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I'd have to say... "Advanced plot, great character building." "This took me half an hour to read. It was really great!" --both from my gr. 8 LA teacher Not a compliment, but my class was wowed by the same story I submitted to the gr. 8 LA teacher above. Those are the best ones from people not close to me, 'cause theirs don't count. I don't think.
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I applied to an accelerated 6 year undergrad/med school program just out of high school. The M.D. who read my admissions essay told me at my interview, "This is one of the most mature essays I've ever read." I took that as high praise, and fortunately I've become a writer instead of a doctor. Nobody's ever told me that my surgery skills were mature Posts: 86 | Registered: Apr 2006
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Sorry, maybe it's the percocet, but you applied to a med school analogue, were inspired to become a writer instead, and now no one compliments your surgery skills?
If you didn't go to med school, why are you performing surgery? No wonder no one compliments your incisions; you're not supposed to be doing it, ya quack!
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No one compliments my prescribing skills either, but I'd recommend you cut back on the dose of your percocet, pill-popper!
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Ehhh...I've always been better at taking stuff apart than putting it back together. Guess that means no humanitarian awards for me...
Inkwell ------------------ "The difference between a writer and someone who says they want to write is merely the width of a postage stamp." -Anonymous
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My high school English teacher told me he fully expected to find my novels on the bookstore shelves one day. I hope to prove him right. Posts: 18 | Registered: Apr 2006
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A highly critical friend I show fragments to (my fist test of chaff): You offend God when you refuse his pen. Write.
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My girlfriend says I offend God when I have too much Mexican food. But she also laughs at my stories, so I keep her around.
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When I finished my first novella in 7th grade one of my close friends, who happened to be a sophmore in high school at the time, called me to ask me for a copy when he saw it in a writing magazine. That was probably the greatest compliment I've ever been payed, to have someone go out of their way to look up my number to congratulate me.
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Ummm.... A kid in my class tried to make me bring a story to school after reading an excerpt. I guess that's a compliment. :O
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I had an editor tell me at a conference that I had wonderful world building skills and my writing was very "vivid" (of course, he was sleep deprived). And he didn't sign me up for a contract, but it was nice chatting.
I also love hearing my dad laugh at all the right places in my stories. Then he talks about how great it was for like an hour. It may not get me a contract but I'll always hold that close to my heart.
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