Mission
By Silver
Published: May 5, 2007
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In my business (healthcare), one of the first things you do when you build something new is to create a Mission statement. A Mission statement is a declaration that answers the questions, "Why are we here? What's the purpose of Room to Write?" Our Mission: Room to Write is a web site and forum that supports the education, evolution and growth of its member writers and poets. It is a community of aspiring and accomplished writers at all levels, who offer support and guidance to one another in their individual journeys toward personal excellence. To that end, our primary focus is on educating and encouraging the growth of all of our members. Most of the forums will continue to be dedicated to that purpose. Nevertheless, recognizing that different members are at different levels of development, we have a variety of forums in which to post. Please be respectful of each other in posting your work, your comments and your critiques. If you ask for critiques (by posting in those forums), please acknowledge the responses politely and decide whether you want to accept the advice or not. Every time you post a new poem, you'll likely find some will like what you've done, others will not. I'd offer a few suggestions for you: - Keep posting, spend some time reading the other works here, and offer back some comments and critiques for others in return. Be honest and respectful in your comments, as it's how we get better.
- Keep the more intensive critiques to the section labeled Critiques (or Advanced Critiques), while being fairly lenient and somewhat more supportive in Poems.
- Take what anyone says with a grain of salt. You'll often find some very good advice, if you're willing to listen. As in most of your life, you're best off if you can take what you want to heart, and leave the rest.
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Tit for Tat
By Silver
Published: March 11, 2007
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R2W Family,
With over 300 members and 10,000 posts, it's great to see R2W growing! We've got a great place to learn and grow as writers and poets. What will determine if we become a great site or sink into mediocrity is whether folks are willing to give back.
We NEED your critiques. We need your comments. As aspiring and growing writers, we crave and need your feedback to help us grow. I realize some of you don't feel "qualified" to critique. Some don't feel they know enough to critique. But you all have something to offer.
Tell the writer/author/poet that there were some grammatical mistakes, tell us the punctuation could be improved, better yet, how it could be improved. Tell us what didn't make sense to you, or ask us a question to help clarify. Heck, tell us when you think it's a load of pretentious balderdash!
Even tell us what you like. Pick out a line or a verse or a word even that made you feel something.
Try this - every time you post a poem, or snippet, or story, or answer a challenge or exercise, take the time to find one or two works by someone else and post a response. We'd LOVE to hear from you!
Thanks. We'll be glad to return the favor!
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Foyled!
By Silver
Published: September 13, 2007
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Congratulations to our Lemon Thief! Sophie has been named a Foyle Young Poet of the Year for 2007. The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award is Britain's most prestigious poetry prize for young writers between the ages of 11-17. Each year they look for a hundred of the best young poets in the UK and beyond. All of the one hundred winners are invited to the prize-giving ceremony in London on National Poetry Day 2007 and win prizes including books published by Bloodaxe Books and Faber & Faber, posters and one year's Youth Membership. Fifteen of the 15-17 year old winners will attend a week-long residential course at one of the prestigious Arvon Centres and have their poems printed in a winner's anthology. Congratulations again, SophiePoet. I'm quite proud of you! SilverBill 
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