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  • Squills - The YWS News Re: Squills 5/21/13

    Welcome to Squills, the official news bulletin of the Young Writers Society! What will you find here? Tons of interesting news about YWS, feature articles about writing, art and the ...

    May 20, 2013
  • Squills - The YWS News Re: Squills' Reader's Corner

    Squills is a member-run newsletter dedicated to keeping you up-to-date with all important events and trends on YWS. It is run exclusively for you, the YWS community, and thus cannot ...

    May 20, 2013
  • Contests Re: Official YWS Contest: The 1st Annual Reader Games!

    The days are nearing their end! I have no idea why I said that! Anyways, it's true! There're are only a few days left people! You shoud've started writing your ...

    May 20, 2013
  • Squills - The YWS News Re: Squills 5/10/13

    YWS Design Contest Voting! You think all the fuss about the YWS Design Contest has gone down? Think again! Until April 30, all YWSers are given the privilege of voting ...

    May 11, 2013
  • Squills - The YWS News Re: Squills 5/10/13

    This Week's Star Reviewers Are the stars pretty bright this week? Let's check! 3.) mightaswellbuyacat with 25 reviews! Wow! Our recently joined user had become so active with reviewing, her ...

    May 11, 2013
  • Squills - The YWS News Re: Squills 5/10/13

    The thread you've stumbled into is the equivalent of a YWS newspaper, with each post in this thread being a news article. The focus of this paper is to give ...

    May 11, 2013
  • Contests Re: Official YWS Contest: The 1st Annual Reader Games!

    @Jordin, and to everyone who's wondering, I've said that you can submit up to two entries, so you can submit two of the different arena, or two of the same ...

    May 10, 2013
  • Research Re: Writing Perspectives

    An additional tip, Rebecca! There are some things that matter in switching perspectives, two of which are the style and the voice. The style is what you need to at ...

    May 6, 2013
  • Writing Activities Re: Pocket Memoirs

    Lemme say that this is very interesting :) Anyways, my three pocket memoirs are: 1.) Stepping on a sea urchin by the beach 2.) Accidentally eating fermented fish instead of ...

    May 6, 2013
  • Poetry Discussion Re: The Road Not Taken grammar mistake?

    Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could ...

    May 4, 2013
  • Lounge, The Re: Just saying how much I love this site!

    Oh my gosh people! We love exactly the same thing! YWS!

    May 4, 2013
  • Squills - The YWS News Re: Squills 5/20/13

    On the Seat with Dynamo According to recent reports, as the time goes by, novels and chapters are increasing in number in the Literary and the Novel Workshop. The question ...

    May 4, 2013
  • Research Re: Kind of like an essay, but funnier.

    Somehow it's more or less based on your opinion! But to speak technically (and for future reference) the main difference between fiction and essays is that essays attempts to answer ...

    May 4, 2013
  • Randomosity Re: And my favorite Pokemon is...

    ...well, that's a bit difficult. Can I give a list instead? In no particular order: Eevee Chansey Dratini Gligar Sneasel Misdreavus Murkrow Wobbuffet Unown Chimecho Duskull Shuppet Mime Jr. Munchlax ...

    May 3, 2013
  • Writing Tips Re: Any Exceptional Books About Writing?

    Have anybody read or saw in the store the book called "Robert's Rules for Writing?" I haven't bought one yet, but I already took some sneak peeks and found that ...

    May 3, 2013


There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
— W. Somerset Maugham