Since you can now check to see how many reviews a person has made, I’m now able to see who the top 10 reviewers are:

Snoink: 1422 Reviews
Elizabeth: 1117 Reviews
Sam: 970 Reviews
Firestarter: 919 Reviews
Incandescence: 763 Reviews
Emma: 666 Reviews
Claudette: 651 Reviews
xanthan gum: 646 Reviews
Chevy: 645 Reviews
Myth: 611 Reviews

Congrats to the top 10!

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For anybody active on YWS, you’ll know there are more females than males on the site.  The exact breakdown is (note, this doesn’t add up to the total registered member count as 20% of all members have never specified their gender):

 723 Males - 30.6%
1636 Females - 69.4%

When I first saw those numbers, I thought it [...]

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So who here is reading the first six Harry Potter books before the seventh one comes out? I haven’t started yet, but I plan on it as soon as I’m done with the current book I’m reading.
Also, when did you start reading Harry Potter? I remember dismissing it as a kids book back [...]

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I really love camping.  I also love anything and everything that goes with camping, such as: boating, tubing, skiing, hiking, caving, campfires, s’mores, drama, dogs, headlights, campers, trucks, sunburn, tan, sunblock, bathing suits….it’s all good.
 Anyone else share this love?

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So who agrees with me on that?
Writing is THE life! I especially realized that when I’ve been working on my entry for the Claude Monet contest. (Eep, hope I get it done in time! XD) It’s so much of a therapy, and it allows you to discover facets of yourself that you didn’t know existed. One [...]

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I’m at work right now, but instead of doing work, I much rather be surfing around YWS.  It’s not that I don’t have stuff to do; it’s just very boring stuff that’ll take me an hour at most to finish up.
So instead, I thought I’d write up a quick post about what I think is [...]

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There are two great contests going on at the Young Writers Society right now!  The first is a user-run contest by Whence called “Poetry: The Terza Rima.”  It’s a great contest, and I encourage anyone who appreciates a real challenge to try for it.   First prize is 300 points and an added bonus of 3 [...]

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Draw-> it’s a great stress reliever
Read everything-> how else will you know what your missing?
Shop at Wal-Mart-> no one cares, save yourself some money
Drive everywhere-> you’ll love knowing your way around anywhere
Wear jeans-> lifes to short to spend half of it primping yourself everytime you leave the house
Spend time in the country-> you’ll never know [...]

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Since we have got this new blog, it was a slow start, though fun. Comments are low though. I remember how squills (the blog) was commented on a lot, and popular. Perhaps because it was easily accessible? I do not know. What I do know is that the majority of people I notice commenting (If [...]

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Some of the newer members may not actually know about these, so I decided to write a post on it.
The genre of fan-fiction is one well established. You will find all sorts of stuff there, from movies to TV to books that people read. These traditional areas are the core of most fan-fiction.
My [...]

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Just for laughs:
“This weekend in Virginia, President Bush attended some big event. He got up at one point on the spur of the moment and conducted a 400-piece orchestra. … Apparently, it was the first time a 400-piece orchestra has ever played ‘The Wheels on the Bus.’” –Conan O’Brien
“Former President Bill [...]

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Everyone has their own different editing habits. Some people read over their story once to look for typos, twice again to look for typos, and then they post. Others don’t even go that far and post right after it is written. (Shame on you!!) I get crazy, and if I actually like what I have [...]

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I just saw Georgia Rule.  And it was amazing.  All of you should see it.  The main story is not what you think it is from the commercials, it’s really good.

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On Sunday, which was Mother’s Day, I received an e-mail and a call (apparently they have no Mothers and don’t realize some people still go to Church) from my hosting provider (Lunarpages) that the Young Writers Society was straining system resources.  In fact, it was using six times the alloted maximum amount.
While I do find [...]

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Hey, everyone! Don’t forget to wish your moms and grandmas and aunts a happy Mothers Day!

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It is visible to everyone that there are a lot of people coming in from TW. It could even be called an invasion. So should we jump into our bomb shelters and ready the small pox? Not yet, at least.
It is a little scary to see the site I’ve come to love get swapped with [...]

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Just one of those silly stats things that I like to do from time to time, but here are the top 10 words at YWS:

 one, used 33,813 times
think, used 31,111 times
I, used 19,249 times
people, used 18,991 times
make, used 17,161 times
first, used 16,372 times
love, used 15,990 times
read, used 15,182 times
right, used 15,053 times
back, used 14,613 times

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I’ve noticed that this week the number of posts in the blog has gone down dramatically.   In the past 7 days there have been 10 posts–2 by me, 1 by Mesh, and 7 by Nate.
 Let’s get bloggin’!!

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Who is planning on doing it?  …who has any idea what it is?? 
from www.ScriptFrenzy.org:
Script Frenzy is an international writing event in which participants attempt the creatively daring feat of writing an original, full-length screenplay—or stage play—in a single month. Spurred by a wild deadline and buoyed by a community of countless other writers, Script Frenzy [...]

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Back in 2001, a friend of mine over at the Young Writers Club told me about Writing.com (back then called Stories.com).  At the time, I thought the site was great.  There were a ton of people both young and old, reviews were fast and easy to come by, and there was a lot to do [...]

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For one reason or another, the Young Writers Society isn’t always the best writing site. So here’s a list of some of my favorite writing sites on the web:

Wordtrip: It’s active and the admin staff are great. I don’t participate much on it, but I like to check it out every now and [...]

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How I define “active member”: Someone who has logged in within the last week.
Active Members on YWS: 472
If you expand that to two weeks, it only rises marginally to 531, which is actually a good sign that those who are active log in regularly.  Indeed, if you narrow it down to just the last three [...]

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Summer has come a lot faster than I thought while I was still in school.  Don’t get me wrong–I am ready for three and a half months of absolutely no school work.  BUT…my best friend doesn’t come back into town until June and I had a hard time finding things to fill up my day [...]

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My office always includes funny quotes with the folder we give to my boss every morning.  Today’s were especially good though:
Tomorrow is Cinco de Mayo, which in Spanish means they outnumber us 5-to-1. – Jay Leno
And according to Men’s Health magazine, 1 out of 5 grown adult men still watch Saturday morning cartoons [...]

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Yep, that’s right. AP Testing. My first test this year is Calculus in TWO DAYS! A couple friends and I were studying over the weekend, and we realised how much we still don’t know. Scary, that was. My only other test this year is AP Lit, and that’s Thursday. [...]

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On YWS that is…
With the new header, I find myself actually checking out the Blog News page a whole lot more than I used to.  Anybody else doing the same?

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So maybe it didn’t take me too long to do it (just started four days ago), but it seems like it took forever; that is, the new YWS design is finally done.  What began as a simple project to make the header look a little nicer turned into a radical redesign of portions of the [...]

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Most people who are active on the site know that I was pretty much completely absent for much of January and February.  That’s because during that time I was studying for the LSAT and applying for law school.
I did pretty well on my LSAT, and got accepted to a lot of law schools.  I had [...]

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I’ve been reading a few comments lately that YWS has lately been less about critiquing and more about yapping it up. While talking is perfectly fine (don’t feel like you should stay quiet because of a post like this), we should start focusing on our writing as well!
 Claudette has started the MaNoWriMo, which I think [...]

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I can’t stand when you critique someone who doesn’t have a tough skin and they get upset, then they PM you basically telling you, “I reject your opinion because you hurt my feelings.” I sympathize with them, I remember not having a tough skin, but I got one through realizing “They’re trying to help me” [...]

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