How did you find YWS?

How did you find your internet writing home? Vote, and talk about those fond first memories below!

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Sisters are basically just advanced friends, right?

My dad knew how much I loved writing, so he tried finding me a site that I would like. He eventually stumbled upon YWS, and I've been here ever since then!

@Mickixoxo brought me here <3 I miss you, friend!

I was looking for a writers website to post my works on. I was young and innocent, hadn't really been on stuff like this before. My mom found this site and told me about it.

My mom told me about the site when she was just surfing through online writing sites for me to join...

Well, on a fine summer morning I was happily reading this local monthly magazine we get and there was this feature titled like, “Best online sites for young writers” (or something similar, was years ago, I don’t remember the exact words) and just like that! Came to know about YWS!

Honestly though, sometimes I wish I had never found out about YWS in the first place for ever so many reasons but I am really grateful for all the ways this amazing site helped me improve which is an ongoing process!

Actually, my dad was going through Google trying to find writing websites for me and that lead him to YWS, so he suggested that I join, so I did.

@eccedentesiast same! After giving up on wattpad because it sucks, I typed in best writing websites and YWS was the one that caught my eye. Of course, I have tried others but to me, this one is the best:). Ah, good ol' google.

Thanks to @fortis for bringing me to the site. c: one of my best decisions!

Hard to believe, but 13 years ago I was on writing.com (a mostly pay-to-play that really hasn't evolved since like 1999) when I decided to follow a link from some guy named @Nate to his new writing forum. I immediately spammed the site with my crappy work (um, sorry lol) and was hooked. I floated in and out of the site for several years, but came back full-force I think because of an anniversary email in 2012. So awesome to see how much the site has grown and so hard to believe I'm still here 13 years later (even if I've been mostly MIA lately).

In November of 2004, Nate was spamming websites with the link to YWS. He got a few (ok, all) of the friends I'd made on this teeny tiny site made up of a handful of other teenagers (I was 15 at this point), and they dragged me here. Basically.

By the power of Google!

(I searched around for a while until I found this site and thought, "huh, this is better/more welcoming than the others I've seen, may as well join it.")

basically I was searching the web and found this thing with a bunch of writing websites in them. but still, technically it wasn't google it was safari.

also, I introduced @Saruka, @Flumadiddle, @UndertaleGirl0324, @NeonCam, and @DawnLight31 to the site. UTG and NC are never on, but Saruka and E.E. are constantly on

so yeah.

boom.

Thanks to Kara, I found YWS. Best thing to ever happen. Well, expcept for @LordTachanka. :3