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Leja

  • Welcome Mat Re: Cake, dragons and ... doughnuts

    *Feels old* you're welcome very much Hey Miriam. Dragons, eh? Have you ever read Dealing With Dragons by Patricia Wrede? I ♥ these books. So, I'd extend the offer to ...

    Jul 15, 2007
  • Questions and Answers Re: Ask a question here (or start a new topic!)

    This is a custom title, and it becomes an option in the "My YWS" section after you've made (I think) 250 posts.

    Jul 15, 2007
  • Fanfiction Novels Re: The Break In: a YWS fanfiction [Part Two added]

    Hilarious, as always, Claudette. I love reading your satires. I am wondering, what dastardly deeds the rest of the group is up to when they're not avoiding SPEW and CCF ...

    Jul 15, 2007
  • Fantasy Novels Re: Tears of Lecraesa: Prologue

    The description was pretty; the only trouble I found with it was it seemed very "The [noun] [verb]" for a while, and that got difficult to read after a while.

    Jul 14, 2007
  • Lounge, The Re: Manga

    So I'm new to the world of manga. I picked up some random ones lying around my friend's house, and they were alright. The next logical step? Find another one ...

    Jul 14, 2007
  • Lounge, The Re: Post Your Pic Here (4)

    Muse has pretty hair, and a pretty dress! Lynlyn, that was alot of stage makeup! And those are quite the choir costumes :D The second picture was nice Crazy Areida ...

    Jul 14, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: No Excuses; No Stopping

    Very encouraging, but you took away all my excuses!! XD Even if I'm just thinking about what I'm going to write (and never actually write it, we writers do love ...

    Jul 14, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Eeeep, help!

    Maybe in their extreme avoidance of each other, they end up running into each other. Kinda like in cartoons where each character backs away from the other around the house/tree/whatever ...

    Jul 14, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Confused on Sentence Structure

    The second one sounds strange to me; I can't really think of an instance where you might use it outside of (satirically? idk). I'd go with the first one: general ...

    Jul 14, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Queen or queen

    I'll just elaborate on what Dream Deep said... This is like the president example, or the mother example (they always seem like common examples in my schoolbooks, anyway). In these ...

    Jul 14, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Dear 13-year-old: YOU SUCK!

    ok, i agree with not sugarcoating stuff, but at the same time, we do have to understand that a thirteen-year-old's piece of writing ISN'T going to be as good, simply ...

    Jul 14, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Alphasmart

    I didn't know what an Alphasmart was until this post (then I googled it and recognized it from a magazine, I think). It looks big and cumbersome to me. But ...

    Jul 14, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Dialogue in Mutes

    If you need to remind the reader that the character is mute, you could throw in another character's frustration at not knowing what s/he is saying. I'd probably go with ...

    Jul 14, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: What is conflict?

    I like the stupid decisions idea. Conflict is the worst thing that could happen to a character at the worst time (I always see it quoted something like 'run your ...

    Jul 14, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: A million starts to no ends

    XD I don't think I've ever actually finished a story longer than 2000 words.

    Jul 14, 2007


A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
— Orson Welles