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Re: Keeping Background Information Interesting
How do I keep from infodumping? My main character is telling some minor characters some background information, and I don’t know how to break it up. This information is necessary ...
Oct 18, 2009 -
Re: discussion on Twilight (and Eragon)
Calm down, everyone. I think the reference to the website was just a joke, so you shouldn't take it too seriously. :)
Oct 16, 2009 -
Re: Writing As A Career
I don't get the point of majoring in English to be a writer. If you want to write, write--there's no need to pay thousands of dollars a year for classes. ...
Oct 11, 2009 -
Re: Bartemius Wins Peace Prize
YAY! YWS represents, yo!
Oct 9, 2009 -
Re: And We Were
Actually, it reminds me of The Wall in Washington D.C. There's a traveling one and it came to our town once. I remember when Mom went to look at it, ...
Oct 9, 2009 -
Re: Halp! D:
Join my usergroup for character development! :D No, seriously, don't worry too much about it! You're probably just doing the first draft. Write the thing first (no, seriously, just write!) ...
Oct 9, 2009 -
Re: Obama Applauds YWS in Community Service Speech
Why is everybody talking in spoilers?
Oct 8, 2009 -
Re: WHIP THEM INSTRUCTORS (and get points!)
How to defeat the plot bunnies? That aught to get them thinking.... LOL. Be more specific! What particular elements of plot are you struggling with? I.E. do your plot bunnies ...
Oct 8, 2009 -
Re: WHIP THEM INSTRUCTORS (and get points!)
I'm not sure I can stump any intructors, but you've seen me ranting about character development before. You gave me some great advice on my blog and I've love to ...
Oct 7, 2009 -
Re: WHIP THEM INSTRUCTORS (and get points!)
Okay. So you regular members don't know about this, but basically, the moderators of YWS basically beat our instructors (the people in purple!) regularly. It actually looks something like this: ...
Oct 7, 2009 -
Re: Shrive: Prologue
Intriguing! I don't really have any comments, per say, but only because it's intriguing and I'm wondering what is going to happen next. Which is good! Questions I'm wondering: Who ...
Oct 5, 2009 -
Re: Towers
Dreamer! :P This is boring! The characterization is flat. You have Crystal, the class, teacher, and your narrator, and I can safely say that I have no idea why I ...
Oct 5, 2009 -
Re: Review Ratios and You (reform!)
Bek is right. The 3:1 ratio would count for everyone. However, only reviews and literary works since October 1st would be taken into account for the purpose of posting new ...
Oct 5, 2009 -
Re: The War Wind
Hey pudding! :D There were a lot of good things about this poem! For one, you actually talked about something real that we could visualize. So that gives us a ...
Oct 4, 2009 -
Re: SPEW
Well, what is our hypothesis?
Oct 4, 2009
