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  • Research Re: How do you describe music in writing?

    I am a musician by trade (noun: meaning broke) and I can tell you everyone experiences music very differently. Some of my mates, especially those with perfect pitch have synesthesia, ...

    Apr 4, 2013
  • Research Re: Third Person

    Second person Pros: It can be even more inclusive than first person, because you're telling everything with "you". Cons: Rather difficult to pull off without sounding super simplistic and strange ...

    Aug 3, 2012
  • Writing Tips Re: What makes Purple Prose?

    Purple prose is not the use of excessive description, necessarily, that's referred to in contemporary lit crit as hysterical realism, take, for example, the later work of Don Delillo, an ...

    Aug 17, 2008
  • Writing Tips Re: Poor Man's Copyright

    The Poor Man's Copyright is not legally considered proof alone, as it can be faked. Check it out.

    Dec 6, 2007
  • Poetry Tutorials Re: Navel-gazing

    Navel-gazing? Come on, use the technical term, omphaloskepsis. It's more fun.

    Nov 29, 2007
  • Writers Corner Re: Who's afraid of the snow?

    Away from the anythinggoes of commercial whoredom, into the breach of highpaid callgirlism of everyone throwing money at your genius. Well, almost everyone, I'm still gonna shred you. Except for ...

    Apr 17, 2007
  • Writers Corner Re: Who's afraid of the snow?

    See, Inc, I told you you were a god. (After the whole bagging the crap out of you thing) Who knew the faceless mouth of commercialism would have secretly cutivated ...

    Mar 25, 2007


Poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just don't get - and never would get.
— Benjamin Alire Saenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe