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Nate

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  • Lounge, The Re: What social media services do you use?

    Feel free to provide a link to your tumblr, twitter account, or what have you, but I'm interested in knowing what social media services you all use. The reason for ...

    Jul 14, 2011
  • Lounge, The Re: Memorial Fund in Memory of Conrad Rice

    Wow, someone donated $114 last night. It's an anonymous donation so I can't tell who it is, but thank you. This means that the $250 goal has been met, which ...

    Jul 14, 2011
  • Lounge, The Re: Stop using Internet Explorer 8!

    Stargazer ->> Good to hear! And aye, Norton is terrible. It's almost like a virus itself as it sucks away system resources and is almost impossible to remove.

    Jul 13, 2011
  • Lounge, The Re: Stop using Internet Explorer 8!

    Stargazer ->> Sounds like you either have a virus or your computer is infected with malware. If Firefox was the reason behind the pop-up ads, then don't you think everyone ...

    Jul 13, 2011
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Agree or Disagree: Student should be fined for cutting class

    Concord, California may soon fine students for cutting class. The first offense would be for $100. A second offense would be for $200, and a third offense would be for ...

    Jul 12, 2011
  • Information Desk Archive Re: YWS Unexpected Downtime - July 12

    It seems like every time I squash one problem related to our database, another one pops up. This time around, the culprit was the query used to calculate the Recent ...

    Jul 12, 2011
  • Lounge, The Re: At what age did you start writing?

    For me, I really began writing in third grade when I started writing a series of short stories about an Eagle scout named Jeff and his two girlfriends...

    Jul 12, 2011
  • Information Desk Archive Re: A quick survey

    Keep the responses going! Thank you to all who have taken the time so far. If you haven't taken the time, why the heck not? It's five questions! ;)

    Jul 12, 2011
  • Lounge, The Re: At what age did you start writing?

    So, at what age did you start writing? And do you remember what your first story was about?

    Jul 12, 2011
  • Lounge, The Re: Memorial Fund in Memory of Conrad Rice

    On July 8, 2011, our friend Conrad Rice passed away. If you wish, more information is available by clicking here . In memory of him, YWS has set up a ...

    Jul 12, 2011
  • Writer's Market Re: Mega list of sci-fi/fant/horror short story markets

    This is pretty awesome.

    Jul 11, 2011
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Religion causes more problems than it solves

    Please all, no flame-baiting. Referring to others as trolls or referring to a belief in God as the invisible pixie in the sky is not appropriate in this forum.

    Jul 11, 2011
  • Research Re: How to achieve a 48 hour day?

    Why do you need to explain? Unless this is hard sci-fi, you really don't need to go into any details about why the planet has a 48 hour day. If ...

    Jul 10, 2011
  • Information Desk Archive Re: YWS Unexpected Downtime / Maintenance - July 9

    Today, July 9, 2011, YWS underwent an unscheduled maintenance operation. This was a result of the database failing twice in two days. What I've done is to convert the database ...

    Jul 9, 2011
  • Information Desk Archive Re: YWS Unexpected Downtime - July 8

    Earlier today, the Young Writers Society crashed due to a corrupted temporary file system. In other words, there was a RAM / memory failure. I managed to fix that, but ...

    Jul 9, 2011


Oh, Brightlord Tumul! How unexpected it is to see you standing there! I didn't mean to insult your stupidity. Really, it's quite spectacular and worthy of much praise.
— Wit (The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson)