Squills 3/21/13

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The thread you've stumbled into is the equivalent of a YWS newspaper, with each post in this thread being a news article. The focus of this paper is to give out a summary on the happenings of YWS at any given day and special features which tell about the new trends in YWS and current events. This feature runs all week long, featuring special coverage during events and certain occasions.

All members are welcome to submit their own news items. Keep in mind that all postings must comply with the YWS rules.

If you're an avid reader and want to pitch in or advertise or a concerned YWSer who wants to comment or ask us, then do so in the office at the Reader's Corner down below.


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Submitting Articles
Submissions will be taken over the span of the day. Tomorrow, this thread will be locked and a new one will take its place. Anyone can post a news article or column as long as the topic is new, fresh, current and about the YWS or writing, art and humanities, is family-friendly and follows YWS rules.

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Letters to the Editor
Have any questions, comments or sggestions? About Squills or YWS? Then share them to us please and let it be answer in public for all the readers' ease :D ! Please PM AlfredSymon for any letters for the editor.

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The Tatterdemalion takes a tattle!

"Stories are like yarn; just hold on to the tip and let the ball roll away"




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Grand Re-opening Days Away!

Yes, the much awaited Grand Re-opening of the Young Writers Society is but two days away! Reserve a spot in your schedule for the Grand Re-opening this Saturday, march 23, 2013.

A way you can help i the big gathering is to publish it! Tell everyone about the YWS and the newness it just got! Invite users and recommend the big family :D

A new feature will be revealed on the day. All participants will be given a free bookmark, too! So, if you're on the right mind, you'f BE there!
Need some feed? Then read some! Take a look at today's Squills at In the News.

The Tatterdemalion takes a tattle!

"Stories are like yarn; just hold on to the tip and let the ball roll away"




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Do you want to lounge off on YWS? Well, there's a place for that! Do you want to goof around instead of writing a melodramatic romance novel? There's a place for that, too! That place is the Randomosity forum!

That sounds like fun and everything, you say, but what if you don't know what to do on there? Well, a solution has been thrown upon you! It's the Featured Randomization Infestation, where we feature fun, exciting, and always sporactic topics!

This week in the Featured Randomization Infestation, Bird's the Word, or is it? In this week's topic, you have to change the most recent post's word with only one letter to make another word, whether it be adding, removing, or just changing a letter, it's up to you!

Go check it out!

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Featured Club of the Day!

Wheel of Prompts

Got Writer's Block? Here's the club that makes that little monster run away! Created by Zyphlid, Wheel of Prompts is a club designed to make the writer write by helping them to draw inspiration from anything, be it a picture, a phrase, a dialogue, a song, a sentence, or a quote! The forums have got the all the lists of previous prompts as well, so head on over if you're feeling the urge to challenge yourself and write!

Latest Club!

Character Development 2.0

Do you think your characters are lacking in their personalities? Here's a place where you can develop them as much as you like! Whether it's your typical evil taking-over-the-world villain, or your brave saving-the-world hero, this is where you can make them a little more unique! Have fun, play around with their histories, and make them better characters!
I'd rather waltz than just walk through the forest.
The trees keep the tempo and they sway in time.
Quartet of crickets chime in for the chorus.
If I were to pluck on your heart strings would you strum on mine?

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New Arrivals


Introducing the site's newest members. Take a moment to go welcome them!

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"From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf
"A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni
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Hey pepole of yws! i think i will really like it here!




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Art of Today

Today's artist, Anelia "Annael" Pavlova, is an Australian born in Bulgaria in 1956. A bit older than the prior artist in this feature, but she did something quite impressive--she created her own printmaking technique, a technique which use of oil paints adds intense color. In her paintings, it is said she had great inspiration from Dutch masters. As her monoprints are (borderline) Cubist, her paintings are quite traditional except for their use of blinding colors clashed with pale tones. Aboriginal themes also pop up in her work, as she works to show her Australian heritage rather than merely focusing on Western culture.

An example of a monoprint:

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An example of a painting (Vespers):

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My SPD senses are tingling.



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