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Think about this for a second.

What if you had access to every bit of knowledge and information in the universe at your fingertips, all you had to do was locate it and learn it. You have limited time and would like to learn something that you could possibly use frequently, maybe even every day in your life.

What would you do?

Well, I'd like to find a way to solve world hunger.
World peace wouldn't work because that's about people's egos and religion and such, so just information wouldn't help.
Information coulkd give me the secret to ending world hunger though.
=O

If we're talking less universal stuff, I'd do personal things about people I know and how I can makes things better etc.
=P
I guess that'd be selfish, but hey, what can you do?

[{The Gods of Old - A Plot Speculation and Theory}]

I don't see anything selfish in that post. 3nodding

What do you mean by 'make things better'?

I mean figure out how I can make the relationship better, or at least happen.
=O
xD
Anyways, it's selfish because I could be doing so much better things with the knowledge I could have.

[{The Gods of Old - A Plot Speculation and Theory}]

I guess that could be a little selfish. But one thing you could do would be to gather all the information on yourself, then look at all your flaws and try to improve yourself.

Let's see if I can B.S. some answers. razz

Could it be because by Christians/Jews being meant to spread God's word to those who have no access to it, it is a way of us demonstrating our faith in Him and our care for those who have not reached Salvation?

God is your friend, and what happens when you don't talk to friends for extended periods of time? You grow further apart. Prayer doesn't have to be sitting with your eyes closed and a planned out speech, in my opinion, prayer was meant to be a means of just sitting down and 'talking' to God about anything and everything on your mind. He is like that best friend that you can tell your deepest secrets, and know that they will never share them with anyone else. God teaches you through your conversations. One thing he has taught me and has been showing me lately is that everything that occurs in your life has a meaning and a purpose, even if you don't understand it while you're alive.
My view of Heaven is pretty much the same concept that the book 'The 5 People You Meet In Heaven' contains. In Heaven, God explains your life to you, and teaches you have every little detail relates to another, and how everything affects everything else, one sneeze could have impacted someone else's life in a way you could have never known.

What exactly do you mean by 'good'?

And I think making this topic had a purpose, if not affecting me, it will affect someone who reads this.

I know, but it seems strange to think that there's one thing out there that would make everyone happy with everything. XD But I can dream.

Well, to teach myself? Well, that would be a bit selfish, but I'd like to learn how to write. I mean, I can do the making up a plot part, and I'm witty. It's just that... to me, all of my plot ideas seem... unoriginal. XP And don't even get me started on Grammar, or literary devices, or making long enough chapters...

There's this one story I made... It's about this college student who heads off to college, only to discover his fellow classmates aren't quite normal... or human for that matter. But it was inspired directly off a D20 Modern game... so even though I made most of the setting up, it amounts to bad fanfiction at most... and I need to flesh out the characters more. Though I did have the inital idea for it years ago (set in a small town instead of a city, and with only three of the characters really though up. Zach (The Protagonist), Vincent, and Zoe. The other two (Ari and Donna) were added in when I changed the setting... And it still seems cliche)

And don't even get me started on my Avatar...

Every time I think up something, I find someone else has already thought of it, and in some cases copywrighted it...

Like, I had thought up this backstory for my avatar, and then later I found out that some random minor Marvel Comics superhero had the exact same one. And I don't even read marvel comics... or most comics for that matter.

And when I was writing names for the characters in the book, one of the ones I picked that was particularly fitting was Arianna. And then I read HP7... and JK used the same name for one of her characters... xp

So yeah... perhaps how to be original, and better grammar.
Because I really want to write, since it's fun, and it makes people happy. I mean... books make me happy anyway.

This is pessimistic, but I'm not sure there is anything, at least not in this life.

The best thing you can do to improve writing would be to actually sit down and do it, even if it's only a paragraph, or a page, just do it. Then, if there's a person that you trust (preferably an English teacher), take it to him/her and have them proofread it and give you suggestions on how to improve your writing. All you need is creativity and wit, the grammar and literary skills will come with practice. And about the plot ideas: very few plot ideas are 100% original. Take Harry Potter for example, it is filled with witch/wizard/magic cliches, and yet it is very successful. Why? Because of the characters and the drama involved. You don't need to come up with an original theme, it's how you go about putting it all together. Just practice, write about things you know. And if you want to write about something that you don't know about, then look it up, we have the Internet. You'll do fine, you just need to find something that interests you. If a certain part of Gaia's plot interests you, go and do what me and Hermes did, wrote out own plots. I'd be honored to proofread and give you suggestions on whatever you write, and I'm sure Hermes would to, as would plenty of us here.

If you lose interest in what you're writing, take a break, maybe start writing something else. It seems that you have a good basis for the story, and don't feel bad if it seems like a fanfic to you, I'm sure it'll be better than most of the Severus Snape fanfics out there. Before you actually start writing a story, you might want to do a 'sketch' of the characters and plot, write down ideas and things about them. You could even draw a few of them (if you need a way to show how they look). After you have a few main characters (and secondary) all planned out, look at the plot (or you could start with the plot), and get that started. When you've got all this done, you'll have a pre-rough draft of the story, which you can work on and make changes to along the way.

I don't know what to say, It's both sad and funny at the same time. gonk (Which Marvel hero was it?)

Don't let that get to you, coming up with names is one of the hardest parts of starting (in my opinion), and Ms. Rowling is fairly good at it:
ex. Tom Marvolo Riddle = I Am Lord Voldemort
That was pure genius on her part, and I admire her for it.

Plenty of names have been used millions of times, and I'm sure someone else has used Arianna before. Just go with it, you came up with it before you knew Ms. Rowling had, so just keep writing.

I feel the same way, though I don't particularly like reading too many books. One of my favorites would have to be The Count Of Monte Christo. Other than that, I read few books. (Still don't have HP7 gonk )

So that's my view on writing. I think I love this thread, I never write long posts like this. burning_eyes