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AGE:
33
LOC: Monsey, NY
GEN: Male
LAST LOGIN: October 13
LOC: Monsey, NY
GEN: Male
LAST LOGIN: October 13
Born in the northern suburbs of New York’s Hudson Valley, Jean Michel has been a working artist (Painting, Illustration, Graphic Design) in some form or another since 1994. He began seriously writing in late 2004.
The major influences in his writing are Samuel Clemens, Groucho Marx, Elmore Leonard, Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Robbins, Edward Gorey and Woody Allen to name a few.
It is apparent that he is self taught at the craft of writing, but his voice is quite recognizable when read.
His hopes are to be published and working as a writer in some creative capacity within two years time.
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I was sitting in my sisters room listening to Abbey Road when she told me that John Lennon was dead. He had been that way for about two years. My mother just pulled up to the curb at St Joseph's church and we listened to the talk radio DJ speak of Andy Warhol's death. She was driving a red Chevette back then. I was shredding documents at the accounting office that employed me after school when I received the call from Matt that Kurt Cobain shot himself. My girlfriend visited me at work that d...
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You ever wonder what the world would be like if we had nerve endings in our hair? Everything would be a lot different I can tell you that. For one thing a hat would be required for everyone when in public, because having your hair exposed would be a lot like walking around town with no pants or underwear on. The slightest breeze would send shockwaves of sexual tension through the Church Rummage sale. The barber shop or beauty salon would resemble a hospital. There would be anesthesiologists c...
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[Manhattan Island. Five months ago. Ten o’clock on a Thursday night. The boiler room of Horace Mann School, Riverdale, NY.] {David is laying on a cot with his hands behind his head in his makeshift boiler room home. There is a nine-year-old boy with dark hair and large green eyes with his twin sister sitting on a desk. There is a lamp on the desk creating sinister shadows all over the room and across everyone’s faces. The children are swinging their legs playfully and speaking to David. They ...
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Welcome to the town of Greedy Grove. A lovely village set upon a beautiful green hillside. There are many strange things that have happened here in Greedy Grove. Let’s take a walk through town and I’ll tell you about one of them, shall we? Here we are at city hall, home of the Greedy Grove justice system (The place doesn’t get much use) and right passed that on Main Street we find the old Whitman Country Club. It’s over a hundred years old y’know? Mrs. Grubbs sweet shop over there has the bes...
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Welcome to the town of Greedy Grove. A lovely village set upon a beautiful green hillside. There are many strange things that have happened here in Greedy Grove. Let’s take a walk through the town and I’ll tell you about one of them, shall we? Here we are at city hall, home of the Greedy Grove justice system (The place doesn’t get much use) and right passed that on Main Street we find the old Whitman Country Club. It’s over a hundred years old y’know? Mrs. Grubbs sweet shop over there has the...
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I think you need to concentrate on pollishing up your grammatical structure as well as your dialogue. Putting the "Oi" in all the girls dialogue does not make it very fun to read and if you do not know how to write an accent it doesn't make much sense either. Try writing the story without any flourishes of accent first and once you know what you want your characters to say, you could always go back and change it to the way you want. Youy also have a lot of unneccesary detail jammed in the fir...
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Okay. I like the premiss of the story because I'm a big fan of the 1984ish scenerios and I like the twist of having the church as the new third reich, but your story bares a bit too much of a resemblence to the Matrix. With a bit of fine tuning, you could shake that a little better. I think in the second scene, you shouldn't make it as obvious that she is going to look for Cade and if you have to, I don't think you should make it apparent yet that she is going to help him until the last minut...
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At the begining i wasn't sure if it was mislabeled as a novel treatment when it was supposed to be a poem of some sort, but I pushed through and got the picture. I'll say this. During and even a bit after reading this, I think I may have an idea of what it's like to have that condition. I almost felt like I was reading the journal of John Wayne Gacy or Margot Kidder, but it's cool. I think you'd have a lot of fans in the William Burroughs catagory which ain't too shabby. I think I may actuall...
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Good song. What type of music would you put to it or have you put to it? As I was reading it, I had Siouxsie Sioux and Nick Cave singing it together. For once in my life I actually don't have much more to say than that. I'd like to hear this song recorded.
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I think it's great. You build your characters really well and your writing in general is very good. There were a couple instances where I thought you dragged a bit of the detail on too much, but that's pretty much it. I love Charlie in all of his methodical madness. I enjoy his thought process alot. Even though you don't describe him at all, I see him as kind of a Daniel Craig-esque man ala Layer Cake (one of my new fave flics). You really tapped in to your inner Nabacov in this didn't you. I...
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