Nate, I confess, this started all because I wanted to prank you. I saw that one thread in the mod forum (you know the one) and instead of being a nice human being and comforting you, I had the craziest urge to give you the biggest prank that I think YWS has ever seen. The [...]

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I haven’t been posting at all for the past two weeks as I’ve been concentrating on getting the Young Writers Literary Journal done.  And, now it is!
http://stores.lulu.com/yws
Check it out.

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Web sites targeted to young writers are a rare breed.  I’ve never completely understood why as those who write spend a lot of time on the computer by definition (at least by the modern definition).  Plus, it’s hard to find someone who is 14 years old and doesn’t like writing a story.  They may not [...]

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The Young Writers Society has only been on its own server for six weeks now, and already we’re straining it!  We’re very good on RAM (got two gigabytes of it), but not so good on CPU processing.  Right now, the CPU is trying to process over two requests per second, when a good number is [...]

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The Young Writers Society has two newsletters now. The first is sent out monthly to anyone who has registered as a member on the main site. The second will be sent out weekly and you have to subscribe to it through the blog here. The first has site announcements; the second has [...]

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It’s October first, which to most normal people mean it’s the beginning of the month. Of course, we all know better. That means it’s time to sign up for NaNoWriMo! They’re resetting the site tonight, which means you can sign up and fill in all the lovely things about your NaNoNoWriMo novel for this year, [...]

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Starting up a separate blog newsletter, to which you can subscribe in the sidebar.  Simply put in your e-mail, then confirm that you do indeed want the newsletter.
The general YWS newsletter will still go out from to time, however I plan to use the blog newsletter on a weekly basis.  Along with some featured blog [...]

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Starting an internet radio station for the Young Writers Society has been my pet, top-secret project over the last month.  I finally went ahead with it today, and we had our pilot program at 8:30 pm EST.  By all measures, it was a smashing success!  Over 70 listeners, and I only gave 30 minutes notice!
In [...]

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The header was done using the Stripe Generator script found at:
http://www.stripegenerator.com/
And the rounded corners of the sidebar uses absolutely no images whatsoever thanks to:
http://www.spiffycorners.com/
Whatever is left is completely me!

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Aye, talk like a pirate day is here, me mateys!

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I got tired of reading “Five Tips That” and “Ten Tips This,” so I figured I would outdo them all and come up with not five, not ten, not fifty, but 101 Tips for Writers.
For your convenience, I have separated the 101 Tips for Writers into fifteen general topics: Set Up, Brainstorming, Pre-Writing, Beginning, While [...]

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Although I don’t believe it’s happened quite yet, someday a present or former member of the Young Writers Society will have their book published.  The site has only been around for three years, so I imagine it has not happened yet, but I’m 90% certain that it will happen within the next two years.  And [...]

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…that next Wednesday is Talk Like A Pirate Day!
ARG!

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Not too long ago, kitty15 issued all members of YWS a challenge: to answer all the unanswered posts on YWS no matter how old they were or what they pertained to.  But the result thus far?  Five days ago, there were 1,167 unanswered posts.  Today there are 1,140 unanswered posts.  It’s not growing, but come [...]

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Added lots of blogs to the links section on the right hand side of the blog.  If you know of one that should be added, or would like yours to be added, let me know!
And what does Mcauley Culkin have to do with this?  Absolutely nothing.

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Look for ‘young writers’ on Google and the first page mostly shows sites that are either defunct, or are as useful as an English teacher who thinks she’s a poet but rhymes ‘Texas’ with ‘fact is.’ Even on Writers Digest Top 101 Sites For Writers, you’ll only find two sites that are meant for young [...]

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Over this last weekend, I added a lot of stuff to everyone’s profile, such as “Featured Works,” “More Info.,” and “Friends.”  The “Featured Works” section is there to further the literary element of YWS, while the latter two are there to further the Community element of YWS.  Seeing as how very, very few of the [...]

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Now introducing friends on YWS!  If you have MySpace, Facebook, or any other social network profile, you’ll already know how it works.  You just add someone as a friend, and their picture/avatar will show up in your profile.  The one on YWS isn’t as advanced as on Facebook or MySpace, but then again, you don’t [...]

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 kitty15 has an intriguing challenge for all YWSers: find an unanswered topic and answer it!  Doesn’t matter what it is, it just needs zero answers at this time.  I should also note that YWS has no policy forbidding resurrecting old/dead topics.  Such policies are stupid.
See kitty15’s post here.

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The Advanced Critiques forum (located under Misc. Work in the Literary Forum Index) is the latest addition to YWS and is an experimental forum.  If it doesn’t do well, then it’ll get kicked.  If it does do well, then it stays.
The new forum is for stories over 5,000 words; meaning that they are too long [...]

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