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Old 11-20-2012, 01:28 PM   #1176
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I remember the Simpsons Halloween riff on that one, HS.

You know you're an MTS writer when you come up with thriller ideas going through airport security. Especially when those ideas involve explosives disguised as aspirin, and poison hidden in eye drops...

We're safe from those FBI watch lists here, right?
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Old 11-20-2012, 06:33 PM   #1177
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I remember the Simpsons Halloween riff on that one, HS.

You know you're an MTS writer when you come up with thriller ideas going through airport security. Especially when those ideas involve explosives disguised as aspirin, and poison hidden in eye drops...

We're safe from those FBI watch lists here, right?

So long as you're not coming to the good old US of A, I would think.

Hmm, explosives disguised as aspirin. I can see it now: it's in the next best seller! And just think, fiction does not require citations (so long as one does not plagiarize).

Now that's a tuffy: where's the line between lifting a nebulous idea and plagiarizing? 'Eye of the beholder' would lead to severe differences between **er and **ee. (Too lazy to type it all out.)
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Old 11-20-2012, 06:47 PM   #1178
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And as long as you never wrote a smoochy smoochy email to General Petraeus, because we all know that is an uber huge threat to national insecurity security.
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I remember the Simpsons Halloween riff on that one, HS.

You know you're an MTS writer when you come up with thriller ideas going through airport security. Especially when those ideas involve explosives disguised as aspirin, and poison hidden in eye drops...

We're safe from those FBI watch lists here, right?
There's a list? Is it like Santa's list? Do I have to be naughty or nice to get on it?
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Old 11-20-2012, 08:14 PM   #1180
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Now that's a tuffy: where's the line between lifting a nebulous idea and plagiarizing? 'Eye of the beholder' would lead to severe differences between **er and **ee. (Too lazy to type it all out.)
Eh, you're welcome to it . I had some interesting ideas about how someone might kill people with those things, and in all probability you'd come up with very different things.

I have about a dozen "proper" story ideas vying for my attention anyway, so random nuggets are definitely up for grabs!
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Old 11-20-2012, 08:17 PM   #1181
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Eh, you're welcome to it . I had some interesting ideas about how someone might kill people with those things, and in all probability you'd come up with very different things.

I have about a dozen "proper" story ideas vying for my attention anyway, so random nuggets are definitely up for grabs!
Those with ideas always think ideas are cheap and those without ideas steal.

Srsly, had that done to me in grad school, by a prof no less.
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Old 11-20-2012, 08:21 PM   #1182
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But then I'd have to kill the plot. Yes, I am in killing form. I know! Let's form a

Love the pitchfork gang. (And yes, I am seeing the theme in your posts.)

Have no idea how to make all the emoticons. I'm still at the smiley , cheesy smile stage myself.
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Old 11-20-2012, 10:08 PM   #1183
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Love the pitchfork gang. (And yes, I am seeing the theme in your posts.)

Have no idea how to make all the emoticons. I'm still at the smiley , cheesy smile stage myself.
Muse is all kinds of awesome like that.

Go here for lots of smilies. And then practice on us!
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Old 11-21-2012, 03:31 AM   #1184
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Ha! First try.

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Old 11-21-2012, 04:05 PM   #1185
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Old 11-21-2012, 11:45 PM   #1186
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Whoo-Hoo! You found 'em, onuilmar.

(I have the link copied into my favourites. When I open AW I also open the link - simples.)
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Old 11-23-2012, 09:11 PM   #1187
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Writing? Easing into it. A couple pages per day while I'm training the Dragon (speech-to-text software). It's coming along, but not as easy as it looks on TV.

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Heyjude,
Dragon is waaaay better than Win7 Speech Recognition, but as Stlight says, it requires special attention to cadence and clarity.


History, thanks. BTW, that's a gorgeous pic in your sig line. What is it?


Stlight, the Premium version recognizes Southern US, which helps a bit.
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