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  • Fantasy Novels Re: Terrace Chapeter One: Physical Detriment

    I honestly couldn't follow this story most of the time. Maybe if you developed it a LOT more, and stretched each action or scene out MUCH longer then it would ...

    May 29, 2011
  • Official Polls Re: How'd you discover YWS?

    I had had serious writer's block for about two months, but kept hoping that some amazing idea would pop up and break it. Unfortunately, it never did, so I finally ...

    May 29, 2011
  • Art & Photography Re: YWLJ Cover Submissions

    I'm going to say one thing before I start: You're talented and don't stop being a wonderful artist! Now for my dislikes: 1) I don't really like the background color ...

    May 29, 2011
  • Other Poetry Re: devoured

    As a general overview, I really liked it. I like your basic style. :] For my dislikes, here they are; 1) The breakages were weird. As in: we have honey ...

    May 29, 2011
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: the lone witness

    This is great, by the way. It's like a sucker punch to anyone who has watched something terrible, but they chose not to do anything. torn and scared,she ran into ...

    May 28, 2011
  • Other Poetry Re: To None I Can Remember

    This is something I wrote in class that just flowed. They were the first words that came to mind, and they worked, so I put them in. Thank you for ...

    May 28, 2011
  • General Fiction Novels Re: Niveans and Fairy Tales

    Thank you for the reviews, by the way! I would like to point out that this is really just a prologue, or a basic structure, for a story that is ...

    May 28, 2011
  • Other Poetry Re: To None I Can Remember

    To none I can remember To all I can see This life that was given so dearly To me. Shatter the pane that stands between The way to light And ...

    May 28, 2011
  • Narrative Poetry Re: Princess Of The Sand Castle

    This is really beautiful. It seemed to me like the girl was frozen in a state of cracking walls in her head. As in, she has constructed a fragile, but ...

    May 28, 2011
  • General Fiction Novels Re: Niveans and Fairy Tales

    He’s a portly old gentleman, simply strolling through the London streets, as if he knows this small piece of the world by heart. Looking to be about sixty or maybe ...

    May 28, 2011


The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading.
— Edward Hirsch