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  • Writing Activities Re: Let's write a poem together!

    like wildflowers opening in the dead of night--splitting to reveal

    Apr 6, 2015
  • Writing Activities Re: Title Feedback

    The title coupled up with your signature makes me think of intelligence agencies for some reason, but on its own it sounds to be very vague--not that it's a bad ...

    Mar 22, 2015
  • Writing Activities Re: Poem Spot - [ on the spot ]

    summer monsoon tells me he is the man kissing gravel tongues, the man being raped by the city's dull counsel-- wearing the shalwar kameez with far too many patches to ...

    Mar 15, 2015
  • Writing Activities Re: Poem Spot - [ on the spot ]

    it is autumn let us play queen tragedies do not wait for occurrence but we shall shingle their path we shall wait because patience is a tree glowing orange in ...

    Mar 13, 2015
  • Writing Activities Re: Poem Spot - [ on the spot ]

    every twilight is a monarchy, this I have grown to understand; the night is not an assassin, and the heather lapping your feet is not a ghost. I am sure ...

    Mar 13, 2015
  • Writing Activities Re: Poem Spot - [ on the spot ]

    midnight kicks in at two a.m. with your head against my shoulder, television a muted sepia amidst colourings of rain, and wind, and frost, and sleet, and downpour and-- weather ...

    Mar 10, 2015
  • Writing Activities Re: Poem Spot - [ on the spot ]

    Sheer force, she said, will lead us straight along the highway--if you can drive fast enough, maybe--into oblivion. And Afterwards? he asked, eyes hesitant, cheekbones cutting through his face like ...

    Mar 9, 2015
  • Writing Activities Re: Make Up The Worst Possible Opening Line Ever

    The last thing I remembered was the Shiny. It was pretty shiny and stuff. And stuff.

    Feb 8, 2015
  • Writing Activities Re: Make Up The Worst Possible Opening Line Ever

    she is the basket ball team with pink lips. Now this. This is literature. XDD

    Feb 7, 2015
  • Writing Activities Re: Rate the first sentence above you

    3/10 It's a spaceship in a quagmire of a sentence; it does not interest me, nor does it give me any sense of direction. For a beginning, it does't fulfil ...

    Jan 17, 2015
  • Writing Activities Re: Rate the first sentence above you

    5/10 It doesn't hook me, nor does it give me a clear visual of what-do-I-expect. It's also a drab introduction to a commonplace fact--where there are cities there are lights. ...

    Jan 17, 2015
  • Fiction Discussion Re: At what age did you start writing and

    It's all very vague; I can't pinpoint an exact age, but I'd have to say ... eleven? I wrote a novella back then, completed it, then abandoned writing until I ...

    Dec 31, 2014
  • Writing Activities Re: Make Up The Worst Possible Opening Line Ever

    If you're reading this ... hold on a chapter; I need to take a shower.

    Dec 23, 2014
  • Writing Activities Re: Story in Six Words

    Face first falling into graves: Unpleasant.

    Dec 2, 2014
  • Writing Activities Re: Story in Six Words

    He jumped. There was no parachute.

    Nov 5, 2014


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