Mars

This might help you. :D

You knew how old I was.

I think it's fine. Besides, being cliche isn't necessarily a bad thing.

I've never heard it, either in the Midwestern USA or Northern UK. ^^

In elementary school, my teacher told us about homophones : those words that sound the same but are spelled differently and mean different things. These poor words cause a lot ...

Any aspiring poet has, at one point, been scolded for a piece that is too 'unoriginal' - I know, because I've critiqued those pieces and been critiqued for that. The ...

Lovely! ^^ I'm sure that I'll be referencing YWSers to this article. Also, I've always been horrid at spelling beginning, so congratulations on that. You should def. submit this to ...

and then the earth stopped turning

You'll not leave her to die. (bump)

Arcaus, I think the main thing is that you have to find an idea that you're really passionate about. Planning can help, because once you know what's going to happen, ...

5. Music is so necessary, but I find that because I know every single song on my iPod by heart, I can't focus because I'm too busy singing along to ...

1. Write, write, write! So important. I've not finished a million majillion ideas because I failed to simply start writing them. Getting through first draft phase is the worst part ...

Multiple journals would help me a lot, I think. I don't throw my writing away, but I'm extremely disorganized and lose most of it. Right now I have one notebook ...