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  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: Hurt

    I did like this--it had more emotion than most poems I see. But I also had some issues with it. "hurt", "kill", "ache" they're all very general, vague words--and word ...

    Aug 21, 2007
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: A Single Rose on Water

    I really, really loved the imagery and the rhyme scheme in this. It was beautiful, imo. I could see the rose on the water, and everything =] But I still ...

    Aug 21, 2007
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Listen to the Rain

    It's good. But I want more imagery. >_> Maybe I just can't see/feel the imagery you're already giving us. Rain is used a lot in fiction (to the point of ...

    Aug 21, 2007
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: To the World from Me

    Everyone else has said lots of good things. ^_~ One thing I liked about this is you personified your misery, but I think I would have liked it if you ...

    Aug 21, 2007
  • Other » General, General Re: Mein Herz Brennt: A Chair of Darkness EP

    just let me live with you for a few months, staring at you, chanting "Write write write write write" and threatening to take away your tanz-metal CDs and you'll get ...

    Aug 15, 2007
  • Short Story » Science Fiction, General Re: Robot Dreams

    When they’d left Earth 's orbit, the time it took to get everything back to normal after a hyperspace jump had been a day. “Yes, Captain Ramsey,” t he AI ...

    Aug 14, 2007
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Of Alcoholics and Bittersweet Regret

    Oy, I feel bad for this, but I have to say I can't exactly think of anything to say. I'm going to have to come back and reread this some ...

    Aug 14, 2007
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: a broken blue

    hmmm Add punctuation. they sing of days where hope still had wings And sometimes the sky keeps secrets- it never speaks of years of forgotten memories. It seemed like you ...

    Aug 14, 2007
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: catastrophe

    I think I liked this, simply because I'm a complete gossip whore ^_^ And it was simple, and straight to the point. I usually hate poems like that! But please ...

    Aug 14, 2007
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Woe

    I love alliterations but I think you used way too many here. It just suffocated me. And why are certain words punctuated? You would assume they have some great meaning ...

    Aug 14, 2007
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: In the Eye of the Storm

    Preaching in poetry has always rubbed me the wrong way. Also, all you are doing is telling. Why not show us something? This message is something told over and over ...

    Aug 14, 2007
  • Poetry » Narrative, General Re: A Ramble of Sorts

    Some kind of animal? a nocturnal one. I can't really pick it out. If I were to critique this I'd say fix the line breaks. Your lines are way too ...

    Aug 14, 2007
  • Short Story » General, General Re: A Thousand Dancing Kites

    hmmmm....I shall explain my understanding of the story in a minute. First! Random me shouting grammar at you despite the fact that we both know we disagree with each other ...

    Aug 14, 2007
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Naked and Ashamed

    I am here! When Sukie was a kid, she liked to hang out in the graveyard... I don't like ellipses. =/ She had been standing at the sink[s], actually,[/s] washing ...

    Aug 13, 2007
  • Poetry » Narrative, General Re: [deleted]

    This is awesome ^_^ as eighteen people got seventeen lifejackets I hate when people use the word "got" for "have" The waves pull ed higher, barely shot back by the ...

    Aug 12, 2007


It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey