To say my background is varied is a severe understatement. Writing, however, has always been a hobby, a pastime for me to reflect on an emotion or some passing thought. I am hoping to find here some feedback and criticism that will help me to improve and perhaps take this to another level. I am influenced by many of the things writers have always been influenced by, the opposite sex, of course, the beauty of nature and all the metaphors that exist there, the folly of the human mind and like that. It would seem not so much the subject, but the ability to turn an original phrase or grasp a pe more...