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Benway

  • Welcome Mat Re: Greetings!

    Thanks to everyone for the warm greetings and positive feedback. To answer writerly questions first, I write a little bit of everything, but have done the most work in poetry. ...

    Aug 23, 2011
  • Welcome Mat Re: Greetings!

    Hello all! Introducing myself, I go by Benway here in the cyberverse, and have been a writer and thinker about as long as I've been able to write and think ...

    Aug 22, 2011


Way, way back in the 1988 Presidential election, then Vice President George H W Bush had a phrase he liked to use: "A Thousand Points of Light." It refers to the idea that a community is made up of people who contribute in a thousand, different small ways, but with each helping to illuminate their community. It's a phrase I think about a lot when it comes to YWS. Looking forward, the site will continue to change and grow, but it will always remain a community dedicated to promoting creative writing as a favorite pastime.
— Nate