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  • Other Poetry Re: Sort of Wine

    TheEccentricScribe - This is the worst of the pieces you've posted in terms of establishing yourself as a poet. Your last couple of pieces are probing for a style, a ...

    Feb 9, 2007
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: How Can You Love Him?

    Seriena, This is five strophes longer than it should be. For this poem, there's a lot that can garner easy praise (relatability, tortuosity of love, etc--mind, it's all pretty boring), ...

    Feb 9, 2007
  • Other Poetry Re: give me a shot

    broken-image, "Give me a chance and don't abandon me like the sane. I'm living a deadly life on the edge of destruction. To my limits i've been stretched and now ...

    Feb 9, 2007
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Someone loves you

    Krystalstars, You're showing very little, if any, progress with your writing. You continue to rely on gimmicks. As an example, the short lines in S4 don't merit the attention you ...

    Feb 9, 2007
  • Narrative Poetry Re: Little Boy Blue

    Fand. This is substantially worse than your previous efforts. There is very little here worth saving or editing. No matter what the inspiration, the poem must stand on its own. ...

    Feb 9, 2007
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Two Funerals

    Trident - This is, pardon the pun, dead on arrival. Part I is overall a collection of cliched elements, and Part II provides no resolution, but that's OK because you ...

    Feb 9, 2007
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Garter Snake

    Trident - I carried a garter snake through the whitewashed town: it would S and flick its thin forked tongue through scaled lips to seduce me. He could not bite. ...

    Feb 6, 2007
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: After Saba's "Winter"

    Jig - Best, Brad

    Feb 5, 2007
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Winnabego Land

    CaptinSix, You post here in full knowledge of the type of criticisms given. It is not un-understandable why some may stick to grammar in this case, because there isn't anything ...

    Feb 5, 2007
  • Other Poetry Re: My regards to e. estlin Cummings

    Sorry, UberJimmy - This is a pathetic little reminiscence that goes no where. All the best, Brad

    Feb 5, 2007
  • General Fiction Novels Re: Chionophobia #24 /P

    Trident - If Danielle dies, Jonathon, as her son's treating physician, by law becomes the temporary guardian of her child. This is her significance. Best, Brad

    Feb 4, 2007
  • General Fiction Novels Re: Chionophobia #24 /P

    Removed.

    Feb 3, 2007
  • Official Polls Re: Pick The Background!

    I think it's funny we started with a record-high winter season, and are now in a record-low. Maybe, to reflect this wildly erratic behavior, you should put a picture of ...

    Jan 31, 2007
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Flat

    bonafide-- re: "I know exactly what I am trying to communicate. It's lost in translation, which is to no other's fault but my own." Not knowing what to communicate and ...

    Jan 30, 2007
  • Writers Corner Re: Trident goes for the markets

    Trident -- You have the right idea. Start from the top and work your way down. There's no reason to get hung with an agent/publisher less prestigious than your writing ...

    Jan 29, 2007


It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind