Well firstly: Welcome to the site!!! Hope you have fun, we're all lovely here.......sometimes *cackles*. Just kidding.
Ok, secondly, I better run you through some of the basic site rules.
1. No chat-speak. Don't do it.
2. At YWS there's a system, for every piece of work you submit, you must review two pieces of other peoples. Mind you, you probably already know that because you've already got two reviews under your belt! yay!
3. Check out the rules (I think I've covered the two most important ones!)
Thidly, tell us more! What do you like to write? Any particular genres?
Happy writing!
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world"
- Oscar Wilde
Welcome Exploding Pen! Since the basics (rules, questions) have been covered already, I'll just give you a gift and be done with it. Charlie?
AH!!! AN EXPLODING PEN! JUST DON'T GET ON MY BRAND-NEW SUIT AND I'LL GIVE YOU A NICE GIFT! DEAL? OKAY! HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERE'S YOUR GIFT!!!!!!!!!!!!
"You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand." Leonardo Da Vinci
Ooh bookstores! My family makes fun of me for how much I enjoy spending time there. Once I walked into a Barnes and Noble with my sister, and she says I sighed when I got through the doors. I don't remember doing it, but *shrugs*
So I guess those lovely people above me did the obligitory mention of the rules. I hope you were paying attention, because we will severly punish you if you even THINK of breaking one!
Hey, so I'm interested to know what kinds of things you like to write, since you must like to write or you wouldn't be here, would you?
I hope you're not too overwhelmed by all this awesomeness we have crammed into the site. You'll get used to it... sort of. You'll get used to being constantly awed at everything.
If you have any questions or want a review, please PM me?
Alrighty. I haven't checked back here in a while, so I'll get to work answering the questions.
The username comes from my obsession with explosions, as well as my obsession with pens.
I'm a poet, and yes I know it (I'm tacky). I also like fiction; fantasy, realistic, etc. It's all awesome.
Umm... So yeah. That's basically me. Want to know anymore, PM me.
"You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them."
Now that I have your full attention, hehe, welcome to the land of red pens.
Oh! A poet! Very cool. Sadly, I've never attempted poetry. Truthfully, it scares me. I feel the reason is that I've only written stories, so the knack of poetry isn't there. Perhaps you could write a tutorial of how to write poetry; your thoughts, ideals, what has and has not worked for you and submit to the Knowledge Base or just the Writing Tips forum?
I'm a history nutt, which will shortly be evident, especially in the chat room. I mainly write historical fiction but I'm pretty fond of non-fiction too. Last week, I actually ventured into the Romance Forum for the first time, believe it or not! But I feel that boldness will be short-lived, as I am not a huggy, touching, feely-type of person. What can you do?
Welcome to YWS. We are a family, and it grows every day. So, welcome to the family!
Thanks for the welcome, Samuel Garrison. Maybe I will do that tutorial thing, but I don't think poetry's really something you can learn. You just build upon it. Sometimes I look at some of the stuff I wrote in fourth grade, and I think "My God, this sucks!" Or maybe I'm just overly critical of myself. Whatever.
"You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them."
Hey, if I'm equpped in writing tetorials about stories, I'm sure you'll be able to think of some detail that one should pay special attention too. After all, storytelling builds after time as well, like you mentioned, so does poetry. It's all in the craft and plugging tiredlessly away at it. The difference is, since I've never attempted poetry, I wouldn't know how to begin, much less understand the difference between suckage to delightful stanzas. XD
Don't worry. You're not alone. We all are expectionally critical of our work. It's a never-ending, fight for prefection, to the brink of self-destruction, lol!
The thing about poetry is that it's not what you say, it's how you say it. Take for example: "There were stars in the sky." Boring, no? But if you change it to: "The stars were pinpricks in the cloth of night," it suddenly becomes much more interesting.
"You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them."
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