Young Writers Society

RandomTalks wrote:NaNo is finally here! This month is all about breathing life into those ideas in your head and finally getting them onto page. But the best part is about writing together as a community and here's a fun hashtag to commemorate that!

In honour of NaNo, we are now celebrating every Thursday as #ShareAnExcerpt Day! To participate, just share an excerpt of your writing on every Thursday of this month! It can be a couple of paragraphs or a few lines of dialogue or just some wacky quote you are especially proud of. You can provide context for your excerpt or choose not to - its totally up to you! Just mention TW's for anything potentially triggering and don't forget to use the hashtag #ShareAnExcerpt!

Have fun writing! And Happy NaNo!

Carlito wrote:7. GIVE YOURSELF GRACE

Here’s the thing. NaNo is about writing 50,000 words in one month, but it’s also about being part of the writing community and it’s supposed to be fun.

Do not neglect your life, your responsibilities, your health, or anything else just for the sake of hitting 50,000 words. It literally does not matter if you hit 50k or not. It’s about showing up for yourself and doing your best. So give yourself some grace.

*it’s okay if you fall behind
*it’s okay if you change your word count goal
*it’s okay if you stop because life gets in the way
*it’s okay if you change projects
*it’s okay if you don’t hit 50,000 words

Happy NaNo Eve & happy writing! You got this <3


This has been #NaNoTips with Carlito

Spearmint wrote:official nano announcement post is up!! click the image or this link

Spearmint wrote:

Carlito wrote:It's time to get excited about NaNoWriMo!!!

We may only be halfway through October, but it's time to get ready to write 50,000 words in November!! If you're new to NaNo, everything you need to know can be found here.

The "pure" version of NaNo is to start writing a brand new book on November 1st and write 50,000 words of said book in November. I'm here to tell you - You should write a novel in a month with us!! i promise it's fun!!

BUT:
*If 1667 words a day doesn't work for you - come up with a different goal!
*If you want to write short stories, a screenplay, or something other than a novel - fine!
*If you have a bunch of ideas and you want to bounce around - do your thing!

AND:
*It doesn't have to be good.
*You don't have to share it with anyone if you don't want to.

GET BRAINSTORMING!
START PLANNING!
BUILD YOUR PLAYLISTS!
CREATE YOUR AESTHETIC BOARDS!
& TELL US ABOUT YOUR PROJECT!

alliyah wrote:I keep thinking it would be really cool if we could get people to comment in like a perfect username color spectrum @_@

ie.
Meshugenah
Distinguished Moderator
RevMo Victors
Junior Moderator
Global Moderator
Team Tortoise Victor
Distinguished Junior Moderator
regular user
Nate

Can one of the Distinguished Moderators comment on this status to get things going? <.<

LuminescentAnt wrote:Tadaaaa!!

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LuminescentAnt wrote:Hey everyone! So I am thinking of making a review banner that includes different YWS references that are images that represent people. What I mean is, like for me I would put in a picture of Pusheen or an ant. If you would like to be included in this banner as an animal/object/anything else that represents you, please let me know by replying to this and telling me what that object would be. I will be including as many people as I can, but if you want to make sure you are on there, then that is why you would reply to this.

It would be really helpful if you shared this, so more people can see. Thank you!

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Hijinks wrote: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.

Hijinks wrote:

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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Quillfeather wrote:

A new FM has arrived!

Welcome Them Here!