Scribbling on Scribd

www.scribd.com

It's a great site and a rare one. People upload writing, of any kind, that they have written and it goes straight into a public forum for reading and hopefully criticism and response. I managed to download the entirety of Albert Camus's short novel 'The Stranger' and upload some of my own verse in the same evening; like I said what a cool site! Or maybe just to me, because it is certainly the first of its kind that I've come across. I can log on a read the poems of someone my age from halfway around the world, which is so exciting for me.

Lulu.com also looks very cool.

Apparently you can self-publish your own books and sell them - isn't that incredible? If only I had anywhere near enough good material to fill that. But the bes thing about it is, young fledging poets finally have a way of spreading their work.

My username is eyandle and I have three poems up so far. I'm not very good at talking about my writing because I'm not really sure how good it is. But I love trying to improve and learn more, as I study the great poets of the last centuries.

Here's one for Remembrance Day Sunday:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/22287957/They-Were-Talking-of-the-Old-Lie-Again

If you haven't read Wilfred Owen's 'Dulce et Decorum Est' it's an unequivocal essential read.

Love, E.