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Topic- Women's Suffering in the Holocaust Mama, where are you from? Time and again I have heard you ask this question. At the time I was too scared to give you an answer. At the time I was ashamed that if I told you, you would be ashamed of your past. But now I realize I have been selfish. The answer is no longer a story I must bury away in the past. This story is not mine to keep, it is mine to give. It is mine to pass on to you, to your children, to your children’s children. This story isn’t just my background, it is yours. And one day, you too will be asked, Mama, where are you from? I am from the smell of musty wood as I cro

When it comes to the "literature" from the Young Adult section at the library, I think it's gotten to the point that you can indeed judge a book by its cover. Just because something is a book, does not mean that it doesn't make you stupid. Sometimes books can be brain-rotting, even more so than a good old, wholesome cartoon, if I may be so bold. Today I will show you a guide about how to judge a book by its cover; that way you can conveniently know what books to avoid and which you decide are tolerable. WARNING!!!!!!!! DO NOT CONFUSE THESE FOR GOOD BOOKS THAT HAVE SOME OF THE SAME TRAITS. Okay, carry on: Charlie Jackson: Charlie Jackson

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The Problem with Self Inserts There is nothing wrong with inserting yourself into a story. Like anything, it can be well done or... not so well done. The fact is, the majority of people who tend to write about self inserts happen to be beginners. Naturally, that causes there to be a pattern of certain, specific mistakes that are frequently found whilst reading anything on the internet. The purpose of this deviation isn't to say that self inserts are bad. I'm simply going to point out the most common mistakes that we usually encounter. 1. Making ourselves better than we really are. Don't be fooled by the word "better." This can be replaced

Don't be offended at the title. "Teenagers" is just my way of saying "people who write unprofessional/shallow stories." Not all teenagers write shallow stories, it just sounds catchier.... Anyway. The first thing I want to make clear is: I'm not talking about anything mechanical in this deviation. Grammar/spelling is important (obviously), but that point has been beaten to death by people on the internet already. My purpose, as always, is to talk about the stories themselves, regardless of the way they are communicated. Whether it be through written word or on-the-spot narration, I believe there are certain tricks to telling good stories. No

UPDATE: READ THE NEW EXTENSION TO THIS POST. LINK IN DESCRIPTION! Despite the few who haven't caught on yet and still believe that "kids hate reading," we all know that these days, reading is popular. "I'm just like Belle from Beauty in the Beast, because I love books," teenage girls are saying, while teens of both genders are sitting down to enjoy things like Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Eragon, Lord of the Rings and other more obscure titles. This is just what we've been hoping for, isn't it? Kids and teens finally taking an interest in literature. It has finally become cool. They're thinking of themselves as rebels or nerd

Hate is a strong word. Did you ever hear someone say, "We need to stop bullying!" and wonder to yourself, when you have ever seen a stereotypical bully with big muscles and a black, ripped-up leather jacket pushing around smaller kids and stealing their lunch money? Realizing this is obviously corny and unrealistic, you throw this idea away in the sewer where it belongs. But then who are these bullies that everyone is talking about? It seems very interesting that bullying has (as they say) become such a very big problem nowadays... Hence the inspirational phrases, "haters gonna hate," and "don't judge," coming into popularity. But again, w

                                  Clarifying Mary Sue So, I realize that everyone has heard of Mary Sue characters, but the thing that bothers me is that Mary has never really been as clarified as she could be. Girls go around crying Mary Sue at every character with long pink hair, then go and create even worse Mary Sue characters in the false illusion that they're making nonMary Sue characters (or even anti-Sues) when in fact they're doing the opposite. Allow me to explain how this seems to happen. First of all the term "Mary Sue" desperately needs to be clarified to these people, so this brings us to the very important question: What IS a

CHARACTERS: Crazy, psychopathic, murderer ladies Sexy, butt-kicking girls Crazy/random/hyper self-inserts Depressed emo/goth/always-dresses-in-black types Angsty/moody/hot teenagers The brown-haired girl with no personality The mean, popular, snobby girl Unreasonably cruel bullies out to make life harder for the main character The best friend (if they were a good character who *happened* to be a best friend they wouldn't have to be described as this) Fun fact: Making victim OCs is cliche Another fun fact: how someone dresses is NOT their personality Yet another fun fact: People who claim to be random really are not and they know it.

After being on DeviantArt for a few years now, I've noticed patterns in people's stories. Patterns, that I can't say I've ever seen until I started using the internet. I believe that's because these kind of patterns are thoroughly unprofessional. The pattern in short is this: Character = victim Plot = bad things happening to said victim Maybe this sounds harsh. It's not if you understand that is ALL there is to these stories. They take any character, hurl them into a tragedy and that's it. Let's get this straight: We do not know your character well enough to care about them yet. No matter how bloody and gutty their injuries are, no matter