Posted on 12/21/2004 12:25:42 PM PST by hk409
Edited on 12/21/2004 12:54:14 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
remind me NOT to dabble in CREVO threads - geesh!
To the Chinese, the number 8 represents prosperity and good luck. Hopefully, the aforementioned post will bring it in quads. ;o)
As an aside, Fergie and Andrew's eldest Beatrice was born on 8-08-88 at 8 pm. The girl should be brimming with the stuff.
what is CREVO?
creation vs. evolution
They would stop fighting against you.
I didn't know how long my first book would be. Now the basic story is something like three books in length, and will probably double again.
I see this story developing into a novelette length easily. First you establish that there is some form of antipathy from the machine world to the protagonist.
Then you describe his attempts to avoid the interaction -- his escape from civilisation. Next would be the machine finding him, and using its capabilities to return him to the fold.
Then would come his confrontation with the machine entity, what ever form it takes.
Finally, you have the dénouément, where everything reaches an ending point, one way or the other. You may perhaps follow that with a moral lesson to be derived in some way.
You probably owe it to yourself to complete a story of some type. If not this one, then another of your choosing. It is educational and satisfying to do it. Your sister had a very good beginning on a romantic vampire story line also.
You also have the advantage of being able to produce the illustrations for your story. I think you should proceed.
Aaah yeah. That's a touchy subject.
Oh gosh I remember that one! His typewrite typed "Get out of here Finchley". And his electric razor came slithering down the steps after him "Get out of here Finchley."
Coolness.
I do have the rough beginnings of a story in my head.
I've drafted three or four rough starts on it, and I have an idea of where I want it to go.
But I'm not at all sure how I want the characters to get there.
About the machines, what if 'winning' really isn't?
A creepy Twilight Zone/Outer Limits twist to it.
Curiously, after this much exposure, most people would expect exactly that.
Characters in stories get where you want them to one step at a time, just like real life. Remember "Doc Hollywood" ? How did Michael J. Fox get stuck in that hick town?
True.
I did write a short story where the good guy who could have saved them all dies on the rooftop.
Bad guy wins, everyone curses the good guy.
Wrote it after someone said that 'in real life' bad guys can win.
So I wrote a story based on what might have happened in real life.
They hated it.
The paper copy got burned.
*snort*
Not really, who's to say evolution wasn't God's way of bringing different life to various forms all over the earth in steps?
There has to be a God. How is it possible the universe ever began? How can we not look at all the things in life and not say there is a creator?
Characters in stories get where they are, just like all of us.
It resembles the movement of the knight on a chessboard, with fallibility, and couragious resolve interlocking as motivations.
ah, yeah. that it is.
I went to the computer swap meet and I have to report that there was NO thrones to be had anywhere.
well, firstly: as far as I can tell, the basic idea that the universe "began" is an assumption not yet well supported by evidence.
huh?
do I get one of those angels if i hit a 000?
I didn't find you any Kingly thrones at the swap meet. They were out.
Well, if the Universe didn't begin, they we are not here posting to each other, because we don't exist.
It takes more faith than a Christian to be an atheist with all the life out her and all the Universe to see.
I like that description.
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