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Also, sometimes I'm a dick, and I can't seem to stop double-posting.
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Bisqwit wrote:
I compliment people too rarely.
I've been told I complement people too rarely. Let's be friends!
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Keep up the good work, guys. I've never owned a GB in any form but I've always been inordinately entertained by this run and its various improvements.
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Deprecation*, dawg.
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That was directed at no one in particular.
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Dialect is really hard to pull off well. I consider myself to be an excellent writer but I won't touch dialect with 40-foot pole. I hope you aren't insulted by this, but I didn't read the whole thing, I quit after the fourth or fifth paragraph. Because of that, I don't really have anything else specific to say about your writing, but I do have some general pointers on how to improve:
  • Get a bunch of famous or well-received books from many authors and many genres.
  • Read them, and every time you encounter a sentence you enjoy very much, write it down in a notebook, or on a notecard, or perhaps in a file on your computer.
  • Also write down every sentence you encounter with a word whose definition or usage you didn't know or weren't certain about.
  • Periodically read over your lists of sentences and take some time to think about each one. Perhaps you can read them out loud, or relocate them in the original source and reread a few pages.
In this way you may slowly internalize a vast body of text better than what you are currently capable of writing. Ultimately it may help your writing to mature. P.S. Here's an old thread with some reading suggestions from various forum members.
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It costs a bit less if you register by a certain deadline. I think by March something or other. I'll look later. It's not that much though. It might make more sense for you to wait until the end of May to decide, so you'll have a better idea of how you are doing.
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IdeaMagnate wrote:
I'd be up for that. Do you know enough about this kind of race to give advice on training, or would I be better off Googling for it?
I'll put up my training schedule in the next day or so, as soon as I finalize it.
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In his brain.
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He had a stroke a year or two ago.
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My sister is already running it with me. Also, we are not forming a relay team, just a team of people that will run the whole distance together.
Post subject: 2007 Canadian Death Race
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http://www.canadiandeathrace.com/v2/MainPage.html I will be running the 2007 Canadian Death Race. If anyone wants to run it with me, let me know! You still have 8 solid months to prepare for it. Don't be a wuss!
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Wait what MY EYES how did he do that?!
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As intolerant as I normally am of stupid bullshit like this, it's pretty much the season for exuberant bullshit, isn't it? I guess I'll humor you for a day or so. Welcome! (But please stop the retarded faux Engrish soon.)
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kork~
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As a bit of a tribute to the Rockman run, perhaps Megaman should have "Cannot be blocked by walls."
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I agree wholeheartedly, Phil. Tell me more!
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Fair warning, you try to do that to me, you might scrape your knuckles on the pavement.
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Natchy-poo.
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xebra wrote:
Absolutely The Least Funny Pun Of All Time xebra I, Anal by Isaac Assimov.
Crap, wrong thread.