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  • Poetry » Lyrical, Other Re: [Look At] Me

    Hey Canish! I'm going to give you a quick review. Right of the bat, the first thing that stood out to me was the bold. It's slightly bothersome, kind of ...

    May 1, 2013
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: Mistakes

    Hey Jay! Welcome to YWS! I'm going to do a quick stanza by stanza review. In each stanza, I'll highlight what I liked, and what I think could use improvement. ...

    May 1, 2013
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Oh Dear! It's NaPoWriMo?

    Hello StoryWeaver! I'm going to do a quick stanza by stanza review. Best of luck on your NaPoWriMo endeavors, you are a braver soul than I am. Now, into the ...

    May 1, 2013
  • Poetry » Fantasy, General Re: The Sun's Love

    Hey Pixie! I'm going to do an uber-quick review, because I have to be out in a minute. Stanza One- Nice, interesting start. A sun and moon love story is ...

    Apr 28, 2013
  • Poetry » Romantic, Politics Re: The Politics of Romance

    Hey Lyssie! I'm going to do a stanza by stanza review. I'll intersperse this with my thoughts and feelings about the poem, sort of like a test audience. Here we ...

    Apr 28, 2013
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: Vibrant Longing

    Hey Rosan! I don't often review poetry, but when I do, I reference over used memes right off of the bat. More to the point, I'm going to do a ...

    Apr 28, 2013
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: My Best Friends Revenge

    Hey Sheera! I'm going to go ahead and say I did not read all of this. It's not that there's anything that awful about the writing. It was mostly the ...

    Apr 28, 2013
  • Short Story » Fantasy, Other Re: Fly

    Yay for flash fiction! This is a very haunting piece. It read like a strange dream. A few things stood out that need some work. My memory was fuzzy as ...

    Apr 28, 2013
  • Poetry » General, General Re: Fourth of July: Fact or Fiction?

    Hey Sio! Nice poem, and nicely portrayed metaphor. I don't agree with it necessarily, but that doesn't matter. I review objectively! :p (I could totally be wrong. I might just ...

    Apr 28, 2013
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, Romantic Re: Deathscape

    OMG--me writing prose? WHUT?! The opening line is incredibly truthful. Reading through this, there is tons of your poetry experience shining through, which leads to wonderful prose! I also enjoyed ...

    Apr 28, 2013
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: Insomnia

    Hey James! I'm going to give you a quick review. Insomnia is pretty awful, and it's a great concept to express in a poem. You do a good job expressing ...

    Apr 17, 2013
  • Novel / Chapter » Science Fiction, Action / Adventure Re: The Mole

    Hey Butterfly! I've finally got down to doing this review! Overall, this piece was very well written. The beginning was pretty slow, and it didn't contribute too much to the ...

    Apr 11, 2013
  • Novel / Chapter » Action / Adventure, Mystery / Suspense Re: An Improbable Man: the Scarlet Ribbon part 2

    Hey Finnick! About that L, if you put it in BBCode italics tags, it should italicize. It looks like this, [i]Text Goes Here[/i] . Sometimes when you copy and paste ...

    Mar 8, 2013
  • Poetry » General, General Re: Holly

    Hey Harbour! I'm going to do a quick review. I'll keep it concise, since I'm tired and I really want to go to bed. Good luck getting this published, it's ...

    Feb 24, 2013
  • Poetry » General, General Re: a blackbird's song before the south.

    Hey Native! I'm going to do a quick stanza by stanza review. No worries, all writing is flawed, and nothing can ever be perfect. I suggest you edit the title ...

    Feb 24, 2013


Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
— George Eliot