https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/category-13 en 2005-2012 shakespearesmonekys@gmail.com 42.65593 -71.33391 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:26:03 GMT yacs http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 70 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2762-regarding-pictures https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2762-regarding-pictures Just a small favor request anstey Site Issues & Questions Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:23:30 GMT /section-368-site-issues-questions#comments 7 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2762 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2762 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2762 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-79-criticism-guidelines https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-79-criticism-guidelines We all want to receive -- and give -- good criticism, but what exactly makes it good? Here are just a few points as a guide. (See also: Standards & Rules, Rule 3, "Give & Take Criticism with Grace") 1. Remember that this is not your writing. Ask yourself what the author wants to achieve and how best that goal can be met within the existing framework of the piece. Do not attempt to impose your own style on another writer; a good reviewer will in fact impose the writer’s style on him/herself for the duration of the critique. ... more anstey Guide to Comments and Critique Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:54:36 GMT /section-507-guide-to-comments-and-critique#comments 6 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/79 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/79 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A79 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-3189-synapse-updated-and-edited-12-11-09-pages-1-47 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-3189-synapse-updated-and-edited-12-11-09-pages-1-47 Follow up work to Ryan Hoarty's Novella Suicide Before Death. It's madness and that's all I can promise. Everyone should read this and tear it apart, I'll take any criticism/analysis offered. This is just the beginning anstey Synapse: Michael Mission Harris Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:35:41 GMT /section-159-synapse-michael-mission-harris#comments 5 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/3189 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/3189 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3189 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2696-burning-angel https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2696-burning-angel falling down,angel plummeted to earth,burning wings. movement lost,wings bloodless and dripping pain,water-colored world. breathless and nearsighted,everything a fog,feeling unsinkable. life a song,without a word,tune for blossomed life. searing heat,saving grace of water,insatiable thirst of being. devoid of anything,wanting everything,humbling experience of god. fly into the sun,damage done Mellanie Carney The treasure state's southern belle Sat, 07 Mar 2009 07:53:13 GMT /section-108-the-treasure-state-s-southern-belle#comments 2 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2696 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2696 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2696 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2548-further-from-westford https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2548-further-from-westford Wearing his worn blue Levi's jean jacket and black van halen concert shirt Mike told me a thousand times, "We'll go down to townfarm and toss rocks until sunset." He'd grab a pole, and a bit of tackle and we'd trek down the road talking about Audrey Evans, Michelle Fazio and life. The mosquitos would rage in the gentle summer breezes as the orange sun fell away revealing stars and the mysteries of our faith in bass, kibbies, shiners night crawlers, poppers, mountain dew and bubblicious bubble gum. He loved her, I think, with his Solid Gold dancer hair 5' 9" of taut sexy, with endless legs wrapped around his dirty dreams and her eyes were so piercing blue his heart would stop as he talked about her I wondered how she and Michelle could be so close until I looked at Mike, Our dreams entangled for a time Like Kerouac and Bukowski we wailed at life and took it by the balls -- man-boys daring the lightning on the mountain tops. Roaring down wooded paths -- that still, even now, cross Our history, our loves Audrey and Michelle, I do not know. Perhaps they still laugh together at Christmas over eggnog, remembering Mike and wondering how I could be his friend without overwhelming inaddequacey He's way out in Ashburnham now, and I never get down to Westford anymore the fish though, i think they're still biting in townfarm. ... more anstey Release the Hounds Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-29-release-the-hounds#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2548 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2548 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2548 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-84-iii.-father-son-rise https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-84-iii.-father-son-rise at six thirty this morning as the March sun rose over brittle ice on the frozen New Hampshire lake the boy was sitting on the cracked granite slab a foot from the shore with his tiny hands in the pool of water where he'd tap-cracked the glassy ice to reveal a sunfish. I watched in silence as his face washed with anguish at the tiny corpse of a field mouse frozen in the snow beside him. He didn't see the deer forty feet away looking at him curiously as he sighed. anstey Tasting Peace Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-58-tasting-peace#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/84 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/84 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A84 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-86-iv.-mother-making-tea https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-86-iv.-mother-making-tea More going on here than the immediately obvious anstey Tasting Peace Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-58-tasting-peace#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/86 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/86 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A86 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-63-a-journey https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-63-a-journey I was once asked, while passing on my way at the end of the road “why do you continue? You have reached the end of your way?” I pondered to myself In silent reflection And responded thus “the end of this road, while dusty and worn, is hardly where I plan to be I set out on this road To reach a point And learn what I could of its winding ways I began a white blank canvas It took me to gold sun and green valley and dale, passed into the blue the on red rocks ... more Joe R Poems Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-46-poems#comments 1 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/63 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/63 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A63 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2545-a-summer-evening-before-i-met-you https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2545-a-summer-evening-before-i-met-you lest we forget the loon in black silouhette let us dance ripple on the glassy water after the sun sets and the bats chase mosquitos to and fro along the shore for love is fleeting, our time almost through the blades of grass have been sung the needles of every pine dreamt and fallen orange to the clay below my hopes are etched in trite words lost in a dirge of electric chaos -- a memory of despair and the musty smell of teens in a bunk room talking about sex and electric guitar but my dreams, they are not so dead yet the loon, she wil remember and call them when I am not even a memory my heart is revealed there to my daughter's daughter to my son's son my prayers are fulfilled on that distant shore shaded by beech and fir, draped in blueberry bushes and the gentle song of a lone cardinal more holy than the pope. lest we forget that loon and her song let me kiss you now before the milkyway washes us down to the blackest of holes let me hold you here while the bats regale us with dance whisper our names so that we can not hear God will hear. Salvation -- that's all this is here where all loves die in new hampshire. ... more anstey Release the Hounds Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-29-release-the-hounds#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2545 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2545 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2545 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-3277-an-empire-of-darkened-dreams https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-3277-an-empire-of-darkened-dreams The Empire of Darkened Dreams beside the stool where the fat girl sat on a pile of year-old-newspaper i see the torn and tattered edge of map that delineates each kingdom here in hell. her rolls of fat are arched in tenement glee -- with a dozen wads of loogie green drying in the mumu there beneath her thick empty dead pale arms her stringy greasy black hair wades down from stressed scalp to half-way down her short round-edged back to frame the picture of discontent and impending happiness stretched thin in an oak box. I say nothing at the ... more anstey Release the Hounds Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-29-release-the-hounds#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/3277 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/3277 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3277 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2779-anyone-read-crossword-poetry https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2779-anyone-read-crossword-poetry Back a hundred years ago anstey Modern & Classic Poetic Discussion Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-115-modern-classic-poetic-discussion#comments 3 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2779 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2779 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2779 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2341-aspect-ratio https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2341-aspect-ratio 24 frames per second and it seems too slow. He cuts the scene tight shadows the table with back light in black and white. Close aperture in noir, that upward angle reflects a world bigger than his birdseye view and a certain terrible integrity anstey Seriously Good Poems, Beloved by Stephan Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-88-seriously-good-poems-beloved-by-stephan#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2341 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2341 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2341 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2556-babies https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2556-babies Were you aware anstey Member News Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-83-member-news#comments 2 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2556 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2556 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2556 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2756-badwater https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2756-badwater Badwater anstey Would you look at that? Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-111-would-you-look-at-that#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2756 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2756 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2756 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2781-beginnings-of-workshopping https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2781-beginnings-of-workshopping This is the neonatal version of workshopping, hopefully this will expand as we go anstey Collaborations Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-82-collaborations#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2781 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2781 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2781 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2767-being-a-toad-with-bad-eyes https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2767-being-a-toad-with-bad-eyes I'm open to suggestions... anyone? Bueller? Bueller? ... Anyone? anstey Release the Hounds Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-29-release-the-hounds#comments 3 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2767 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2767 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2767 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-3259-believe-in-me https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-3259-believe-in-me (Or perhaps I should say, no, never do that?) anstey Release the Hounds Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-29-release-the-hounds#comments 1 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/3259 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/3259 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3259 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2753-binoculars https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2753-binoculars Binoculars anstey Would you look at that? Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-111-would-you-look-at-that#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2753 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2753 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2753 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2342-bones-in-a-wheat-field https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2342-bones-in-a-wheat-field The crows picked hardat the bones in the gold field,until they lay bleached whiteand stripped bare.I watched, reduced from waiting outthe winter, left anemic from all that pale greyand watery light.I found bones in high summerwhile the wheatswayed in a fine windand the heat movedthe slow pulse of my bloodsome place deep and quiet.Over and far away,I might have heardthe faint brush of a sighon the back of my neck.Or maybe it was justthe wind ruffling new rushes.I might have heard the sighof the wind carrying youaway.I might have heardthe bones crumbling into dust ... more Pug Mayne Seriously Good Poems, Beloved by Stephan Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-88-seriously-good-poems-beloved-by-stephan#comments 2 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2342 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2342 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2342 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2769-breathing-for-a-moment-alone https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2769-breathing-for-a-moment-alone This one is a complete mess. Any thoughts and suggestions are greatly appreciated anstey Release the Hounds Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-29-release-the-hounds#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2769 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2769 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2769