I stumbled across this community when searching for places where I might find advice and get some proper critiques for my Flash Fiction pieces. I have been writing a lot of Flash Fiction recently, and am looking to improve my abilities in the area ( Read more... )

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I need to follow some footsteps. First, I need a little help finding them ( Read more... )

How not to write metaphors.

Not to be a bore, but we need to do a serious membership drive, as well as to post more often our writing, in any form that it is in so that we as a community can help critique and help elevate our writing.

So, go forth and bring back people, post often and always leave a critique --- positive and constructive criticism.

Writing on the Brain Joseph Epstein

I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost every other form of profitable work. This must be accompanied, second, by a haughty contempt for all the forms of work that one has established one cannot do. To these two must be ( Read more... )

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I was sitting at my little coffee shop (mine!), eating the most delicious french tart (if only it wasn't blueberry!) when I decided to start writing. I haven't been writing in quite a while, which I know is beyond reproach, but I started writing, basing it (very, very) loosely on a meeting I had today. It's really choppy and doesn't have any flow ( Read more... )

Touch it.
You know you want to.
You can't stop looking at it.
You know what it's like inside.
You want to touch the smooth surfaces it is blessed with.
You want to make it yours.
You want to savor the feel of it on your fingers.
The way it makes you feel.
The way you feel inside it.
Slowly.
Yes, that's it.
It's yours.

Touch it.