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I started at a new school in fifth grade (age 10), so my mom did all the paperwork at the district office over the summer. You have to enroll at ...

A lot of things, particularly scheduling, are school-specific. For example, at my school, there is no such thing as a scheduled lunch. Rather, we have eight period of equal length; ...

I like your NaNo tip. In April I did National Poetry Writing Month--I wrote a poem for every day in April. It made me tear my hair out, and most ...

Ooh, revival of old threads, my favorite! You can also think about the Eric Clapton song "Lay Down Sally". He's grammatically incorrect, unless he's ordering someone to physically pick up ...

Thanks for the link, Prok...I really want one of those shirts now. But Snoink is right about manuscripts being in 12 pt. Courier. You've got to follow the rules if ...

I actually prefer the cliche plot + original characters combination...I'd much rather read about interesting people on an old adventure than flat people on a spiced-up adventure.

I just want all of you to know that Comic Sans MS is the work of the devil and quite possibly the ugliest font face known to mankind. I feel ...

I think sometimes it's perfectly fine to use it...maybe as an exercise, the way Suzanne had to do it, but often I think "to be" is used effectively! The passages ...

I wouldn't necessarily consider purple prose to be "beautiful" writing. There's a fine line. You can have very descriptive writing that is beautiful, or very descriptive writing that is purple. ...

While many of the same methods used to critique prose also apply to poetry, there are some things you ought to know about reviewing verse! 1) "More what you'd call ...

Err, I suppose if you got it pulled really hard. Usually people just jerk it a little, and usually your head goes with it...but it doesn't hurt that much. I ...

I read part of The Rasputin File for my project. It's probably the most accurate research, but half of it is totally boring, probably because Radzinsky spends about forty pages ...

OMG I totally did a huge report on this in tenth grade. I don't think it really matters how you spell his name, because he's Russian. I've usually seen Grigory ...

On the rare occasions I do write prose (it happens, but so rare those who witness it should consider themselves blessed) I just go to babynames.com. Yeeep. Or just use ...

The piece of advice in question is not a rule, but it's still something to be considered. The caution is that you should focus on stuff you know unless you ...