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Kate Flournoy started the topic It's Just a Little Poem in the forum Poetry Critiques 11 years ago

Okay people. I have a poem I need your opinion on. I just wrote it in the last fifteen minutes, so it’s bound to have some mistakes in it, but here it is anyway.

The Coming Dawn
Long we have stood
In the shadow and mist;
Deep is the darkness
Around us.
Black is the night,
And hard is the road,
And cruel are the foes
That surround us.
Hard is our…[Read more]
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Kate Flournoy posted an update 11 years ago

@writefury I just wanna say congrats on winning the writing prompt again! I loved your submission— I never thought of taking the butterfly’s POV. You did great. I really enjoyed it. Especially that the butterfly’s name was Harold— I have an MC named that. 🙂
- Rosey Mucklestone replied 11 years ago
  
  Thanks! 🙂 I felt a little bad about that actually… I’ve done something like this before (with the weekly prompt, word limit and all…) and I’ve won 2 of the 5 that have been done so far. If I win again I might drop out for a few weeks. 😛
  Cool! Yeah, you mentioned that before. Actually, I named him Harold because I had a stuffed blue butterfly…[Read more]
  - Kate Flournoy replied 11 years ago
    
    Awwwww… how SWEET!
    No seriously, I used to have a little stuffed beanie baby puppy… sniff sniff… I named him ‘Pettum’ because I liked to pet ‘im. 😛
    
    I was a little younger then.
    - Rosey Mucklestone replied 10 years, 12 months ago
      
      Aww… that’s actually not a bad name. 😉
      I named my first baby doll “Bill”. It was dressed in pink and had big eyelashes and curly hair. XD
      
      Kate Flournoy replied 10 years, 12 months ago
      
      Oh LOVELY. Poor tyke. 😛
Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Let's Write A Poem in the forum Poetry 11 years ago

‘Upon the things that I have seen; things of beauty, joy, and wonder’
Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Love Stories in the forum General Writing Discussions 11 years ago

@Emma. That’s certainly a valid concern. I don’t like unrealistic, unhealthy, just peachy love stories either. However— keep in mind that you don’t have to have a ton of personal experience to write about something. Remember, Jane Austen wrote some of the most beautiful and popular love stories ever written, and she never married.
In reading…[Read more]
Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Love Stories in the forum General Writing Discussions 11 years ago

@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]
Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Let's Write A Poem in the forum Poetry 11 years ago

Good idea— you start. 😛
Kate Flournoy started the topic Love Stories in the forum General Writing Discussions 11 years ago

Okay, so with our topic about unrealistic romance, we covered a lot of what you shouldn’t do in a love story.

Now what about what we should do? What makes a love story a good love story, in your opinion?

Do you have any examples from literature of a love story done well?

What are some common steroetypes of love stories? Could they be twisted…[Read more]
Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Let's Write A Poem in the forum Poetry 11 years ago

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’
Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Introducing The Scratching Quill in the forum General Writing Discussions 11 years ago

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]
Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Old-fashion speaking in the forum Characters 11 years ago

There you go, Daues. That’s better.
Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Let's Write A Poem in the forum Poetry 11 years ago

‘Our questions and our empty words’
Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Old-fashion speaking in the forum Characters 11 years ago

Hey… Daeus is starting to use LotR references… must be a good sign… 😉

Good topic, Hope. Daeus got a lot of it, but one thing I would mention is that a quick, very effective way to make someone’s speech sound old fashioned is to play with the sentence structure. Reverse it. It’ll still make sense, but it’ll have a very distinct flavor. For…[Read more]
Kate Flournoy replied to the topic 1st person or 3rd person? in the forum General Writing Discussions 11 years ago

Personally I prefer both reading and writing 3rd person. I like to develop all the characters on an intimate level, and you can’t get that level of character development with 1st person.

You can get good development with 1st person, it’s just you need a LOT more material to do it. You can’t show a simple scene through each character’s POV.…[Read more]
Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Let's Write A Poem in the forum Poetry 11 years ago

‘For all things live, and and all things die’
Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Let's Write A Poem in the forum Poetry 11 years ago

‘To know that Love, and see that Love’

Hm, first I thought this was going to be a nature poem, but why not go with both?
So what do we have so far?

‘When Autumn winds excite the leaves
and whisper through the fading grass,
When raindrops tumble off the eaves,
Then, I feel at home.

For wind and rain and leaf and tree
speak of Love much greater…[Read more]
Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Let's Write A Poem in the forum Poetry 11 years ago

‘For wind and rain and leaf and tree’

This is going to be either a crowning achievement or a crowning mess. Who cares which one? The point is to do it. This is fun!
Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Let's Write A Poem in the forum Poetry 11 years ago

Oops— whisper, not whispers. Sorry.
Kate Flournoy replied to the topic You know you are a writer when… in the forum General Writing Discussions 11 years ago

‘You know you’re a writer when you have pages and pages of sentences and ideas for stories that you will write someday.’

YES.

Normal people have no idea…
Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Let's Write A Poem in the forum Poetry 11 years ago

“And whispers through the fading grass”

Good idea, Daeus. This should be at once ridiculously fun and instructive.
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