Faith Kindred

Yep

@Rosey—yes, I agree. There should probably be in most cases a long prior acquaintance before anything gets serious. We covered this on the unrealistic romance topic, but I’ll say it again— we established that there is no such thing as love at first sight, only love and first acquaintance, and that is rare. It only happens when the two people…[Read more]

Stories where two people hate each other and then end up falling in love can be fun. Sure its been used before, but that’s because it’s worth using.

As fading winds desert the day, I sit me down and ponder

Thanks for the input Hope and I’m glad you liked my poem. I don’t know if I’ll add pictures for the posts. It sounds like a hassle (especially if you are picky which pictures you use and making sure they are public domain). There would certainly be a benefit to that though, so I’ll think about it. Now that you mention it though, I really do need…[Read more]

I love the ‘A Poem’ poem. (and I love the name of the blog too.)

Hmm, well, one thing that is just more personal taste…the blog could maybe be spiced up with a few pictures. You could have something cool that jumps out on the home page. And you could have photos with your stories and poems…I like to get pictures from Pinterest. The added…[Read more]

Good idea— you start. 😛

One thing I love seeing in romances is when the brothers are protective…sometimes even over protective and give their sister’s suitor a hard time. 😉 I also like seeing the sacrifices of love, not just the emotional part of it.

Time to write the concluding stanza I think.

Don’t make love just HAPPEN. They should like each other for who they are as people BEFORE jumping into all the love stuff. A lot of books skip the “good friends” phase that is almost always there.
It has to make sense with both your characters and what they’ve been proven to do in certain situations. If it doesn’t you’ll just end up ticking off…[Read more]

Oops… I must have missed the ‘only four times’ rule. Sorry about that. Are there even enough poets on here to make that work, anyway?

But moving on.

‘Shall find their way through night and day’

Alright, I thought I’d give the current poem in its fullness so you don’t need to keep looking back at all the previous posts. I made the rule originally that you could only post 4 times, but forget that. You can post as much as you want, but you still have to wait for someone else to post before you do your next one.

When Autumn winds excite…[Read more]

Barren boughs has been updated. Thank you. I edit everything before it goes up, but my editing skills are – um, not good. I’ll be redoubling my editing vigor now.

Wow, exciting for you, Daeus! I’ll definitely be keeping up with you. I’ve already glanced over several of the works you have up, and I was impressed.

The one thing I would consider adding to your blog, if it’s possible, is a comments option.

As it is, there are two things I noticed that I wanted to point out to you. My inner spelling Nazi is…[Read more]

I should also mention that the site is responsive (read “changes format for mobile devices so it is easy to use”).

There you go, Daues. That’s better.

Silly person quite are you

Talking to herself in first and second person…that doesn’t take 500 years. I do that already. 🙂 But I like the idea about her making up names for other things or mixing formal and informal speech. That could be funny. 😉

As for reversing speech…well, she can’t sound like Yoda. But I have her talk mix up wording a bit awkwardly sometimes…[Read more]