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  • Art & Photography Re: Character in Blender (Work in progress)

    That looks pretty cool, Leth.

    Mar 14, 2012
  • Lounge, The Re: Facebook anyone?

    I used to have a few YWS friends on fb... but then they unfriended me...

    Mar 14, 2012
  • Lounge, The Re: Recruiting Inkies?

    HarperCollins merged Inkpop with Figment at the beginning of this month. It quite saddens me because although I was just a shadow on both sites, I found Inkpop to have ...

    Mar 9, 2012
  • Fantasy Short Stories Re: Tainted Love Rewrite

    Dexter: My mouth foamed with white saliva, the liquid slowly trickling down my jaw. I was so thirsty even my normal blood intakes couldn’t quench my thirst. There has never ...

    Jan 4, 2012
  • Fantasy Short Stories Re: Tainted Love

    I've done a rewrite of this piece with (hopefully) increased characterization and clarity. Here's the url: This is for a contest on figment. Reviews would deeply be appreciated. I didn’t ...

    Dec 29, 2011
  • Writing Tutorials Re: 5 Tips for Finishing a Novel

    Thank you for posting this. I would *like* this, but with the like button gone and everything... *goes to feed some ducks*

    Dec 29, 2011
  • Other Re: My Dearest Walter(revised...again)

    I like the bit of foreshadowing you used at the beginning of this prose. At my second glance, it provides deeper meaning, and I understand why Charity is so cautious ...

    Dec 16, 2011
  • Information Desk Archive Re: Old

    I don't know about everyone else, but I'm kind of anxious and freaked out about change... But it'll be exciting to see the glitching cease, so I can have YWS ...

    Dec 15, 2011
  • Romantic Novels Re: I Love You (Preview)

    My Sweet ________, Fine. I’m done fighting it. I can’t just shove it back and wait for something to happen. I’m done pretending that you’re just my best friend. Because ...

    Dec 15, 2011
  • General Fiction Novels Re: Prologue

    Before I finish , I strictly told Marcus Wilson to stop singing anymore because he had a dreadful voice and I totally hated it. *finished-you have been writing this whole ...

    Dec 4, 2011
  • Fantasy Novels Re: If I Had A Title For This It Would Be Up Here

    Hello. The other YWSers have provided you with very insightful advice. I agree with Rachel about clarity. Some of your sentences are confusing, and I think it's fair to say ...

    Nov 30, 2011
  • Action/Adventure Novels Re: Cocktail (chapter one)

    "I don't remember hiring a--- oh wait, one of our cameras is on the fritz, what should we do?" This line seems a bit out of place. The security guard ...

    Nov 28, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Loss - (emotion despair)

    Desperately I struggle to shake myself from this trance that has consumed me, but its shackles are tight and I can no longer break free. Comma after "Desperately". You need ...

    Nov 27, 2011
  • Art & Photography Re: Class of 2013 cover

    I like the cover image and the big KA-BOOM in the back. It gives it a somewhat eerie, mystifying feel to the novel. However, I'm not a fan at all ...

    Nov 23, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Listen carefully.

    He's talking to you, to all of you on the 7 Train to Times Square at 6:37pm when the sky is a painting, maybe a Renoir impressionism one, with strokes ...

    Nov 23, 2011


More than anything she wanted the world to be uncomplicated, for right and wrong to be as easily divided as the black and white sections of an Oreo. But the world was not a cookie.
— Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes