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  • Writing Tips Re: Looking for opinions

    Just remember! Titles are capitalized. If I talk about my dad, then I'm not using a title at all. He is my dad. Now, if I talk about Dad, I ...

    Sep 5, 2006
  • Information Desk Archive Re: Featured Member: Poor Imp

    *snickers* No really... congrats!

    Sep 4, 2006
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Perfection

    Okay! This poem lives and breathes on formatting, so you can check it out, in its very pretty formatting, at the link below: Tell me what you think here! :D

    Sep 4, 2006
  • Fantasy Short Stories Re: Keeping The Green

    I think this one sentence could be better so instead of this: And so the queen touched their faces, and they fell to their knees and wept. This: And so ...

    Sep 4, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Amnesia

    Does he forget his entire past?

    Sep 4, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: GAH! I hate this sentence!

    XD Final-ish version: The freak cast a shy glance at Sadie’s mother. She was gorgeous . She wore an elegant pale green dress, embroidered with a daisy pattern. Small peridot ...

    Sep 4, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Help with Dialogue

    How is it boring?

    Sep 4, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Romance scenes.

    Hehe! Okay, I'm writing a story of FREAK (not that you didn't know that, lol) and two of the characters are in lurve. Their ages? 21 and 36, Sooo... yay! ...

    Sep 4, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Amnesia

    Hahaha... be specific. What type of amnesia? I tend to have fugue amnesia every once and a while over specific, tramatic events. That is, I can remember everything else, except ...

    Sep 4, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: The Desert Island Post

    1. Someone to have philisophical discussions with as you lie awake listening to the strange noises of the island Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... Okay. Elelel! She's fun to talk to... plus she can ...

    Sep 3, 2006
  • Narrative Poetry Re: Tail Held High

    I had a tiny little dream Where I was being followed By a tiger, gray and black Hiding in my shadow At first I thought – ignore him. That ghastly ...

    Sep 2, 2006
  • Narrative Poetry Re: There was an old man from Dundee

    Yay! How very clever... not many people try to do many verses in this format since the bounciness sometimes gets repetitive or old. But this was pretty good. Now, to ...

    Sep 2, 2006
  • Art & Photography Re: A doll in contrast

    Yeah, but the creep factor is what makes it work so well! I mean, the contrasting colors and everything make it THAT much more creepier and better. :)

    Sep 2, 2006
  • Information Desk Archive Re: Switching Hosts; Site Will Be Down Sept. 10

    I'll probably panic about the history project...

    Aug 30, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Words from Patton

    Too often, as story writers, we don't write. Instead, we procrastinate using in some very creative ways. "Before we can write," we tell ourselves, "we have to come up with ...

    Aug 30, 2006


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