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On Your Mind Takes a while to get there, but is still madly fascinating in the meantime. Also, for anyone wondering about the scientific basis of empathy, about the most ...

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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 ...

I went off rhyming poetry a while back, so rhythm went out the window with it too. I find that in general, rhythm probably hinders the flow more than anything ...

Firstly, I have no issue with a poem being a rehash of a short story. I've done it enough times myself - mixed and merged ideas, drawn from my poetry ...

Great tips, Hibiscus. I have recently seen a surge of reviews demanding such unecessary things as punctuation and capitalisation, so I think this post is rather timely. I may add ...

'In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game.' From Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. It only gets better from ...

The best inspiration, I find, is good poetry itself. Read it, live it, breathe it. When you see how others do it - and do it well at that - ...

So...that's what it boils down to right? Beginners essentially have no poetic background to draw from and associate it with the next closest thing they can find - song lyrics. ...

This just occurred to me while reading Suzanne's post about 'emo poetry.' I often feel disatisfied with the way emerging poets are writing, due to the lack of imagery, originality, ...

Do you ever just see someone and think to yourself, “I need to write their story.”? All the time. And I do, eventually, I do.

Hey! I meant that I read it till over halfway - as I got more and more into the story, it became easier (indeed, it was just so FUNNY to ...

I don't have a preference for when I'm reading - as long as the story is well-written, both flow perfectly fine for me. But when writing, I used to always ...

I wouldn't actually recommend differentiating between them using italics or font or any of that, since that unecessarily stops the flow as the reader tries to adjust to the new ...

Argh...I read Of Mice and Men about four times, and hated every word of it. I'm sad to say my teacher wasn't the greatest appreciator of Steinback - I would ...