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Nate

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  • Writing Activities Re: Your Boat Is Sinking And You Have Thirty Seconds To Evacuate

    This is an exercise in organization & prioritization that I do sometimes when I'm tutoring (you might have run across it before as it's a rather popular one). Let's say ...

    Aug 14, 2007
  • Media Reviews Re: Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows

    Just finished it about 15 minutes ago, and it was brilliant (as everyone else has said). I'm really glad she chose to write an epilogue because I always wonder what ...

    Jul 23, 2007
  • Art & Photography Re: YWS Highwind

    Looking good!

    May 10, 2007
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Pseudonyms/using fake names online...good or bad?

    I've almost always gone by real name just because it's too weird for me to go by a pseudonym. Plus, when I have gone by a pseudonym, I get sick ...

    Apr 30, 2007
  • Art & Photography Re: YWS Highwind

    A W E S O M E These are incredible.

    Apr 29, 2007
  • Writing Activities Re: Writing Activities Now Cost 5 Points Per Post [OUTDATED]

    The original intent of the Writing Activities forum was to have a quick writing prompt area. However, over time that has changed and while it is still not by any ...

    Apr 21, 2007
  • Media Reviews Re: YWS Classics Debate

    Got 11! But I'm pretty sure "The Kite Runner" isn't anymore than 10 years old. It's an awesome book though, and the author should be coming out with his second ...

    Apr 18, 2007
  • NovMo Archives Re: It's Over!

    I did terribly... I don't even want to say how bad I did. Anyways, if you have your novel, and want it posted on YWS, there's a couple of ways ...

    Dec 1, 2006
  • Writing Activities Re: How fast can you type?

    Hmmm... did this in May, but didn't post my results. Maybe I was embarrassed? Test Name: Strategic Alliances With Competitors Gross Speed: 65 wpm Errors: 4 words Net Speed: 61 ...

    Nov 29, 2006
  • NovMo Archives Re: Post your wordcount!

    Awesome, I no longer feel alone in my lowly word count, Sureal. I'm at 835...

    Nov 2, 2006
  • NovMo Archives Re: NaNoWriMo Novel Status!

    Mine's an idea that I've had for a long time. It's about two groups of neighborhood kids who set up rival lemonade stands. I'm basing it largely off the area ...

    Oct 26, 2006
  • NovMo Archives Re: NaNoWriMo Novel Status!

    Okay everyone, so where are you in your novel right now? I'm still in the planning stages for mine, but I do plan on doing it this year!

    Oct 26, 2006
  • Writing Activities Re: YWS 10.0

    More of a thought exercise than a writing activity, but... Lets assume that YWS is not only still around in 2020, but that it's stronger than ever (having survived the ...

    Oct 8, 2006
  • Media Reviews Re: The Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell

    I should say that I'm really not that good at book reviews. In fact, I'm downright terrible. But here goes nothing... I'm the type of person that, for some reason, ...

    Sep 14, 2006
  • Media Reviews Re: The Communist Manifesto

    Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations." Most libraries have it.

    Aug 25, 2006


You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?
— Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid