Navita

Oooh, getting the claws out are we, MMM? :P You were right on a few counts: that this is lyrical, and that the reader-text connection is somewhat muted (perhaps as ...

[Note to self: not to wade into a debate this late. Otherwise, there are so many posts to read...] Okay, I've skim-read most of what's above. Religion is a big ...

Music for inspiration, yes. Music while writing, no. Writing is music. Overlaying one kind of music with another just distorts everything. I can't think straight with music on. Plus, I ...

Ah, Persephonia? You've gotten better. Going to disagree with Kamas here, for the most part. Here's what your title gives us: Havisham Dancer. It only takes two words -- as ...

Short and sweet, just the way a pocket poem is meant to be. And it encompasses a whole lifetime within it, within the single metaphor -- very Ted Kooser-ish. I ...

OH YES. I do so love to see the same poem refracted, sprung off from, reshaped, deconstructed, reconstructed. This is what Kylan has since shown me is the highest form ...

This is obviously going to win. Best cowrite I've read yet. Also -- who are you and what have you done with the real Galerius. Critique to come once I ...

Careful what you put in a spoiler, especially if you want me to respond to all of it, everything you mention. You talked of experimentalism; that's why I addressed that, ...

Okay, cut the convention-vs-experimentation drama for a second. A few things I need to point out to you: [1.] All art is based on a constant flux between chaos and ...

CUTTING UP RED BELL PEPPERS. I remember that. :P When you're hitting flow just right, there's something else you need to keep in mind: whether what you're saying actually sings. ...

The interesting thing about these quotes is that some of them seem to contradict each other. But different contexts call for different advice, and since writing is all about mastery ...

Below are mostly rewrites (from memory) of things I have said to other people on YWS - by chat / review / PM - or, more rarely, something particularly memorable ...

One of my all-time favourite poems by Johanna Aitchison that appeared in NZ's top lit mag two years ago (she is the former President of NZ Poetry Society, and 2010 ...

Er. This is getting to the stage where it's ridiculous. How many times do you expect me to tell you I love you? Navi