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Yeah, I agree. The impression I get, actually, is that amateur writers find art too difficult to do, so they write instead. Somehow that's supposed to be "easier". Then they gravitate to the topics...

Not necessarily. It's a psychological thing - cognitive dissonance. Writers have tremendous egos - they need them, in order to persevere. Writers tell people all the time, "Gimme your worst, I can...

Seems you've already made up your mind about furry - and if that's the case, no amount of convincing would ever convince you.

All well-written books are technically considered literature. :) Do...

anon, I'll critique your opening page, but please separate your paragraphs *clearly* first. Either indent the beginning of your paragraphs or don't indent but leave a double space between them. Walls...

Hey serj,

I'm not sure making this into a scene will help. There's... not really a lot to show. We don't know why Martin went to the church, or why he and the priest are having this talk....

Hmm. I'm not so sure this is a different Person so much as tweaking the characters themselves. The narration in the second example may seem more emotionally detached than the first, but on closer...

What's so bad about Kyell Gold? I don't get all the hate. So he writes books about gay people. They're furry. Sometimes they have sex.

I'd understand all the outrage if all he did was cobble...

I can't review right now, but I've looked through your chapter and found a few things that I think need improvement. You can expect some feedback tomorrow.

I haven't run across any novels written in second person, but interactive fiction is almost always written from that PoV. Some IF writers are actually skilled enough to become novelists if they...

Dude, art is about expression - but it's also about communication. If your poems receive nigh-universal condemnation, it's probably not because the World Doesn't Recognize Your Artistic Genius. It's...

I think free verse is partly to blame here. People read samples of it and think, "Oh, I don't have to write sonnets for it to be poetry. Heck, I don't even need METER!"

Which completely ignores...

I think the point everyone here is getting at is that expletives like "fuck", "damn", "goddamn", "insert other four-letter-words here" are really only effective if you use them sparingly. It's like...

Yeah, I came here expecting an informative discussion on art versus craft, and I get this... >.>

I've been trying to write a story for this but it never comes out the way I want it to. I'll keep working on it, but I don't have high hopes that it will be presentable by the time the new deadline...

What with all the projects I'm currently undertaking, I'm probably going to regret this later on, but what the heck. I'm interested. Never done a collab before, but I suppose that will sort itself...

Okay, that's a much clearer picture. I wasn't clear if you wanted to do a sort of Terry Pratchett-Neil Gaiman thing, where the authors would basically write segments and pass the document on to the...

Hmm, Good Omens? :) But yes, more details, please. I'm curious as to how you intend to divide the workload and reconstitute it into a coherent whole.

Sounds exciting! Looking forward to this; I missed the Fall deadline by a few weeks, and I was too busy during winter to write something down. Interlocking stories should pose a tough challenge.