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  • Writing Activities Re: Story in Six Words

    Nobody bothered to tell their story.

    Jul 31, 2014
  • Writing Activities Re: The Description Game

    Flaxen beauty. Like a stifling summer day; like fields of wheat at sunrise, like thin little wisps of golden thread embroidered around a flowering face. It is light and it ...

    Jul 31, 2014
  • Writing Activities Re: Write the worst poem you can.

    (Not a poem, don't call the police, but can I just say that I wholeheartedly reject the concept of this thread because poetry can't actually be bad. All these poems ...

    Jul 31, 2014
  • Writing Activities Re: Title Feedback

    A bit dramatic, though I'd say rather tastefully so. I think it'd be a kind of hit and miss with each individual reader, but nonetheless strong overall. The use of ...

    Jul 31, 2014


The day, which was one of the first of spring, cheered even me by the loveliness of its sunshine and the balminess of the air. I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein