I cannot over stress the importance of commenting on other writers' work. The benefits aren't just the obvious ones of providing feedback and recieving reciprocal comments yourself. The hidden benefit is that your own writing standard will...
Not at all, but you don't want repetition. In the second line you have the word "air" twice and only five words apart. The fourth line has "with every" twice, once again only a few words apart. It may seem petty but these are the things that stop...
tragic, like you I don't have an answer. Poverty, not morals is the key. We use the latter as a scapegoat, a standared practice by, for example, Jenhovah Witnesses to get a foot in the door, is to say how much worse the world is getting. They've...
I really enjoyed reading this because off the brilliant descriptive prose.it also was making me think on different levels clearly the literate short story as it stands then is almost like a bit of george orwell inspired making me think socio...
I really enjoyed reading this, it brought to life a typical suprmarket shift complete with misery and the type of characters which seem to crop up in most workplaces. It recall my own stint in 'provisions', I got a verbal warning for failing to...
Thank you for this, Kevin. I have a copy of Bound for Glory on my nightstand. (Do read Woody Guthrie: A Life by Joe Klein.) Still trying to find a footing after great loss. You lose your sense of self and wonder if you'll ever get it back. Those...
Hi, Jay. I agree with Elsie here. I've read a few of your pieces and it seems to me that these are your personal views (I apoligise if I've misunderstood). These are questions being asked ever increasingly in England, as well as the rest of the U...
Well if this is your first poem you've got real potential as your experience and practise grows. I really quite like this piece although romance poetry is not something that I would actively seek out. A couple of observations if I may?
By scratch
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Posted on Wed, 06 Aug 2014
I cannot over stress the importance of commenting on other writers' work. The benefits aren't just the obvious ones of providing feedback and recieving reciprocal comments yourself. The hidden benefit is that your own writing standard will...
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By jolono
Not at all, but you don't
Posted on Mon, 31 Aug 2015
Not at all, but you don't want repetition. In the second line you have the word "air" twice and only five words apart. The fourth line has "with every" twice, once again only a few words apart. It may seem petty but these are the things that stop...
Read full commentPosted in Chapter 2: Gone (John)
By Aaron Stewart
Came for crying tree stayed
Posted on Mon, 17 Aug 2015
Came for crying tree stayed for hard drugs. 8/8
Welcome to the site, you can't leave.
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By prettyrose
Oh Tina, So heart wrenching, :)
Posted on Thu, 03 Apr 2014
Oh Tina, This is such a powerful, beautiful, well expressed poem, yet heart...
Read full commentPosted in Today I Wrote a Poem
By celticman
tragic, like you I don't have
Posted on Sat, 01 Dec 2018
tragic, like you I don't have an answer. Poverty, not morals is the key. We use the latter as a scapegoat, a standared practice by, for example, Jenhovah Witnesses to get a foot in the door, is to say how much worse the world is getting. They've...
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By thornwood
I really enjoyed reading this
Posted on Tue, 30 Oct 2018
I really enjoyed reading this because off the brilliant descriptive prose.it also was making me think on different levels clearly the literate short story as it stands then is almost like a bit of george orwell inspired making me think socio...
Read full commentPosted in The Empathy Files. The Angel of Empathy (1)
By Jane Hyphen
I really enjoyed reading this
Posted on Wed, 26 Sep 2018
I really enjoyed reading this, it brought to life a typical suprmarket shift complete with misery and the type of characters which seem to crop up in most workplaces. It recall my own stint in 'provisions', I got a verbal warning for failing to...
Read full commentPosted in Rolling in the Aisles
By hudsonmoon
Thank you for this, Kevin. I
Posted on Mon, 07 Aug 2017
Thank you for this, Kevin. I have a copy of Bound for Glory on my nightstand. (Do read Woody Guthrie: A Life by Joe Klein.) Still trying to find a footing after great loss. You lose your sense of self and wonder if you'll ever get it back. Those...
Read full commentPosted in You, me and Woody Guthrie
By Michael Valentine
Hi, Jay. I agree with Elsie
Posted on Fri, 05 Dec 2014
Hi, Jay. I agree with Elsie here. I've read a few of your pieces and it seems to me that these are your personal views (I apoligise if I've misunderstood). These are questions being asked ever increasingly in England, as well as the rest of the U...
Read full commentPosted in WHAT'S GOING ON IN OUR COUNTRY?
By scratch
Good
Posted on Sat, 15 Aug 2015
Well if this is your first poem you've got real potential as your experience and practise grows. I really quite like this piece although romance poetry is not something that I would actively seek out. A couple of observations if I may?
...
Read full commentPosted in first poem not great
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