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  • Writing Tips Re: Dictionary.com sold out! Now what?? I need new writing tool

    So... does anyone know a good site that has a dictionary and a thesaurus on the same page? And what do you guys use these days for a spell checker ...

    Aug 25, 2006
  • Writing Activities Re: Character Answer Game

    I don't. ...usually. What? -Tov Call that irrelevant - what arts? Tagged street corners or the marks of Molotovs all down the back alleys of rezkoye ? It doesn't come ...

    Aug 24, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: How to Avoid Sex Scenes

    Ah...nothing I've ever written had a sex scene as something relevant - certainly not key to the main events. If the idea is there, it's on the periphery. Books with ...

    Aug 24, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: BEARISH!

    Perhaps if you made it...'crushed him like a bear in an embrace'? But that sounds just as terribly awkward as well. 0.o I think simple and less adjectival would work ...

    Aug 24, 2006
  • Welcome Mat Re: h.a.l.l.o

    Nate is the all-powerful deity around here, or...the admin. and founder of the site. ^_~ And you're welcomed to it. Anyhow, if you have any other questions like the former, ...

    Aug 24, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: D is for Diction

    The world can only use more good diction - helps people think straight as well. ^_^ This obviously means what it says.

    Aug 24, 2006
  • Information Desk Archive Re: Woah! What Happened To The Front Page?

    What Is YWS? A place where admins chock up the front pages with blogs of announcments? Or is it a place where young writers can come and show there stuff! ...

    Aug 24, 2006
  • Welcome Mat Re: Hello there!

    Hullo Darek and welcome to YWS. ^_^ It's rather fun whether you write reams or merely post now and then to see how it goes... As Kay points out, if ...

    Aug 23, 2006
  • Welcome Mat Re: A Glorious Homecoming

    It is as earnest as all dear Sharty's flawless work...of course.

    Aug 23, 2006
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Journey

    Oh I don't know, Jig - seemed decent enough... ^_~ No, in all honesty, why shouldn't it have been marked highly? I loved the descriptions, deft contrasts and the picture ...

    Aug 23, 2006
  • Writing Activities Re: Character Answer Game

    Personal quality...? Right, that would be being quick enough to still be alive? Odds, hey - most people aren't. ...Er, that would be a serious question? -Tov I don't...pride always ...

    Aug 23, 2006
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Sudden Impulse: Dylan the Vain

    That was eerie...grotesquely woven; and you pulled off the character deftly. Half-mad and the morbid fantasies... The random choice struck particularly - deranged and believable. You switch tense thou

    Aug 23, 2006
  • Fantasy Novels Re: The Chair of Wind & Darkness: Draft Two [1-4]: Closed

    Important Issue in the Chair: I don't swear. Mainly because my parents would kill me if I did. Now - as you have likely noticed - there is some cursing ...

    Aug 23, 2006
  • Official Polls Re: Library or Book Store?

    ...too low on funds for the bookstore more than every now and then. !_! So library, of course.

    Aug 22, 2006
  • Fiction Discussion Re: What are you reading at the moment?

    Another short story collection (Dostoyevsky) and Notes From the Underground . Now I've forgotten something that I read...was reading, maybe. It must be the time...

    Aug 22, 2006


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