Can anyone remember the title and poet of this poem? I have heard it a couple of times read aloud, but have no idea who the author is. I think it is a fairly famous lesbian poet, writing about her experience and falling in love. It is adressed to a lover, and she discusses the struggles they have been through, ending with something like "but don't those names sound so much sweeter coming from the mouth of your lover"? Not for homework, just trying to remember the name and poet.

Thank you!

Hey everyone I am writing a book about dragon shifters! And I am thinking about giving their human forms markings. Like birthmarks. It is a dark supernatural romance!

To give a very small info on my book…. It’s about a werewolf princess being arranged to marry and during her engagement ball she finds out she is mated to dragon kings! :)

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Night of the Fire

Dreams can reach the sky, its p, a milkyway party bobbing the dark mass a-twinkling with the hot red Mars which spurs along with Scorpius curling his tail around Dschubba and Jabbah now floating near Orion, once stung to death with this fiery dragon. Tonight Antares sparkles like cut diamonds in the inky sky but driving through this eyeball of stellar light is auroras alive with light, a throbbing thrilling flame; amber and rose and violet, opal and gold it comes. It sweeps the sky like a giant scythe, quivering back to a wedge

I saw with naked eye a midday star, burn on like gleaming spar. Open wide shut out from the distance of earth to moon my wish for it to come visit me soon. Once a great major Sirius beams as I muse quietly warm tonight the astral projection blinking in the south some sights hurt their eyes and sometimes they are very sad for once I always knew it as the shining beaming gleaming torrent and in daylight we will be able to see

Hello! Looking for some feedback on my writing. My inspirations are Sally Rooney, Luster by Raven Leilani, and Baby by Annaleese Jochems.

It's about a young women exploring herself through men, particularly one she meets at a 7/11 who she develops a crush on. I explore themes of addiction, kink, and mental health.

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Feedback of any kind is appreciated!

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Content warning for some sexual violence.

I need someone to leave a review for a self-published book on Amazon. Would you be interested?

I'm trying to think more about form and showing not telling. Can you help me pick apart some early writer mistakes that I'm making?

These are a few brief vignettes around the five central characters in the fantasy-genre story that I want to build. I am trying to show their relationships to each other.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mu5WFHNcCO2pxvry1UsMPdI6Z_GpfK5G8Xx2g-tnstw/edit?usp=sharing

What is interesting? What is missing? What would be good to bulk out more?

I'm trying to write a book that takes place during the transition era between feudalism to capitalism. Does anyone have good source material from this time? Any prominent writers or good podcasts? (300-1400AD or so)

 we've been together for years now, 
 but i feel so far apart. 
 we used to chat and laugh and play
      for hours on end, 
 but now we barely talk. 
 sometimes after we say good night, 
 i just roll away and cry. 
 no amount of poking, prodding, 
      planning or plotting 
 seem like they will bring her back. 
 I miss her most when we are together.

female writer from the #pnw here.

love finding a "she"-oriented writing sub already up and running! i would like to explore what it means to forge a feminine path to storytelling by making it a core part of the conversation, but not the sole focus, so i both echo the wish for more activity, and am going to create some lol.

my main reason for coming to reddit in the past was to research and troubleshoot any tech i was buying or having issues with.

however, last week i dredged up some creative courage and have been pretty active in a few writing subreddits, especially WritingPrompts. it's been so fun to do my exercises in an online group again that i deleted all my old tech questions and now my "posts" and "comments" pages are full of prompts, responses to prompts, and writing support/critiques.

anyway, thought i'd throw a link here to a recent flash-fiction exercise i participated in from a prompt on the subreddit mentioned above:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/b30b5u/wp_a_story_told_by_two_narrators_that_cant_quite/eiwd5s4/?context=3

your feedback on any of my writing is very welcome, and i would love to see the same kind of cross-posting from others in the community. how better to get to know one another than to write, post our writing, and talk about it?

sunshine,

r/eyetrieditathome

I've had to switch gears and put on my editor hat for a few weeks as I edit a friend's novel, and it got me thinking - if anyone here has a finished fiction piece they want edited, I'm happy to do it.

Short story/novella/novel... anything is fine. Middlin' novel length is fine -- 75k words or so. I do both line edits and developmental edits, and while I can be downright opinionated, I am never cruel.

If you are interested let me know - first come, first served, of course.

I posted in the introduction thread that I've fallen out of writing regularly in the pat few years (college, yay!) but now I'm really wanting to get back but am having a hard time getting started. It's like I've forgotten how to write. :(

Well, today after work, I was in Five Below (a store where everything is $5 or less) looking for a ball to stretch out my feet since I'm on them all day, and I saw a display if journals that contained writing prompts! I got the one titled "Write The Story", in which each page has a story title and a list of words to include in the story. They also had a poem one where you write a poem based on a title and words, and two books with just prompts (one had 300 and one had 400). I'm pretty sure they were all by the same company, which is Piccadilly. I think the books are really neat and I'm going to challenge myself to try to write one story a day based on the prompts, just to get back into the habit of a) starting a story b) developing plots and c) writing daily. I'm really excited to give it a try! Even though I know their might be some days I work late and just need to go home and sleep, I'm really going to try to write one full short story a day until I fill up the journal!

Just a note that the sub is currently undergoing style revision by yours truly and may look slightly weird buggy for the next day or two. Also, if you have suggestions, feel free to leave a comment here. Bear with me!

Hey all, There's a few new faces around here and some momentum towards opening the sub up publicly. If anyone has any opinions for or against and/or generally any ideas on how you think it should be done (since we're a small community at this point), please feel free to leave a comment!

Temporary title: The Somali Experience

It wasn’t until a few weeks after our first meeting that I worked up the courage to add her on facebook. One Friday night, high and unduly confident, relaxing after a hard week’s work, I invite her over for a smoke. She’s a Nigerian Christian, born and raised in Leeds, I’m a Somali Muslim, born in Kaaraan, raised in London. On the surface, we had little in common but we were both closeted dykes who liked smoking. We watched films, talked and toked late into the night. We talked about our favourite artists, authors and music-makers. When I mentioned Erykah Badu, she was hooked, Elizabeth later told me. We had a Badu tune for every kind of mood and atmosphere. We would play ‘On and on’ when smoking. I remember the first time we kissed, “Certainly” was playing. We were sitting on the sofa, listening to Badzium high. She was sitting so close; I could feel the hairs on her arm brush against the hairs on mine. “Certainly” came on through the speakers. She brought her hand up to my face just after the intro, caressed my face and leaned in. I was already out of breath, trying to calm myself and breathe through my nose. I had read somewhere that’s what you’re supposed to do while kissing. So there I was breathing shallowly out of my nose, when she pauses for a still-framed imperceptible second, before pressing her lips gently on mine. I had never kissed anything so soft. That’s what struck me first: the softness of it all. I had kissed one other person before Elizabeth: a skinny black kid called Christopher. He had chapped lips and when he tried to kiss me, he opened his mouth so wide I almost dislocated my jaw trying to accommodate him. Elizabeth, on the other hand, had soft, full lips with a shade of lipstick that made my throat dry. Kissing her lips felt more satisfying than a long draw on an ice cold glass of water on the iftar of a hot summer’s day. I reached for her lips with my fingers and lightly brushed them, as if to confirm their softness, fullness, richness. She held my hand there a moment before kissing my fingertips.

In the morning, I lament that I didn’t ask her back to my bed, that I deprived myself of the chance of waking up next to her.

Hi all, well our little writing space is kinda quiet! We started off strong, but not much going on now. I'm thinking it might help to make this an open subreddit. Does anyone have an opinion?

Hello friends, I'm thinking off submitting this for a storytelling podcast, so ultimately it will be spoken rather than written if that has any impact on your comments.

Anyway, enjoy this sappy super gay story about a girl I met at summer camp in high school while I was questioning, look forward to your comments!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NHpv3akkJPxxtIjuKi8Dz5ErMN0w6J9vZYRkPdQcxsw/edit?usp=sharing

edit: formatting not compatible with reddit, so here is a link. the formatting is still not exactly how i would like it in the google doc but close enough. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tlWrCw8CEJXshymbH136uKnPlZwYiSg6T32TYGy0-B0/edit?usp=sharing

How's the writing going y'all? I keep putting off sharing and using my busy work schedule as an excuse not to post because... it's a block / fear. So I am forcing myself to finally share. My cute cat made me do it. :)

Of course, women of past, present and future (I daydream a lot) inspire this kind of stuff. Also, all the flirting and relationship questions I tend to respond to on AL also shape my thinking. One night, I was just writing in my online journal and thought, "What if I wrote short little burbles on sensuality'?"

Not sure where to go with this but when I share, things seem to unfold more, right?

In time, I'll get a google doc going. Just need to sort through more notes. Thoughts, initial responses, ideas are welcomed.

Also, read it a second time but whisper it aloud and if possible, in someone you loves ear. smirk

Thanks in advance for reading.

I

Approach slowly with the first touch

The moment your hand meets with her flesh

Its anticipation can be electric

II

If you kiss her in a spot

that makes her body shiver 

Do it again 

and again

and again

III

If she stares blankly at  you

unsure of anything in that moment

hold her gaze with loving eyes

cup her face in your hands

Place a gentle kiss on her forehead

Followed by the corners of her mouth

Trail your lips to her ear

Then whisper

"I am yours tonight"

Hi all, We want to make the sidebar useful for the community. Please use this thread to share links for good writing resources that you love.

Videos, articles, blogs, other subs..... share the knowledge!

Hi SheWrites! This is a true story, I'm working on it in hopes of eventually using it for a storytelling event. I haven't really shared my writing much (at all) so I'm nervous and excited to be here. Thanks for taking a look at this for me!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15jGQTxPun2rzkENxzdnAJ-Wz7makzOlheFjEJEJId9g/edit

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ILwMGdzsJJXGrNBo3g6TeQSgtWqZhp_KuC10KUJ1zS0/edit?usp=sharing

i would love to hear what y'all think and am very open to critique/advice/whatever y'all have to say. these poems are not explicitly LBGTQIA themed, but i sure am! so i hope that's ok for this sub :-)

Shaxpir is cloud-based writing software. I did the beta and so I have a coupon for 50% off the first 6 months of the monthly subscription price ($7.99) Code: LAUNCH-PARTY ** oh and the offer is good thru Feb 29th**

It's pretty cool program and I was looking for something that would allow me to write anywhere. I love Scrivner but it's computer based and so if I want to write away from my home computer I have to bring along a USB stick.

Let me know if you sign up and what you think. I know I'm a little prejudiced for the hometown team (the company is based in Portland, OR), but I figure anything to help me write more is a good thing!

Reading over everyone's intros I see that we have a wealth of expertise here, and that's exactly what I was hoping! Are you all up for Q&A? Let's get some questions and answers going.

I really struggle with description - physical description of people and places. Anyone have any tricks they can share for how they flesh out characters and settings?