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Nate

Creator and Owner of a Paper Airplane

  • Writers Corner Re: How Helpful is YWS??

    Apparently it's helped you quite a bit: September 4, 2009: September 1, 2010:

    Sep 1, 2010
  • Research Re: Time Travel Survey

    1. I'd travel to Rome in the late Republic period during the time of either Caesar or Sulla. 2. For vacation? If there's no limits... then the beaches of Pangea ...

    Jun 18, 2010
  • YWS Re: The YWS Critique Sandwich

    I'd like to introduce you to the YWS critique sandwich . This is something I noticed YWSers doing some years ago, and I think it's a great way to write ...

    Jan 25, 2010
  • Writing Tips Re: Self Editing Before You Post

    Rather than posting something right after you've written it, give it a few days to stew. I think this is the best advice! I can never self-edit something that I ...

    Dec 13, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Are Names Copyrighted?

    As Sureal already said, the answer is no. There's no qualifications, no opinions, no nothing. The answer is simply 'no.' You can't copyright a name under any circumstances whatsoever. Guys, ...

    Sep 19, 2009
  • Will Review For Food Re: RULES [Must Read]

    When requesting a review in the "Will Review for Food" forum, please make no more than two requests every few days. This is not only to help the reviewers review ...

    Jul 16, 2009
  • Writers Corner Re: Copyrights

    Per the Fair Use Act, as long as you don't use it for profit, you're fine. Otherwise, you got to contact Lucas Film for permission to use a world in ...

    Dec 11, 2008
  • Miscellaneous Re: Copyright Law and YWS

    Great article, and I have only a couple things to add. First, you switch from "Fair Use" to "Free Use" in one instance near the end. You should fix that ...

    Nov 24, 2008
  • Research Re: Question about economics.

    Whether a large city or not develops really depends on a number of factors, and for the sake of simplicity, I'd suggest not coming up with an economics factor. If ...

    Nov 21, 2008
  • Research Re: Question about economics.

    Interesting question. But a few things... is Taiga the name of the second village or do you mean something else? And what do you mean by trade center?

    Nov 21, 2008
  • Writing Tips Re: Copyrights and legal issues

    As promised, here's why: Thanks to fair use & freedom of speech laws in all Western style nations, you can write about just about anything you want to write about. ...

    Aug 14, 2008
  • Writing Tips Re: Copyrights and legal issues

    You don't need to worry about using Wal-Mart. I'll write a longer post later explaining why.

    Aug 13, 2008
  • Writers Corner Re: I don't know if I can go on

    Writing is a personal thing, so when you come to hate your writing, you do exactly the same thing when you come to hate a person; that is, you take ...

    Jun 11, 2008
  • Grammar & Research Re: Five Tips on Researching: Gathering Information for Stories,

    This is an excellent list. Thank you fishr!

    Feb 24, 2008
  • Writers Corner Re: Plot webbing

    :P

    Feb 20, 2008


Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it’s a cactus.
— Enid Bagnold