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Word History of the Week: Ye 7

Word History of the Week: Ye

Welcome again to The Word of the Week! This edition, we’re going back in time to visit Ye Olde Word Facts. If you think of restaurant trying to seem quaint and English, the first...

Word of the Week #2 4

Word of the Week #2

Petula was completely taken in by Clark’s blandiloquence. blandiloquence (noun) blæn-DIL-ê-kwens 1. Smooth talk, flattery.

Poetry for the Prose Writer 1

Poetry for the Prose Writer

I can hear you even now, reader mind, declaring that a proser could never be a poet! That said forms are wildly different! That hysteria is fun! I joke, but we do all know...

On the Spotlight: “Do You See the Worms?” 2

On the Spotlight: “Do You See the Worms?”

If there’s one thing we can say about our fellow writers, it is that we’re readers first. Every day, members of the Young Writers’ Society are privileged to the works created by our friends...

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Things Every Writer Should Know (2/24/13)

Five Ways to Make Research Fun (And Hopefully More Productive…) Research. Some of us thrive off of it. Some of us avoid it like the plague. Some of us even use it to procrastinate....

Behind the keyboard: On being a writer 5

Behind the keyboard: On being a writer

We writers, as a group, must be very strange to outsiders. For one thing, we sometimes hear voices in our head. However, we sometimes call them our characters. We write down the things they...