*Yet Another Personality Quiz. Via BD.

Dale asked: So I have a question. I haven’t done any creative writing in a looong time so I can’t really feel your pain when you’re talking about revising and editing a story. BUT, I’m curious why it’s such a painful process. Isn’t it like putting on the final, finishing touches on a project? Working

If writing a first draft of a novel is like running a marathon, doing revisions is like defusing a nuclear bomb. While running a marathon.

TV Tropes & Idioms, a website dedicated to listing all the tropes (the common story elements) used in TV, movies, comic books, anime, etc. (despite the site name). For example, here’s the entry on Cat Girls.

The infamous “torture manual,” The Manipulation of Human Behavior, is available for free download here. As one of the commenters says, “The more people who have it the harder it is to hide.” (via Futurismic.)

So there we were, trying to decide whether the plural of VIP was “very important persons” or “very important people,” when I ran into the following: person c.1225, from O.Fr. persone “human being” (12c., Fr. personne), from L. persona “human being,” originally “character in a drama, mask,” possibly borrowed from Etruscan phersu “mask.” This may

Kate writes, “For me, writing is about sharing.” And goes on to say good, positive, constructive things about writing. Um. I could come up with all kinds of nice things to say about what writing means to me, but they wouldn’t be true. Of course, this is a bad day, a day that I have

Ray’s school is having a fundraiser. If you’d like to help her out, check out the link below: **************** MOUNTAIN VISTA is having a fundraiser. You can shop online at www.abcfundraisinginc.com/store/brochures.php?sID=mou7517 The group receives profit from the sale and the seller will receive prize credits. Enter the seller ID below to begin. Seller: Rachael KenyonSeller

I sent out “Fragile” (formerly known as “Things You Don’t Want”) out again. I started questioning whether it was any good, so I read it again before I sent it. Ah, will anyone but me or my cousin Heather ever like this story? Oddly, it just struck me that the story might be read as

What, exactly, is a nemesis? Greek Goddess: “the spirit of divine retribution against those who succumb to hubris, vengeful fate personified as a remorseless goddess.” Definition: 1. something that a person cannot conquer, achieve, etc.: The performance test proved to be my nemesis. 2. an opponent or rival whom a person cannot best or overcome.