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[kami]

I disagree. It depends on the context of the story and the characters. Seen Shawshank Redemption? In a hardcore prison film, (more than) a few fucks and shits are absolutely necessary.

Agreed.

You should let your writing be guided by what you are trying to write. Its not that different from say Steinbecks decision to use very colloquial contractions to depict his characters' dialogue - frowned upon at first for being 'improper' but now that work is a piece of literary gold. The same applies to swearing, if its paired with the right environment/context then its use is important and shows you have considered how to create a more natural and authentic dialogue. For a nice exercise read Tarantino's script for Pulp Fiction then remove every swear word and try to read it out loud - it changes the nature of the dialogue dramatically.

 

[Asheroth]

It depends on the way you do it. like if it's just part of the third person narration I think it'd be a no no, like "Graham sat reading a book under a fucking big tree".

That made me laugh for quite a while It'd be interesting, though. What about if you put it in a post-modern story as a sort of irony thing; showing how the writer's biases and personality will always show up in a story? You know:

'Graham sat reading a book under a fucking big tree.

What? This is how I write. If you're offended you can take your borgeousie sympathies and Western cultural biases and fuck off somewhere else. I'm writing this story, Goddammit, and don't you forget it.

Psh. Responders these days.'

It'd probably work, seeing as how the Board gives 24/7 oral sex to anyone who panders to postmodernist thought.

 

[orange_blob]

Come to think of it, an entire story written like that would sound kinda cool.

It's strange though, how there are these words that aren't acceptable to use like that, and there isn't really a proper reason for it either. "Fucking" just adds so much more meaning to a statment, it multiplies the superlitiveness (?) by ten. If you say 'It was the biggest tree you'd ever seen', you think, 'yeah, sounds like a big tree', but by simply adding one word 'It was the biggest fucking tree you'd ever seen' makes you think 'wow, that's really a huge tree'.

Such magical words, that can convey such magnificent meanings, it's a shame they aren't socially accepted like that. But I s'pose if they were then they wouldn't have such an immense effect.

This world makes little sense.

 

[Ellie_Belly]

1) Is your story written in first person, second person, or third person? To whoever has used second person, I shall give them my appreciation ($US 10000.00 value).

First person.

2) What is the general tone of your story? humourous, serious, sarcastic etc.

Serious.

3) Over how many years does your story span?

A few months.

4) How many characters die?

Over ten.

5) What was the previous name for your story?

"The Gypsy Stage" (now Zigeuner)

6) How many main characters have you utilised?

Three.

7) How many sub characters have you utilised?

Over 10.

8) What is the first plant/animal you mention in the story?

Maple Tree.

9) Does your story take place in both night and day?

Yes.

10) Have you used any of the five following words in your story: subtle, invisible, gigantic, stubble, morbid.

Not yet!

 

[ElendilPeredhil]

) Is your story written in first person, second person, or third person?
First

2) What is the general tone of your story?
sombre, drama. lol.

3) Over how many years does your story span?
4 years

4) How many characters die? lots of minor characters, one main.


5) What was the previous name for your story?
'Untitled'



6) How many main characters have you utilised? 2

7) How many sub characters have you utilised? 4

8) What is the first plant/animal you mention in the story? sparrows


9) Does your story take place in both night and day? Yes

10) Have you used any of the five following words in your story: subtle, invisible, gigantic, stubble, morbid. subtle and morbid.


and just to use the origianl questions

1. What's the title of your story? Like a Ghost Cries

2. What's the name of one of the main characters? Erich

3.Is/are they guys/girls? guys

4. What is one setting/location? Marburg Germany

5. If you could pick a genre in which your story would be most suited, which genre would you pick? historical fiction

6. Whats the time period? 1942-46

7. Did you use any of these five completely random words in your story (random dictionary poke): stoic, vivacious, audacious, brazen, lacklustre
No.

 

[commonwealth]

1) Why does my printer smell like effluent?
scuse the blondness; but what is effluent, and is it such a bad thing that your printer smells this way...

2) That cat is pregnant, but why and when and how?
well, when a mummy cat and a daddy cat love each other very much...do i really need to finish this sentence? surely you've already figured it out and if not, ask your mum/dad/guardian to explain

3) Dairy cows are planning to kill us all. Discuss this statement drawing on your knowledge of TWO of your prescribed texts, and ONE of your own choosing. You should allow 45 minutes for this section.
not again...anything but this....

4)What triggered the inspiration for the storyline of your short story?
lots of fairytales and the like, the german ones tend to be particularly gory.

5)Would you ever consider doing a short film or screenplay of your short story?
i honeslty don't think that it would work on film, or at least i wouldn't be able to re-write it into a screenplay. scratch that - i could not be bothered to write a screenplay

Does anyone like T.S. Elliot?
i like his poems about cats...i was given a book of them when i was little and it made me laugh

Imagine you are your main character. What flavour of ice cream would you choose and why?
rum raisin, (i have no idea why, it just seems like something he would like)

What social group at school would your main chatacer fit into?
A very confused one that sort of drifted. He would be the guy that you didn't notice in the group, the quiet loner type

 

[ScottyG]

Sexual. Got a before-refining estimate mark of 46/50 rounded from Jones. I hope you are all in the refining stage by now. New questions by the way, their logicality and appropriateness are wholeheartedly not guaranteed, and may be subject to significant incomprehensibility.

1) What stage are you at? Writing/Refining

2) Estimate the % of your story that has changed since its inception.

3) What is your in-class assessment mark? xx/50.

4) State the point your story is trying to make in a single sentence.

5) Name the experimental or unconventional techniques and structures you have utilised in your story. i.e. thought convergence, dual narrative, flashbacks.

6) Sex.

7) Give a quick summary of your story if everything were made completely opposite and polarised.

8) Setting: Northern hemisphere/Southern hemisphere/Both

9) Do you have intertextuality? What real world allusions did you make?

10) Did you use any of these five words in your story: Transcend, sojourn, melancholy, conjugal, insipid.

11) <3 or </3


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1) Refining

2) Approx. 50%

3) 48/50

4) That we are an intrinsically flawed race eternally seeking improvement upon such flaws.

5) Thought convergence, dual narrative, flashbacks, interior monologue, others

6) Yahtzee.

7) Two women don't comandeer submarines on a divergent path leading to the deconstruction of a non-atomic flower.

8) Northern Hemisphere.

9) None. I had a reference to an old 1940's jazz record, which I should really put back in. Intertextuality adds authenticity and builds cultural atmosphere. Don't underestimate it!

10) Nup.

11) Definitely <3

 

[orange_blob]

1) What stage are you at? Writing/Refining

Refining, though I'm still below the word limit - haven't done any for a while.

2) Estimate the % of your story that has changed since its inception.

80%

3) What is your in-class assessment mark? xx/50.

Currently 32/40

4) State the point your story is trying to make in a single sentence.

People don't make sense, but some are nice.

5) Name the experimental or unconventional techniques and structures you have utilised in your story. i.e. thought convergence, dual narrative, flashbacks.

Almost parrallel stories.

6) Sex.

Not now, I'm busy.

7) Give a quick summary of your story if everything were made completely opposite and polarised.

An old man spends the day at home with his family, talks a lot and pisses people off - while a teenager also stays at home and is really nice to everybody present, causing them to really respect him and do whatever he wants.

8) Setting: Northern hemisphere/Southern hemisphere/Both

Southern.

9) Do you have intertextuality? What real world allusions did you make?

Maybe, only real world allusions are too cityrail being unreliable, does that count?

10) Did you use any of these five words in your story: Transcend, sojourn, melancholy, conjugal, insipid.

Definatly not.

11) <3 or </3

<3

 

[Cat_Orange]

1) What stage are you at?
Refining and writing. I keep changing my mind on things.

2) Estimate the % of your story that has changed since its inception.
99%

3) What is your in-class assessment mark? xx/50.
Pffft, no idea. Pretty low, though.

4) State the point your story is trying to make in a single sentence.
That the hardboiled subgenre sucks balls and should never be taken seriously.

5) Name the experimental or unconventional techniques and structures you have utilised in your story. i.e. thought convergence, dual narrative, flashbacks.
Heh heh... I used first person? Nah, my story is pretty simple in structure and all that.

6) Sex.
Mmmkay, just give me a minute or so.

7) Give a quick summary of your story if everything were made completely opposite and polarised.
Death is takes a holiday on a nice little beach with lots of nice little cocktails and pretty women.

8) Setting: Northern hemisphere/Southern hemisphere/Both
Northern, I suppose.

9) Do you have intertextuality? What real world allusions did you make?
Bwahahaha... yeah, I have intertextuality. I'm not entirely sure how to explain it, but it's there.

10) Did you use any of these five words in your story: Transcend, sojourn, melancholy, conjugal, insipid.
No, no, no, no and no.

11) <3 or </3
<3

 

[darkdamsel]

1. What's the title of your story?
The Faceless Model (although may change in the next few weeks)


2. What's the name of one of the main characters?
All the main characters are nameless, and only a one supporting character has an identifyable name - Frost

3.Is/are they guys/girls?
The main characters/the one whose perspective its from is always female, but some stories focus on the male characters


4. What is one setting/location?
My favourite starts in a cafe, second favourite starts in the rain walking down the street.


5. If you could pick a genre in which your story would be most suited, which genre would you pick?
Fiction, Drama, collections... i'm really not sure, its more like realistic/real life fiction... so i'll just make a new genre


6. Whats the time period?
Modern day, "Player: times being as they are and all. Guil: And whats that? Player: Indifferent" - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead


7. Did you use any of these five completely random words in your story (random dictionary poke): stoic, vivacious, audacious, brazen, lacklustre.
Not yet, although i do like them, and i'm sure i can sqeeze them in somewhere

 

[darkdamsel]

) Is your story written in first person, second person, or third person? To whoever has used second person, I shall give them my appreciation ($US 10000.00 value).

Second person, excluding the frist story. Butthe epigraphs are also in second person...

2) What is the general tone of your story? humourous, serious, sarcastic etc.

Serious, and it could possibly be read as satirical at some points.

3) Over how many years does your story span?

Its not specified, the stories could be consecutive, in which case it would be over a lifetime, or they could be concurrent, in which case it could be a matter of days...

4) How many characters die?

only one.

5) What was the previous name for your story?

it went with no title for a while, but now its "The Faceless Model"

6) How many main characters have you utilised?

umm.... 10 at the moment, by completion... possibly 13-14

7) How many sub characters have you utilised?

i think about 13 at present.

8) What is the first plant/animal you mention in the story?

i quite honestly don't think i do mention any plants or animals... i compare a man's teeth to that of a predator ie lion or something but yeh....

9) Does your story take place in both night and day?

Yes

10) Have you used any of the five following words in your story: subtle, invisible, gigantic, stubble, morbid.

one or two, i can't quite recall clearly...

 

[darkdamsel]

1) What stage are you at? Writing/Refining

Both, but i'm at the end of writing, and part way through refining

2) Estimate the % of your story that has changed since its inception.

100% seeing as i changed my idea/text type after my proposal. but since this idea.... 50%

3) What is your in-class assessment mark? xx/50.

i don't know, but its really bad...

4) State the point your story is trying to make in a single sentence.

Human instinct, rebellion, and different perspectives drive people to do the things that society frowns more frequently than realised despite the consequences

5) Name the experimental or unconventional techniques and structures you have utilised in your story. i.e. thought convergence, dual narrative, flashbacks.

the text is mostly second person. Maintaining the protagonists anomnity...
not really thatmuch is special about it...

6) Sex.

yes, and if i could i would do more about it, but i'm scared of the markers thinking of me as a nymphomaiac

7) Give a quick summary of your story if everything were made completely opposite and polarised.

overall, the stories show the progression through different areas of the modeling world form a models perspective. It shows the sex lies and deciet of the modeling industry, but also shows how it can develope healthy role models confidence, and happy relationships.

8) Setting: Northern hemisphere/Southern hemisphere/Both

Both, but never entirely specified

9) Do you have intertextuality? What real world allusions did you make?

lots of real world allusions, however never to specific events, people, places or things, and therefore i don't think that thats intertextuality.

10) Did you use any of these five words in your story: Transcend, sojourn, melancholy, conjugal, insipid.

i have a felling i have used melancholy, although i;m not sure, i haven't looked at my work in a while.

11) <3 or </3

both....

 

[HinikuTheNinja]

1) What stage are you at? Refining verily

2) Estimate the % of your story that has changed since its inception.
About 40% ish. I'm not good at maths. :S

3) What is your in-class assessment mark?
Haven't done one. I think. Wait. Um. So far...oh, gah, can't work it out. I don't do maths for a reason.

4) State the point your story is trying to make in a single sentence.
Umm. At what point does what we perceive in our mind become reality. [Read: the opposite of Lord Pheasant's ^_^;]

5) Name the experimental or unconventional techniques and structures you have utilised in your story. i.e. thought convergence, dual narrative, flashbacks.
Very disjointed narrartives, different planes of reality, sexual innuendo to the max (with both formatting and wording), annoyingly narrative, stream-of-counciousness stuff... er... I experimented a lot. ^_^

6) Sex.
Well, what are ou waiting for? Get your clothes off and get on the bed already. *gets out the whip*

7) Give a quick summary of your story if everything were made completely opposite and polarised.
Angelic teenaged girl drives in circle with boy while a popular jock screws everyone in town and a non-Asian Asian guy decides his life is all dandy and poppy flowers.

8) Setting: Northern hemishpere/nowhere/unknown, probably an old suburban British town

9) Do you have intertextuality? What real world allusions did you make?
Yes, I do. I mention an anime (FURI KURI!!!! KURI, KURI, KURI!!) and a little girl quotes Othello.

10) Did you use any of these five words in your story: Transcend, sojourn, melancholy, conjugal, insipid. No, no, no, no, no. Never did like big words like them.

 

[iain_12345]

Come to think of it, an entire story written like that would sound kinda cool.

It's strange though, how there are these words that aren't acceptable to use like that, and there isn't really a proper reason for it either. "Fucking" just adds so much more meaning to a statment, it multiplies the superlitiveness (?) by ten. If you say 'It was the biggest tree you'd ever seen', you think, 'yeah, sounds like a big tree', but by simply adding one word 'It was the biggest fucking tree you'd ever seen' makes you think 'wow, that's really a huge tree'.

Such magical words, that can convey such magnificent meanings, it's a shame they aren't socially accepted like that. But I s'pose if they were then they wouldn't have such an immense effect.

This world makes little sense.

I agree 100% i luv to swear, i do it constantly, and when you come from a pommie family all we do is swear, i can't understand that if swearing i accepted in my culture why is it deamed unacceptable by BOS. Like if your writing a very dark story, swearing is the perfect diction, it encompasses the frustration, comedy and dark nature of the characters, i mean not many words can do that . I think swear words hold a very special place in society because the words have become almost as ambiguous as a shakespeare play... saying fuck can have so many connotations that if someone said fuck to me right now id think 'wots he talking about? fuck in what context? is it sex,violence,shock, horror... comedy?'

In conclusion, i luv fuckin swear words and i thnk more swearing should be encourage as i view it as a nice relaxation method. It makes me feel so... grounded and simple and let it be known that simplicity of character is no hindrance to the subtlety of intellect... some of the greatest stories ever written were by complete illiterates.

 

[dasphoebus]

1) What stage are you at?
Preparing for the all-nighter

2) Estimate the % of your story that has changed since its inception.
70%? Elements are the same, but almost every scene has been re-written. Continuity nightmare.

3) What is your in-class assessment mark?
46

4) State the point your story is trying to make in a single sentence.

Capitalism is evil, but better than communism.

5) Name the experimental or unconventional techniques and structures you have utilised in your story. i.e. thought convergence, dual narrative, flashbacks.
A memorandum at the start. A couple of footnotes. Dystopia.

6) Sex.
Please.
No, it doesn't. It's too awkward to write.

7) Give a quick summary of your story if everything were made completely opposite and polarised.
A powerful man would be hired by some clock-watching wiener, only to be screwed out a business deal.

8) Setting:
Sydney, in the forseeable future.

9) Do you have intertextuality? What real world allusions did you make?
Real world allusions are to geograpical features, such as Windsor and Goulburn (urban sprawl extends to there). Also alludes to Silicon Valley culture.
Intertextuality to 'Jennifer Government', 'Company', '1984', 'Fahrenheit 451', 'Brave New World', 'Bladerunner'

10) Did you use any of these five words in your story: Transcend, sojourn, melancholy, conjugal, insipid.
No, wtf, no, why?, no.

some of the greatest stories ever written were by complete illiterates.

Such as?

 

[Emph]

1) What stage are you at?
basically finished MW but for minor adjustments. Now just have to write a damn good reflections statement

2) Estimate the % of your story that has changed since its inception.
Inception... big word. Um 100% since proposal.... maybe 80% from first draft.

3) What is your in-class assessment mark?
99% (no report yet)

4) State the point your story is trying to make in a single sentence.
Famous people have lives too!

5) Name the experimental or unconventional techniques and structures you have utilised in your story. i.e. thought convergence, dual narrative, flashbacks.
Intertextuality of quotes, second person, multiple character viewpoints

6) Sex.
Nah

7) Give a quick summary of your story if everything were made completely opposite and polarised.
Manic Depressives would be the happiest people on Earth and Virginia Woolf would still be alive.

8) Setting:
March 18th, 1941

9) Do you have intertextuality? What real world allusions did you make?
Yes... quotes from Virginia Woolf and have adapted her techniques as my own eg water motif

10) Did you use any of these five words in your story: Transcend, sojourn, melancholy, conjugal, insipid.
Yes, no, yes, no, no.

 

[iain_12345]

Such as?

The Aboriginal dreaming stories...

just thought id add:
Shakespeare had no PROVEN education u can attribute a lot of the literary success of his works to a man called Henry Neville.... a man fkn well-versed in mathematics, classical literature and astronomy. Shakespeare's parents and children were totally illiterate as were many of the english people in his day.

 

[luscious-llama]

1) What stage are you at? Refining verily

2) Estimate the % of your story that has changed since its inception.
80%

3) What is your in-class assessment mark?
I'm unsure as yet. Proposal 9/10. Viva 17/20. Report ? (All together thats 26/30 so far)

4) State the point your story is trying to make in a single sentence.
To tell a tale of a true interracial romance with the sweet delight brought about by romanticised embellishment.

5) Name the experimental or unconventional techniques and structures you have utilised in your story. i.e. thought convergence, dual narrative, flashbacks.
I'll get back to you on that one.

6) Sex.
Is kinky. None of that in my story.

7) Give a quick summary of your story if everything were made completely opposite and polarised.
I'll get back on that.

8) Setting: From North Shore suburbs (Ku Ring Gai ish) to Pre WW2 Britain and with a little intake of 1920s Shanghai CHINA

9) Do you have intertextuality? What real world allusions did you make?
I think I use TS Elliot.

10) Did you use any of these five words in your story: Transcend, sojourn, melancholy, conjugal, insipid. Nope. I used British vernacular though?

 

[dasphoebus]

The Aboriginal dreaming stories...

just thought id add:
Shakespeare had no PROVEN education u can attribute a lot of the literary success of his works to a man called Henry Neville.... a man fkn well-versed in mathematics, classical literature and astronomy. Shakespeare's parents and children were totally illiterate as were many of the english people in his day.

Doesn't illiterate mean you cannot read or write?

Yes, I know I'm a pedant.

 

[iain_12345]

Doesn't illiterate mean you cannot read or write?

Yes, I know I'm a pedant.

Nah i think in todays context it just means u cant read or write at a certain level, not point-blank - "no pens or books needed"