Story Embers | mistyemerald | Activity https://storyembers.org/members/mistyemerald/activity/ Activity feed for mistyemerald. Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:17:21 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 2826df3265bd337ffd46584968404635 mistyemerald replied to the topic Poem In Progress in the forum Critiques https://storyembers.org/activity/p/38023/ Tue, 01 Jan 2019 18:52:38 -0400 Haha @papergirlsfb I totally get it. I love peotry, but am not very good at it 🙂 Did you happen to notice the theme? It was supposed to be death – that was my interest in practicing understatement. Thanks for your time!

-Misty

]]> 0 264f3bf86f40a686111612c7351d942c mistyemerald started the topic Poem In Progress in the forum Critiques https://storyembers.org/activity/p/37143/ Mon, 24 Dec 2018 03:48:03 -0400 I was working on some understatement for this poem. If you get the chance, tell me what you think! I am not great at poetry, so any help would be fantastic. It’s not very cheerful, so wait until after Christmas:) Have a merry Christmas, all.

But no, he still is sleeping

He was sleeping under the curdled stars
And the summer air was thick.
The…[Read more]

]]> 0 ee3824a082e43035154ef928f1bc8497 mistyemerald replied to the topic Written by an enemy in the forum Apprentice Island Writing Discussions https://storyembers.org/activity/p/36676/ Thu, 20 Dec 2018 22:05:58 -0400 Oh, certainly. I love a good villain-and-protagonist duo with rich history and a complicated back-story. I am not great at writing a really involved villain however. Do you have any tips? I do work to write from their perspective and involve a complex character among my evil crew – but I always feel like they end up good in the end. That is fine f…[Read more]

]]> 0 43cf9be637e07492e1799d09a09f81b0 mistyemerald changed their profile picture https://storyembers.org/activity/p/35031/ Thu, 13 Dec 2018 21:34:39 -0400 0 ed4b2e34605d087266c04d4359b9662c mistyemerald replied to the topic Dear Diary in the forum Critiques https://storyembers.org/activity/p/35029/ Thu, 13 Dec 2018 21:28:16 -0400 @pendragon… oh, I love a good sailing tale, and this is quite promising!
I am not very good at this sort of thing, but I shall toss in my two cents :).

So I really love the overall feel of the story, and I love your descriptions (especially, ‘I crouched down beside the grave, my fingers sinking into the muddy dirt.’ I think the culminating of…[Read more]

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