Young Writers Society

keystrings wrote:Anyone ready for a review workshop? Be ready to broaden your review knowledge tomorrow! (If you cannot attend, feel free to let me know and I can either run through this workshop with you at a later point, or simply do the workshop twice. Thanks!)

Review Month -- Building Review Knowledge Workshop

Hello everyone and happy RevMo! I hope you've enjoyed the activities so far -- and that you are ready to dive into what exactly makes reviews so amazing and so fun to write. Or, if you're a bit confused on the best way to write and format a review, there will be plenty of time to ask them and to simply engage in a dialogue concerning reviews.

Today's workshop will allow you to dive deeper into how to utilize both time and energy for reviewing, so that you can get the most out of your reviewing and truly help the writer!

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alliyah wrote:

Big News! YWS has a new global moderator on board!

Even MORE Mold?!

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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Plume wrote:

Join me in congratulating our new Featured Member!

Spearmint wrote:

Welcome to the first day of Social Week!! We're starting with an art activity that'll run for the whole week.

To participate, post any YWS-related art on your wall with the hashtag #YWSart. But wait, that's not all-- if you want a challenge, why not try making some coloring pages? Color other people's coloring pages and share your art with the #YWSart hashtag as well!

Here's a coloring page example, with some random doodles xD

I would love to see all of you color parts of it, or even all of it! :]

How I make a coloring page:
1. Draw the design on a blank sheet of paper. I trace my designs with black pen to make them clearer.
2. Scan it with an app like Adobe Scan. Clean up the image if needed.
3. Upload the image to imgur or discord, copy the link, and pop it into the code below:

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[img]<link here>[/img]

4. Post your image on YWS with the hashtag #YWSart and wait for people to color it!

Happy Social Week, everyone!!

P.S. Subscribe to the main thread to receive updates for each new event! ^^

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!

SUBSCRIBE TO THIS THREAD FOR YOUR INFO ON HOW TO PARTICIPATE

honk honk honk!

Spearmint wrote:

Interested in roleplaying, but unsure how to start? Tagged in a tagbook, but confused on how to join? Want to just chill and help out some roleplay newbies?

Join the Intro to YWS Roleplays workshop on Friday, July 14, or Saturday, July 15! This workshop will run at two times to hopefully catch people from different timezones.

Pop in on
or !

The link to a wfp will be posted on the day of.

Psst... not sure what a wfp is? Click on the spoiler below!

Spoiler! :

Wfp stands for writerfeedpad, and it's a place to write and chat with other people online. To join a wfp, just click on the link! You should be taken to a screen that looks something like the image below.



You can change your name and color by clicking on the name at the top right. On the bottom right is the chatbox. Type a message there and hit enter to send it and chat with other people! The large box on the left is the main area of the wfp. It's typically used when you have to write more, or to store things that you don't want to get lost in the fast-moving chat.

Feel free to ask the other people in the wfp (also called the pad) if you have any questions! We're always happy to help <3