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Getting Ahead Of Myself
For years, I played around with a story about Fairies and Goblins. One day, I opened my laptop, launched my writing program, and created an outline. Eventually, I had created an entire fantasy world. I was very excited to share it with the world.
By Crystal Nicole4 months ago in Critique
Wild Rose (MY ONLY 'FRIENDS' FROM THE PSYCH WARD "soap opera"). Winner in Not Quite There Yet Challenge.
Dostoyevsky wrote that Hell is the inability to love. Among other things, my experiences with psychiatry and drugs, etc. would come to prove to me that the inability to truly love is indeed, at the very least, a type of hell or purgatory. But where this hell originates from is a mystery bequeathed to psychologists and writers to ponder and analyze; although the quality of this analysis is proportional to the writer's own level of evolution and enlightenment.
By ANTICHRIST SUPERSTAR5 months ago in Critique
Fire I Wasn’t Ready to Hold. Top Story - June 2026.
If patience were a myth and I were the confidant of Prometheus, then I would be chained beside him; bound by the force of my own urgency, rushing toward a larger audience. My ambitions were molten. This story is a container for both my younger self and the self I forged later. I only came together after the explosion.
By Caitlin Charlton5 months ago in Critique
Life After Death Book Review: A Fearless Perspective on the Afterlife
Life After Death is a book written by the British theologian and activist Annie Besant (1847-1933) that talks openly about the various forms of life that a spirit goes through after the human body dies. This book was published for the first time in 1933, when this topic was not as usual to be treated as it happens today, that there is more mental openness.
By Ninfa Galeano5 months ago in Critique
Detective Kali
I began the story after meeting a who stated that I look like a character that they thought they had made up. Eventually, I was approached with the idea for writing it, and I was so excited because I wanted to make sure that I approached my writing with a very diverse that reflected the world that I grew up in my personal experiences or things that I just simply witnessed.
By Cadma5 months ago in Critique
Unfinished
I started dreaming of stories from a very young age. For truth I can not tell you what the first story was that started to come together. I do know that i have story notebooks that look like some lost ancient Tomes now. And a memory of a detective that waits to be finished. A lot of the stories I go back to and rework even now. I find that these are the ones people seem to be drawn to. These are also the ones that have marinated and been worked on and reworked on. Out of all of them the one that has been done and redone and relooked at over and over is Heroes? A story where heroes start to appear in a modern world and what happens because of it.
By WrittenWritRalf5 months ago in Critique
Daoist Gymnastics. Runner-Up in Not Quite There Yet Challenge. Top Story - June 2026. Content Warning.
Dao. Everything that is, was, and is yet to come. Dao. All. With no judgment or preference, dao begins, moves, and ends everything. It is beginning. It is movement. It is ending. It is in the rush and in the stillness. It is the air we breathe and the breath we expel. It is the thoughts in our minds and the words that we speak. It is both meaning and senselessness; in that way, it is my pain, and it is my suffering.
By kp5 months ago in Critique
The Triliminal Age
The Triliminal Age began suddenly. When AI revolutionized the science of genetics by truncating thousands of years of research into moments, the formerly labeled “junk DNA” had to be reclassified, due to a stunning realization that arose.
By Gerard DiLeo5 months ago in Critique
Authorship vs Refinement
Much of the confusion surrounding artificial intelligence and writing comes from a failure to distinguish between two fundamentally different acts: originating ideas and refining their expression. These acts are often treated as interchangeable, as though whoever touches the final form must also be the source of the thought itself. That assumption does not reflect how writing has ever worked, nor does it reflect how human thinking actually unfolds.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast6 months ago in Critique
Expression vs Distortion
One of the most persistent frustrations in communication is the gap between what a person intends to say and what others actually receive. This gap exists regardless of intelligence, sincerity, conviction, or depth of understanding. Someone can hold an idea with clarity internally, yet watch it arrive distorted, flattened, reduced, or misinterpreted once it is expressed. The failure is often blamed on the idea itself, when the deeper issue is frequently translation.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast6 months ago in Critique
Productivity as Preservation
Productivity is often framed as the visible accumulation of outcomes. Words written, posts published, episodes released, metrics improved, engagement gained, and projects completed become the evidence that work has happened. Under this framing, anything that does not immediately result in external output is treated as inefficiency, distraction, avoidance, or delay. The productive person is assumed to be the person who can show visible results.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast6 months ago in Critique
Output vs Oversaturation
The Fear of Adding to the Noise The modern anxiety around oversaturation is not unfounded. People are surrounded by more words, videos, opinions, explanations, reactions, and interpretations than they can meaningfully absorb. In that environment, producing more content can feel irresponsible or self-defeating, as though adding anything further only contributes to the noise. This concern often causes thoughtful people to hesitate. They hold back ideas, not because the ideas lack value, but because they fear that volume itself will devalue what they have to say.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast6 months ago in Critique