Katherine Baker

@donna-darling

I love your poem to bits! The idea of standing unafraid at the end of the world… I love it!!!

The villian…  wins? :O You all are savage! 😛 I never would have related burning towns to “happy endings” but if the shoe fits…

Just a few thoughts to be asking ourselves if we go this route:

1. What is the Theme of the story? How do we uphold morality while still giving our villian his “happy ending”?

2. What drove him/her to do the evil…[Read more]

Here’s another funny poem I wrote to try out a different style. Let me know what you think (critiques are welcome!)

The King and the Spider

The Knights came nigh to the young, brave king
To find the truth to his lofty claims.
The King came down from his esteemed mare.
The Knight’s question puzzled the black spider:
“Oh my lord, is it true that…[Read more]

@k-a-grey, @evelyn

I love it! Made me laugh. I also love the edits Evelyn made.

How fun! Here are a few:

She hesitated. Now it’s too late. 

The zookeeper’s dead. A lion burped.

“He’s dead. Please forgive me!” “No.” 

I don’t know if mine are any good either. They were fun though!

@maddiejay

Yay! I’m so glad for you! That must be a huge relief (and really weird). If only I knew what that felt like… 🙂

Haha! I’m sure that would make your husband very happy!

@sir-leeds

Hello Sir Leeds! Glad to meet you! Don’t think I have yet.

Before I get into it, I’d like to start by saying: Wow. That was very good! I really liked it. Here are the answers to your questions.

1) I’d like to submit this to a Christian publisher, but I’m not sure if the rewording of Hebrews 11 is too gritty/graphic for my aud…[Read more]

@samantha-pen

That sounds really cool! I can’t seem to get anywhere with my short stories. 🙂

@everyone

Thank you so much for prayers! I’m putting my semifinalist form in the mail today!

@emma-starr

Very beautiful! I love the idea of using a moonflower to describe true beauty! It’s really lovely.

It’s not quite there yet, but I’m struggling to decipher what I don’t like about it. I liked it more as we came to the end (starting stanza 4) than in the beginning. A few things to play around with:

Maybe your analogy is too obvious?…[Read more]

@kari-karast

Haha! Whoops!

I worked all the details out for what happened to all the parents. They just all ended up dead. One by police, one by suicide, three by murder (caveat: two of them may be alive; I haven’t decided), one by cancer… I’m feeling really bad about it now!

You did remind me of another quirk of mine: My younger sister used…[Read more]

@maddiejay

Aw! That’s super sweet! I like it a lot.

Speaking of old poetry that’s not my favorite, I was fourteen-ish when I really got into poetry and wrote a bunch of them. Most of them were inspired off of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson and Robert Frost (Those were the only two poets we actually formally studied for school. I used to…[Read more]

Haha! I realized that in my own story when I was looking over it. Of the main four characters/friends, only one has ANY parents. Whoops!

@i-david

Haha! I’m sure I’ll enjoy them a lot anyway. It’s just a personal opinion. I still think the story is beautiful, regardless of my suggestions. 🙂

@evelyn

Seriously? You learning something from me is high praise indeed! I’m honored.

I’d love to see you try out my way of doing meter, will you show me a poem once you try (I’ve realized when I ask to “see someone’s work”, I’m really just soliciting poetry for my own enjoyment). 🙂

I think I come across that way because it makes sense from a…[Read more]

@i-david

I did see it, but completely forgot I had (I was super busy when I looked at it and didn’t have time to get back with you).

I loved this part! It’s like I’m beginning to unravel the mystery. Here are a few thoughts:

1. That sarcastically fueled wit I knew so well brimmed within her words. – This sentence was a bit too long for me to d…[Read more]

Great topic!

I have way too many story/author quirks (I hope that doesn’t mean I’m a bad writer!)

One of the quirks about my writing is that I’m really bad at planning, and my characters kind of have a mind of their own, and they keep doing things I don’t expect them to do…

Anyway, a result of that is that I was figuring out who the murderer…[Read more]

@ericawordsmith

Welcome to the party! I’m so glad to see another poet-wannabe (Evelyn and I will do our magic to take your from wannabe to poet, if we have any say). 🙂

And I almost forgot to agree with what everyone else is saying, @evelyn, you’re synopsis of poetry basics was so good! I looked over it in more detail earlier today (I’ve been…[Read more]