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| ChromeKiller |
Original Post: Nov 04 '09, 11:43 am |
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Have you ever been able to surprise yourself through your writing?
Sometimes I feel like I'm able to do some things in my reviews that I would have never believed that I could accomplish beforehand, like with my latest review on Ratchet and Clank.
How about yourself? Do you ever surprise yourself and say...
"Dang, I done some good work, ya'll! A-hee!" |
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| phungus |
Posted: Nov 04 '09, 12:29 pm |
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RE: Have you ever been able to surprise yourself through your writing?
Quote: ChromeKiller Sometimes I feel like I'm able to do some things in my reviews that I would have never believed that I could accomplish beforehand, like with my latest review on Ratchet and Clank.
How about yourself? Do you ever surprise yourself and say...
"Dang, I done some good work, ya'll! A-hee!"
If I do, sadly, it's not here. |
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| sleeper54 |
Posted: Nov 04 '09, 12:41 pm (Updated: Nov 04 '09, 12:42 pm) |
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RE: Have you ever been able to surprise yourself through your writing?
Quote: ChromeKiller --snip--
"Dang, I done some good work, ya'll! A-hee!"
Numerous times I have gotten to the grocery store and have no idea what I have written on the shopping list . . .let alone those items added by wifey.
When in doubt . . .I buy more puffy cheetos and cookies.
Works for me and never surprises wifey...
Oh wait . . .you meant Eps reviews..!?!
...tom...
P.S. More seriously, my favorite Eps writing pieces are linked up elsewhere. I am reluctant to mention them here for obvious reasons, or perhaps not so obvious. The clever user can find them relatively easily...
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| ChromeKiller |
Posted: Nov 04 '09, 1:16 pm |
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RE: Have you ever been able to surprise yourself through your writing?
Quote: phungus If I do, sadly, it's not here.
What do you mean? As in... your Epinions reviews don't light up your life, but the scribblings that you write on bathroom stalls do? |
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| ssjakira1 |
Posted: Nov 04 '09, 1:16 pm |
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RE: Have you ever been able to surprise yourself through your writing?
I don't think so. Though I will occasionally go back and read a review and laugh at some of the random witty or snarky things I came up with. =]
NT |
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| ChromeKiller |
Posted: Nov 04 '09, 1:20 pm |
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RE: Have you ever been able to surprise yourself through your writing?
Quote: sleeper54 Numerous times I have gotten to the grocery store and have no idea what I have written on the shopping list . . .let alone those items added by wifey.
When in doubt . . .I buy more puffy cheetos and cookies.
Works for me and never surprises wifey...
Oh wait . . .you meant Eps reviews..!?!
...tom...
P.S. More seriously, my favorite Eps writing pieces are linked up elsewhere. I am reluctant to mention them here for obvious reasons, or perhaps not so obvious. The clever user can find them relatively easily...
This entire response is as vague as wondering what a banana, all alone on the table, is thinking. ;) |
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| ssjakira1 |
Posted: Nov 04 '09, 1:42 pm |
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RE: Have you ever been able to surprise yourself through your writing?
Quote: ChromeKiller This entire response is as vague as wondering what a banana, all alone on the table, is thinking. ;)
I know exactly what a banana on a table by itself is thinking. |
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| phungus |
Posted: Nov 04 '09, 2:34 pm |
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RE: Have you ever been able to surprise yourself through your writing?
Quote: ChromeKiller What do you mean? As in... your Epinions reviews don't light up your life, but the scribblings that you write on bathroom stalls do?
Don't knock bathroom stall writings. One of the best pearls of wisdom I ever heard came from the ladies room at Jim & Bob's Pool Hall in Gulfport, MS. It was relayed to me by a friend:
"Love is just a misunderstanding between two fools." |
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| ChromeKiller |
Posted: Nov 04 '09, 5:16 pm |
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RE: Have you ever been able to surprise yourself through your writing?
Quote: ssjakira1 I know exactly what a banana on a table by itself is thinking.
Yeah, maybe... if you drugged the banana. ;) |
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| ChromeKiller |
Posted: Nov 04 '09, 5:18 pm |
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RE: Have you ever been able to surprise yourself through your writing?
Quote: phungus Don't knock bathroom stall writings. One of the best pearls of wisdom I ever heard came from the ladies room at Jim & Bob's Pool Hall in Gulfport, MS. It was relayed to me by a friend:
"Love is just a misunderstanding between two fools."
Not knocking it. Just giving out an example for what other "unspecified writing" that it sounds like you're referring to. |
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| november52002 |
Posted: Nov 04 '09, 7:19 pm |
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Reviews written: 113 Member since: Jun 17 '08
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Well, in answer to that
I have a handfull of reviews written so far. I always get emails about why I have chosen to put questions in my reviews as paragraph headers. Such as
Why did you choose to shop here?
the next paragraph might be
What did you buy? Was everything satisfactory?
I do that because it is different but also because I title the paragraphs before I write them so I don't leave details out. The questions are pretty much what I would ask the person if it were me reading their review. So it surprises other people. I am not sure it surprises me. I do take pride in a finished review though.
Paul |
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| sleeper54 |
Posted: Nov 04 '09, 9:28 pm |
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RE: Have you ever been able to surprise yourself through your writing?
Quote: ChromeKiller This entire response is as vague as wondering what a banana, all alone on the table, is thinking. ;)
...drolllol...
Actually . . .I thought it all rather clear . . .as clear as mashed banana.
...tom...
P.S. The P.S. earlier was the serious part of my earlier comment. Still is. There I mean, not here. I think. |
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| talyseon |
Posted: Nov 05 '09, 12:58 am |
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RE: Have you ever been able to surprise yourself through your writing?
Two I have done I have gone back and gone; Dang! That's good! RHPS and Brokeback Mountain. I am also rather proud of Forbidden Colours, but I worked that one.
Talyseon. |
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| ChromeKiller |
Posted: Nov 05 '09, 7:57 am |
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RE: Have you ever been able to surprise yourself through your writing?
Quote: sleeper54 P.S. The P.S. earlier was the serious part of my earlier comment. Still is. There I mean, not here. I think.
Which is what's the most unclear part about it. ;) |
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| ChromeKiller |
Posted: Nov 06 '09, 9:47 am |
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RE: Have you ever been able to surprise yourself through your writing?
Quote: talyseon Two I have done I have gone back and gone; Dang! That's good! RHPS and Brokeback Mountain. I am also rather proud of Forbidden Colours, but I worked that one.
Talyseon.
I've also gone back recently to reread my review on Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire... which occurs to me to be a fairly impressive review.
I read it, and the review has me laughing all over again at every turn. |
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| pvreditor |
Posted: Nov 06 '09, 11:34 am (Updated: Nov 06 '09, 11:36 am) |
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Reviews written: 405 Member since: May 31 '02
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Moderator alert
A couple of the above posts are calling a little too much attention to various reviews, and the moderators don't like to see that in the forums. If you want to discuss what makes a review enjoyable to you, that's fine. However, please don't point to specific reviews -- either by product name, URL or link.
Thanks!
--Bob (a moderator) |
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| phungus |
Posted: Nov 06 '09, 4:51 pm |
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Reviews written: 2307 Member since: Aug 31 '99
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RE: Moderator alert
Wow...half the posts in this thread have a green Moderator tag by them. |
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| sleeper54 |
Posted: Nov 06 '09, 4:59 pm |
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Reviews written: 496 Member since: Feb 24 '01
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RE: Moderator alert
Quote: phungus Wow...half the posts in this thread have a green Moderator tag by them.
...drolllol...
...tom...
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| shopaholic_man |
Posted: Nov 06 '09, 5:19 pm |
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RE: Moderator alert
Quote: phungus Wow...half the posts in this thread have a green Moderator tag by them.
mmmm who's watching the watchmen?
or who guards the guards. I'm pretty sure Plato said it before the comic book. |
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| talyseon |
Posted: Nov 07 '09, 2:59 am |
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RE: Moderator alert
Quote: shopaholic_man mmmm who's watching the watchmen?
or who guards the guards. I'm pretty sure Plato said it before the comic book.
Now, see, if I had written that, it would have been a plug for my Watchmen review....
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