I would like to thank all of you for your help during my workshop day. And it was fun reading all of your stories.
If you continue to write and need some critique, feel free to email me your work. Best of luck to all of you.
I’d just like to thank everyone for their help this semester! I really enjoyed the class and reading all your stories. It was a lot of fun!
If any of you are going to keep up with writing, you can always send me work you’d like to have critiqued!
Thanks!
–Emily
Due to overwhelming apathy, I have decided to cancel my workshop over the summer. One or two people posting on this site is not enough to warrant the time I would spend on it, and the time Dean would spend setting it up, quite frankly.
I am going to continue writing over the summer, of course, and if you have anything you would like to workshop or just looked over then feel free to contact me.
-Red
Hello there. I can’t believe that it’s almost the end of the semester. I’d like to take the time to thank all of you for the comments you all have made on my work of fiction and my posts on Freak Thoughts. It has been very helpful to me throughout the whole semester.
Thanks again! 
I really like the music people have been suggesting! I love listening to music when I write, but find lyrics SO distracting!
I started a new story because I just didn’t know where to start with all the errors in my first attempt. I think I just tried to put too much stuff into the little story I made and didn’t explain ANYTHING well enough. Anyway, my new story is going really good, I just am having SUCH a hard time with a title! Looking at the recent posts though, I can see everyone’s pretty much having the same problem.
My story is about a woman recently married that kills herself because no one saw the signs. Any thoughts on a title?
Also, my goal for the summer is to write another really good short story! Probably try to fix my first story that I made you all suffer through. Sorry again for that :p
Hello all. I have seen the posts asking for advice on a title, and I am sorry to say that I will be adding another to the list. I had previously had no title to my 1815 period piece, and I am just wondering if any of you may have any suggestions for me.
Thank you!
So, if you haven’t noticed, I’m a very music oriented type of person. I play in bands, listen to tons of music, and even work in a musical instrument shop. I wanted to share a little more of the music I’ve been utilizing to get me through writing papers, and even the story I’ve been working on this semester. I don’t like to hear too much singing while I’m writing, so I listen to a lot of post rock. Here is the main band I’ve been rocking while writing:
http://www.myspace.com/65propaganda
The album I’ve been mostly listening to is called The Fall of Math. Another band I’ve been listening to a lot is called American Steel. They’re what is called an orgcore band. Basically, it’s along the lines of the Lawrence Arms or older Alkaline Trio. I like to listen to that stuff when I’m working on other things or writing different sorts of stuff. They’ve got some really neat lyrics. Another band in that same realm that I reccomend is called Small Arms Dealer, and specifically their album called Patron Saint Of Disappointment. That album is killer.
Another type of music that has a totally different feel that I love is metal, and specifically death metal. I know there are a couple guys that rock this sort of music out there, so I’ll name a couple bands that I have had on heavy rotation lately.
The first is Spawn of Possession. They’re a technical death metal band out of Sweden that really pioneered the genre that bands like the Faceless have been banking on. Another band I would really reccomend taking a listen to is Nile. I know if you’re into death metal, you probably listen to those gods of the genre, but their new album is something that I rock a lot.
There is some inspiration for 90% of you. Check out those bands if you’re looking for something new to listen to. Rock.
-Timbo
So, I know some of you have been talking about country and folk music and I just thought you may be interested in some other stuff out there. I’m sure most of you (that are into that stuff) listen to Iron and Wine. He really writes some cool stuff. My eighth grade math teacher has a fun band that is based out of Chicago:
http://www.myspace.com/gunhat
I’m sure most of you are familiar with the punk band Bad Religion, as the lead singer’s dad is a professor at UWP. Greg Graffin actually writes folky music:
http://www.myspace.com/greggraffin
It’s pretty freakin’ rad. Anywho, the first part of this next track is black metal but the second part is really cool instrumental blue grassy/folky:
That’s by a really cool guy from the Kentucky area I met about six months ago. If you’re into the black metal aspects of that, check this site out:
http://r-a-b-m.blogspot.com/
That’s a different story. Anywho, I just thought that stuff might inspire you guys n’ gals that are into that sort of music. Rock.
-Timbo
This was the inspiration for my story, “Black Jade.” It’s a clip from the Criminal Minds episode called “The Angel Maker” where a serial killer is thought to be still alive.
Trying to figure out a good title for my story. It has been untitled since it came to me as a first idea. So is there anything that comes to your mind when you think of my story?
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