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Leja

  • Information Desk Archive Re: Design Changes: August 18, 2007

    I like the old style of posting work, where it's in a nice neat forum box and all. It's less distracting. It's also easier to read because the background isn't ...

    Aug 18, 2007
  • Fiction Discussion Re: What are you reading at the moment?

    Just picking up The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway.

    Aug 16, 2007
  • Fiction Discussion Re: What are you reading at the moment?

    Currently reading: The Post Birthday World by Lionel Shriver. The beginning was alright, but there's something trudging when the parallel universe splits off. Should be reading: Moby Dick :blegh:

    Aug 15, 2007
  • Randomosity Archive Re: Rate the Signature Above You.

    5/10 Maybe I don't get it

    Aug 15, 2007
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Hands on Shoulders

    [removed]

    Aug 15, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Diaries/Journals/Notebooks

    I don't do diaries. I think they're yucky. I don't like remembering. Writing wise, graph paper is the absolute best. There's something very structurally sound about it. I have a ...

    Aug 14, 2007
  • Official Polls Re: Which Planet Would You Travel To?

    Aw man; all these cool new choices after I vote :D

    Aug 14, 2007
  • Lounge, The Re: Skydiver Plans Head-First Freefall From The Edge of Space

    zoh my goodness. *shudder* Skydiving from ~normal altitudes would paralyze me. I can't imagine he'd live after something like that? [though according to the article he should] His parachute will ...

    Aug 14, 2007
  • Writing Activities Re: Your Boat Is Sinking And You Have Thirty Seconds To Evacuate

    Freeze dried ice cream gets sunk at the bottom of the ocean: it's disgusting. (1) Life raft so's ya don't freeze to death (2) Water. Because it's not only yummy, ...

    Aug 14, 2007
  • Lounge, The Re: What Would Make YWS Easier To Use?

    Like woah; what is this place? *pokes and runs away* NOTE: score with the settings menu :D

    Aug 14, 2007
  • Lounge, The Re: What Would Make YWS Easier To Use?

    About critiquing: maybe some way you can figuratively scribble in the margins of a story then post just your notes? That's what I'd do if it were printed. Though I ...

    Aug 14, 2007
  • Other Poetry Re: Maybe

    I'd advocate for punctuation not just at the end of the sentence, but in the middle too. This gives it a sense of tone, like when you speak, how you ...

    Aug 14, 2007
  • Other Poetry Re: Kickball With The Cousins

    This presented itself more as a list than a poem. And a long list at that. I see Snoink suggested a short story? It might also work as a script. ...

    Aug 14, 2007
  • Other Poetry Re: Free to Serve

    In all, I found it rather disjointed, as if you came up with a bunch of phrases and listed them. Except for the end of the poem, beginning at "Bend ...

    Aug 14, 2007
  • Other Poetry Re: Summer Solstice

    You really needn't call attention to the fact that this is an acrostic poem. I'd get rid of the bold letters and probably make at least some of them lowercased ...

    Aug 14, 2007


Uh, Lisa, the whole reason we have elected officials is so we don't have to think all the time. Just like that rainforest scare a few years back: our officials saw there was a problem and they fixed it, didn't they?
— Homer Simpson