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I'm honestly not expecting much but I thought it was worth asking. Let me explain the poem. It is a free form poem, published probably within the past 10 years or so, about a boy in his room using his tongue to flip a light switch on and off to practice going down on a girl. From the outside of...

Hiya! I've posted this elsewhere before but I think it's important for authors to learn more about the economy of words. I'm a poet before anything else, and I really think that learning to write modern poetry will improve anyone's writing. So yeah, here's the basics of what I learned in...

So I've just finished up and posted my third chapter, but I realized at some point that in between this and the start of chapter four there is a detail that I absolutely need to add. All of my chapters so far have been about 3,500 words, but if I turn this little detail into a whole chapter to...

Hiya, I'm sure I could use fiverr but I'd rather check here first. I like the community. I'm looking to add an illustration for my chapters, currently I've just got two out right now and I'm finishing up chapter 3, but of course I have a specific style in mind. I own a LOT of old books, and in...

Been over a year since the last poetry thread, it's some of my favorite writing. Post something two stanzas or more, I'd love to see what you're proud of! I'll start off with mine from a summer issue of Gyroscope Review. A WORLD WITHOUT NOISE What a wonder to exist only as a jagged spire...

Okay that's dramatic, but for real what is the point of giving everything I have at trying to craft excellent prose, when it is books like November 9 and milk and honey that get picked up and sell millions? What I want to write is unrelenting introspectives, but obviously what sells is steamy...

Hiya hiya Just recently started using AutoCrit for editing which has been super nice for stuff like tense checking and repetitiveness but for some reason at 30$/month they can't afford to input a basic spell-checker ? So what apps do you use for editing? Grammarly was great for work and school...