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  • Fiction Discussion Re: Gender Inequality in Film Survey

    Are you a boy or a girl? Famale How old are you? Above 18 What is your favorite movie? (And if you can’t decide: top 5?) 1. Chicago 2. Princess ...

    Sep 30, 2014
  • Writing Activities Re: Make Up The Worst Possible Opening Line Ever

    So like, this one time, I had a dream, and it totally doesn't matter, but like, I thought I'd share it with you because it was kinda nuts.

    Sep 27, 2014
  • Writing Activities Re: Poem Spot - [ on the spot ]

    I sleep on the left with my head held tight against the pillows which collect my dreams. Like gravity seems to believe if I'm on my right, I need only ...

    Sep 26, 2014
  • Writing Activities Re: Journal Making Challenge

    Please note that it is not necessary to read everything in order to participate in those challenges. That being said, these challenges are focused on Plot , Character , and ...

    Sep 25, 2014
  • Writing Activities Re: Journal Making Challenge

    Worldbuilding - Setting Just like the society that lives in the world, we have to also make the world. Sometimes this is an easy thing of googling and getting to ...

    Sep 25, 2014
  • Writing Activities Re: Journal Making Challenge

    Worldbuilding - Society Building your world is important to creating a realistic feeling story, and one way that you can build an aspect of your world is to create a ...

    Sep 25, 2014
  • Writing Activities Re: Journal Making Challenge

    Style Sometimes deciding the style of a novel is the easiest thing to do. We get certain ways we write, certain voices we are used to, and we tend to ...

    Sep 25, 2014
  • Writing Activities Re: Journal Making Challenge

    Characters When it comes to pre-writing you really need to explore your characters, figure out their relationships and motives. The protagonist and antagonist need the attention first, but the seconda

    Sep 25, 2014
  • Writing Activities Re: Journal Making Challenge

    Plotting While all stories don't need to be plotted, it can be very useful to plot before you write so that you know where you're going, what needs to happen, ...

    Sep 25, 2014
  • Writing Activities Re: Journal Making Challenge

    Welcome everyone who has joined! I'm really glad to see how many people have started to participate. I'm going to tag you guys just so you know this is updated ...

    Sep 25, 2014
  • Writing Activities Re: Poem Spot - [ on the spot ]

    I really hate it when I can't control the things that happen down below like when I have to pee really really bad but I just can't seem to get ...

    Sep 23, 2014
  • Writing Activities Re: Journal Making Challenge

    As we roll into our first week, please note that it is not necessary to read everything in order to participate in those challenges. That being said, here are a ...

    Sep 22, 2014
  • Writing Activities Re: Journal Making Challenge

    Tools Of Prewriting Writing Tutorial Articles Below are listed some of the methods that people use to help themselves pre-write stories including different organizational tools, and places online that

    Sep 22, 2014
  • Writing Activities Re: Journal Making Challenge

    Index 1. Invitation Post 2. Index 3. Tools* 4. Optional Challenges 1-3 _____ I - Draw Your Plot _____ II - Character Profiles _____ III - Use your Resources 5. ...

    Sep 22, 2014
  • Writing Activities Re: Journal Making Challenge

    Welcome everyone to a new event here on YWS! Over the next several weeks we will be creating journals together in order to better prepare ourselves for writing a novel. ...

    Sep 22, 2014


It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey