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Stewart Flintonlaubakersmith
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Flash Fiction Fridays NaNoWriMo and Script Frenzy relaxed & groovy weekly prompt extravaganza!
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FFF is back up and running, if you're interested.
-Ben
Congrats on winning this year's NaNoWriMo! Your newest fan, Joe
Heard you finished your novel's first draft. Way to go! Good luck on the revision/editing.
-Ben
Good, good. Let not your talent languish!
Hey Jenn, been writing anything flashy? This is an unofficial notice of botherment from FFFF. You know you want to post something!
WOOP!! thanks, doll!
i just spent the weekend with a friend who LOVES david tennant in dr who; she's very excited i'll be watching the show, too.
Thanks for the congrats
okay, i did it! i entered the npr contest. woop!
(how's your entry coming? finished yet?)
bwaaa! thank you for another insightful and hilarious critique, jenn. awesomey awesomeness. i'm taking several of your suggestions for rewrite, so you know. woop! thank you for reading!
yay! you're welcome! i hope they accept the story--what kind of turnaround time do they have? this is a big deal.
Name: Jenn Tharp
Sex: Female
Location: New Jersey
Birthday: Mar 29, 1990
Words Written: 40,622

About Circus

Occupation: Suddenly jobless, I have started to look into writing enough to support myself with publication. And by "support myself" I mean "put gas in my car and buy books", because I live at home and go to college.
About Me: I've recently turned nineteen. This is not necessarily good or bad. I can buy cigarettes in my state, but I don't want to. That is generally what nineteen means. I've finished one novel that I've decided to set aside indefinitely, and I'm working on another that I'm excited about. I ramble about some things here: http://thethreering.blogspot.com/
Interests: Writing, reading... I never know what to say I'm interested in. Old things. Irish poets and authors. Greek mythology.
Publications: A poem in Teen Ink Magazine in... 2004? Man, I wish I had kept that magazine. Yes, it's a kids' magazine, but it put a poem of mine between its gray paper pages, so it sort of counts.
Favorite Books: Bleak House by Charles Dickens, The Complete Works of Robert Frost, The Dubliners by James Joyce, Mythology by Edith Hamilton, Walden by Henry David Thoreau, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail by Robert Edwin Lee and Jerome Laurence, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, The Catcher in the Rye, Nine Stories and Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger, The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King, Paper Towns by John Green.
Favorite Quotes: I sought a theme and sought for it in vain,
I sought it daily for six weeks or so.
Maybe at last, being but a broken man,
I must be satisfied with my heart, although
Winter and summer till old age began
My circus animals were all on show,
Those stilted boys, that burnished chariot,
Lion and woman and the Lord knows what.
- William Butler Yeats ["The Circus Animals' Desertion"]
Loves: Yeats, Joyce, Frost, Dickens, the dictionary, Greek myths, my friends, my family, snippets of conversation, genuine smiles, sunlight, brief thunderstorms.
Hates: Snow, the way I write sometimes, old women with pursed lips, being able to see someone's spine through their shirt.

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A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) The Odyssey Mythology Hermits; The Insights of Solitude Walden and Civil Disobedience (150th Anniversary) (Signet Classics)

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Sep 27, 2009
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Circus wrote a message for the circle NaNoWriMo and Script Frenzy.
Sep 20, 2009
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Circus replied to the thread Greetings from NJ.
Sep 16, 2009
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Circus created a thread called Looking for High School Stories.
Aug 23, 2009
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Circus wrote on Ben Jacobson's scratchpad.
Aug 21, 2009
Aug 14, 2009
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Circus wrote on Stewart Flintonlaubakersmith's scratchpad.
Aug 5, 2009
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Circus wrote a message for the circle Perpetual Novelists.
Aug 3, 2009
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Jul 26, 2009
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Circus wrote on Laurie Paulsen's scratchpad.
Jul 18, 2009
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Circus edited The Worst Is Over.
Jul 17, 2009
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Jul 16, 2009
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Jul 15, 2009
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Jul 13, 2009
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Latest Works

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I have no idea where I'm going with this; I just really like the premise, and I really like this chapter. So, there you go. Maybe if I open it up to scrutiny I'll get some ideas as to where to go from here. Thanks for reading, as always. Read →
The Icarus myth transferred to a modern setting, answering this question: "What if Icarus had survived the fall?" Read →

Latest Critiques and Comments

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On The Men Outside, by Stewart Flintonlaubakersmith: Stewart, I have literally nothing to say about this that doesn't end in an exclamation point and start with "This is exce... Read →
On Desert Fire, by Laurie Paulsen: Laurie! Marvelous! And profoundly disturbing! I literally gasped and cringed at certain, easy-to-point-out places. The end wa... Read →
On Sergeant Fang Fulfills His Destiny, by Laurie Paulsen:     The wind tossed leaves against the house. Through his window Jackson saw the branches waving, and a bird... Read →
On Solar Shell: A Space Opus, by Ben Jacobson: Agh, Ben! This is going to be an abysmal failure of a critique! I don't do sci-fi. The last science fiction book that I e... Read →