Young Writers Society

alliyah wrote:

HUZZAH! We Did it!
The Green Room has been Cleared, the Goose is Found

Social Week will be hosted by the Golden Goose August 1-7, with free literary works for three days (limit 5 per user)! Well done everyone!

Dearest Knights, Squires, and Citizens of YWS,

While this quest to Clear the Green Room may have begun a month and seven suns ago, the mission began even further back that than that. Yes, the last time the Green Room was fully properly cleared was back in July 2020, but I am speaking of even a time before that.

This Mission to Clear the Green Room, to find the Golden Goose, it started the day you decided to be a writer. Whether that was when you were a youngling yet gripping Crayola crayons and doodling out your stories, or maybe inspired by a teacher in an English class, or maybe when the idea for a story began to nibble on your ears and never ceased. The day you became a writer, you also took on a responsibility. A writer can never write just for themselves, but becoming a writer makes you one with a community - your readers, your fellow writers, your supporters. On YWS don't we know this most nobly - it is in our very name; the young writer's society.

The day you became a writer, dear friends, knights, squires, citizens of YWS, you took up the burden and joy of receiving readership, and also of giving readership - of giving the fruit of your mind in critique, the joy of your heart in praise, the review sandwiches made of your own kitchen-hearth. And so the day you became a writer, the seed of this mission was already planted within you.

And now dear writers, I ask you each to draw forward and complete this stage of the quest that fate has placed you on; To give feedback, to write your best reviews, to raise your swords once more to the foes of the Green Room and share your feedback with your fellow authors. Not only for the prize of the Golden Goose, the points, the lit-works, and to hear the goose's lovely honking, but let us review and conquer these final Green Room works because this is what it means to be a writer:

To be a part of a community of reading!

To enter boldly into new adventures!

To finish the story that we've been given!

Let us not delay, but go forward! Huzzah Huzzah Huzzah!

Who's with me?

Knights of the Green Room wrote:Comrades! It's an exciting Summer for Knights as we charge toward the Green Room and try to find the Golden Goose!



We have a New Main Challenge this Summer issued to all knights to complete 10 Green Room Reviews before August - to help clear the Green Room, find the goose, and earn an incredible limited edition badge while doing so! Knight Spearmint is even throwing in a drawing for knights that complete the challenge!

Also all knights are encouraged to raise their quills and ready their swords and join the Search for the Golden Goose Tagbook over at the Roleplay tab.

Let's have a wonderful Summer! Huzzah!

Knights of the Green Room wrote:There's never been a better time to join in with KotGR! Check out the Knights of the Green Room Information to find out how to join - you need to log just 10 GR reviews after declaring yourself a Squire in the Great Hall in order to become a Knight, then you begin a journey of knighthood defending the Green Room from the foes of the Literary Center while earning yourself badges and participating in challenges. And it's all "go at your own pace". Huzzah!

Liminality wrote:

Review Day has started!

For everyone participating, reviews written and linked from now on will count towards your team's score! Let's go reviewers! Remember, reviewing 5 Green Room works and logging them in your post will get you a special KotGR badge!

To the Green Room!

Liminality wrote:Alert! Alert!

Review Day is coming!

From 16th to 18th of December, we'll be hosting a Review Day in the forums. Click this link to find out more.

Briefly, Review Day is an event focused on writing reviews in great quantity AND great quality. This Review Day is sponsored by the Knights of the Green Room -- a badge from them will be up for grabs!

Sign up in the thread linked above before December 15th to participate in a team - sign-ups after that will be individual.

You can also see this threadfor how the forum-based Review Day was run in September during RevMo this year.

Knights of the Green Room wrote:Huzzah! An official notice has been issued by @KotGRCommander


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- The Commander