can play this on piano. I love this one. Just find the music from all the HP films and I could probably play 80% of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLtMY-BJHgk&feature=related
I'm not allowed to do anything with my walls.
i haven't read that series
i like Gone though
I read the series ages ago and saw the first film last year. *glares at Nix*
Watch how fast I can switch from iPod to computer.
Switched!
and Lynxia, do you realise that the last book in the Heroes of Olympus series comes out a month after the last book in the Skulduggery Pleasant series
*claps* Well done Eve!
Not the last one in HofO is it! It can't be! What will I do with no Percy Jackson! *faints*
*sniffs* I love Statues. It's so beautiful.
the end of SP...
if that happens...
Eh. Percy Schmercy.
Reading Ch 3 P. 2, Lynxia.
OK Zath.
What Eve? *tackles Eve* WHAT?!!!!
I'm gonna die at the end of SP!!!
But I bet it will be epic. It'd kick Harry's horcrux-infected little ass.
I don't like Percy Jackson. Grr! Too many Jacksons! Michael Jackson, Percy Jackson, Eve Jackson....
*faints again* Eve! The end of SP will be epic but still, don't pick on Percy. He could throw you live-chicken-eating ass from here to Tartarus!
Jackson _________, brother to Jaade _____, ally to Vathra, Demon of my own creation.
Yeah, well, Nnnnngh!
Did you know that my name, Zathract Mist, are a combination the names of the characters I created who are brothers. Zathier, evil one who wants to kill his older brother, Mistan.
Zathier, Zathract, Mistan, Mist.
@Mist ...Huh?
zathier, Mistan, Zathract Mist. I see it now.
brb Need to go and lock the gate. The 'Love Parade' has covered the seven miles from town to here pretty fast.
and Lynxia, i dissagree about your view of dramatics being a emphasis. Drama can be a content
Mmm.
Too bad Zathier never got around to killing Mistan in the Nene Saga, it would have been a battle of epic proportions with many buildings blowing up.
Commented, Lynxia.
Yeah dramatics is a content Nix but I said constant if drama is a constant all the way through it loses its shine.
Woah. Epicness.
What's the 'epicness' for?
well, drama can come in different forms. Drama can make you be on the edge of your seat throughout the whole book. Constant drama can be good, if used correctly
Epicness was buildings blown up and Mist's first name obliterating his last name.
Yeah but it still bores me to death. That's why I listed it under improvements. make it better for all. *shrugs* That's all I was saying.
Haha.
Yeah. Zathier could kill Mistan and Naga, my ultimate changeling of destruction and battle partner for Zathier, could kill Kassd, Mistan's son.
i like books that have no little breaks, just action packed stuff
And i just like to debate for the heck of it, sorry.
Lynxia was the goddess of time to the Aztecs' and when she gave birth to her suns, the sun and the moon, she became lost and her love, the Earth, looked for her but could not find her. And that is why they believed travelling forward or back in time was impossible because when something is lost it cannot change. That's the story behind my name.
I'm watching A Very Potter Musical for the first time.
oh, by the way, not to give away to much, but there's this Darquesse kinda guy in mine.
The story behind my name is that I was called Eve and I am a rock.
I know. Sarth.
That's a good story Eve.
i think that whoever came up with my name Nixion lied about it meaning nothing. i can't find anything about that
Maybe it means nothing in a different language.
looked it up, nothing
Zathract means nothing, but I've always liked the word "mist". And the way it looks.
I've found something. Nixon was the demi god son of the Greek goddess of victory and is the root origin of the name Nicholas.
yeah, but my name's nixion
with an i
after the x
and before the o
Yeah. That's the closest I could find.
I've always pronounced it as Nixon though.
I found something on Nixion Scalp Therapy.
*grumpy*
and im stuck with it
That is, when I'm not saying Nix.
i always thought of pronocing it
Nix-i-on
It's awfully quiet around here.
*looks around and tackles Eve*
i am a dwarf, and im digging a hole
diggy diggy hole
Nix, you';re not stuck with Nixion. Loo at Flame. He changed his loads. Just take out the 'i'.
*look not loo
nah, it doesn't really matter
I typed in Zathract and it came up with everything about you.
Oh noes!
*gets tackled*
hey, i type in your name, and you blog comes up
you're popular
It also said, "did you mean 'cataract'?"
I am.
Whose?
Oh, wow, I'm really popular. I typed in useless and my blog comes up as the last link on the first page!!
Mist's
Same with Short
hey, is your real name Miles?
*talks quietly*
...Maybe...
I think it is.
Cool last name.
*looks around*
Oh.
*helps Eve up*
you put it on a fourm
My name is crap. Really crap.
my name is worse
And artwork by Lynxia
WHAT?!
*whirls around*
WHAT FORUM?!
My name is AWESOME.
*holds up hands* I don't know what forum! I didn't do it!
That art work isn't me. I'm still Shadow9 on DeviantART. I've got no idea who that is but their art is good/disturbing.
http://www.skulduggeryforums.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=1963.0
Oh. And that isn't my last name.
Evie knows my last name.
I think.
Grr. Whenever I type in Eve the ROCK it comes up with New Year's Eve at The Rocks.
I like my last name. Not the rest.
*searches Eve the ROCK*
Aw...
No, I don't believe I do.
my name is weird
who names their son _____
YES! MY BLOG COMES UP WHEN I TYPE IN MY NAME!
You do. We were talking all about the "nox" names when you gave me Drucilla Nox's profile.
I JUST LOST THE GAME!!!
although that's just because i mention my Nixion Strange in one post... and no one else has anyhting as close... but still
...Knox?
Yup.
*tackles again*
*gets tackled *
I'm tackling you too much. Are you hurt?
you know how John Smith is such an obviously fake name? Well, what if someone named their child John Smith?
...Is your name John Smith?
No. *looks at big purple bruise in arm*
Yay! Purple!
no. You have my email, it says it there
That would suck. What is some one named their child Elizabeth Grace that totally contradicted their personality and last name.
Oh, yeah. I forgot about that...
Oh no!
*hits head at sight of bruise*
There's a fellow at my school, at his parents named him Elton John Nguyen
That wasn't you. That was the coffee table.
Ouch! What a name.
Oh good.
I gtg now. Be on iPod soon.
you know, most people on this blog are Australian
....Elton John?
Bye Zath! Hurry back!
Elton John Nguyen, yes
You know, the famous singer
See you soon, Mist!
Or not....mum might turn the Internet off.
My first two names suck. I chose my confirmation name so I'm OK with that and I just like my last name.
My mum could be home any minute, so i might have to leave
OK.
Yeah, I know. Being called Michael Jackson would be much cooler though.
my confirmation name is bearable
Actually, my name isn't that bad, execpt for my first name
I hate my middle name. I hate it so much. *kicks tree*
i think you all have my email, so you all have my name...
is it bad?
No, I like your name. Especially your last name.
Nah, it could be worse. Someone in my year has a really long African name that only he can spell and say in the school.
yeah, last name's alright
execpt people keep asking if im related to the soccer player
Beggin, beggin yoo-oo-oo-oou...
I was thinking of the 39 clues series.
my mum said she's be home in half an hour and hour and a half ago
I LOVE THAT SERIES! MAINLY BECAUSE OF THE NAME THING!
SLAUGHTERHOUSE!!!
WAR UNICORN!
Hehe yeah.
do you read it?
NIGHTMARE!!!
My last name's awesomer though.
Jackson? pffft
Mist, hi!
*slaps Nix*
My last name is best. Phoenix. Honest.
Have to go now bye! *hugs Mist*
Hi Zath.
Bye Eve...
Bye Eve! *hugs*
Aw. Bye Eve!
*hugs tightly*
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