Arts & Humanities - 24 March 2007

I've been writing stories creatively since I was in the sixth grade. Of course, writing in the past was easier since I was a bad writer, and it's easy to write anything badly. I've become more proficient in recent years and have been working on my first seriously minded novel. My problem is that I seem to only be able to write a little bit each day, and as strange as it sounds my comfort zone for writing is between 1AM and 3AM. I write anywhere between a half hour and two hours each day six days a week, probably averaging an hour a night. This is only through my first draft. I'm about half way through at 35000 chars. I'd like to finish it completely before I turn 20, which is in about 14 months. Can I write at this pace and still be finished by around then, or will I have to start writing more each day to be done anywhere near that time? I'm a perfectionist so I'll make probably 5 readthough revisions at the least. I'd appreciate any suggestions at how I could write for longer each day

2007-03-24 19:59:10 · 11 answers · asked by imraybarbonifrommiami 3 in Books & Authors

which is the book you read that inspired you?why?

2007-03-24 19:56:53 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Books & Authors

2007-03-24 19:55:01 · 15 answers · asked by martin 1 in Philosophy

why we are dumping poison, into these things, depleting these things and we're all participating in this like it's not complete insanity and stupidity

2007-03-24 19:54:14 · 11 answers · asked by kandice F 2 in Philosophy

2007-03-24 19:53:12 · 8 answers · asked by u.s.a.fight back,buy american 2 in Books & Authors

Let's say if you didn't expect to fall or get hit for example. Would it hurt more if you were to expect it or if you didn't expect it?

How about for relationships? Would it hurt more if you knew they were going to leave or if you continued to be with them and they will eventually leave?

So do you think it would hurt more if anything was expected, or not expected?

Examples and serious answers please

2007-03-24 19:47:21 · 15 answers · asked by John Becker 5 in Philosophy

2007-03-24 19:44:41 · 14 answers · asked by martin 1 in Philosophy

I was in a day long event to meet Holocaust survivors, a former Skinhead, and an Equal Rights activist. The Equal Rights activist’s speech was full with solutions to world’s equality problems. He ranted that if you yourself respected everyone and you told “just one other person” to do the same, this would give the world Dr. Martin Luther King dreamt of. Right after the event was over, I went to ask him how does he expect his plan to work if every person in the world has a different concept of what respect is and of what one’s own requirements are for a person to be deserving of his respect? And told him that every person experiences life differently, and gives meaning and value to everything in life according to those experiences. He answered that this was the point of his speech, and that that’s why by telling only one other person to be respectful of everybody we might change the world. Well, he obviously did not understand my question, and I had to leave without clarifying it.

2007-03-24 19:37:58 · 10 answers · asked by Said 4 in Philosophy

2007-03-24 19:36:54 · 17 answers · asked by martin 1 in Philosophy

I need a pictures for my projects, The theme is what to expect of myself and how to build last relationships when we leave school. Pls help!!!

2007-03-24 19:36:00 · 3 answers · asked by youngfellow 2 in Drawing & Illustration

2007-03-24 19:35:41 · 7 answers · asked by martin 1 in Philosophy

I'm looking for a last name to give to a character I'm creating... I'm looking for a long name, and complex with either spelling or pronounciation.
eg: Delecroix
This is for a priestess' family name... so, any ideas?

2007-03-24 19:35:04 · 6 answers · asked by Anastasia 2 in Genealogy

2007-03-24 19:33:31 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Books & Authors

2007-03-24 19:33:08 · 11 answers · asked by martin 1 in Philosophy

A. A floor plan
B. Design drawings
C. Pictorial drawings
D. A rough sketch

2007-03-24 19:28:12 · 3 answers · asked by blazin_cripz_2006_0wner.sheena 3 in Drawing & Illustration

2007-03-24 19:24:14 · 7 answers · asked by tigertrot1986 3 in Philosophy

What is the actual nature of human existence? What is this condition that now holds me and enables me to be myself?

2007-03-24 19:21:55 · 9 answers · asked by Vinni 2 in Philosophy

2007-03-24 19:21:17 · 14 answers · asked by 2BaD4u 4 in Philosophy

kindly tell step by step .
Sir but not like this ..

If you stick your head in a bucket of cement that should work.

2007-03-24 19:09:41 · 3 answers · asked by Heights! 2 in Sculpture

2007-03-24 19:08:23 · 6 answers · asked by rusalka 3 in Philosophy

Wasn't Baghdad and Iraq etc. the setting for Arabian nights? Didn't it used to be a beautiful country full of nobility, mystique and riches? Jewel of the sands and all that? When did that change? Cause from what I've seen of it, it's dirty, poor and (more recently) bombed all to hell. Is anyone able to pinpoint when the country stopped being a place of dangerous, smoldering beauty and became the craphole it is now?

2007-03-24 18:58:33 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in History

WHAT WAS MANIFEST DESTINY,DESCRIBE THE NEW LANDS,AND THE EFFECTS

2007-03-24 18:56:11 · 4 answers · asked by waynensheri@sbcglobal.net 2 in History

2007-03-24 18:54:26 · 3 answers · asked by sn_cheng 1 in Philosophy

Now only i am learning to stich but i dont no how to do embroidary in this, can any one plz tell me any web site to get some embroidary design and to learn how to do embroidary with this mechine.

2007-03-24 18:54:23 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Drawing & Illustration

I am standing in a dusty church parking lot, when the sky begins to turn blood red and the clouds seem to fly past the steeple. I am left feeling powerless and overwhelmed in this dream because something seems wrong and there is nothing I can do to fix it. Any ideas on what this dream could possibly mean?

2007-03-24 18:49:04 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

What is indistinguishable from nothingness?

My assessment is:
Whatever is not as "part, whole, equivalence, uniqueness, limit, link, influence, sensation, origin, derivative, rule, condition, intent, and fulfillment" is indistinguishable from nothingness.

2007-03-24 18:48:48 · 8 answers · asked by The Knowledge Server 1 in Philosophy

Wisdom or virtue? Only one!

2007-03-24 18:45:52 · 13 answers · asked by tigertrot1986 3 in Philosophy

A historian teaching in Nagasaki University has recently written in a daily news paper in India that about 35000 people were killed in the USSR during the Stalin era. They were members of the Old Bolshevik party, officers of the Red army and intellectuals who supported Trotsky and Lenin. No ordinary people were involved. Is this correct?

2007-03-24 18:45:32 · 5 answers · asked by rabi k 2 in History

2007-03-24 18:41:37 · 4 answers · asked by oh herow 1 in Philosophy

I saw a question posted on here a few days ago about the holocaust, and an overwhelmingly amount of people said it never even happened...why do people think this?? And if it is a hoax, which i believe it isn't, but if it is, what would be the motive of staging something like this?

2007-03-24 18:40:02 · 16 answers · asked by DungeonMaster 2 in History