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leonard267
FAKKU Non-Writer
high_time wrote...
if you enjoy some bits of fantasy-ish story with moral values in it, I can recommend Italian Folktales by Calvino. it's compilation of short stories so it won't take that much time to read. I also like it because it's written in a way that's easy to understand.I generally find the stories to be quite like-able, although some I find meh, but there's others that are quite unique. it's a refreshing read.
also, to leonard267
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28293.Life
you probably might like this.
or this one, since, from what I've seen so far, it seems to describe the recount of travels.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30933.Brideshead_Revisited
Posted a reply to a prompt thread. You may have noticed it.
leonard267
FAKKU Non-Writer
xninebreaker wrote...
leonard267 wrote...
Spoiler:
Why would you set up for a nice sappy ending and chuck it away!? Such cruelty. However, emotional twist combined with the exceptionally untimely death very much like you to come up with. At least there's a moral to the story. I can appreciate that.
Also, the extensive use of 'strange' in that one paragraph was certainly interesting. I think if you took out the sentence about the parcel itself looking strange, all of the 'strange' would have more impact. Something like finding the sweet spot for emphasis and repetition, which I would say even applies to this piece of work!
high_time wrote...
Spoiler:
Once again my stomach could not handle your writing. Ughhhh I feel the pain just skimming through! Impressive... in it's own way...
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Aside from commentary, I also come with a prompt of my own!
Breakfast
With a jolt and a gasp for breath, you wake up. The first thing you do is look at the clock that displays that it is 7AM and the date. However, you stare in disbelief as you murmur to yourself the impossibility of the date on display. You switch on the T.V. and simultaneously grab your phone. All sources indicate that the date is correct. Your body tenses up and you can feel the sweat starting to accumulate. After a minute of taking in the situation, you exhale heavily and resolve yourself. You have only one destiny, one mission, one duty: you must make breakfast.
Criteria for the prompt:
1. You must explain why the date is important.
2. You must explain why you must make breakfast.
That is all! Have fun!
I had fun writing it xnine. Here is my contribution:
The following chronicles the brief moments of a metropolitan resident after he awakes from his slumber. He is in incredibly trying circumstances living in the discomfort of a spacious apartment well supplied with water and electricity, having to deal with the drudgery of having to exchange his labour for a pittance of a few thousand dollars a month and having to ingest very unpalatable meals that rich in carbohydrates, protein, vitamins and washed down with the occasional glass of wine or the more frequent soft beverage.
Many a person would sympathise with his plight. After all, he, like any other human being, deserves better. He ought to enjoy the freedom of not living with a roof over his head, feeling the sensation of the scorching sun on his sunburn-susceptible skin, relishing the deluge of torrential rain drenching every inch of his body and indulging in the bone chilling strong winds that accompany it. He ought to be experiencing the pleasure of subsistence farming and living from hand to mouth. After all it is leisurely work with no deadlines and no chains of command, just the niggling fear of suffering a poor harvest. He would do better living off the ground and eating organic meals once every three days. He would stand to lose weight and that would be a boon to any soul burdened by the excesses of city living.
The first waking moments were extremely unpleasant for our protagonist. Instead of groggily ambling out of the bed, he jolted up as if he had been assaulted in a rather sensitive region of the human body located between the thighs and the end of the torso and had expelled air from the cavities in his thorax in a very unnatural manner more commonly known as †˜gasping’.
For some bizarre reason, he performed upon setting his eyes on a device that displays both time and date, otherwise known as a digital clock, he appeared to unable to form coherent words with his mouth.
He then exhibited near-impossible movement by switching on the television and grabbing his mobile device at the same time. How he was able to contort his body to do so would be a mystery worthy of an urban myth. It might be the case of a malady blighting his mind that resulted in him behaving thus. To make matters worse, his body became tense and it appeared for a moment that he was suffering from a spasm.
In summary, what he was suffering from is indeed symptomatic of ailments that plague many a city-dweller. The horrible lifestyle of three square meals a day and having a decent, well-paying job had taken a toll on this poor man’s health and was threatening to take his insanity as well.
The digital clock displayed a time (7am) and a date (30th February) or so that was what his eyes saw. We could surmise that his thoughts now turned to making breakfast even though it is rather early in the morning and he could not be late at work and that date could not possibly exist! The reader at that juncture could inquire, “Why was the date important? Why he wants to make breakfast?”
I would have to tell him in the manner of the great Elizabeth the First of England not to make windows into people’s souls, especially that of diabetic and hypertension-afflicted madmen.
I would also chide him for asking why breakfast was needed to be made. Perhaps the reader should be rewarded with the freedom of not having a roof over his or her head, getting deluged by torrential rain, be subjected to bone chilling winds, engaging in liberating subsistence farming and having meals once in three days like billions of people around the world. Then he would appreciate the need for making breakfast!
[size=6]Have I wasted your time writing pointless padding about waking up and preparing breakfast just to exceed the 500 word floor?[/h]
leonard267
FAKKU Non-Writer
Xenon wrote...
leonard267 wrote...
Sorry for the incredibly late reply. Where is the Oxford spelling thread?After quite a bit of searching through nearly 20 pages of my previous posts, I've finally found it. It was in your very own thread! How about that?
That is a Bloody Long Title, Isn't It?!
Words fail me, Xenon. Words fail me.
leonard267
FAKKU Non-Writer
When is the above user going to update the thread he/she created about story writing?
leonard267
FAKKU Non-Writer
Xenon wrote...
leonard267 wrote...
It appears that realize is Queen's English, recommended by the Oxford English Dictionary (and Cambridge Dictionary it seems) though realise is used widely by the British. Ah, interesting. I believe I posted the table in the Oxford spelling wiki in a thread a while ago. It's a very intriguing topic.
I believe my intentions with that comment, instead of "Queen's English," was "Anywhere-but-America English."
Thank you for the wiki link.
Sorry for the incredibly late reply. Where is the Oxford spelling thread?
leonard267
FAKKU Non-Writer
Shikinokami wrote...
d(^_^)(^_^)d wrote...
Shikinokami wrote...
I have too much time on my hands and too little to do. Any good short story recommendations?I have books I'd recommend. No short stories though.
How about the one's at the Writing and Fanfiction?
It also depends on what your tastes in reading are. Personally, d's recommendations horrify me! Not because they are poorly written but because I don't take to the writing styles. If your tastes are towards the silly, might I be so bold to recommend the threads I came up with for a writing event a few months ago?
https://www.fakku.net/forums/writing-and-fanfiction/winter-writing-contest-wrap-up-campaigning-and-mudslinging (This is a collection of short stories penned by me but not proofread. It has links to the original work they are based on)
leonard267
FAKKU Non-Writer
high_time wrote...
leonard267 wrote...
I am not going to mince words.
It is about our nightime activities.
Your performance has been abysmal.
Size doesn't equate to joy in this case.
It is not about many times you can continue
It is about making the most of your play session.
Either you level up your skills or we are done.
The reviews of Drakengard 3 are as different as night and day. It feels like the reception to my contributions in this forum really.
at least the dialogue is real funny :D
as for absurd monologues, this guy does it insanely well. I learned a lot of things from him :)
Simply brilliant. I hope that someone could come up with a voice-over like that and put it into writing. I think the author of that video had the same thoughts as mine while he was making that video. How do I make something mundane ludicrous?
Can you share more of those videos in the future?
Right now, other than adding on to the Prompt thread, I would like to post a game commentary on Revelation's thread and rewrite the opening chapters of the Tale of Two Cities. Would you like to try your hand at it?
leonard267
FAKKU Non-Writer
Chronus14 wrote...
Spoiler:
Well I'm glad you still remember me after, like what, 2 years? I'm good. I haven't been posting but I'm reading stuff in here. I actually read some of your writings Leo, maybe I'll put in some remarks later. I particularly liked the last one I've read. The one with the meaning of 'cold', I can't remember the title. It's good.
Here are one or two threads related to the Winter Contest that I wished you took part in.
https://www.fakku.net/forums/writing-and-fanfiction/winter-writing-contest-wrap-up-campaigning-and-mudslinging
https://www.fakku.net/forums/writing-and-fanfiction/winter-contest-entry-2013-an-analysis
PS: I commend the story that you wrote especially the introduction that explains what is going on. There were two sentences I could not understand though:
Andrew Dylan tilted his head and laughed. She likes this woman, he thought, but there is no chance he can give her what she wants.
Who is the woman you are referring to? The madman's wife or daughter? Andrew's superiors?
Through the small rectangular glass, Andrew can see the only man in the world who is capable of killing his wife and his only daughter, and at that time he felt both aspiration and pity for John Flynn.
Does Andrew aspire to be this madman? I've read in a dictionary that aspiration means removing fluids from the body with a device but I doubt if Andrew could feel it. I would use 'admiration' though if it is the former.
leonard267
FAKKU Non-Writer
The Logophile wrote...
On "Yes, It is a Funeral",I thought that this was going to recount the tale of funeral crashers.
I liked the list and how it tied into thy other post. I will admit that I was a little surprised when I saw the word "eschatological" on my first reading. I had to recall exactly what it meant, although thou did a fine job in supplying the word with its meaning with the context of the next sentences.
Now before the list, I found this very interesting thing:
leonard267 wrote...
So boring and repetitive the speeches were, HumbugsAssociate made a checklist to entertain himself: How is this interesting thou ask? Grammatically speaking, the bold spot is an example of an absolute phrase. From the grammar book that I regularly use, it isn't even mentioned. I only know of it by my Harbrace handbook, which only gives it a passing mention.
leonard267 wrote...
Who knew that man in the coffin had tastes for old women? Everyone's got a fetish.
While both of us know the meaning of "eschatology", I am sure it wouldn't hurt for me to explain what it means to the person (if he or she exists in the first place) who is reading it.
Christian and Islamic eschatology posits that one day all of humanity would be subject to judgement. Needless to say, that day is known as "Judgement Day".
Buddhist eschatology surmises that the accumulation of bad deeds and thoughts (otherwise known as karma) would lead to never-ending disasters and eventual doomsday for all mankind.
The Confucians and Taoists, being Chinese, could not bother themselves with eschatology.
English grammar merits a study, so does Japanese grammar. I understand them to very complex and at times seemingly inconsistent. I'd hate to be tested that in an examination but it would make a good hobby where I can study them at my leisure. Thanks for introducing absolute phrases to me.
You may know that I am unable to come up with stories so I settle for making fun of existing material be they current affairs or anything else that I've heard or read.
leonard267
FAKKU Non-Writer
Long time no see Chronus! How are you doing?
leonard267
FAKKU Non-Writer
high_time wrote...
leonard267 wrote...
Not really. I watched the playthroughs. The dialogue is silly and entertaining enough. I apologise for not attaching a video to back up what I have said.
Do take note of how the dragon is voiced.
a little girls' voice? :D
on a side note, I find the dialogue rather hilarious, albeit silly I guess xD
I am not going to mince words.
It is about our nightime activities.
Your performance has been abysmal.
Size doesn't equate to joy in this case.
It is not about many times you can continue
It is about making the most of your play session.
Either you level up your skills or we are done.
The reviews of Drakengard 3 are as different as night and day. It feels like the reception to my contributions in this forum really.
leonard267
FAKKU Non-Writer
He is definitely a better writer than me! Good at being succinct and to the point!
leonard267
FAKKU Non-Writer
crazr wrote...
I have never been too into parodies, but as promised, I read your work! It took a little while to get through all of them, but I did it anyway! They're all quite well written and you do a good job at pointing out fallacies so it gave me a good chuckle. Keep up the good work! If you continue to make more, I give you permission to do away with my submissions, haha.I have to commend you for having to put up with my writing! I have one more for you and it is terribly long at over five thousand words and much less readable (if that can even be possible) than the previous 10 entries. Others and myself have remarked on it and I agree with them that it is actually too short!
It is in the edited first post of the thread. It is technically a parody and definitely inspired by a contest entry. Should you want to read it, do take seriously my warnings about it being 'long and dreary'(also written in the first post).
leonard267
FAKKU Non-Writer
Spoiler:
Not really. I watched the playthroughs. The dialogue is silly and entertaining enough. I apologise for not attaching a video to back up what I have said.
Do take note of how the dragon is voiced.
leonard267
FAKKU Non-Writer
high_time wrote...
leonard267 wrote...
By the way, Drakengard 3 was just released. Plenty of videos online. I loved the in-game dialogue. Have you mastered the courage to sit through the original Drakengard cutscenes, that aside?
i haven't played the game or seen the videos in the slightest lol
Yes but I believe you know about its existence. I haven't played either of those games but for some reason I am beginning to find them funny. You mentioned once that you've heard that the games were scary.
That aside, Drakengard 3 like Drakengard are both filled with people better off in asylum. Drakengard may be scary but Drakengard 3 falls more into the category of 'weird'. (Drakengard can be considered weird. Any game that puts in flesh eating gargantuan-sized babies is weird.)
leonard267
FAKKU Non-Writer
high_time wrote...
leonard267 wrote...
It is always hot there! That said, are you keen in raising the "Boring Boy" from the dead? If I have time, I might contribute to the "Prompt" thread. As for the Boring Boy, it might have to wait till I am done with work and school.i guess i don't know if I have the inspiration. at least i'll try reading if it ever gets continued.
By the way, Drakengard 3 was just released. Plenty of videos online. I loved the in-game dialogue.
Have you mustered the courage to sit through the original Drakengard cutscenes, that aside?
leonard267
FAKKU Non-Writer
high_time wrote...
xninebreaker wrote...
I refuse; I will mind you! How've you been doing High? Your summer going well?
a bit hot in here, but I'm doing fine regardless =)
It is always hot there! That said, are you keen in raising the "Boring Boy" from the dead? If I have time, I might contribute to the "Prompt" thread. As for the Boring Boy, it might have to wait till I am done with work and school.
leonard267
FAKKU Non-Writer
I have skimmed through (regretfully, I ought to have read it thoroughly) one or two of your chapters. I am in agreement with what Xenon mentioned about the pacing. It reads like those Japanese visual novels, plot wise and pace wise.
Alas, I can't say much about stories like those. They serve to titillate, they are escapist in nature and it would be stupid for me to demand realism from those stories in the same way it is stupid for me to try and make sense of what I contribute to the forum.
This thread entertained me but I am afraid I can't go into the details for the same reason why I am reluctant to write erotic stories.
PS: Have you read what I have written by any chance?
Alas, I can't say much about stories like those. They serve to titillate, they are escapist in nature and it would be stupid for me to demand realism from those stories in the same way it is stupid for me to try and make sense of what I contribute to the forum.
This thread entertained me but I am afraid I can't go into the details for the same reason why I am reluctant to write erotic stories.
PS: Have you read what I have written by any chance?
leonard267
FAKKU Non-Writer
I wonder what his short stories are about.
leonard267
FAKKU Non-Writer
mibuchiha wrote...
Never expected I'd post anything here again.And never expected I'd feel like this again over a work posted here after AoA. I thought that was my last, really.
But this is a work of a man who knows how to write. I recommend this.
https://www.fakku.net/forums/writing-and-fanfiction/short-story-the-desert
Go read it. Or better, go read my work.
I had my problems with his thread. Problems about the delivery of content and the usual gripes I have with anything that is posted on the Writing Section. Love to see a continuation though.