It’s the holiday that only comes once every four years… LEAP DAY!  How are you celebrating leap day?
And does anybody know what the chances are of being born on leap day?  Everyone keeps saying 1 in 1461, but I doubt that.  That just takes the number of days in four years and assumes an equal [...]

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Our favorite authors have done both good and bad in their lives, outside of their works. Whether you believe their works should be judged separately from their lives is a different debate, but in this series of blog posts, I’ll give you fun little facts that some of the most famous writers in history have [...]

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Some of you may be indifferent to the name of Vladimir Nabokov. But I certainly know their are quite a few YWSers out there that would care deeply about this issue. Nabokov’s last work, an unfinished manuscript entitled “The Original of Laura”, was to be burned due to the deathbed request of the author. His [...]

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YWS is really great for critiquing, but if you’re perhaps looking for some more opportunities to get creative feedback here are a couple of sites:
Critique Circle offers critiques for all members new or old, allowing you to get wonderfully detailed crits. Positives: Guaranteed critiques, even for newer members. They also have some nice templates to [...]

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My friend told me about this today. I don’t know about you, but I think this is beyond funny. The basic principle is to take Garfield and all of his dialogue out of the comic. The result is amazing.

Garfield Minus Garfield 

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I lost The Game. Are you playing The Game?
Hah, I just learned about The Game yesterday. I’m not seriously into it, but I think it is hilarious and I really love internet junk like that.
And I bet I  just made a multitude of people lose!  My only question is, how can you make someone lose [...]

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My face twitched a little when I first read the topic of the article. Typos….a good thing!? Most of you will know I’m heavy on the line-by-line editing, which is my name for fixing typos, grammar errors, and anything else that is within the line. Take a look at this:
“Writers enjoy a multitude of tools [...]

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wrong side of the tracks -Before there were cars, trains were an important means of transportation. Of course, pollution wasn’t a big concern so when a train rolled by, heavy black smoke and soot went with it. Usually the wind blew the black smoke to one side of the tracks and only the poorest of [...]

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After a recent conversation I had with Hunter…I just could not resist posting this.

I edited this because apparently it’s not showing up?  It works fine on my computer but if it still doesn’t show up here’s the actual link for it: see picture here!

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“An eye for an eye only end up making the whole world blind.”
 
-Mahatma Ghandi

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http://nationalgrammarday.com/
From the web site:
If we don’t respect and honor the rules of English, we lose our ability to communicate clearly and well. In short, we invite mayhem, misery, madness, and inevitably even more bad things that start with letters other than M. (Seriously—sort of. But it is true that misplaced commas have [...]

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Sorry for the little updating!  I’ve been busy with writing a paper for law school, which I just finished up today.  Even though next week is technically Spring Break, not quite sure how many posts I’ll be making as the competition to get on one of the Law Journals at my school goes on all [...]

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Who’d Play You?

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I started seeing it pop up as a joke a few years ago; that is, spelling ‘the’ as ‘teh.’ But now I’m seeing it more and more often, and even used in instances where the author isn’t joking. I have yet to see it in newspaper or books, but I see it all [...]

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Well it seems like the Brits are owning the blog yesterday and today for the third time in a row.  Coming hot off the heels of what nation reads more, and the oddest book titles of the last year in the UK comes the release of a list of the 50 Best Children’s Books of [...]

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Thanks to Vernon for the heads up in this thread!
British industry magazine The Bookseller has announced this year’s shortlist for the oddest book title of the year, with a typical mix of the quirky and eclectic.
Visitors to the magazine’s website, www.thebookseller.com, can make their choice from six mostly non-fiction titles unearthed by publishers, bookstore workers [...]

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…that a new book is published every 3 minutes in the United States?  And every 2.6 minutes in the United Kingdom?
In 2005, 172,000 books were published in the United States, and 206,000 were published in the UK (respectively second and first in the world).   Together, that’s over 378,000 books a year, over 1,000 books a [...]

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Coming from Black Cat Sachiko:
Very soon I am going to turn to my last resort. Plot webbing. Because I am stuck, but at least I can admit that. ^_^ I hate to do it. Admit that I’m stuck, I mean. And I hate plot webbing too. Does anyone on here hate plot webbing also? Or [...]

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Can anyone do this?

You’re supposed to see it in 3D by doing this:

Cross your eyes so that you see 4 images
Relax your eyes so that the images come together and you see 3
Look in the center.  Should be 3D.

I’ve been trying this for ten minutes, and I can’t.  Then again, I could never do Magic [...]

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Over at Copyblogger:

By definition a pun is “a play on words.” The “play” may be on the sound of a word or the similarity of a phrase to a well-known saying. Sometimes the pronunciation being played on is a stretch and deserves a groan, but sometimes the relationship is extremely apt and deserves the reward [...]

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And The Categories Are…
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I don’t know why, but in the past week I not only got my first message from a member at the Young Writers Society saying someone had stolen their password, but also got my second and my third message on the same subject.  It’s not like it hasn’t happened before, but for some reason this [...]

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I’m wondering, how much sleep do you get and do you think the lack of sleep impairs your ability to write?

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Be sure to check out this link to the photo over at accuweather.com so that you too can join this kitten’s Facebook group! 

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As I said in the post below, I’m off to the beach this weekend.  I’m going to check out a lighthouse or two, but mostly just going to be working on my motions brief for my writing skills class.  Got it back yesterday with a grade that was 10% higher than the average, which I’m [...]

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As astute readers will notice, this blog now has a slightly new name and a new logo.  I renamed it from the “Young Writers Society Blog” to just “Young Writers Blog.”  This is just a reflection that this blog is not really about the main site anymore.  Instead, it’s become a writing blog in an [...]

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Go to whatever folder you keep your stories in, and start counting up how many of those stories you never finished.  After fourteen years of accumulated work, I have well over 100 unfinished stories!  Some are nothing more than a few paragraphs, others are as long as fifty pages.

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To A Mouse by Robert Burns is a poem I only recently discovered about two months or so ago, but it is truly awesome. As Burns is Scottish the poem is plainly in the Scottish style, and was supposedly written after he turned up a mouse’s nest on his farm.
Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie,
O, [...]

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