Gahks

If you have too many ideas, chuck them in an ideas box (a shoebox or something like that). That way, you can save all the good stuff for when you ...

Why do you need the lyrics anyway? Are they absolutely crucial to the story or reveal something absolutely crucial about a character? If they are, go for it! Otherwise, ditch ...

Yeah, great work! :D Additional tip: Quotations from the story always help. Focus on several snippets or short gobbets that you can base the main points of your review around.

Hey there Emma! What a great poem! I mean really, well done. *claps* I particularly loved the last three lines: "You are my first, and I really don’t mind if ...

It's not disastrous! Anything can happen in the world of fiction. You just have to make us as readers buy into the fiction.

Yeah, I know what you mean. *buries head in hands* This will need yet more work.

black

Valid points, but please stick to topic.

Hey there, This is an interesting metaphor but unfortunately it seems underdeveloped. The main problem I find with it is that there's way too much telling. Let's look at this ...

spring

Iambic pentameter tends to have that smoothness because it matches the human heartbeat: Unstressed/stressed/unstressed/stressed etc. There are many different poetic forms but here are just a few. Sonn

"Anything Can Happen" by Seamus Heaney. Anything Can Happen Seamus Heaney After Horace, Odes, I, 34 Anything can happen. You know how Jupiter Will mostly wait for clouds to gather ...

ice

*laughs*

This poem has been taken down as it now appears in yours truly's anthology, "Public Spaces, Private Reflections." If you would like a copy, please contact me!