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At 6/13/05 02:55 PM, _Nevyn_ wrote:

At 6/13/05 07:15 AM, Slightly_Crazy_Dude wrote: Its like your standing on a cliff and before you is a sea of knowledge, all you have to do is jump straight in :D

*jumps in*

*drowns*
tolkien: LOL PWND!

Yeah, but that would make a shit book, unlike the mastery of Tolkien.

At 6/12/05 11:37 AM, Mick_the_champion wrote: When did everyone discover they had a talent for writing?

My answer shall follow, but first...

At 6/12/05 05:50 PM, Myst_Williams wrote: If anybody actually reads this, comment, because I want it to be worth all the time it took to type up. lol.

I read this and thought that mine was similar in ways, but I understand fully how it can be challenging to gain motivation to continue with the project, as time goes by. Sometimes, you hit an invisible wall and feel that there si no way around it, but when you come back, you've found a completely different way to take it. I'd love to see one of your short stories animated someday, Myst.

I first became interested in writing during my second year at school. I was 7 and we had been doing Alice in Wonderland (awesome book, which I revisit from time to time). The teacher gave us an assignment, where we had to describe what it would be like should we fall down 'the rabbit hole'. Most of the other kids submitted about 3 pages of the workbooks, whereas mine was more like half a book. I had allowed my imagination to run a little to wild, and I was penalised when it came to marking. My teacher had me type it up on the computer (a highly edited version) and I was so proud (this was 1990 after all and not everyone could have a chance on the computer!) My mum still has a copy of the text to this day... somewhere.

My writing simmered down over the next few years, as I allowed my imagination to become fueled by the works of Roald Dahl. I got to middle school (aged 10) and it suddenly started once more. My English teachers weren't so supportative of my 'lack of attention' in class, because I was jotting down notes for a few abstract poems and plotlines I had created. By now, my taste in Literature had matured slightly to Terry Pratchett and his highly sucessful Discworld Series. By the end of middle school, all attempts to crush my ambition had failed, because I had discovered something far more potent for my imagination: Dungeons and Dragons. At age 13, I took up the mantle and allowed my creative pulse to flow throughout the game.

I moved up to high school and the schakles of the oppressive teachers of Franche Middle were cast off. I continued my writing and was not detered by either of my English teachers. They encouraged me to continue writing and my skills grew, nurtured by Mrs Braim and Mrs Fawcett.

Mrs Fawcett found a whole stash of my brainstorms, which I had produced during my lunch hours, in the IT suite. I had placed the pile of A4 papers in the front of my English book, for safe keeping and then handed it in (like the klutz I was back then.) She looked at them and was pleased with my work and egged me into continuing. A few of the short stories were good, but I was not as enthusiastic, as I wanted the big picture. I wanted to write a novel.

Then came the most regrettable mistake of my life. I chose to do Maths A-Level, above English. Mrs Fawcett was dumbfounded and I was misguided. Greed led me to Maths and I will never forgive myself for it.

However, I still left High School (by now 18) with my head held high at the prospect of going to university to better myself. During my time at Leeds, I never got bored of the soiltude, always using my budget to buy paper, so I could brainstorm ideas. I now have a whole folder which I use as inspiration every now and again.

I left University on less than savoury terms (they wanted more money) and returned to my home. From there, I got my old job back in a supermarket and enrolled at college for a change of direction in my life (maybe I should have changed to journalism, who knows?) and I lasted 8 months, before they told me I had to do 8 pieces of coursework in 3 weeks. Not possible, even if I had a time machine. I had been writing a few ideas and I continued to make use of the computer cluster every Thursday morning, popping in and writing. I thought that the 'Destiny's Key' Storyline would work out for me. So far it hasn't, but I may come back to it and rework it.

About 3 months after starting that story (August 2003) I came up with the idea of linking my two creative outlets: Writing and Dungeons & Dragons. This idea I loosely titled 'From Little Acorns' and the fruits of my labours can be read in this very thread. I shall endeavour to continue writing this tale and I hope to become published someday.

How about that for a small epic on its own?

At 6/12/05 11:38 AM, Elfqueen wrote: o..k... im a ladette, does that count?

You are a spammer, so no it doesn't count.

At 6/12/05 02:24 PM, lilGoose wrote: cardinals r about to play the yankeeswho suck ass.

1-1 in the bottom of the sixth. Carl Pavano against Matt Morris. 1 out, runner on second.

At 6/11/05 06:16 PM, LamboFactor wrote: What i meant by lucky is getting flown up every night to see the Yankees and Boston play...

I hear that.

Finally, the Yanks got a decent performance last night, beating the Cards 5-0. Derek Jeter lead the way, batting in 2 runs, as did A-Rod. Randy Johnson pitched seven strong innings and maybe his five day rotation tailoring will help him out.

At 6/11/05 06:48 PM, IM_KOOL_R_U wrote: Thanks for the warm welcome. Haven't checked anything about him in a long time. Is there anything going big on with W.A.Y.? That has changed. A new album?

Apparently, he's writing new material, but it could be about a year or two before it surfaces.

At 6/11/05 07:31 PM, luigiguy wrote: Great a "Weird Al" Club! I'll join. "It's Christmas at Ground Zero..."

Welcome. I always preferred 'The Night Santa went Crazy'

At 6/11/05 06:40 PM, Rhinox- wrote: Well, having the New Republic isn't really going to help in a plot. After the Death Star being destroyed TWICE *tsk tsk* Darth died, Emperor died, Luke is a Knight, Solo is w/ Leia, Yoda dies, Jabba dies. I figure that if there is going to be a new threat, it'd be pretty dinky. The next star wars shouldn't come out. Keep with this or it'll turn in to the Rocky series.

Well, it's about Luke trying to re-establish the jedi, through his academy at Yavin IV, Leia and Han trying to get the New Republic stable and insurgents from the remnants of the empire trying to regain control.

At 6/11/05 08:59 PM, Quisty wrote: Anyone notice all the "NOOOOOOooooooooooo" stuff on the internet now?

Is this related to the greatest Noooooooooooooooooooo! of all time (being Vader's, when he finds out about Padme's death.)

I think he just has the voice for it.

At 6/12/05 04:49 AM, Kakashi623 wrote:

At 6/12/05 01:22 AM, Rhinox- wrote: Further note: I THINK WE SHOULD GET OUR FAV VEHICLES poll down again.

Millenium Falcon anyone?

If you're having the falcon, I'm having Slave I, Boba Fett's ship. He's one badass mother.

At 6/11/05 05:53 PM, IM_KOOL_R_U wrote: I am back! I just restarted to listen to my Weird Al Yankovic collection and thought i post in here since it has been sometime since i have posted in here. Maybe only one person will be able to remember me in here.

I've seen you about before, though I can't remember if it was here, or elsewhere. Welcome back, anyway.

At 6/11/05 05:58 PM, -Manic- wrote: Couldn't have put it better myself. Good on Jenson for getting Pole though. Now we just have to hope that mr Shumacheur crahses and burns on the starting grid or soemthing.

I'm hoping for the old Silverstone crashes into a wall and breaks leg trick he pulled in 1999, when it was clear he wouldn't beat Hakkinen to the title.

At 6/11/05 08:20 AM, Outlaw88 wrote: ye sit happened last year but he did lose both parents at the same time and kept on touring. I'm sure he needed time to regroup and take care of all the arrangments and stuff like that. So why not let him have a little while off touring? He certainly didn't want to dissapoint his fans by cancelling.

I guess he needs a little time to himself, just like any of us at a difficult time like this.

I've been playing the song 'Since you've been gone' over and over in my head at work today. It's so funny.

At 6/11/05 09:26 AM, LamboFactor wrote: Sorta... Shes really rich (but that has nothing to do with it) and last year during the playoffs, she was flown up to every game played in NY against Boston... Her Uncle also called over Derek Jeter (whom she loves) and he gave her a hug... Damn shes lucky...

Lucky in a way, because I'm not the type of guy who would like a hug from Derek Jeter. Maybe a signed baseball and a handshake, but not a hug.

At 6/11/05 10:11 AM, DuskSkull wrote: I agree, Button was exceptionally put down in that last race, but if he gets his act together and does some serious, non-cheating prep, he could just snick it from under the favourite's noses.

This took me by surprise.

At 6/11/05 03:39 PM, -Manic- wrote: As logn as Michael Schumacher(or however you spell his name) doesn't win I'm happy when it comes to the f1.

Well, he's second on the grid. Naturally, I hope he crashes and burns, because he is kraut scum. And a cheat.

At 6/11/05 04:33 PM, Rhinox- wrote: Uhm, having Georgey making another prequel to a prequel won't work. There wouldn't be any plot almost whatsoever. If there was, Obi-Wan would be about 8 and Qui-Gon would be maybe 15, Yoda would be about 100 and Palpatine wouldn't even be doing anything. If it were to have a plot, it'd show Palpatine learning from his master ( i can't remember right now... PLAGUS) And after that, i couldn't see what the episodes would be called.... STAR WARS EPISODE NEGATIVE 3 : BIRTH OF MACE WINDU?

What we need is the episodes 7, 8 and 9. I believe they exist and they show what happened in the aftermath of the destruction of the second Death Star and the formation of the New Republic.

At 6/9/05 10:38 PM, phileeguy wrote: I make no effort to hide my "homerness" so I guess I'll say Ryan Madson. His current ERA is 3.51, but that's inflated a bit due to one game where he gave up 6 runs, which is kinda flukey for a guy whos at one time gone 20+ innings without a run scored. Without that game he would be around an ERA of 1.9 or so.

Give it until the end of the season, he'll have it back down. You can't guage the season this early in a stat like ERA. You could in cumulative stats, like innings pitched, for example. Averages get closer to the final thing the further into a season you go, so I don't talk about things like that until the stretch (.400 hitters and so forth.)

roehrboc, what sort of RPGs do you like. They vary a lot, from Dungeons & Dragons, to World of Warcraft, to Star Wars. The possibilities are endless...

Virtually. The only limit is your imagination.

At 6/9/05 11:36 PM, Outlaw88 wrote: thats true. So at least we know Al cares enough to make his stuff with quality

Do we have any news on a rough date for the next album release? I'm getting antsy, with all this talk about new Al material.

At 6/10/05 08:12 PM, LamboFactor wrote: HA! Dude your sig is a lie... Sure baseball isnt played with pads but its pretty friggin demanding... The lax team at our school is like the best in the division, and well the ballteam isnt... We (the baseball team) played the lacrosse team at baseball cause they were convinced they'd crush us, and we ended up crushing them...

Welcome to the Frat...

Lacrosse is more physically intensive than things like baseball maybe, but it's still nowhere near as fun to watch as Rugby (Hardly any padding) or Ice Hockey (look, Ma, they gave me some weapons on my feet!) I'd say it's certainly better than American Football, but I like baseball, because it reminds me of cricket.

Okay, I've seen far too much talk about Football (Not my favourite of sports) plus it's talk about a second rate league. If either Celtic or Rangers joined in the Premiership, they would be engulfed in mid-table obscurity.

There is a football crew for chat about such things.

I've also seen too much talk about the fact that Manic might be getting banned for using my quote on his sig. Let's stop talking about it here, because if we keep drawing attention to it, it might get noticed by the mods (who do frequent here, let it be known.)

Let us draw a line under these discussions and start chatting about something better:

Good to see Leap of Faith keeping up the old traditions with his SMRM. Jolly good show.

Jenson Button is back to a reasonably fast pace, after the disaster of the last race, where he was talking about victory, but found he was supremely lacking in race pace. I'm not touting a victory, but he stands an outside chance of getting back into the thick of things tomorrow.

At 6/10/05 04:08 PM, -Manic- wrote: Good chap Fenrus! Go get some mroe tea aswell.A nd while you are at it get some Scotch will you? we are running a little low it seems<hold open bottle upside down and peers into neck> yes it seems thta we ar eindeed out. Ah well one will just have to sip on some cider untill we get some more :-(

*Coop picks up suspicious bottle wrapped in brown paper*
My word... Look at that!
*Everyone else looks at what Coop points at, while he necks tyhe contents of his bottle a la Eric Morcambe*

Smooth.

At 6/6/05 09:14 PM, drgribb wrote:

At 6/6/05 07:26 PM, Gh3tto wrote: Palpatine was already sith... he was darth sideous, apprentice to plagus... after learning all he could from plagus, he killed his master in his sleep.

He became a senator for his home planet of naboo and later became chancellor. The separitist movement up to the end of the republican war was all the brainchild of sideous, but he changed his plans slightly when he learned of the chosen one aka anikin.

Well, I don't think you can be born a sith as you seem to be implying about Palpatine. And he never said Darth Plagus was his master. I think he might've even said that Plagus was alive like 1000 years ago or something like that, although Palpatine could've just been lying. Even if he was his master, there's got to be a lot more backstory to him. Personally, I think Palpatine found some ancient Sith writings or relics somewhere and tought himself the Sith ways.

Well, from reading this and having now (finally!) watched the film, I have to say that Palpatine implies that Darth Plagus was his master, who taught him everything about the dark side, before Palpatine (by now Darth Sideous) killed Plagus in his sleep.

The Sith race was a very destructive one. Most of them either died at the hands of the Jedi or were killed by their apprentice or master... How the hell did they ever get control of the galaxy, if they were always hell-bent on killing someone with more power than them (or someone with less power, who wanted more power bad enough)?

At 6/10/05 08:44 AM, -StormWolf- wrote:

At 6/10/05 05:04 AM, Coop83 wrote: I'm Coop83. The older, more sophisticated one.

I say one doesn't mean to be rude what makes you believe you are more sophisticated?

One plays cricket. The quintessential English Gentleman's sport.

At 6/10/05 07:01 AM, pokeaaron wrote: im English :D

I say, that isn't really the sort of thing we are looking for here. Yes, most of us are English on this thread, but we enjoy chatting about it. If you have something to say, come in and have a good chat with us, don't just poke your head around the door, for pity's sake.

At 6/10/05 03:44 PM, Myst_Williams wrote: Well thank god for your timing Manic... my exams (i just found out) officially start this thursday, this week and next are going to be even more hectic than the last two. : P I still plan on coming in daily wuickly for a post or two... unless it gets rly busy.

I hope that you can still find a quick moment every few days or so to keep active on my Greyhawk D&D in FreeWorld.

Manic, this applies to you as well, don't be a stranger, because there is stuff in there for you now as well.

At 6/10/05 12:18 AM, ardeahem wrote: After translating my signature I bet even Nevyn can say my name !!!

What, because it's spelt R-day-a-hem?

It's a quality sig though. I still think those people who go to Tolkien's grave every anniversary of his birth and of his death and chant in elvish are completely barmy.

At 6/10/05 01:04 AM, fuckeroo wrote: <<Sith Apprentice Ando (I am not ready to be recieve the title Sith Lord)

*Palpatine voice*
'You have much still to learn, my young apprentice'

At 6/9/05 07:25 PM, LeapOfFaith wrote: Anybody fancy a G&T?

Rather! I'll ahve one of these new fangled Gordon's Distillers Cut (subtlely blended with extract of ginger and citrus) with tonic, please.

At 6/9/05 07:39 PM, LeapOfFaith wrote: I'm having terreable trouble. I don't know which coop is which.

I'm Coop83. The older, more sophisticated one. I don't think I'll ever change my name.

Stormwolf, or whatever the hell he wants to call himself nowadays is my 'little' (6'4) brother.

At 6/9/05 09:51 PM, fenrus1989 wrote: i have a question. can i join. so what if i'm scotish and irish. can't we all get along.

Welcome, have a G&T and perhaps a slice of cake.

At 6/9/05 04:21 PM, Idiot-Finder wrote: Here's a question: Who are your favorite relief pitcher?

'Everyday' Eddie Guardardo.

And Mo, of course

At 6/9/05 04:44 PM, -Manic- wrote: Permission to place that in my signature and piss off every American on the forum sir?

Granted. If it results in a ban, that's your own fool fault, though.

At 6/9/05 03:55 PM, Myst_Williams wrote:

At 6/9/05 03:47 PM, Coop83 wrote: CONGRATS PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!

Aha... way to fake your excitement. : )

Well, I would have used the OMGJISSM!, but since I actually for got on my 1st post of page 100, it somehow didn't seem as good an excuse...

At 6/9/05 03:40 PM, Myst_Williams wrote: OMG! 100 Pages!

Shit, I forgot...

CONGRATS PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!

At 6/9/05 03:24 PM, -repent- wrote: Shit, well I'm not really good at humor, but if you need me for suspense, romantic action then email me. I have seen Coop do some good stuff, I havn't seen Manics, but I'm sure his is good too. Well good luck to you on your game.

Thanks for the vote of confidence, repent. Your stuff is pretty cool as well.