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  • Writers Corner Re: A quote to start your book

    I quotes to start things a lot, whether it be a story or a piece of philosophy, and essay or a blog entry. They serve to set the mood for ...

    Mar 23, 2008
  • Action/Adventure Short Stories Re: The Final Musings of an Old General

    Nope Vernon, Heidi's right - "incandescence" is a noun, the adjective of which is "incandescent." So you would say, "followed by muffled rumblings and bright incandescent flashes." You would use ...

    Mar 20, 2008
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: A Sad Story

    Heya raven. Well, it's certainly good to know you're not thinking of killing yourself. That'd suck, I have to say. I don't really like how your poem is put together. ...

    Mar 20, 2008
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: My man

    I find the critiques on this site interesting, always have. And what I find particularly of note is that there are actually people who seem to like pretty much anything, ...

    Mar 19, 2008
  • Narrative Poetry Re: In The End

    Poetry can be classed in many different ways, so if you think it goes here, I'm sure it will be fine; equally, I'm sure it would do fine elsewhere. It's ...

    Mar 19, 2008
  • Lounge, The Re: First Annual YWS Literary Awards

    Monki dear, I don't think you give us enough credit: we're simply celebrating our outstanding creativity and highlighting the best of the best. Sometimes you have to say that however ...

    Mar 19, 2008
  • Lyric Poetry Re: The Lord's Farce

    Ah, an interesting idea. You might be interested to note that it has been done several times in the past, though obviously not quite with your words! One of the ...

    Mar 18, 2008
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Grace:

    Hey there Gadi, good to see you around and all. Style is an interesting thing - certainly you're free to experiment with different types of poetry, but I think you'll ...

    Mar 18, 2008
  • Lyric Poetry Re: The Dead Listen for Downpours

    Liz! I'm not quite sure why I started like that, but it's OK: your name seemed in my mind to require an exclamation mark. First and foremost, your title is ...

    Mar 16, 2008
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: One soul to go down

    I claim first comment! Not easy these days :) Right, let's start with the basics: you could do with cleaning up your grammar. "heavens way" should be "heaven's way" for ...

    Mar 16, 2008
  • Narrative Poetry Re: Fairy Realm

    A jointly-composed poem :) teamwork at its finest! Now then, about your poem: I think it needs some work, but I also think its got potential to be an incredibly ...

    Mar 13, 2008
  • Other Poetry Re: Drops of fire

    An interesting piece, surprisingly refreshing for its subject! It's not something that is written about often, and as such it catches the attention and makes you take notice, always a ...

    Mar 13, 2008
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Of Thee I Sing

    the wonder capitalise the 't'. You need to look more closely at it, m'dear: it's a new stanza, but not a new sentence, it carries on from the previous one. ...

    Mar 13, 2008
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Pain from affection.

    Right-o! Let's start with the basics, your technique. First of all is your form and structure, which need a bit of work. Basically what you have here is a short ...

    Mar 13, 2008
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Mathew, please don't leave me

    I believe that all a poem needs to be moving is one good line, one line thats just filled with feeling. Sadly for those of us in the business of ...

    Mar 13, 2008


There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you.
— Maya Angelou