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| | | (...) Not sure I would have put it *quite* this way, but yeah, what he said. I've been as tolerant as I'm going to be, made some suggestions I thought were helpful only to have him ask me to write the thing for him (poem), then to see this kind of (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Somebody help. —Ryan Smith
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| | | | (...) (poem), (...) I've got writers block, I can't help it. I didn't ask for a whole poem. (...) I'm not an egocentric person, SORRY for sounding like one. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | Re: Somebody help. —Mike Stanley
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| | | | (...) You can work through writer's block, trust me. Putting ANYthing down on paper gets you started. Not sure most of the advice I could offer writing-wise would be of much use to a freshman in high school, so do what I suggested and talk to a (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | Re: Somebody help. —Ryan Smith
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| | | | (...) remember that one of them was supposed to be a funny one but I can't remember what it was called. Sounds like it would be a good one to do:) I just need the name and some of the rules for it. (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | Re: Somebody help. —Bram Lambrecht
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| | | | (...) limerick? --Bram (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | Re: Somebody help. —Ryan Smith
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| | | | (...) I think that's it (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | Re: Somebody help. —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) I don't think "limerick" and "romantic" go together very well! If you want to impress someone, that isn't the way to do it. Try just writing something several stanzas long about something interesting from everyday life. Pick a concrete image (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | Re: Somebody help. —Matthew Miller
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| | | | A great example of a villanelle is <URL:(URL) Note that Mr. Dylan Thomas pretty much disregards my advice about focusing on concrete images. Oh well. Listen to the audio if you can -- it works a lot better that way. You can see -- or hear, rather -- (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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