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What Do YOU Want to Ask Author John Green?
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By: Emily Winter

Orange juice shall be spilled. Laundry baskets, overturned. Pets, startled. Wherever you are reading this will momentarily become a HAVEN OF CHAOS AND MAYHEM, because ...

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category: Books | Mindhut
tags: writing | reading | interviews | john green | an abundance of katherines | books-and-comics | paper towns | the fault in our stars | looking for alaska

Famous People Make Awesome Friends (We Know This Because Joseph Gordon-Levitt is Our Bestie)
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By: Chelsea Dagger

Last week I asked you butts to spin me a yarn about being best friends with your favorite celebrity, and the results were ...

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category: Books | Life
tags: writing | writers | short stories | sparkler fiction | writer wars

Why I Love and Hate Writing Fiction
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By: Contributor

I'm taking a class this semester called “The Craft of Fiction,” in which we read and write as much fiction as possible. Sounds like the ...

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category: Life | College Advisor
tags: writing | fiction | life according to ginger | short stories | college life | peer editing | creative writing | kelly link

Buried Alive: A True Story (Maybe)
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By: Chelsea Dagger

Did you butts know that there was an entire MOVIE based off the premise of last week's prompt? Yessiree, it's true: Ryan Reynolds ...

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category: Books | Life
tags: writing | fiction | writers | sparkler fiction | writer wars | writing prompts | ryan reynolds

Annoying Corrections (That Are Not Correct)
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By: Jon_Skindzier

Sometimes people really do have good intentions when they correct you. "But those aren't honeybees, they're killer bees!" would be a helpful clarification for ...

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category: Life
tags: annoying things | language | grammar | writing | communication | spelling

Somebody Call the President: Voldemort Just Won the Hunger Games
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By: Chelsea Dagger

KA-BLAM. That was the sound of me putting all three of last week's prompts into one giganticly (made that word up!) awesome title. ...

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category: Books | Life
tags: writing | fiction | writers | short stories | sparkler fiction | writer wars

The Worst (Imaginary) Novel Openings
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By: Rachel Korowitz

I spent my teens slogging through Gravity's Rainbow and Ulysses and translating Caesar's infinity-length ramblings, so if an author doesn't ...

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category: Books
tags: grammar | writing | novels | fiction | bad writing | sentences

The Return of the King (Writer Wars is BBACCCKKKK)
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By: Chelsea Dagger

You butts know that scene in Lord of the Rings when everybody thinks Aragorn is dead, and then he busts through the doors...

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category: Books | Life
tags: writing | fiction | writers | short stories | lotr | sparkler fiction | writer wars | aragorn

2012: The Year of the Writer
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By: Chelsea Dagger

I really wanted to use an uber-dramatic title for today's Writer Wars post, since it's the start of a brand-new year and all, but I ...

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category: Books | Life
tags: writing | fiction | writers | sparkler fiction | writer wars | writing prompts

How To Write a Get Well Card
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By: Jon_Skindzier

We are all delicate, fragile creatures, likely at any moment to be stricken with Yak Flu, or to contract Ebola, or to be hit ...

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category: Life
tags: writing | manners | illness | greeting cards | get well cards
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