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I personally didn't learn or think about rhyme schemes until late last school year, so I'm glad that someone other than my English teacher is trying to educate writers about ...

You sound like my English teacher. ;) That reminds me of something else: If you're trying to work on finding your style/voice by practicing writing, make sure to be careful ...

Oh, let me know if you come across that quote sometime, Dusky. Sounds sig-worthy. :) Another activity that might help is writing your muse's life story. For one, you get ...

This is sort of a personal experience question for you all just to satisfy my curiosity, but have any of you read a story/poem/etc. in which you got the hint ...

This is sort of a personal experience question for you all just to satisfy my curiosity, but have any of you read a story/poem/etc. in which you got the hint ...

Wow. Lots of responses to that one. First of all, thanks, Crysi, for the heads-up about moving it. Just thought you'd get a kick out of the fact that I ...

I could have sworn I had something in there about that, but now that I glance through, I apparently don't. I shall edit it now with those tips. Thanks for ...

I have no muse. *grins* Which is good, because we'd probably fight all the time considering all the fights I get into with my characters. Or maybe that's it, for ...

I quite agree. I have a very hard time taking someone seriously if said person's writing has the grammar of a fourth grader. ;) *hugs tattered and overused grammar book* ...

Thanks, DD. :D I'm always making checklists for myself, and I think this may have really not helped my OCD (which is not officially diagnosed as of yet, but I ...

What a coincidence; I just wrote a blog entry explaining my muse. In fact, I had planned on talking to her tonight and recapping the conversation tomorrow. ;) This is ...

Very nice. I've had this bookmarked for ages. I almost never use it, but when I need a name, or I'm in a writer's block, it's always very good at ...

No problem, I'm glad it could be of some use to you. :) I tried to write (in the errors section) the things that I catch most when I read ...

For younger characters, you might try to think back to the different things you learned and books you read at that age. Then you can kind of figure out how ...

Lol, like I said I wrote them ages ago. There are some that even I disagree with now. :P