Promising Young Writers
Moderator: All Things Mods
Promising Young Writers
I participated in my school's Promising Young Writers program this year, and the prompt for one of the essays we had to do was anything of our choice. Now, guess what I chose? There's no way in hell I'm winning with this, but my first essay made me past the first round, so it might be enough. No idea. I thought I would share it with you guys.
...Once I figure out how to attach a Word document. You know, for a millennial, I'm pretty technologically inept.
...Once I figure out how to attach a Word document. You know, for a millennial, I'm pretty technologically inept.
Pastafarianism is so great that it would receive a 9.6/10 on RateMyReligion.com, if such a website existed. 

- Roy Hunter
- If it's not Scottish, it's crap.
- Posts: 15328
- Joined: Sun Nov 09, 2008 6:13 pm
- Location: It's the place where you are, but that's not important right now.
- Contact:
Re: Promising Young Writers
You can't attach a Word document. You can put it in Dropbox and share a link, you can copy & paste the text, but this forum doesn't support attachmments.
"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical and cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." Bill Hicks.
"One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." Abraham Lincoln
"Are you OK?" daftbeaker (<-- very good question, people should ask it more often.)
"One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." Abraham Lincoln
"Are you OK?" daftbeaker (<-- very good question, people should ask it more often.)
- StayThirstyMyAguila
- Definitely not Eric
- Posts: 1380
- Joined: Thu Dec 15, 2016 2:16 pm
- Location: The depths of Archaide.
Re: Promising Young Writers
Nate wrote:...Once I figure out how to attach a Word document. You know, for a millennial, I'm pretty technologically inept.
Remember,
Rev. Daniel Scott wrote:Copy-pasta is your friend.
In case anyone here needs a tutorial:
That's holding the ctrl button, then (STILL HOLDING DOWN THE CTRL BUTTON) hitting the "c" button. That is how you copy.
Then, hold down the ctrl button again, and hit the "v" button. That is how you pasta.
- ItchyPirate
- Fusilli Fuselier
- Posts: 145
- Joined: Sun Nov 01, 2015 11:38 pm
- Location: A strange place
Re: Promising Young Writers
Not all of us can open Micro$#!% Word documents. I suggest either OpenDocument Format (aka ODF) or PDF, both of which are supported by recent versions of Microsoft Word and LibreOffice Writer.
Captain Itchy Pirate
He who laughs, lasts.
"You can't argue with all the fools in the world. It is better to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not looking."
--Brom, character in Eragon by Christopher Paolini

He who laughs, lasts.

"You can't argue with all the fools in the world. It is better to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not looking."
--Brom, character in Eragon by Christopher Paolini
- StayThirstyMyAguila
- Definitely not Eric
- Posts: 1380
- Joined: Thu Dec 15, 2016 2:16 pm
- Location: The depths of Archaide.
Re: Promising Young Writers
Google Docs would work too. I guarantee all of us have google and google accounts.
- 'Murican Bald Eagle
- Cannelloni Cannoneer
- Posts: 133
- Joined: Sat Feb 18, 2017 12:31 pm
- Location: Tha deep south but north of tha wall
Re: Promising Young Writers
I'm writing a new book, my publisher has given me a $500000 forwarding advance. I think I'll make him Secretary of State, aarrrgh!
- Nef Yoo BlackBeard
- Tagliatelle Trainee Monk
- Posts: 4258
- Joined: Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:45 pm
- Location: off me leesh
- Contact:
Re: Promising Young Writers
'Urk Uber Troll wrote:I'm a Urk, my tallywakker is a wee wee and has giving me eye prollums looking for it.
I think I need a magnifyin glass to see it , too much tallywanking aarrrgh!

cabin boy fir hyer. jyint hat no hextra charj.
- ItchyPirate
- Fusilli Fuselier
- Posts: 145
- Joined: Sun Nov 01, 2015 11:38 pm
- Location: A strange place
Re: Promising Young Writers
StayThirstyMyAguila wrote:Google Docs would work too. I guarantee all of us have google and google accounts.
I guarantee I don't. I'm way too paranoid when it comes to privacy. Same for many others.
Captain Itchy Pirate
He who laughs, lasts.
"You can't argue with all the fools in the world. It is better to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not looking."
--Brom, character in Eragon by Christopher Paolini

He who laughs, lasts.

"You can't argue with all the fools in the world. It is better to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not looking."
--Brom, character in Eragon by Christopher Paolini
- ChowMein
- Brewmeister
- Posts: 1967
- Joined: Sat Mar 04, 2006 8:38 am
- Location: Southern part of the Great White North
Re: Promising Young Writers
ItchyPirate wrote:StayThirstyMyAguila wrote:Google Docs would work too. I guarantee all of us have google and google accounts.
I guarantee I don't. I'm way too paranoid when it comes to privacy. Same for many others.
Same here .
- ET, the Extra Terrestrial
- Privvy Counselor
- Posts: 7069
- Joined: Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:01 am
- Location: In the woods, watching
Re: Promising Young Writers
ChowMein wrote:ItchyPirate wrote:StayThirstyMyAguila wrote:Google Docs would work too. I guarantee all of us have google and google accounts.
I guarantee I don't. I'm way too paranoid when it comes to privacy. Same for many others.
Same here .
Silly humans, thinking that there's anything resembling privacy available anywhere in Northa Merica, Yerp, or most of Asia.
"Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens."
("Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.")
-- Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K Dick
What happens when all the renewable energy runs out?
-- Victoria Ayling
English isn't much of a language for swearing. When I studied Ancient Greek I was delighted to discover a single word - Rhaphanidosthai - which translates roughly as "Be thou thrust up the fundament with a radish for adultery."
("Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.")
-- Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K Dick
What happens when all the renewable energy runs out?
-- Victoria Ayling
English isn't much of a language for swearing. When I studied Ancient Greek I was delighted to discover a single word - Rhaphanidosthai - which translates roughly as "Be thou thrust up the fundament with a radish for adultery."
- Roy Hunter
- If it's not Scottish, it's crap.
- Posts: 15328
- Joined: Sun Nov 09, 2008 6:13 pm
- Location: It's the place where you are, but that's not important right now.
- Contact:
Re: Promising Young Writers
I use a M$ account for one job and a Google one for the other. I don't do anything *interesting* with either of them.
Getting back to the OP. You are not collaborating, so you don't need an editable document or to track changes. Make a PDF in Word and post it somewhere like Dropbox, One Drive or Google Drive. Post a link here. We have to check links, but it's the easiest way to post a document.
Getting back to the OP. You are not collaborating, so you don't need an editable document or to track changes. Make a PDF in Word and post it somewhere like Dropbox, One Drive or Google Drive. Post a link here. We have to check links, but it's the easiest way to post a document.
"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical and cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." Bill Hicks.
"One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." Abraham Lincoln
"Are you OK?" daftbeaker (<-- very good question, people should ask it more often.)
"One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." Abraham Lincoln
"Are you OK?" daftbeaker (<-- very good question, people should ask it more often.)
- StayThirstyMyAguila
- Definitely not Eric
- Posts: 1380
- Joined: Thu Dec 15, 2016 2:16 pm
- Location: The depths of Archaide.
Re: Promising Young Writers
Roy Hunter wrote:Getting back to the OP. You are not collaborating, so you don't need an editable document or to track changes. Make a PDF in Word and post it somewhere like Dropbox, One Drive or Google Drive. Post a link here. We have to check links, but it's the easiest way to post a document.
You do realize google docs has an option that lets him give anyone the right to only VIEW the document, right? But yeah, PDF would also work.
And would you stop your darn necromancy?
- ItchyPirate
- Fusilli Fuselier
- Posts: 145
- Joined: Sun Nov 01, 2015 11:38 pm
- Location: A strange place
Re: Promising Young Writers
ET, the Extra Terrestrial wrote:ChowMein wrote:ItchyPirate wrote:
I guarantee I don't. I'm way too paranoid when it comes to privacy. Same for many others.
Same here .
Silly humans, thinking that there's anything resembling privacy available anywhere in Northa Merica, Yerp, or most of Asia.
I never said I thought that. In fact, I never said I live in North America or Asia. Though I do intend to move to a country that does respect my privacy.
StayThirstyMyAguila wrote:Roy Hunter wrote:Getting back to the OP. You are not collaborating, so you don't need an editable document or to track changes. Make a PDF in Word and post it somewhere like Dropbox, One Drive or Google Drive. Post a link here. We have to check links, but it's the easiest way to post a document.
You do realize google docs has an option that lets him give anyone the right to only VIEW the document, right? But yeah, PDF would also work.
And would you stop your darn necromancy?
If it's on anything Google, I won't bother looking at it. Study up on Google's tracking practices and you'll know even a "View Only" thing on Google Docs isn't safe from tracking.
As for necromancy, us members of the Necromancer's Club tend to enjoy it


Captain Itchy Pirate
He who laughs, lasts.
"You can't argue with all the fools in the world. It is better to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not looking."
--Brom, character in Eragon by Christopher Paolini

He who laughs, lasts.

"You can't argue with all the fools in the world. It is better to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not looking."
--Brom, character in Eragon by Christopher Paolini
- StayThirstyMyAguila
- Definitely not Eric
- Posts: 1380
- Joined: Thu Dec 15, 2016 2:16 pm
- Location: The depths of Archaide.
Re: Promising Young Writers
ItchyPirate wrote:As for necromancy, us members of the Necromancer's Club tend to enjoy it![]()
So it was YOU all along!
I never would have thought . . . leave that to my other go-to username!
No, my other go-to is not MBE.
- Nef Yoo BlackBeard
- Tagliatelle Trainee Monk
- Posts: 4258
- Joined: Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:45 pm
- Location: off me leesh
- Contact:
Re: Promising Young Writers
StayThirstyMyAguila wrote:ItchyPirate wrote:As for necromancy, us members of the Necromancer's Club tend to enjoy it![]()
So it was ME ! all along!
I never have a thought . . . leave that to my other go-to username!
JUNE IS COMING muahahahaha.
cabin boy fir hyer. jyint hat no hextra charj.
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 2 guests