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We cling to music, to poems, to quotes, to writing, to art because we desperately do not want to be alone. We want to know we aren't going crazy and someone else out there knows exactly how you're feeling. --comelywords


  • So far we have five amazing poems submitted - but I know for a fact that far more than five wonderful poems have been written this year. And we want ALL of them for our collection! (Or, if that's unreasonable, at least a very sizeable amount). If you've written even a single poem this year, please consider submitting it :) I promise we don't bite.
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    Poetry Alert! Poetry Alert! Poetry Alert!

    New this year, your Poetry Crew presents: The 'Best of YWS' Poetry Collection, 2023 Edition! We're creating a site-wide poetry collection made up of all your favourite YWS poems from this year! Poem submissions are open from now until November 10th. After all the submissions have been received, we're going to put together a dandy PDF that will be ready in time for you to print it out and give to friends at the start of the new year. This is not a competition, meaning as long as your poem meets a couple simple content guidelines, it will be added to the collection. For more details you can head over to the official Submission Thread. The more poems, the merrier - so if you've even written a single poem this year, we'd love for you to submit it for consideration!

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  • me at any given moment
    gremlingeodes wrote:feeling this more than i should
    weathervane wrote:tummy hurts

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    Dossereana <3333 same
    Sep 16, 2023

  • Choosing a new name is so hard. Especially when you're on a sort of rushed timeline for Life reasons @_@


    Fishr What’s your name now?
    Aug 20, 2023


    Hijinks I'd rather not share that online :) It's much more masculine than my given name, though, which I'm finding to be a wonderful vibe.
    Aug 20, 2023

  • IcyFlame wrote:A reminder of our rules on AI reviews below ahead of our annual Review Month. AI reviews unfairly cheat the system, and deprive writers of receiving actual reviews. We want to hear your thoughts on the work, not those of a machine!

    If you think you've received an AI review, or have any questions about these rules, please reach out to a moderator.

    Happy reviewing!


    Big Brother wrote:Hi everyone, with all the fun reviewing events happening right now this is a important message from your moderator team:

    Do not use AI writing tools to generate the majority of your review. While these tools can be fun to experiment with for your own work and can even aid writers as a tool in generating creating prompts and ideas, representing these types of AI generated writing as your own is unfair to other reviewers and unfair to the authors who are hoping for human (or maybe goose?) feedback.

    As a writing website, YWS exists to promote creative writing and the sharing of writing feedback between writers, representing AI generated writing as your own undermines those things, so it is important that we take this issue seriously. AI writing can be hard to spot, so we are relying on you as fellow writers and community members to act with honesty in representing your work and your reviews.

    If a user is found to be using AI reviews those will be treated as both spam and plagiarism, the review may be removed along with the points earned from them, and the user may be banned from the site. Please reach out to a moderator if you have any questions or suspect that you have received an AI generated review.

    Good luck reviewing this month, YWS!

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  • yes yes yes!!
    alliyah wrote:Still very excited for this and eager to see more poems added - we've got some great ones submitted so far!
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    Poetry Alert! Poetry Alert! Poetry Alert!

    New this year, your Poetry Crew presents: The 'Best of YWS' Poetry Collection, 2023 Edition! We're creating a site-wide poetry collection made up of all your favourite YWS poems from this year! Poem submissions are open from now until November 10th. After all the submissions have been received, we're going to put together a dandy PDF that will be ready in time for you to print it out and give to friends at the start of the new year. This is not a competition, meaning as long as your poem meets a couple simple content guidelines, it will be added to the collection. For more details you can head over to the official Submission Thread. The more poems, the merrier - so if you've even written a single poem this year, we'd love for you to submit it for consideration!

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  • Ah! Well look at that - hatch, there's a bug that has infiltrated your wall!



    (Hope you have a fabulous day! #LeaveAnIconOnSomonesWallChallenge )


    Hijinks oh my goodness! not a bug!!
    Aug 18, 2023

  • !!!!!!
    Spearmint wrote:*gasp* The mold outbreak has grown... 0.0

    More Mold?!

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    Poetry Alert! Poetry Alert! Poetry Alert!

    New this year, your Poetry Crew presents: The 'Best of YWS' Poetry Collection, 2023 Edition! We're creating a site-wide poetry collection made up of all your favourite YWS poems from this year! Poem submissions are open from now until November 10th. After all the submissions have been received, we're going to put together a dandy PDF that will be ready in time for you to print it out and give to friends at the start of the new year. This is not a competition, meaning as long as your poem meets a couple simple content guidelines, it will be added to the collection. For more details you can head over to the official Submission Thread. The more poems, the merrier - so if you've even written a single poem this year, we'd love for you to submit it for consideration!

  • #shoutouts (it's Sunday night and I'm exhausted so I'm absolutely missing people - but if you're reading this, you're so groovy and awesome.)

    @weathervane you are such a cool dude! I love our random chats and our unrelenting friendly - I mean, sorry, totally real and legit - bullying of each other. We really have to do a poetry collab together sometime soon; the combination of our angsty poetry writing skills would be truly unmatched. <3

    @alliyah you're the best crew co-leader a guy could ask for! Your consistent dedication to poetry and to this site are so impressive. I love hearing about and seeing all of your many chapbooks - you will forever be one of my biggest poetry inspirations. <3

    @starlitmind I miss you friend! You are an incredibly kind, competent, and talented human and the way that you are able to spread cheer and friendliness wherever you go is invaluable. I hope you're doing well and taking care of yourself. <3

    @Shady you're The World Expert on fish as far as I'm concerned. You are equally good at chaos mode and serious business mode, and you switch between them so smoothly - and I think that's such an underrated life skill. I hope you keep spreading rose-lipped bat fish propaganda for as long as YWS is around! <3

    @ the entire mod team - y'all are such thoughtful, amazing humans. You rock!

    @ everyone who has ever stepped foot on this site - you have 10/10 taste in sites and I want to be your friend if I'm not already.

  • alliyah wrote:

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    We hope you've been enjoying Social Week so far with all these fun activities! :D This Social Week we are also offering something that hasn't been done before a period of free literary work postings! That's right! From August 4-6 you can post up to 5 literary works on the site without using your own points - by requesting points for posting right here!

    The After Watch has helped keep the Green Room under 15 works for the last 27 days an amazing feat, but it's time to fill up the Green Room with our best literary works once more!

    Thank you to the mods and the Golden Goose for assisting in coordinating this event.

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    It's day four of Social Week and our first Free Lit Work Day!

    Today's special activity is #FriendshipPoems ! Spread the love for your fellow YWSers and write them a poem! Feel free to post it on their wall with the hashtag #FriendshipPoems . And if your love for everyone on the site is so grand, why not write a #FriendshipPoem to YWS as a whole?

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  • alliyah wrote:We successfully cleared the Green Room this Summer (and thanks to the After Watch Knights we even kept it under 15 works for a record-breaking number of days!) - you know what that means? We found the Golden Goose and we unlocked an August Social Week Celebration!

    Join us August 1-7 for a week long of fun tags, activities, write-ins, and chaos all hosted by the Golden Goose and your local Mod Squad. Oh! And did I mention there'll be three days where you can post your best literary works for free! Let's fill up the Green Room again with your best works and celebrate YWS!



    honk honk honk!

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  • gremlingeodes
    Jul 31, 2023

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    Hijinks <3 <3 <3 <3
    Aug 1, 2023

  • Happy Cake Day, Hatch! Hope you are doing well! <3


    Hijinks Thank you alliyah <3
    Jul 2, 2023

  • happy (late) cake day!


    Hijinks Thank you!
    Jul 2, 2023



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— Maurice Manning