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If you're looking for some excellent inspiration, check out - it's a brilliantly constructed comic with some great graphical expressions of what you're looking for, I think. Try it out, ...

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 ...

On Marriage What age is a reasonable age for marriage? 18 What events would have to happen before you would consider marriage? Me personally? Ideally I'd like to get to ...

I'm lucky in that my parents have encouraged me to write ever since I started making up poems when I was a kid; it's like they understood how important it ...

Ah, the joys of political correctness! B.C. and A.D. still sound better when said, hands down. This may be partially because you sound like a goon saying "B.C.E." and partially ...

Straight from the grinder into your mind! - Antigua (Guatemala): grown in Central America, medium strength with a hint of cocoa and spices. - Sulawesi (Torajaland): from Indonesia, heavy and ...

To add my $0.02 to this whole "why should I be positive?" thing: I don't understand why there is a "should" and "shouldn't". I think if people want to critique ...

The point is that there are times when saying "the grammar and punctuation was done well" just doesn't do justice to the horrific nature of the piece as a whole; ...

What do people do besides writing? ... I don't think I understand the question...

I'm with Incan; honesty is the best policy. Some poems just don't have anything to applaud, and there are those of us who aren't in the habit of making up ...

Having grown up (in a literary sense!) in a forum where crapness was trampled back into your face and used to hit you repeatedly until you blacked out, I can ...

It's the getting halfway through a long one, and realising privately that they're never going to read or use it. Be that as it may: we try! And live in ...

Really? How odd (last bit); in the UK it's certainly 'surname' more than 'last name'. Of course, the different languages on the continent have different ways off saying it...

U no, that was just 2 heartfelt + superdedooperemotionsentimentally chargificated for me 2 possibly consider commenting on it. Might look better centered, though.

I, uh.. I just write stuff. That, y'know, comes to mind. And I don't really do that often enough, either. Bit of a mix of several, I guess. And lazy.