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  • Other Poetry Re: Abyss of Broken Dreams

    Like craz33me, I'm wondering if you intended this poem to be formatted this way, or if the text editor ate your line breaks. If you did intend this poem to ...

    Nov 23, 2011
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: As She Wakes

    The first thing I noticed straight-off: the capitalization of your lines is inconsistent. Sometimes you capitalize; sometimes you don't. How you present your poem has a considerable impact on how ...

    Nov 23, 2011
  • Other Poetry Re: Lessons from my Gallbladder

    That title! I am in love with that title! Truly, it is a most marvelous title. Unfortunately, the poem itself fails to live up to the insane expectations such a ...

    Nov 19, 2011
  • YWS Re: How To Make a (Poetry) Review Go Further

    So that's my questions for someone to answer-- how do you correct line breaks? I usually quote a small section where the line breaks are really off and rewrite it, ...

    Nov 19, 2011
  • Narrative Poetry Re: Le Morte d’Arthur

    In battle of Camblam- The last and greatest of our King- Two things — "Camblam" is more commonly written as "Camlann", so the latter spelling would be more immediately recognizeable. ...

    Nov 18, 2011
  • Welcome Mat Re: cant review?

    Heya taliarose! Welcome to YWS! In order to get points, your reviews need to be a certain minimum length. Beyond that point, the longer your review, the more points you ...

    Nov 14, 2011
  • Official Polls Re: What genres do you write in?

    All my non-fluffy pieces tend to be darkly humorous. So. Otherwise, spec-fic all the way!

    Nov 12, 2011
  • Lounge, The Re: "Linguistics for Writers" Articles

    wɪθ æot kʊnfuziŋ phipʊl My love of dictionaries = I read that through just fine before doing a double-take and going "Wait a sec..." I would love to see some ...

    Nov 12, 2011
  • Poetry Discussion Re: Prompt Attack

    And you shall write a poem about chalk. Not just any chalk, mind you, but the yellow kind that produces cringeworthy screeches on cheap blackboards. Bonus points if you make ...

    Nov 5, 2011
  • Research Re: What are some popular video games?

    I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Tales series. It's by Namco, and it's got quite a long history as a quality cross-platform RPG series that's still going strong. A ...

    Nov 4, 2011
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Raining in Paradise

    My Spanish is quite rusty, but from what I understood, this poem was lovely. The language struck me as being a bit simple at times, but the simplicity is what ...

    Nov 2, 2011
  • Archive Re: Zombies!

    High above the horizon, clinging tenuously to the tail of a "g", Kyllorac dangled above most of YWS, Kyllorac's ladder of Likes having crumbled just as Kyllorac grabbed hold of ...

    Oct 31, 2011
  • Lyrics Re: It's Too Late Now

    Behold! For this is a review which is not a review! It is rather difficult to review something which is no longer present. I expect that if I were to ...

    Oct 28, 2011
  • Narrative Poetry Re: Trouble Came to the Turnip

    This is a not-review totally masquerading as a review seeing as how there's kinda... nothing... here to really review. Which makes me sad, because the title is totally AWESOME. It ...

    Oct 28, 2011
  • Writing Tips Re: Problems with Character Development

    I change the ending.

    Oct 28, 2011


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