The Third Ever YWStival

Greetings, YWS! We're very happy to announce the third ever YWStival. It will be held November 10th- Novemember 16th, and there will be a bunch of cake, games and other fun things to celebrate. Every day we'll feature a different author or poet from a different era of writing history too! Keep checking this thread for updates and changes by subscribing to this thread and the YWStival Offical Club.

Oh, yeah, we couldn't forget to mention, it's also the week of YWS' TENTH BIRTHDAY! So let's celebrate YWS birthday together, shall we?

All Week-

The YWS Official Contest
*Stay tuned for more!*

Monday (Nov. 10th)-

Shakespeare
>NaNoWriMo Mid-way Peptalks from @Aley
>Word Wars with @Lumi at 11/10/2014 00:00 GMT*

Tuesday (Nov. 11th)-

Robert Frost
>NaNoWriMo Mid-way Peptalks from @Rydia
>Word Wars with @AriaAdams at 11/11/2014 10:00 PM GMT*

Wednesday (Nov. 12th)-

H.P. Lovecraft
>Chat Apples to Apples with @SparkToFlame at 11/12/2014 08:00 PM EST*
>NaNoWriMo Mid-way Peptalks from @Lauren2010
>Word Wars with @SparkToFlame at 11/12/2014 10:00 AM EST*

Thursday (Nov. 13th)-

J.K. Rowling
>NaNoWriMo Mid-way Peptalks from @Demeter
>Word Wars with @SparkToFlame at 11/13/2014 10:30 AM EST*

Friday (Nov. 14th)- YWS' BIRTHDAY!

C.S. Lewis
>Break the Chat Event with @Iggy and @SparkToFlame (Last year our record was 50) at 11/14/2014 8:00 PM EST*
>Disney Movie Night at 11/14/2014 08:15 PM EST*
>NaNoWriMo Mid-way Peptalks from @StellaThomas
>Word Wars with @Lumi at 11/14/2014 00:00 GMT*

Saturday (Nov. 15th)-

Edgar Allen Poe
>Workshop with @Lauren2010 at 11/14/2014 08:15 PM EST*
>Dragons vs Monkeys with @Rydia and @Iggy at 11/15/2014 9:00 PM GMT*
>NaNoWriMo Mid-way Peptalks from @SparkToFlame
>Word Wars with @Lumi at 11/15/2014 09:00 PM EST*

Sunday (Nov. 16th)-

Jane Austen
>Word Wars with @AfterTheStorm at 11/16/2014 00:00 GMT*
>NaNoWriMo Mid-way Peptalks from @Lumi
>Wordshop with @Lumi at *unknown*

*Automatically adjusts to your timezone


--The YWStival Team

Hi! Just wondering, what is Word Wars?

@Charizard821, hello!

Word Wars is a YWS famous chat game. Usually, someone will walk into chat and ask if anyone wants to word war. If a lot of people say yes, then a time limit is set. Normally 15-30 minutes, you've got to keep an eye on the clock. Someone is usually the timekeeper, who yells "GO!" and "TIME!" at the appropriate moments.

What you do is you write! Write write write until time is up. Then the person with the most amount of words wins. make sense? It's meant to be a fun and spontaneous exercise for the muse.

Does that help?

Yes that helps, thank you. I only ask because I've always played a different version of the game.

Wow. This is pretty nice. I wish we had actual cake, though. Awesomeness for real. I love Young Writers Society!

I will make an actual cake. Or, at least, some mini cupcakes.

What's the Dragon vs Monkeys thing about?

YES! HP Lovecraft day! I've been reading a lot of him lately.

@MarbleToast --

It's a long going YWS tradition: who is the supreme mascot if yws? You pick a side and myself and @Rydia are going to be asking a series of random questions! Usually it's four or five rounds, with five questions each and a bonus question for a certain amount of points.

People will enter chat and pick a color: red for monkeys and green for dragons.* once you've established your team, the game will begin! At the end, the team with the most amount of points wins.

Make sense?

*= either red is for dragons and green is for monkeys, or vise versa... @Rydia, help >_>

Ok, got it. Thanks for letting me know.

Iggy wrote:@MarbleToast --

It's a long going YWS tradition: who is the supreme mascot if yws? You pick a side and myself and @Rydia are going to be asking a series of random questions! Usually it's four or five rounds, with five questions each and a bonus question for a certain amount of points.

People will enter chat and pick a color: red for monkeys and green for dragons.* once you've established your team, the game will begin! At the end, the team with the most amount of points wins.

Make sense?

*= either red is for dragons and green is for monkeys, or vise versa... @Rydia, help >_>

xD Red is for monkeys and green is for dragons! The way to remember it is you can get a reddish looking monkey, but have you ever seen a green one?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_monkey

I'm sorry, I had to xD

Iggy, try following some sort of Slytherin-reptile-dragon-green logic.. or just think of our admins as monkeys

I'm here for the cake.

Yay! C. S. Lewis! I love him; he was a genius!

I HEARD CAKE
WHERE IS THE CAKE