When I was younger, I used to compose music for the piano. Not huge, amazing pieces - I didn't have the knowledge or technical skill for that - but just little, repetitive pieces that sounded kinda cool to me. When I started taking piano lessons, I stopped composing. Not because I didn't like the piano anymore, but I guess because I felt obliged to ( Read more... )

My earlier post prompted a thought on paragraphing. While quite dull to many other people, I've recently found myself becoming interesting in the different paragraphing techniques used in different styles of writing ( Read more... )

I've heard many scary stories about creatures that only [move/walk/exist/follows you] when you're not watching. Even as I ask how the same idea can be freaky over and again, I can answer it for myself: because you can't watch something for all the time. And if we don't watch it, we're not sure we can trust what it's doing. Most of these stories are ( Read more... )

I read something in a PM that made my brain start ticking today. It's a simple little part of the whole thing (and it's a reply to something I said, so it doesn't stand alone, but you should be able to understand anyway), just saying this:

"Yeah, I can see where you get that. ^^ Sounds right to me. Your 'w' is
pronounced 'uuo' though, right? Our is ' ( Read more... )