Young Writers Society

Most of them are one of a kind, but I have 3 red jaspers and 1 dalmatian jasper. Also, 2 rose quartzs and 2 amethysts. I've got one each of the following:
Amazonite
Tiger's eye
Crystal quartz
Turquoise
Snowflake obsidian
Howlite
Lapis lazuli
Sodalite
Aventurine
Citrine (aka lemon quartz)

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[b]Are you a morning or night person?[/b]
[b]Biggest Pet Peeve:[/b]
[b]Collections?[/b]
[b]Dream job:[/b]
[b](your go-to) Emoji:[/b]
[b]Favorite YWS Work:[/b]
[b]Greatest achievement:[/b]
[b]Hardest part of the writing process:[/b]
[b]If you won the lottery, what would you do?[/b]
[b]Joke:[/b]
[b]Know a fun fact?[/b]
[b]Last read:[/b]
[b]Main writing project:[/b]
[b]Note to your past self:[/b]
[b]One non-necessity you couldn't live without:[/b]
[b]Person you admire:[/b]
[b]Question you'd like people to answer below:[/b]
[b]Reason to write:[/b]
[b]Sports:[/b]
[b]Tag a YWSer that's a good writer:[/b]
[b]Ultimate color:[/b]
[b]Volunteer?[/b]
[b]What are you working on?[/b]
[b]EXciting news:[/b]
[b]Your favorite unlikely combination:[/b]
[b]Zombies?[/b]


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[b]Alliteration or no? [/b]
[b]Blackout poetry? [/b]
[b]Commenting on other users' threads?[/b]
[b]Dark or happy themes?[/b]
[b]Enjambment?[/b]
[b]Fun in poetry jams? (WFPs poetry parties)[/b]
[b]Goals you'd like to share?[/b]
[b]How many poems?[/b]
[b]Including chickens or potatoes?[/b]
[b]Jam flavour?[/b]
[b]Keen on concrete imagery?[/b]
[b]Lowercase or uppercase??[/b]
[b]Music playlist for poetry writing?[/b]
[b]New or an experienced NaPo-er?[/b]
[b]Other poeting activities? (ex. collabing with other YWS users)[/b]
[b]Prose poetry?[/b]
[b]Quality or quantity? [/b]
[b]Rhyme?[/b]
[b]Structured poetry?[/b]
[b]Thread theme?[/b]
[b]U READY?!?![/b]
[b]Voiceovers in your thread?[/b]
[b]Why NaPo?[/b]
[b]Xylophone - would you use this word in a poem?[/b]
[b]YWS NaPo Activity? [/b]
[b]'Zeugma' - what does it mean??[/b]

Are you a morning or night person? Night, but by 3am I am slightly delirious, so even then I can't do night all the time, haha.

Biggest Pet Peeve: ...it is too early for me to answer this question, haha. (Narrator: it was afternoon...)

Collections? I have a GIANT pig collection. It is impressively big to the point where my husband is in Awe of it... and slightly overwhelmed by it too, haha. Apparently, when he asked my dad for permission to marry me, my dad looked at him and said, "Has she told you about the pig collection?" (Because when we met, most of my pigs had been boxed up and there were only a hundred or so out for display.) And Matthew was like, "Yeah, I know about her collection." And Dad said, "No, I mean THE COLLECTION." Anyway, after we got married and moved in with each other, he was unpacking box after box of pigs... and then he understood. XD

(Fortunately he loves me dearly, haha.)

Though, my kids don't actually know that my favorite animal is pigs because there are just so many of them that they just assume that pigs just... are everywhere. And it's a normal thing. One time, #2 asked me what my favorite animal was and I just looked at him incredulously. Then I told him to look around, since we were in the kitchen and there were literally dozens of pigs everywhere. So he looks around and he's like, "Yes, but what's your favorite animal?"

As Matthew said later about the incident, "A fish doesn't know it's in water."

Dream job: I am tempted to say writer, but I've actually written things for money and I do not actually like it, haha. I am tempted to say author, but I have an author platform and... the website exploded and I just. Can't. Deal with it. So... um... I guess I like to write novels in secret and not deal with the business side of it at all.

(your go-to) Emoji:

Favorite YWS Work: ...I have been here almost 18 years, I have many favorites that stretch over DECADES, do not ask me this question please, thank you.

Greatest achievement: My kids are amazing.

Hardest part of the writing process: Writing is easy. Publishing it, on the other hand... ugh.

If you won the lottery, what would you do? I will never win the lottery because you have to buy lottery tickets and I refuse to do that. However, I wouldn't say anything to anyone, other than Matthew, and just invest it quietly. You would not know that I won the lottery.

Joke:

So there's this magician that performs on this cruise line as an official entertainer. Most of the time, it's an okay gig, but during this one cruise through the Carribean, one of the guests made his job unbearable. The guy would come to every single one of his performances on the cruise, just to heckle him. After every trick -- and when I say every trick, I mean ever trick! -- the guy would shout, "I see how you did that!" And then reveal the secret behind the trick. The magician was furious, to put it mildly. But there was nothing that he could do since the guy was a guest, so he just tried to ignore it.

Anyway, a terrible accident happens and the boat sinks down into the ocean in a fiery blaze and there are basically no survivors... except for the magician and the heckler.

Worse yet, they are sharing the same lifeboat together.

The magician is determined not to talk with this man, and it appears that the heckler has no interest in talking with the magician. For three whole days, they float together on the ocean silently, not saying a word to each other.

Finally, on the fourth day, the heckler sighs. "All right, I give up. How did you make the boat disappear?"

Know a fun fact? Whales are mammals and nurse their young. But babies tend to latch and unlatch a lot when they are distracted, which begs the question... how do whales keep from diluting their milk?? Well, the answer is that their milk is suuuuuuper thick. It has the viscosity of toothpaste, in fact.

Last read: ...I actually don't remember. I try not to read too much while I am writing because I don't want to steal styles, lol. I think the last adult book I read was "The Stardust Thief" though I've been reading an incredible amount of children's books lately that blur together...

Main writing project: Right now, I'm working on a book called "The Last Conqueror," which I like to call Book 4 because it is literally the fourth book in my series.

Do you like... want a blurb for the book??? Or the series???? Or both????? (Hmmm ...I should write a blurb about the entire series for all the people who have no idea what I'm talking about when I write my posts, lol. Maybe I'll dink around and try to write a blurb and post it in the comments, haha.)

Note to your past self: You're actually going to fall in love with someone who loves you back and marry that person and have children. And also, by doing that, you are going to be in a much better position to write novels, weirdly enough. I know, right now you think that there is nobody in the world who can handle you and you think that it would probably be best to just write and rewrite your novel endlessly and that you don't need any distractions. But, TRUST ME. It's actually going to be fine.

One non-necessity you couldn't live without: My computer.

Person you admire: Matthew. <3333

Question you'd like people to answer below: What year did you join YWS??? (Mine was 2005, I think.)

Reason to write: Because I have STORIES that need to be written, haha.

Sports: I am not very sportsy myself, but I do enjoy watching football and baseball occasionally and I used to go to a lot of basketball games.

Tag a YWSer that's a good writer: Uh... Only one? Like, I could tag all of y'all, hahah.

Okay, okay... @MaybeAndrew has a story that is on the shortlist for me to read, since it seems like a horror fantasy and I am INTRIGUED... so I'm going to tag him, haha. Like, the prologue literally starts off with a maiden happily going to be sacrificed to a monster, and I need to find out what happens next... like I said, it's on the list of things that I want to read. Though, I also write horror/fantasy so like... again, I don't want to steal his style, haha. I'm almost halfway with my last novel of the series though, so after that!!!

Ultimate color: The world needs all the colors it can get.

Volunteer? Not now, thank you.

What are you working on? Like... writing projects??? I am writing The Last Conqueror! Like, other projects??? I am crocheting slipper socks for me, since my feet keep getting cold. Plus, I am considering making this for my aunt since she really likes Boxers and she survived her health ordeal and I am happy: https://blackstone-designs.com/free-pat ... t-pattern/

EXciting news: UM. I am about to become a landowner of some of the prettiest country in the world??? Like, we're living in the house, but we're about to get the deed now, so yayyy!

Your favorite unlikely combination: ...like, food combination? I don't know...

Zombies? No.