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If you want to develop this story further (or a similar story), I highly suggest "The Giver" by Lois Lowry. It's an excellent book on the same sort of subject; ...

Y'all use the 'caps lock' key??? I used to do that a really long time ago, but migrated to the shift key around fifth grade. It's much faster! But, to ...

For those who read my latest blog entry, you'll know that I am committing myself to 100 reviews over the next 15 days. But it's never fun to do something ...

Thanks Jiggity; I agree with you almost 100% that the length and depth of the review should be in proportion to the writer's age. I don't get quite to the ...

You're not going to be banned or even warned for improper capitalization, but come on guys! The 'shift' key is right there in the lower left hand corner of your ...

While I appreciate the sentiment, the people you should really be thanking are Meshugenah, kitty15, and Buscador for prompting this decision. Locked!

An interesting observation struck me last week, and that is there seemed to be more posts being made in the "Will Review For Food" forum rather than actual reviews in ...

Sounds all right. Can we join before 18, then start posting when we're old enough? Nope, sorry. The registration system is actually set up such that if you're under 18, ...

If you haven't yet, please remember to register at just in case YWS goes down!

If you want to post your book chapter by chapter, then do so in the regular literary forums and not here. If you do post a chapter here at a ...

As you may know, the Young Writers Society will soon be receiving a dramatic upgrade. The target date for this upgrade is February 28, 2009, but it could very well ...

Has it already begun to be phased in? The new site, I mean? The front page looks a bit different and there's a jump-to bar at the top I never ...

congratulations do these forums do competitions like this often? This is the biggest one we've done yet, but we usually have contests with prizes every two months. Since we usually ...

Per the Fair Use Act, as long as you don't use it for profit, you're fine. Otherwise, you got to contact Lucas Film for permission to use a world in ...

The YWS Big Birthday Contest was to write a personal essay no longer than 500 words. The form the essay took was entirely up to the author; it could be ...