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The writing that helps someone deal with their day to day troubles could be a good idea for a poem, but it would have to be a different take on ...

The first two lines of this promised something interesting - I liked "let your dreams caress your mind" - and then the whole poem fell into trite common statements like ...

"The Leaf Storm and other stories" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; I really like the two subtitled 'a tale for children'; they're like fairy tales thrown somewhere more desolate and with ...

It would help to consider the difference between journal poetry and serious poetry. This reads like journal poetry; I'm sure it's heartfelt, helped you through some rough times, and so ...

That is awesome! Thanks for sharing =] Reminds me of something similar: . Everything recorded is public domain and the recordings are done by volunteers -- so there aren't any ...

In a lot of my critiques, here and elsewhere, I find myself going over the basics of imagery, trying to explain it and type it quickly so that the critique-ee ...

So I have like a million pretty journals lying about with one page written in them. They bug me because they look too fancy to write in- that's key. You ...

About critiquing: maybe some way you can figuratively scribble in the margins of a story then post just your notes? That's what I'd do if it were printed. Though I ...

If your narrating character and the other characters aren't much removed by time and space, you can set things up like "The Great Gatsby" -- Nick is the narrator, and ...

I like the different levels of focus with the fourth one -- it would have been nicer if the closer flowers were in better focus, but the focus plus the ...

A couple of technical things to pay attention to: -- Spell out your words. Nobody is going to take a poem seriously if you have 'nite' instead of 'night'. I'm ...

cashing in a crit ticket under another guise. Sorry it took so long to get back to this, Eva! Touch-- This, bliss of tactile trust; I love the sound of ...

I used to read YA books by pulling the new but strange ones off the shelves - the books that looked like they'd been published a few years ago at ...

The Fate of Mice by Susan Palwick was one of those books I pulled off the shelf on a whim, and to my delight and surprise the prose pulled me ...

How? Try using different images. Try using stronger verbs and nouns. Instead of "walk," say "shuffle" or "traipse." Instead of "wish" perhaps use "invocation," "yen," or "hankering." See how much ...