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1. July 2015 Review Day Interview
2. New Arrivals
3. Link Roundup – 7/26
4. Shameless Plugs
5. Subscribers

JULY 2015 REVIEW DAY INTERVIEWwritten by Elysium < PM: >

Hello everyone! Elysium, your community reporter here!

I interviewed YWSers @Atsmai, @Strange, @CandyWizard, and @Lumi about review day. This review day theme is Avatar and within the first 24 hours of the teams being created, there were already about 80 members joined! Now, here are the interviews!



Strange: I honestly don't really get ready, I just jump in once it starts and see how far I can go. I tend to drink a lot of water.

Atsmai: plan to have a full day of reviewing so I don't have any plans on Sunday when Review day comes.

CandyWizard: As I'm sure you know, Ely, reviewing can be tiring business, so I do my best to get as much sleep as I can. I drink plenty of water, and exercise my fingers as often as I can. When review day comes, I'll go so high on sugars that I'll stay hyper until I can write no more.

Lumi: This is actually the first rDay I've been able to participate in for a long while. So for this particular review day, I took one of the reins in the hype train to try and get people pumped for the actual event itself. Other than that, I've just been reading a lot of poetry and fic in prep for the actual reviewing!



S: Sure.

A: Yes. This will be the first one I'll actually be reviewing in, I was busy last time, and better yet, the theme is Avatar!


CW: No, honestly, I'm not. I regret to say that I have never seen anything Avatar, but I can definitely understand the hype.

L: I am! The plan developed really quickly and got almost unanimous support from the staff--so before everyone else got a chance to be excited, @StellaThomas and @Iggy and I were practically foaming at the mouth. Avatar is the most important series in Nickelodeon history, after all.



S:10, for my first blue star

A:As many as I can, maybe I'll get tired and stop, I plan to do at least.... 7.

CW:As many as I can, really. I cannot estimate at this point, but it can be anything from one to ten to thirty. I don't have any plans for Sunday, but life is like a vending machine - you never know what you're gonna get, if it lets you!


L: My goal is at least five. That may seem low, but I'm going to be working around swing shifts and squeezing in enough sleep to keep me going--so I think five is actually a pretty tough goal for me for right now. Plus, I want to review at least one chapter, one article, one poem, and one short story. I like to stay versatile.



S: Earth Nation!

A: THE FIRE NATION, which I hope will be renamed The Fire Ferrets, as that name got my vote

CW: I represent the Air Nomads. Our motto is: Our strong winds shall evaporate the water, they shall extinguish the burning flames, and blow away the small crumbs of earth.


L: Air Nomads! I'm totally embracing the concept of being the leaf. The one drawback is that I'm not currently bald...so maybe I should work on that.

Some pretty great answers! Thank you all for your time and happy review day!

NEW ARRIVALS
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Take a moment to welcome this week’s newest members to the site!

@GoldenBroom, @Lissa, and @PatternsInPaintChips have done one review. Check out Chances by PatternsInPaintChips.

@Ronald559 and @Catlover211 have both done twenty-three reviews. Check out Ronald’s portfolio as well as Catlover’s .

@Rumi and @Ghaylle22 both have five reviews. Ghaylle’s portfolio need reviewers.

@mermaidwriter is planning on working on a story about mermaids. @mgprettiess is a Vampire Diaries fan, and @Archaeopteryx is a geologist. Say hi to him on his Welcome Mat post .

THIS WEEK'S ROUNDUP – 7/26written by megsug < PM: >

Admire art, introduce a character of yours, or get lectured at. It can all be found on this week’s roundup!


@mephistophelesangel has started an art thread. She doesn’t just show the finished product but the entire process from sketching to color. @Zolen’s favorite so far is:







Most of mephistophelesangel’s inspiration has come from books right now though she has also drawn a picture out of frustration. All of her pictures are nice to look at. Check them out for yourself today!


@plathonstone wants to know what the pint of poetry is. As a poetry lover herself, she’s curious about what others think. Despite the great question, only @Lumi has responded. He thinks:







After a short dissection of why people write in general, Lumi’s answer makes a lot of sense, but I’d like to see what other people think.


@Emerson created a thread to introduce characters in 2008. The technical rule is that the introduction can be one sentence long, but that has been bent or completely snapped in half many times. Reading through the thread is fun. You’ll run across intros including backstory, snippets of character development or just small details. I like @catmuffin’s short blurb a lot:







How would your characters introduce themselves?


@Flite has blessed us all with some indepth info on sleep and how important it is. They explain sleep cycles, give you fun (and terrifying) facts about the effects of lack of sleep on your body, and useful tips like:







I think everyone should give this a read and rethink how they sleep and if it’s healthy enough.

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