Due this week

5. Haunted. Have you ever been in a house where things go bump in the night? Do you believe that some buildings or places are haunted? Is there one in your town? Tell us a story about it. Make it believable.
Alternate: Lockers. What one thing do you wish no one to know about in your locker? Or what is the most important thing in your locker? Deadline: Friday Oct. 17.

To submit to Newspaper Series

  • Log in. (Click "Not a YWP member?" to create an account.)

  • Click "create content" and create an ENTRY
  • Fill out "title," "author name, school & grade" and "prompt" boxes.
  • Paste story into "body."
  • Click "Submit." You are done.
    NOTES: Your account email must be accurate; a "blog" entry must be resubmitted as an ENTRY to be considered.

OK, MM, here's another thing we can do with this....

Submitted by ggevalt on April 22, 2008 - 17:16.

Feel free to post live links to videos of writers talking about writing or reading their writing or offering tips on writing. Or link to cool videos that combine music and great lyrics or that are powerful digital stories. All you need to do is get the full url link, and, in the body of your story or comment, put this . Click here for more. AND, put the word "video" and in keywords (without quotes.) If you do that, then all you need to do is click on the keyword to see all the videos (or go up to "READ" above and click on Videos on Writing.

So here's short story writer Aimee Bender reading a story and talking about writing:

mixedmusic333's picture

Perfect!

Submitted by mixedmusic333 on April 22, 2008 - 17:28.

Perfect!

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