Cade

At my school there is both a literary magazine and a creative writing club. I'm an editor for the litmag, and I've gone to the club before. The litmag, having ...

Don't we all? I'm not hoping to put the next great American novel out goal is to get a few of my poems into literary magazines and the like, which ...

Cal makes a fine point. In poetry, you should try to refer to the "narrator" of the poem as the "speaker", not as "you" as if you were referring to ...

Newer members would be well advised to read this. I feel that sometimes we should show some sensitivity; after all, this is a Young Writers Society. While we should be ...

Thanks, dear. Yes, my first attempts at poetry went a lot like this: Birthdays are a happy time. I don't like it when all the food tastes the same. Yup.

Of all the elements of poetry, rhyme is one of the most difficult, and one of the most essential, for a poet to master. There are some painful mistakes that ...

*blushes* Thanks, Clau.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. -Mark Twain Nothing is more important in your writing than ...

*applauds*

Oooh, good article, euclidean. What I've started doing is categorizing the parts of my critique--Imagery, Meaning, Diction, etc. I also find it helpful to go line-by-line or stanza-by-stanza when it's

The rules of when to use who/whoever and whom/whomever are simple, but sadly, many writers and students struggle with these tricky little pronouns. In casual speech, we almost never use ...

It often depends on what I'm writing, but I almost always need background noise, and music comes in handy for that. It's also inspirational; today I was listening to Dire ...

If I see someone younger writing total crap, I usually just don't crit it, just to be on the safe side. Younger writers just have to find the right audience, ...

I'm more of a poet, and I've never much liked writing prose. Finishing a short story is painful for me. I've found that you just have to force yourself to ...

Gosh, I hate my parents reading my stuff. My mom's a writer...she's never offered to help out or anything. We don't really talk about that stuff. Unfortunately, if I win ...