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diagonal toppings

by ZZAP


diagonal toppings at dimension missing all the colors my herohands drip in toeflakes and brandished coppertip noses send mail for everyone behind the troll and bridge it sends hammerheads bit by the coin in a way so modern and without blood cultures invaded by the split off yeast it smells as if spaces inbetween phalanges parents needed speedbumps driven mental images of not participating in gray tones spit into ladders by a new country of cowboys but asian ancestory domiates a tradition sung to the generation of history bound magazines in a saloon but yet the dresser was kind or a doost ghostery amped in boozers mario hell fidget and squirm passed the time needed to use paper lined spokesman as today never meets tomorrow report added that students pound the doors gates of education we are the medium that manifests real force not sanctioned within the powers of society even in his place not wine is fleshed by a fake smile in a grand human stage maybe or perhaps new york and play music will cater a family that invites strangers and terrorists gracious explosions scamper the edge of yankee crowds and eastern convenient stores that scent worse off than the gentlemans and childhoods with a certain doom diamond gleen within the wrists of kansas vietnamese men but introduced by a giraffe in wanted posterboots oatmeal encrusted stamps for a deserted post office the words find and squeeze out special teeth elephant tusks too edged bordered by notebound languages so difficult handwriting she says she will come by august i know a better tale of failure and animosity known by the same neighborhood as killer mans boxes and slerbs run in straight pine trees must be the addition of christmas caroles in a dream where i become new and set in cement ways three moles draught the consciousness in waves of self mutilation staged by barbieheads words and taking medications


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Fri Sep 27, 2019 4:10 am
alliyah says...



Bold piece. I like this stream of concious poem as well - though I think could be slightly editted to give some sense of continuity or theme. Still; I think it's interesting and appreciate you posting stuff some YWSers might not have experience reading in this form of poetry.




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Sun Jul 27, 2014 4:42 pm
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Hey there! Scarlet here, as you know It's review day.

You know what that means, time to review!

Nitpicks first...

- First off, I don't like how everythings mushed into one big block of words. It makes it difficult to read and strains my eyes.

- There is absolutely no punctuation used in this, and It looks more like a big run-on sentence.

- Names, places, states, and titles need to be capitalized. Including the first letter of each sentence.
Example:

that students pound the doors gates of education we are the medium that manifests real force not sanctioned within the powers of society even in his place not wine is fleshed by a fake smile in a grand human stage maybe or perhaps New York and play music will cater a family that invites strangers and terrorists gracious explosions


- I capitalized New York because It Is a place.

- Now there are several combined words that do not need to be put together. They count as separate words and It's incorrect binding them like this.
Example:

Diagonal toppings at dimension missing all the colors my hero hands drip in toe flakes and brandished copper tip noses send mail for everyone behind the troll and bridge it sends hammerheads bit by the coin in a way so modern and without blood cultures



- Too start with, Diagonal is the beginning of a sentence so it should be capitalized. Toe and flakes are two different and separate words and shouldn't be combined. Same for hero and hands, copper and tip. If you'd like to join these together use a dash.

Example: copper-tip, hero-hands, toe-flakes.


invaded by the split off yeast it smells as if spaces in between phalanges parents needed speed bumps driven mental images of not participating in gray tones spit into ladders by a new country of cowboys but Asian ancestry dominates a tradition sung to


- Okay so, again you combined several words like in and between, speed and bumps, which do not need to be combined and it's grammatically incorrect doing so.
Also Asian should be capitalized, because It's a race If you would say African American It would need to be capitalized.
Ancestry and dominates we're spelled wrong, so I corrected that.



crowds and eastern convenient stores that scent worse off than the gentleman's and childhoods with a certain doom diamond glean within the wrists of Kansas Vietnamese


- Mkay, in gentleman when you add an s, there needs to be an apostrophe. Also like I said Kansas is a plate therefore It should be capitalized. Glean was spelled wrong so I corrected that, Vietnamese is also a race so It should be capitalized.

That's about it, this needs a whole lot of work and to help you out I'm going to offer my help. Also; viewforum.php?f=320

That link leads to the Knowledge Base, which has a bunch of information on writing and will be able to help you a lot.

Now I recommend finding articles in punctuation and grammar.

If you have any questions need any help at all, let me know.

Keep practicing!

( Also the first letters of your title need to be capitalized; Like so...)

Diagonal Toppings



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Sincerely, Scarlet; Member of #0000BF ">Team Aqua!


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ZZAP says...


Hello, thanks for the hard work in editing. I do apologize for not being more clear with this exercise. This particular piece is a freewrite without restrictions. It is a similar literary technique to that of internal monologue and/or stream of consciousness. Topical, grammatical, punctual, and structural English language systems are all ignored during this process. Again, thanks for reading this freewrite.



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Sun Jul 06, 2014 4:40 pm
EmeraldEyes wrote a review...



Hi!

So I really liked the description of this work and it was what hooked me into reading it.
Upon finding it, it was a bit... WHOA! XD

What Went Well

- you have a very "quick" way of writing, this is also part of the fact that all the sentences are together as just one, big thought XD
- you have an interesting title and idea.

Even Better If

- you really need to break up the massive chunk of text you have here. It's huge. One big paragraph. I'm thinking this was due to a formatting issue when posting (and not something you chose to do yourself) Anyways, if you need help with that, don't hesitate to ask. It plays up for everyone sometimes
- You need to punctuate this; and I'm talking at the end of the sentences and the beginning and just everywhere really.

Keep writing :)




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Hello! TheProviant is here to review!

Now, for those who don't understand, freewriting is the art of just picking up a pencil or pen and writing whatever comes to mind. Normally, there is a topic associated with the freewrite, but if you can't write about that you are supposed to just spill random words onto a page and eventually make it back to the original topic.

It seems that you didn't exactly have a topic in mind when you wrote this, so obviously everything goes everywhere. A clear topic to write about is step one in creating a freewrite - without it, there is no structure (which, if you change topics or can't find anything else to write about on your topic you then write just whatever, so you lose structure anyway, so its nit that big of all deal, just a nitpick.)

On to grammar! Now I know none of this matters in a freewrite, but I'm nitpicky right now. Its also useful information if you decide to revise this.

"diagonal" should be "Diagonal" because its the first sentence.

I'm not even going to attempt to write all the words that don't exist.

Punctuation! Periods, commas, the works. Use them! They are your friend! This is the biggest run-on sentence I've ever seen, and there's not even a period at the end!

On to the intruginessnessness.

So, its a very funny freewrite in the beginning.
"my herohands drip in toeflakes"

Then it starts to get into social problems,
"new country of cowboys"
"but asian ancestory still dominates"

And then it just gets sad.
"in waves of self mutilation staged by barbieheads words and taking medications"

Conclusion :

Its a very good freewrite that I would love to see revised. I like how you draw in the reader and then change the tone. Lines that you would never hear in a real story appear in freewrites, and you have a few in here that should not be changed a bit.

Good day, good job, and have fun with whatever is in the future!





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