Actually, just had a look at the listing for Marc P's book in Essex libraries. They appear to have 38 copies in stock, most which are out on the lend. Nice!
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Quote: john lucas 101 @ February 26 2009, 2:55 PM GMTActually, just had a look at the listing for Marc P's book in Essex libraries. They appear to have 38 copies in stock, most which are out on the lend. Nice!
It's probably Marc P. Traversing the county in a van, taking all his own books out in the hope it forces people to shell out for them in the shops.
Quote: Paul W @ February 23 2009, 12:19 PM GMTEveryone just review the freaking Prologue - I may not know the entire story here but get along and review the work that has been presented don't come out with crap.
Morrance congratulations you have read a dictionary and discovered the underlining function of the site - just give it rest if you're bored have a wank... Don't bug people in my forum.
Ta
gotmilk, remember me? You still not answered my question. 
Quote: SlagA @ February 25 2009, 10:53 PM GMTYes but you didn't answer my question. I'm at a loss to see how the narrator's section is a clear metaphor for voting that children will easily grasp and understand. Can you explain it to me, as if to an idiot, kind sire?
I'm guessing it has something to do with decisions but how is that linked to voting (apart from putting a mark on the voting slip) because there are so many decisions a person makes in life, each and every day, that a reader might relate the word 'decisions' to. So how is this section made specific to voting?
Quote: zooo @ February 26 2009, 2:46 PM GMTIs it in libraries?
How do they decide which books go into libraries? I used to know but I've forgotten.
I know the Bodleian library gets a copy of everything that's printed...
Sexy.
Well, slag, I was making it clear through my intelligent writing that we must make decisions in our lives, and not shy away from personal responsibility. I plan to have the illustration of the Xanthia Bible have markings subtly displaying the words 'Please vote'. It may not be inherent at first, but after 5 or 6 readings it will start too subconciously set in to the 7 year old's mind.
Quote: gotmilk @ February 26 2009, 8:22 PM GMTWell, slag, I was making it clear through my intelligent writing that we must make decisions in our lives, and not shy away from personal responsibility. I plan to have the illustration of the Xanthia Bible have markings subtly displaying the words 'Please vote'. It may not be inherent at first, but after 5 or 6 readings it will start too subconciously set in to the 7 year old's mind.
I think using 'please vote' also teaches them good manners, ta very much.
Ironically put but excellent intelligent writing is more important than good manners!!!
And I am pleased to say that I aspire to (and indeed sometimes reach) such heights. Much like Chaucer or Dickens, I can master both at my prime. My audience may be younger, but the storyteller no less able!
So this...
Quote: gotmilk @ February 25 2009, 9:52 PM GMTThrough my stories they take in messages about the world. I get across complex ideologies that children understand. In this paragraph I reveal the importance of voting.
... isn't exactly true.
Quote: gotmilk @ February 26 2009, 8:22 PM GMTI was making it clear through my intelligent writing that we must make decisions and not shy from personal responsibility. I plan to have the illustration subtly display 'Please vote'. It will subconciously set in to the 7 year old's mind.
It's not the writing that gets across complex ideologies, it's the illustration which actually carries all the meaning. Without the illustration the meaning you intend is lost, else you wouldn't need the illustration in the first instance.
That's more of a pictorial cudgel than a literary scalpel, surely?
My plan requires a new form of writing, one in which pictures and prose are inseperably linked, a complex web. For example a picture on one page may illustrate a simile three pages before. When I say 'my stories' I speak of the illustations as much as anything.
Would I be at all accurate if I were to suppose that you smoke a hell of a lot of weed?
Quote: Marc P @ February 26 2009, 1:18 PM GMTShakespeare did!
Precisely.
Quote: zooo @ February 26 2009, 2:46 PM GMTIs it in libraries?
How do they decide which books go into libraries? I used to know but I've forgotten.
Ip-dip.
Can't believe I just wasted my 48,000th post on this... >_<
Quote: Aaron @ February 27 2009, 8:23 PM GMTPrecisely.
However I don't think Shakespeare consistently spelled a word completely wrong and then pretended he'd meant to all along and had in fact invented a 'new word'...
Ip-dip.
Hee!
Can't believe I just wasted my 48,000th post on this... >_<
Congratumalations!!!!!!!!