Nate

Part of the failure of our media these days is their failure to accurately portray the tax system. What you propose, penguin, is actually even more onerous on the poor ...

Icaruss ->> You're right; language is what you make of it, and what's great about the Internet are all the choices one has. YWS is a distinctive community, and to ...

Even if you don't celebrate Thanksgiving, and even if you already celebrated it on October 13, have a good Thanksgiving! If you're celebrating, let us know how you celebrate Thanksgiving.

The no chat-speak rule has always been a rule, and you have to violate it pretty egregiously in order for a moderator to warn you. Common slip-ups aren't chat-speak, and ...

Aye, we can't make a rule about grammar and punctuation if only because it's often open to interpretation. However, a failure to use apostrophes in contractions is considered chat-speak.

Rule #7 of YWS: This is a writers forum, and thus "netspeak" or "1337" is simply not allowed. The Young Writers Society is a writing site, and chat speak is ...

Doesn't posting your story by chapters defeat the whole purpose of the Advanced Critiques section? Indeed it does. The Advanced Critiques section is for novels. If you're planning to post ...

Oh-kay then, what about font, colour and size tags? Are we aloud those? Please proof-read your posts. While "aloud" is technically correct, the word you meant to use is "allowed." ...

Great article, and I have only a couple things to add. First, you switch from "Fair Use" to "Free Use" in one instance near the end. You should fix that ...

There was Goosebumps and the Boxcar Children, but I don't remember anyone reading them past fifth grade. From sixth grade through high-school, there was no series that everyone read.

Aye, Blink is on the money. is excellent.

There's a movie!?

Nate replaced YWS with that one day. xD That was a glorious day, lol

I want my YWS robot 2 automatically ban members who use chat speak!

Where in the world did this series come from? I never even heard about it until this past summer, and I didn't think it was all that big until South ...