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  • Writing Tips Re: Writing Dream Sequences

    Wow, Snoink, you said it all. ^^ Fantastic advice!

    Sep 14, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Fanfiction - why is so much of it bad?

    During my months on YWS, I've been complimented several times on my fanfics. I do admit I write quite a lot of it. However, the fact still remains - a ...

    Sep 14, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Too many people

    Hey there. ^^ I think you have a LOT of options for what to do with this. The key is to pick the one that works for you. - First ...

    Jul 23, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: I think I'm putting too much detail in.

    Rosey's right. You can't know too little about a character. Real, breathing characters are like people. They have quirks, complexes, likes and dislikes, secrets and habits. But she's also right ...

    Jul 6, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Fight scene help

    Another good way to capture emotion is a lot of glorious bloody description of the battle itself. Just don't go overboard. Enough to keep the audience tense and a bit ...

    Jun 18, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: What's your writing process?

    I'm an experimenter. I'll write about three pages of one story, take what I like out of it and leave the rest. My computer is cluttered to the brim with ...

    Jun 15, 2009
  • Research Re: Agricultural products in high altitude?

    The ground's too rocky to farm, there's not enough space to graze cattle or other livestock. How would a (pre-Industrial Revolution) mountain town keep itself from starvation? Goats? Pumpkins? Pickles

    Jun 1, 2009


The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading.
— Edward Hirsch