Dark Constellations
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When you can't say things out loud, you must write them down. This is not a choice, it's the core of life, connection. I just try to do that...
Missing a writing community from university days, come say hi:)
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Filtering Free Verse Poems Through Form. Runner-Up in Self-Editing Epiphany Challenge.
Mainly writing in free verse, can make you think you are so much more free than writing in strict forms. But I have found that when under constraints of rhymes and rhythm, magic can happen. Imagery you would never have come up with yourself, lyrical music that makes reading a pleasure and a challenge to cut out the excess to find the true meaning you want to say.
By Dark Constellations10 months ago in Critique
The Most Annoying Phrases Writers Use, According to Readers
In the world of writing, certain phrases have a way of sneaking into manuscripts, often without the writer even realizing it. While some might seem harmless or even useful at first glance, readers often find these overused or cliché phrases grating and unoriginal. Once they were a breath of fresh air in the language, but today is nothing more than crutches writers cling to, even though readers despise them.
By Dark Constellations10 months ago in Writers
Rat City
It had been an unusually warm summer, all summers seemed like that now. The rat trouble started when the garbage men went on strike, causing the whole city to overflow with garbage, rotten food sitting on benches in the sun and bags of trash outside, creating a stench no one could escape. First, the seagulls came swooping in, thicker and more aggressive than ever. Then, the rats came as the Bible once foretold.
By Dark Constellations10 months ago in Humor
Strange Stars
A small book about the little things —like interdimensional space travel, UFOs and how to make a decent cup of coffee. Also, the more simpler questions like do ghosts exist? Are we all alone in this universe? What is the meaning in life and what the hell do you do with it, will of course be answered here.
By Dark Constellations10 months ago in Chapters
Things Your Book Character does that Pisses your Readers off
As writer, we all fall into certain holes we can't seem to climb out from when it comes to our characters. Phrases we use as crutches because we can't come up with anything else, tropes that we sort of just fall into by habit to keep the story moving. Sometimes this is fine, there are reasons why some tropes are popular. People love to read about them and writers relish to exist in their creation.
By Dark Constellations10 months ago in Writers
