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  • Lyric Poetry Re: untie me

    Punctuation. You need it. Right around the "I'm bored" line, my brain shut down and stopped trying to comprehend this poem. A lot of this was due to the lack ...

    Sep 8, 2010
  • Other Poetry Re: All is Calm

    The one issue I had with this poem was the irregularity of the punctuation. You seem to have an aversion to periods, and while I can understand why you'd leave ...

    Sep 8, 2010
  • General Articles Re: My Essay on "Narrative of the LIfe of Frederick Douglass"

    I would just like to point out that you have a typo in the title: "LIfe". You might want to fix that and keep an eye out for similar mistakes ...

    Sep 8, 2010
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Obsoletely Perfect

    525, 600 There should be no space after the comma. 525600 is one number; not 525 and 600, which is what the space after the comma makes it seem like ...

    Sep 8, 2010
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Your Personal Philosophy

    Live and let live. No two people are identically alike, and so no two people have the same ways of attaining happiness. Therefore, no one has the right to tell ...

    Sep 7, 2010
  • Fantasy Short Stories Re: A Cautionary Tale... (Info-dumping)

    Nitpicks! cuddle-fish It's cuttlefish, fool! Though cuttlefish are uncannily cuddly... "Polly want a cracker," Should be enclosed in single quotes as they're quotations within quotations. Hooray for n

    Sep 7, 2010
  • Writing Tips Re: HELP!!! My characters are becoming Twilight chracters!

    And if your characters are changing into Twilight characters in more than just in appearance, there is a very simple solution to your problem: stop reading Twilight. Seriously. Anything you ...

    Sep 6, 2010
  • Homework Help Re: URGENT: To Kill A Mockingbird General Summary Needed!

    Three words for you, darling: do it yourself. YWS is not here to do your work for you.

    Sep 6, 2010
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Always Trust In Tomorrow

    You switch referring to to the person who taught the narrator the lesson from "you" to "he" in the second stanza. That really threw me off. I suggest just referring ...

    Sep 6, 2010
  • Other Poetry Re: Demon-Run Heaven (edited)

    You need to look over your punctuation more carefully, not just because you missed a couple of essential commas here and there, but also to reevaluate just how many pieces ...

    Sep 6, 2010
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: The perspective dawn

    First thing I noticed: you have a misspelling in the title. It should be "prospective" and not "perspective". The second thing I noticed: this poem is not very poetic. It ...

    Sep 6, 2010
  • General Articles Re: -

    It whizzes in the atom, where you cannot know both energy and position, so are lost in that tiny space. This sentence makes no sense, and I think it may ...

    Sep 6, 2010
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: In With The Bullet: Out With The Hearts

    The one word I would use to describe this is rushed. You have a great idea here, and you could wring a lot of drama (real drama and not cheap ...

    Sep 6, 2010
  • Information Desk Archive Re: Groups Are Dead. Long Live Groups.

    Suggestion 1: The ability to link to Discussion Board topics individually. The nice thing about the Groups was that each thread could be separately linked, but it doesn't seem to ...

    Sep 6, 2010
  • Writers Corner Re: Plot help

    Hey there LauRux. Moved this to Writers Corner since this is talking about your project. Ask an Expert is more for when you want information on specific subjects rather than ...

    Sep 6, 2010


I only know that learning to believe in the power of my own words has been the most freeing experience of my life. It has brought me the most light. And isn't that what a poem is? A lantern glowing in the dark.
— Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X