Fireweed

Should this perhaps be in fiction discussion? I'm not all that into fantasy, but... Trickster's Choice by Tamora Pierce was awesome. There's a sequel, too, which I haven't read, Trickster's ...

Hmm... I feel like it's not really fair for me to critique this with the same expectations I'd have for any other poem, because English is your second language, which ...

I've sent this in to a magazine... still waiting to hear back. Thank you all again for the crits! ^_^

Ooh, she does look like a Jane Austen character! This is so lovely... Most of the flaws have been pointed out; the only other thing I noticed was that her ...

This really didn't do anything for me; it was quite flat and bland. Remember to show rather than tell; this had no imagery whatsoever. You also used very simple vocabulary: ...

I disagree with the previous posts on the rhyming; I thought it was quite well- done. However, I'll second the comments on correcting the punctuation and rethinking your word choice. ...

Thanks. It's weird, in any other genre of writing punctuation isn't usually a problem for me, but I have issues with punctuating poetry. Ari, I think the parenthesis and spaces ...

(Not in any kind of order) Snow Flower and the Secret Fan To Kill a Mockingbird Of Mice and Men Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes Ellen Foster Hmm... There are ...

Wow, I really enjoyed this- darkly beautiful and completely original and unique. Slightly disturbing, but in a good way; it's powerful. Your use of italics was also very effective, I ...

The message here is good, but the style is too wordy, almost a little preachy. It seems a bit repetitive, too, like in some parts you're just re-hashing what you've ...

Fun! Nice job with the rhyme and rhythm. One suggestion: "All that classical's too old for me." This sounds a bit awkward to me, even though it works with the ...

'Tis edited. Thanks, everyone!

Lol, whoops. Je n'aime pas... accents :? . Thanks alot!

I am a Paper Girl, (The flimsy, blue-lined notebook variety). My skin is scrawled with sooty black ink, And sooty black ink runs through my veins. I have a Paper ...

Lol, Pushca. But this is in no way feminism... it's like, chauvinism if that's a word. I agree with Trident; at first I thought it might not be such a ...