Leja

Eesh! I'm glad I've never signed up.

How would the "globalizing power of technology" be harnessed? That doesn't seem something that will happen overnight, and in the process of harnessing it, there will inevitably be a weakness ...

If you're going for an effect of slow and plodding, word choice would be better. Overuse (and there is overuse here) of ellipses just make people angry. :wink:

Please, no ellipses. They make everything rather plodding and make me feel as if I'm attempting to swim through a river molasses. Rather than directly saying "Ink is my thread/ ...

...we have to have a president with the guts to kick butt in Iraq, keep the economy government-free, and close the borders without worrying about public image! But if the ...

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Info dumps are, of course, bad. Except when they're helpful. In the above example, the author segued from an action into a related memory. Yes, it's telling, but it's not ...

Note: These two were the original part three of A Brief History of the Ex-Dee that I had posted, but I have since rewritten them (Hence the "extra" in the ...

This doesn't seem like poetry; more like a survey, almost. It's very list-like; I can see where it's going from the first line. The greatest thing about poetry is that ...

Exactly, Via (go, world peace! XD). If you'd rather chat than improve your writing and help others improve their writing, then this is probably not the site for you. It ...

Currently reading Anna Karenina. I like it so far, but I still need to remember to finish it XD

This sounds like a wonderful idea :D I'll be sure to try it sometime!

I'm sick of hearing about Dirty Mexicans and how Islam is Scary and all of these other things. ^ exactly! I mean, has anyone heard Giuliani talk recently? His only ...

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The part at the beginning with Evelyn's mother seemed rather irrelevant. I see the comparison between the mother's relationship issues and Eve's later reaction, but I feel like the beginning ...