the threads of plot I've set up for myself have become loose and unraveled, worse yet everything is starting to seem cliched to me. The story in a...
I hope this is the best place to put this, but if it's not, feel free to move it. : ) Anyway, I was reading some criticism about Isaac Asimov,...
Only a few seconds in the icy depths would be enough to kill most mere mortals. But yesterday, protected by nothing more than a pair of Speedo...
I'm a poetry and fiction writer helping to start a new, small publication company, and one of our first projects is a online and print...
hi. i'm dan weaver. i'm a musician primarily but i figured i'd try my hand at writing. i'm thinking i'll probably be writing a lot of short...
Like pretty much everyone in the world, music plays a big part of my life and i am a gigantic fan of the orlder, "great" bands like U2, Pink...
Hi Any of y'all use Pandora Radio - Listen to Free Internet Radio, Find New Music or similar? Being a technophobe I only started using the...
The term "anaphora" comes from the Greek for "a carrying up or back," and refers to a type of parallelism created when successive phrases or lines...
Hello. I've never even attempted to write a book before; only screenplays (never finished though...). So, the whole vast detail and narrative...
I'm just wondering. I've recently entered a competition for short stories where the word limit is 55. This in my opinion, though a worthy and...
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...
I found this on myspace, it took me way back and gave me a laugh, mostly at myself for i have either done, or remember all things listed here...
Welcome to an exercise in imagery. Beyond rhyme and meter, beyond subject or form or punctuation or personal style, it is imagery that makes...
Hiya everyone! My name is Ellie, I'm 18 and from London, Uk. I have a wonderful boyfriend Alex. I mostly write screenplays and poetry, hough...
Blank verse is poetry that has been written in unrhymed iambic pentameter (thats five feet, with a foot being an unstressed beat followed by a...
Who plays it? Who likes it? Who hates it? Who's never heard of it!? (As if. xD) I like Wow even though I haven't really played in much. I've...
Hi All, Just signed up and I'm looking forward to getting to know you all. Stuff about me: I've got one novel under my belt and 1/3 of the...
I've been looking for a nice friendly writing community to chat with and was pleased to come across this site. I am from Canada and write...
Hi to all. What a great place this is - I really like the many categories and will probably spend most of my time in the poetry section as well as...
Hello, I'm new, but I suppose you have already surmised as much. Pardon my sarcasm if you will. First off I would like to say that I am not, by...
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