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Hello TDN. I'm new here. Well... Hello again!

Howdy.

Enjoy yourself here. And remember, if people pick on you or make sarcastic remarks, don't take them too seriously. We're all just having fun here.

Woo.

Shut up Tal you are so freaking stupid and you get on my nerves...

Hello Megaman. I am Amoebalord. And if you refrain from making new "Neverending story" threads, I can and will give you a cookie.

Indeed. There is too many "Neverending story" threads. It's rediculous! I will one-up you and offer a whole jar of cookies to anyone who can refraain from making new "Neverending story" threads.

And remember, if people pick on you or make sarcastic remarks, don't take them too seriously. We're all just having fun here.


Does that mean I can randomly insult whoever I want and staff wont care? Oh how the feeling of power surges through me like... Something that surges through people... I blame my lack of... ummm... uhh... Words! On you Draconic dink, you crap guzzling crap faced crap brained lump of horse crap, baked in a pig crap pie coated with crap juice and crap gravy that was overcooked in a crap oven, at that that.

Serv. sugestions; lightly coat in a thin cheese sauce with garlic and herbs.

Sorry, dont know what came over me...

LOL! That's not an proper insult. This is a proper (and true) insult:
DraconicDink you stupid useless nerd who talks too much! You also talk too fast and too loud! Oh and you need to lose a little bit of weight! Oh and stop spending all your time reading, writing or on the computer and get a life!

j/k

Yes the first neverending story was great! then, Noobs put more up..

I never really bothered with it since no offence intended but as far as I know all of us are ameuturs (me included, despite 12 years of practise (no professional training)) when it comes to writing stories. I only read published authors (and my own work since you can't write without reading and you can't edit without reading). This is because they have had the assistance of professionals (editors) and are usually at least semi-professional by the time their first book is published and as such they know how to structure stories properly. I dpubt anyone here is good at structuring stories properly (which is even more important than plot (the best plot in the world won't sell a book if the plot is poorly structered)).

redink is a relatively good writer, you can read some of his stuff here if you want...

I think I should clarify: I did not mean that noone here is a good writer or that anyone is bad, but rather that everyone here is an ammateur at writing as far as I know. There may be good writers here, but I doubt there are any pros.

If you truly aspire to being a writer, you should read all material you can get your hands on. It doesn't matter if it's written by a "pro" or not, it may have merit of some description which you can learn from.

Many published writers aren't as "professional" as certain stories I've read that haven't been published. Typically, most fantasy writers write like excited 15 year olds, hence most published fantasy being complete drive. In my opinion, at least.

Mind you, these Neverending stories must end. Now.

I fail to see why someone'd have to take classes in order to be able to write great stories. On the contracy, I like stories written by "amateurs" since the style is usually different from mainstream literature. And I don't think there's a proper way to structure stories, there are as many as there are writers, some better than the others.

At the moment I am actually writing a proper novel, I find the neverending story (The ORIGANAL one) a good break it is a place you can be a bad writer

Hey MegaMan

Welcome to the loony bin, have a TimBit.

(Someone said "shut up" to Tal?? )

I presumed it was only said in jest... but if I find out otherwise...

/me fears the wrath of Tal

Hey dude

Hello! If you wanna see who we are, you should check the board, to see what everyone has said.

Trust me with the average person (from my experience) I will see more crud than gold (in my opinion). and with the word 'pro' I am perhaps misusing it a bit for lack of a better word.. Under the usuage I am using my twelve years of writing experience mean little. If I was a third party to them I would not read them. And as for your suggestion while my style has been affected by authors such as Tolkien, Eddings, Goodkind, Jordan and Pratchett, I come up with the ideas for the stories. Your suggestion sounds too much like blatant inspiration from other authors. I assume that isn't what you mean. Anyway I have a better idea to help my writing: I am going to university (or college as the us calls it) next year so I can do a Bachelor of Arts double major in English and Linguistics. In English I am going to focus on the written form of the language.

I just don't have the time to read any old stories, especially when I begin my university studies.

And I know what you mean about some writers... I have run into some so called "professional" authors that were absolute drivel... but the problem with that is that it's up to opinion.

There are proper ways to structure stories. Trust me, I know from twelve years of experience. There are a lot of mistakes that budding authors make. You can't just come up with a story and put the parts of it in any old order, it has to flow properly or noone will read it. Also grammer is a large part of story structure. And you can't skip certain things and keep the story good. You also have to know what to cut out. Those are all amateur mistakes. Are you saying you prefer stories that don't flow and that have poor grammer such as:

Born I was, then I went shop at 15 age and when ten I was I decided to call dad mine by name instead of dad, since never there he was.

Or:

I was born at Auckland hospital in New Zealand. When I was ten I decided to call my father by his name (Dave) rather than calling him father. This was because he was almost never in my life.

See what I mean about structure? While both stories are crap, the second is much better since it doesn't skip ahead then back and it doesn't miss things, making it more accurate. Because I skipped words the first story in't even true (my father was in my life a little). Also the grammer of the second story makes it better. Notice I also cut the shop part out since no one would really want to read that.

SirCabbage, if you want to be a good writer don't ever intentionally write bad. Keep in the practice of writing good.

Kinda makes you wonder why Yoda became popular.

EDIT: Sabre spews forth a load of nonsensical garbage to prove DraconicDink wrong. He succeeds, but at great cost... ripping apart the fabric of time and space. This could only be averted by deleting the aforementioned Post of Nonsensical Power + 2, so I did.

Okayyy... How come you went from my hello to writing and back to my hello then to writing then to critisism then one responce of yoda and then back to writing. Why the hell do you do that?

It's typically something of this network. If you're planning to stay here for a while, you better get used to it.

This might be one of the most friendly communities on the net (at least the friendliest I've come across), but it comes at a price: complete lunacy.

BANANA!

Welcome to TDN, MegaMan!

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Hi new dude. I'm kinda new too. Everyone here is nice and if you ever need any help you can just start a forum.

EDIT 1: Edited out how much I hate everybody and how rude and offensive they are. And a poor attepmt to be funny. Whoops, my mistake, I left it in. (For anyone who doesn't get it: right here!)

Is DinkKiller back? I knew he didn't have the power to leave DN!

Ya go start a forum...somewhere else, cause you aint gonna get any help here...

j/k Ask away there are some very *cough* knowledgable staff at *cough* work here

I came back because I got my Almost-Regular poster back. I WON!! And I DO have the power to leave. I almost swiched my home page to runescape, but I never did because I forgot how to change it.

What does the 1337 mean?

it means ur good at something e.g i am a 1337 cs gamer

It means Elite...hence l33t or l337 mean Leet, short for Elite.

Oh yea and on a side note... 1 Pw/\/5 j00 817Ch

You did not "win," you were "rewarded" for shutting your mouth about it. I think the loser here is you for being so bent out of shape over a silly, meaningless rank.

My thoughts for the evening.

Be carefull there Tal. Thinking can have unexpected and unfortunate consequences. It is much better to just fly by the seat of your pants.

Yeah, that's what I do and look how awesome I am.

Hello, MegaMan, welcome to our strange community!

BTW, how did you make yellow text, SimonK?!

He used his newly found Supreme Powers of Staff-ness +1

oooooh, all hail Supreme Powers of Staff-ness +1 !!

I want to be able to use purty colours too

Uhh... testing...

<font color=#FF0000>TEST</font>

hmmmm...there must be a way...offers SimonK a timbit

Why not try UBB code?
[COLOR=blue]test[/COLOR]

No? Hm, this one, then?
<color=#FF0000>blahh</color>

/me is sad

Only staff can do it, and as far as I know the reasoning behind it is to prevent everybody from going stupid-color-crazy on the board.

Most members are crazy anyway... Why do you withold it for the proletariat?

Well, personally, I'd rather not see posts like this

all over the place!!

As it would almost inevitably happen here.

Ah, scrolling marquee. It's like flashbacks to the day when I exposed that, ah, flaw, in the subject lines at the old forum.

Still to this day I wish I would have known how to auto-forward links. That would've been interesting.

I'm glad blink tags stopped working.

Lunacy? hah! us dragons cannot be lunatics! Opps, maybe I am a lunatic if I think i am a dragon rather than a man.

Well you could just allow clour changing for font, but ban that sort of craziness couldn't you? That would make people happier. i'm sure.

So, wait, we can insult people? Tal you suck. No, I wasn't joking. (leaves)

Hahaha, this reminds me of this time I was looking in another forum, and then I came across this n00b who posts this HUGE picture saying "ROFL".

It's only huge if it's 2x the width of the natural page size (or your screen resolution). Otherwise, it's just big.

nice to see a new face around iam the local nut here than noone really listens to and dosent ever play dink smallwood any more why iam still here i do not know

Er, I'm not what you might call new...

It was more than four times my screen (resolution was around 1000x800).

And Darknight, you're not the only nut.

Hey redink1. Tal is teasing us with colors and scrolling words!

we can insult alright ok im gonna insult tal
tal your evil and i hate u and im sure everyone else does to
lol
that might not be true acctually cause im sure redink doesnt hate tal

oh no id better not say that lest i bring on to myself the wrath of tal

hey new guy umm mega man ive only been on here about a week and im alredy crazy
i insulted T@l for goodness sake

the insult was just a joke no hard feelings

i was just harboring some anger against someone who makes me angery
ie everyone on this danged site
nah just kiddin u guys are alright
lol

im pretty sure i said
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or does it come out dang on this site ok im writing the word in the next sentence ok.
dang.
was it
D
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or dang

why is it dang it sounds so hoboish
or maybe like a oldtimer word why cant it just be
D
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it doesnt sound as stupid
no offence but dang sounds stupid

This is absolutely ridiculous...