WisdomOfProse

@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.” 😛

@shannon

Yeah, it definitely does. I look forward to the finished version 🙂

@shannon

That sounds great 🙂 I really like the plot for your story.

Glad to be of service 😉

Oh, this sounds really cool! I really like how your plot sounds so far. 🙂

I’ve yet to actually start it, but I’ve been toying of writing a WW1 novel from the perspective of a German soldier. (My mother is German, so she knows a lot more about the history from the German perspective than most people. I think it would be pretty interesting to…[Read more]