The Shrine

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/04/25 ... ">Shame</a>

RPG players, how are your story writing skillz?</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Fuck school reform!</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>Yeah, who needs smarter kids running around...</div>

<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>It's true. I never cease to be baffled at the lack of writing ability in students here (engineers especially), and I'm in fucking COLLEGE. Christ.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>I know this first hand-- in my IST group this semester I was the only one in my fucking group who could write correctly-- I put in their evals that they wrote at a 8-11 grade level</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Happens here, too. In my political science class, my professor wrote on one of my papers "After reading dozens of your peers papers, this is a breath of fresh air."</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Eh?</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>RPG playa! =8^P</div>

<div style='font: 11pt georgia; text-align: left; '>You know, in my last 2 years in HS, I didnt really TRY very much in class. I just did what I needed to do to pass. Maybe its not a question of skill, but motivation.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Two years on my high school newspaper - first year turning in two news stories, maybe an editorial, every month, and second year as editorials editor and a columnist - probably have something to do with my writing ability.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>"That's because writing has been neglected in school reform..."</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>And posting long posts here. I know I've improved my form because of tOWS.</div>

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>Creating your own world is better to me than writing fan fiction and stuff like that that takes worlds and characters of someone elses and tries to expand on it. your own worlds and characters are more genuine. Reading a story about what locke did after saving the world in ff3 doesn't work because it's not your character. You can't take it to a level that says this character is mine this is how he acts.... It's impossible to capture someone elses character acurately. your own characters are more genuine than anything else. you can write them with familiarity and people know that they are your characters. If I read something from one of you about Richard Rahl doing something it would be retarded to me......I love to write and I will post my stuff here so you can see development from middle to high school to now when I finish the stuff I am writing....It's fun.....</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I should have gone to school in the US, I had research papers up to my ears all through High School. As I remember, they were always a pain in the ass.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Stop it, there's no longer a guarentee you'll make it out alive. :)</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Did you try to improve your form just for this message, or are you simply not drunk right now?</div>