Sir Leeds

@anne_the_noob14 GAAAAAHHH YES

I came home from watching I think it was called Overcomer–can’t quite remember, but it was that Christian movie with the boy that drowned–and it messed me up and I just went OKAY NOW I NEED TO GO TORMENT MY CHARACTERS TO GET THESE FEELS OUT

Unfortunately, I struggled and just ended up yelling to my sister over…[Read more]

@naiya-dyani *grins* My mom and I are, too! And yeah, I make purposeful typos as well 😛

Yes!! Exactly what I do! I’ll get inspired by the weather outside or whatever and write a sonnet, but then I’ll read a book with a bittersweet ending and write a free verse sob story.

@anne_the_noob14 Hah, you should see me when I make a bad typo. . . I get the puppy face of shame, because in my family I’m kind of known as the grammar Nazi. Although I’ve come to mind it far less on things like forums and IMs. Because I make plenty of errors on those things, too. Often on purpose. 😉

I enjoy doing free verse a good bit myself.…[Read more]

@naiya-dyani

No, actually, but I can see how you’d think that 🙂 I wrote this one day as I was thinking about the day I got to go see her after her surgery a couple months ago, and how much I hate hospitals and the whole mess of things that I was dealing with (had mild depression in the couple weeks before her surgery, I think because I was so…[Read more]

@naiya-dyani *grins* It was so fun!

GAAAAAHH YOU’RE RIGHT DANGIT

Sorry XD I get aggravated at myself when I use the wrong homophone XD

And yeah, I get what you said about poetry being “too personal” to critique comfortably. I’ve had the same problem a couple times, even with some prose.

@anne_the_noob14 Aw! <3 Is your mom a nurse?

@anne_the_noob14 Okay, that’s really funny. XD It sounds like something my sister and I would do.

Like you said, free verse is hard to critique (I find all poetry hard to critique, honestly, since it feels so personal and individual), but I will mention this one thing–in this line:

I think you mean “faze.” 😛

@pensword, @phoenix, @sam-m, So there’s an entire website devoted to H.P. Lovecraft; since most if not all his works are old enough to be in the public domain, his stuff is available for free reading. He is kind of the progenitor of cosmic horror, so if you’re into writing about terrors which transcend human comprehension and absolutely dwarf our…[Read more]

@sam-m

I actually haven’t read much horror either, besides classic horror. Frankenstein and Dracula are both good, and there’s a super short second vampire novel called Carmilla that was interesting. I think the only modern horror I’ve read was a book called Prodigal Son which is part of a Frankenstein retelling series sort of thing by a guy…[Read more]

@pensword So, the WIP I just finished the first full draft of yesterday (hurray!) kind of has horror elements to it. I mean, the broader novel it’s set in definitely skews much towards historical fantasy than horror, but its magical elements are much less “whimsical fantasy” and more on the side of “what would it actually be like if someone could…[Read more]

@pensword I have yet to write an actual horror story, but I had an idea for one I might do sometime -it’s basically a reverse Carrie story. So, in Carrie by Stephen King, a group of people are cruel to the protagonist, and then Carrie tries to get revenge on them and things go wretchedly awry (or that’s my understanding of it…I, uh, haven’t…[Read more]