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  • Art & Photography Re: {Photography}

    Hey, Incognito! These pictures are super gorgeous! Right now I live in a place with no trees...but I used to live in Wisconsin, so that's definitely a familiar sight. I ...

    Mar 20, 2009
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Accents and other languages

    I think using other languages in the text (in moderation) really helps readers to hear your characters in their head--if you write about two Greek characters in Greece and they ...

    Dec 6, 2008
  • NovMo Archives Re: NaNoisms!

    "No matter what, we have to shave her from Akshay." Ohdear.

    Nov 21, 2008
  • NovMo Archives Re: Favorite NaNo Bits and Pieces

    Leila is adorable sometimes: Also, sometime God play trick. They say God not like human, but I think maybe play trick sometime. Just to make people laugh, laugh, laugh, because ...

    Nov 8, 2008
  • NovMo Archives Re: NaNoWriMo Title!

    Among the Infidels, or, The Lovely Moon's Encroachment into the Lands of Disbelief I'm pretty sure I should win points for Wordiest Title.

    Nov 8, 2008
  • NovMo Archives Re: Post your first NaNoWriMo sentence!

    Technically, it's "My name is Leila." But technically-technically (that is to say, in third-person): "Leila's body was a temple."

    Nov 3, 2008
  • Art & Photography Re: NaNo Icons

    You win--I literally laughed out loud at these. XD I'm definitely stealing "Remember, remember!" and "All this happened, more or less". Vonngegut ftw.

    Oct 18, 2008
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Can we reorganize the fiction section?

    Sorry, leparapluie--glad to know that you have feedback, but I don't see the point, and there already is a forum for that. Keep the suggestions coming, though!

    Oct 12, 2008
  • NovMo Archives Re: Have a NaNoWriMo.org account? (08)

    Yes please! I'm 'dear_hoopoe'.

    Oct 11, 2008
  • NovMo Archives Re: What's your NaNo '08 about?

    Ah! I should probably fill this out... Times done NaNoWriMo : 3 '08 NaNo Name: Among the Infidels, or, The Lovely Moon's Encroachment into the Lands of Disbelief Genre: YA/LitFic ...

    Oct 5, 2008
  • Fiction Discussion Re: my writing needs more creativity

    Hey, Jordan! Welcome to YWS. ^_^ The simplest thing you can do is read. The best writers are readers--read good stuff and not-so-good stuff, but decide what you think and ...

    Sep 15, 2008
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Recommend your favorite book

    Everything is Illuminated & Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Johnathan Safran Foer -- these are absolutely beautiful, and avant garde in the way that they're unusual, but not inaccessible. ...

    Sep 2, 2008
  • Art & Photography Re: NaNo Banners

    Professor >> From Flickr. Ah! You guys are radical. The credits are as follows: 1. BBC 2. Stock 3. Close up of Hamzeh Karbasi shot 4. Wikipedia 5. Wikipedia 6. ...

    Aug 29, 2008
  • Art & Photography Re: NaNo Banners

    So maybe I'm a complete and utter nerd for doing this, but while I have actual free time before school eats me, I thought I might as well make a ...

    Aug 29, 2008
  • Writing Activities Re: Character Answer Game [2]

    Anything grilled chicken and delicious is direct from God. And Leilah--Leilah's big on the PB&J. - Haroun They're a necessary evil. - Shuqiao Uhm, sandwiches? Sandwiches ? Am I...uhm, missing ...

    Aug 28, 2008


For in everything it is no easy task to find the middle ... anyone can get angry—that is easy—or give or spend money; but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy; wherefore goodness is both rare and laudable and noble.
— Aristotle