Young Writers Society

The YWS Best Awards are back! Credit goes to Firestarter for the majority of this post since he started it all back in 2005!

You all, the members of YWS, have the opportunity in nominating your friends and fellow members for each category according to the past year’s events and history (that is, in the YWS history of 2013). You may nominate only ONE person/piece per category. You do not have to nominate someone for every single category, but you may repeat a name you’ve already used (i.e. freakforchrist can be selected for five categories).

Send your votes in a PM to Big Brother.

Again, DO NOT post your votes here. This thread is for questions and comments only.

Categories will not be added, but you may suggest new ones for next year.

The categories:

Best Overall Member – This is the person who can be your favourite member on the site, the one you think does the most for the site, the one who writes the best, the one who you like the most, or a combination of all of these.

Funniest Member – Pretty self-explanatory! The member who makes you laugh the most.

Most Helpful Member/Friendliest Member – Who made you feel at home? Who told you how to do something you didn’t understand? Who has always been kind to you? Nominate the person you think is the kindest member.

Spam Master (a.k.a. Most Overly Active Member) – The person who you think just posts way too much.

Best Reviewer of Prose – The person you believe gives the most helpful, constructive, and easy-to-understand reviews or critiques for prose (eg. stories).

Best Reviewer of Poetry – The person you believe gives the most helpful, constructive, and easy-to-understand reviews or critiques for poetry.

Best Poet – The person whose poetry you enjoy the most.

Best Writer – The person whose stories and articles you like reading the most.

Best Debater – The person you believe presents their views, ideas, and opinions in the best way on the discussion boards (or otherwise...)

Best Lyricist – The person you believe writes the best lyrics.

Best Artist – The person you believe draws/paints/photographs/creates the best art.

Best Scriptwriter – The person you believe writes the best scripts.

Best Storybooker – The person you believe contributes and writes the best in Storybooks.

Best Moderator – Out of ALL the moderators, who do you think does their job most fairly and competently?

Best Story – Quite simply, your favourite short story or article (anything that’s not a novel!) you have seen on YWS and the author.

Best Poem – Basically, your favourite poem on YWS and the author please.

Best Novel – Whether it’s one chapter or the whole thing, your favorite novel or novel-in-progress on YWS and the author.

Best Storybook – The storybook you most like(d) being a part of, or the one that is the most entertaining or original.

Best Off-Topic Topic – Heh, nice name, eh? The best topic on the site that has nothing to do with writing.

Best Blog – Whose blog do you like visiting the most? Or whose blog makes you think, makes you sad, makes you happy, etc.?

Best Avatar – Which member’s avatar do you like the best?

Feel free to nominate yourself/your work since no one’s going to know except the judges in Big Brother. Submissions end on Monday, January 13, 2014. As long as it’s January 13 in Pago Pago, American Samoa (timezone SST), you may send in your votes. Thread will be locked at closing. Results will be posted as soon as possible.

Don't forget to vote! Time is skimming by!

*friendly bump/reminder*

Don't forget to PM BB, people! Five more days..

There have only been three submissions so far so please take five minutes to send me a PM - as it currently stands, your vote will count a lot so you could be determining this year's winners.

Only one more day to submit! We've had a good number of entries now (thanks everyone!) but there are still some categories which are tied!

Even if you can't fill out every category, you could still make a big difference to the votes.