Young Writers Society

Composed by "the Inquisitor,"
THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 2005

Greetings and Salutations.

Welcome all new members who have become interested in writing and therefore stumbled onto this forum of young writers, a society that began by Nate so short a time ago in November of 2004, but it seems that the time from its beginning to now has been years. And with all forums, the Members are what keep it alive, as well as the wonderful Moderators and the newly assigned Junior Administrators.

The purpose this topic is for all new members to help them jumpstart their way into the forum. This is a quick and easy guide that you may briefly skim over just to know who and what things are around here. Quick profiles will be reviewed of the regulars here at the Young Writer’s Society as well as a brief explanation of what they write and possibly a short list of titles and their descriptions that have been popular. So with that, enjoy this forum and we hope that you will stay and one day be added to this list.

Contents

POST ONE

• Contents
• The Young Writer’s Society
• Rules

POST TWO

• Miscellaneous Information
• Members
• Forum Links

POST THREE

• Thorough Look at the Literary Forum
• Thorough Look at the Lounge, etc.

The Young Writers Society

Created in November of 2004, The Young Writers Society was developed as a website for young writers since other such websites were stagnating and quickly becoming obsolete. That is, young writers' websites were being neglected by their administrators and were facing a dearth of talent and new writing. Indeed, some websites had simply become places to chat while others simply disappeared.

The Young Writers Society strives to fix this problem by providing a clean and easy-to-use user interface, giving members the option of different styles for the website, and by having a forum where new work is added instantaneously. The Young Writers Society will also avoid the problem plaguing other similiar websites by having an active and responsive administrator as well as a large moderator base.

Today, The Young Writers Society has a wide variety of forums for any type of creative work from Art to Scripts and has a very active membership base.

We hope that you stay and become active, to critique others' works and learn of language and literature. With the addition of that, we cannot wait to read your very own work so we may help you polish it into a New York Times, a National, or even an Internation best-seller. Enjoy your stay .


The Young Writers Society is a large website that has become so large, the idea of spliting it in two became a necessity. So, as you may see, there are seven tabs at the top of the screen (there are only six if you are not registered or not logged in). The seven tabs are Home; Literary Forums; The Lounge, etc.; Usergroups; Profile*; Private Messanges*; and Log Out*.

* The asterisk symbolize the tabs that are for members that are logged in. Those that are not registered or logged out replace those tabs with Register and Log In.

Home: The Home page is the location where important news is posted as the main body of the page. Underneath is important information that all members need to know and each has accessability to comments. Along the left hand column of the Home Page begins with your own information* with the options to the current poll right below. At the very bottom, members may view who is currently viewing the site. Along the left column the Board Navigation makes it quite easy for you to move about the website. Below that are the recent topics that have been posted upon, and finishing the right hand column are the board affiliates which are websites that wish to be advertised by fellow members.

* The asterisk symbolizes that those who are not registered or not logged in replace the area where members view their own information with a option to log in.

Literary Forums: The Literary Forums are a place where one may post their works of writing; be it poems or fictional stories. They may critique other members' pieces as well as look upon the art of drawers and participate in storybooks. Scripts and lyrics are also included, and if you do think you are looking for something in another category, you may find it in the Other forum. Board Navigation is, again, on your left with the posting of a Random Member beneath it, with information about the people online.

The Lounge, etc.: This is the place where you can find information about the forum, where there is polls and topics members posted about themselves. If you have read a book recently, you can review it; there are contests available to open or participate in; writing activities are enjoyable activites to increase your skill with literature; and writing tips can help you in getting out of a writer's block. The Lounge is a popular place to relax and chat; Debates and Serious Descussions are conversed over; Entertainment and Recent News of current events and Randomness are included as well. The Tavern is our very last of the forums where you can roleplay with fellow members and enjoy a nice mug of... juice... by a warm fire and a dart board by the window with a stuffed bunny crucified to it with darts. Gruesome.

Usergroups: The Usergroups forum advertises usergroups as well as the location where you can sign up to be in a usergroup.

Profile: The Profile is where you can edit your information for others to see what you are like, what your interests are, and if you use any instant messanger.

Private Messages: The Private Messange Inbox is yours alone so you can privately communicate to other members that you feel are not necessary on the forums or in a post. The Inbox keeps mail you recieve from others while the Sentbox is where your mail you sent to others is kept. The Outbox is where the mail you send out will stay until the person it is directed to opens up their inbox. And the Savebox is where you may save important letters that you wish to keep.


Rules

As with any forum, there has to be some rules:

1. If you think your story/poem is inappropiate for some audiences, then leave a note indicating as such at the top of your story/poem.
   
2. Keep all comments clean! For stories and poems, one may use vulgar language, but this is not the case with comments. All inappropiate comments will be edited.
   
3. Members are asked to withold on submitting work until they post two reviews. After one has done, a member can submit as much work as he/she may like, although it is requested that one keeps the ratio of reviews to work to at least 2 to 1.
   
4. The society's official language is English, but new forums for other languages can be made if requested.
   
5. Members should seek to improve other's writing skills.
   
6. The administration reserves the right to delete posts and restrict access.
   
7. Any concerns or questions should be e-mailed to Nate at webmaster@youngwriterssociety.com

Miscellaneous Information

Before you post anything, please read the FAQ. We also advise that you read the standard forum FAQ. Posting on the Young Writers Society uses BBCode to format your posts. BBCode is an abbreviation for Bulletin Board Code, the markup language used to format posts in many modern message boards. The available tags are usually indicated by rectangular brackets surrounding a keyword, and they are parsed by the message board system before being translated into a markup language the web browsers understands, usually HTML or XHTML.

Refer to the BBCode Guide if you have any problems or questions concerning the formating of your text.

If you have any questions, simply ask here. These question must, of course, relate to any technical difficulties you have with the website and be sure to check both important information or news on the Home Page or in the Rules, Information, and Official Polls forum.

Comments and Suggestions may be submitted here. This is strictly your input to the forums and their maintenance. Demands are not tolerated and you are only doing suggesting with your opinion alone.


Members

Firestarter

His name's Jack and he's 17 who is currently a student in a 6th form college in Manchester, UK. He joined this site when it had around 20 members and some time after Nate invited Jack to be a Moderator. Then a few months ago, he was asked to be a Junior Adminstrator to cover for Nate over the summer. He used to write more stories than poems, but lately he has become more interested in poetry and likes them to express his emotions. He is also the leader of the Middengeard usergroup. Jack's main inspirations for writing is the author Bernard Cornwell, and a fervent passion for history.

STORIES
The Sun Prophet: About a man torn between his nationality and destiny and love.
[Prologue]
[Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4]
[Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
[Chapters 10, 11]

Currently Unnamed: About a young officer in Wellesley's army in Portugal, trying to make a name for himself.
[Napoleonic Fiction 1] [Napoleonic Fiction 2] [Napoleonic Fiction 3]
[Napoleonic Fiction 4] [Napoleonic Fiction 5] [Napoleonic Fiction 6]
[Napoleonic Fiction 7] [Napoleonic Fiction 8] [Napoleonic Fiction 9]

POEMS
["division"]
["you know i'd sing for you"]
["blissful concerto"]


Hunter

18 years old and just graduated from High School. Born and raised in Central California, where he still resides to this day. He was brought to YWS by Nate, our beloved Administrator, from a smaller, quickly declining writing forum. He started writing eight years ago (maybe), and has been writing ever since—He draws his inspiration mostly from his own life and own experiences. Others’ experiences, which he has never encountered, also play a key role in what he writes and how he writes it. Around YWS, Hunter tends to post a lot of randomness and participate lightly in the debate topics. He writes mainly action/adventure stories, is working on a trilogy, and has written various other short stories. He also recently ventured into the poetry field, doing three freewrites that turned up some… interesting results.

STORIES
[The Chronicles of the Dhampir] [Consisting of Emergence, Dhampir’s Demon, and A Nameless Third Novel... (Just kidding)
The main theme of these books is good versus evil with an underlying theme of “perception and how it affects action.”

[Random Fantasy]: This fantasy revolves around racism and the joining of two species against a common foe.

POEMS
Three Poems in the Dramatic Poems forum.
["Random Poem #1" [Ages 13+]]
["Random Poem #2"]
["Random Poem #3"]

Bobo

His name is Jordan Bobo (yes, that really is a real last name, you can stop laughing now). Bobo has pretty much always liked writing, as well as drawing, and made his first picture book (featuring Hunter and himself), "The Great Dino Invenchure," in first grade. Before then, he had numerous stories, recorded in folders created during class for one of their daily activities. Since then, he's started several other picture books and comics featuring "The Adventure Team," which also included Hunter and himself, as well as other close friends and, of course, his childhood crush. He wrote his first short story as an assignment in sixth grade, and began writing Pokémon fanfictions while Bobo was still interested and it was still a new thing. In ninth grade, Bobo started drawing seriously, and finally got into writing seriously in about tenth or eleventh grade, mostly thanks to Hunter's prodding. He's currently working on a sister trilogy to Hunter's Dhampir Chronicles entitled (title pending) The Chronicles of Arunia. He also began a sci-fi novel, Fabric of Space, which is about a page long after years passing since its conception. Bobo has recently spent more time drawing than writing, and spends a lot of his free time drawing avatar requests (hence the custom title "Avatar Vendor of YWS"), as well as drawing characters for his RPG-parody cartoon, "Final Sanity" (Coming Soon!) and other drawings. He will be starting college at Brigham Young University this fall, where he plans to study graphic design, 3D animation, and, of course, writing.

STORIES
[Boundless]: Sister story to Hunter's Emergence, book one in The Chronicles of Arunia, this book takes place somwhere in the middle of Hunter's book. It is written from the point of view of Aiden Ethelbert, an intelligent but introverted teen who finds himself and his two friends, Hunter and Mike, taken to another world. He discovers that he has powerful magic inside of him, and quickly learns that he must learn to control it soon, or else it will consume him as the vampires are consuming the Men, Elves, and Kwu-Ghai (dog-men) that live in Arunia.

POEMS
["Open Your Mind"]: A rant/freewrite about religion and people's annoying aversion to Truth. Not suitable for immature.


Crysi

Crysi (Samantha) is 16 years old and a moderator of YWS. She has always loved writing and started seriously writing in sixth grade. She came across a writing site last August, Young Fantasy Writers, which helped her realize just how important outlining was. It was then that she started The Chronicles of Taer, which she is still working on. As for specialties, Crysi can be too compassionate for her own good and people often come to her with problems (both on the forums and personal). She also loves editing, and prefers to do a "full edit" in which she, with the writer's permission, prints out a story, marks it up in pen, then transfers the marks either onto a word document or onto the forum itself.

STORIES
[The Chronicles of Taer]: A young girl must grow up to fulfill the prophecy of the One who will end the fierce wars between two peoples, the Sindrykans and the Drykorians. These are the Dragonkin, a race with the ability to transform into dragons.

POEMS
["Flying With Words"]
["North Star"]
["One More Night to Live"]
["This I Promise" (the sequel to "One More Night to Live")]


Writersdomain
She is Writersdomain, also known as Stev, and she is going into his freshman year at high school. She writes so that she may touch others lives for the glory of God. She enjoys giving brutal but encouraging criticism on poetry and discussing books and music in the lounge areas. She is, unfortunately, currently working on many stories, but has only started posting one on YWS. Just note that the unfortunate part in the last sentence was written by this guy who is totally wacked; don't mind him... or me.

POEMS
[A Thief of Life]: About an assassin.

POEMS
[The City of Time]
["the ripples in the water are not gentle anymore"]
["Saving Grace"]
["The Child Abused (A Jumble of Scars)"]


Shadow Knight
A 13 year old male, born in Australia. He first started writing when his fourth-year teacher encouraged him to enter a writing competition. His job in the forum is simply to be friendly.

STORIES
[The Wanderings]: About a boy who gets revenge on his parents' murderer.


Emma
Emma found this site through The Black Rose when they were on The Young Writers Club. She has always liked writing and really wanted to show other people what she had done. The thing that made her most determined to start writing was a series of books called 'The Darren Shan Saga'.

STORIES
Confidential

POEMS
Confidential


Sam
Sam has proclaimed herself the insane 11-year old girl of the Young Writers Society. She apparently became a talented writer at a very early age and was encouraged by teachers as she grew up.

STORIES
[Hourglass # 1] [Hourglass # 2] [Hourglass # 3]
[Hourglass # 4] [Hourglass # 5] [Hourglass # 6]
[Hourglass # 7] [Hourglass # 8] [Hourglass # 9]
[Hourglass # 10] [Hourglass # 11] [Hourglass # 12]
[Hourglass # 13] [Hourglass # 14] [Hourglass # 15]
[Hourglass # 16] [Hourglass # 17] [Hourglass # 18]

POEMS
["Timmy [Geeks]"]
["Designer Kiss [yeah, like that]"]


nickelpickle
Enjoys to be called Nikki and she is almost fifteen years old. She lives in Florida and began writing in school and when she discovered that she had some talent. Nikki then attempted to develop it and her specialty on the forum is giving harsh criticsm.

POEMS
["Broken Souls"]
["Storms"]


Mattie
Mattie is 15 years old and began writing because she loved to read and daydream. Her specialties in the forums are pretty spaced out.

STORIES
Slippery When Wet: A story about a group of six teens on a beach and drama stirs.
[Chapter One]
[Chapter Two]
[Chapter Three]


DarkerSarah
Sarah is an 18 year old girl in the South. She will be going to a state university where she'll be studying journalism and attending the honors college. Her passion is writing, and always has been; Sarah's first story was about a princess, a king, an enchanted forest, a unicorn, a dragon, and a comical fluffy white dog. The subject matter of her works has matured but her love for writing is the same. She is hardcore when it comes to grammar, and tries to be helpful with her critiques.

STORIES
[Tricks and Traitors]: This is the third part to the story, but the others are linked at the top. It's my attempt at fantasy writing, about a girl who becomes involved in an underground society the day she finds her mother mutiliated in her own home. She posesses what an elite group known as the Ilin call the "Good Curse," an ancient and dark magic that can either be used for the good of the Light World, or its destruction.

[Late Night Bloomer]: An insomniac reflects on being an insomniac. A late-night encounters helps her see the world a little bit differently.

[Remember Lanie]: Lanie and Cameron were best friends for twelve years. Tragedy strikes and Cameron finds herself staring at Lanie's grave, reflecting on her own life and love, their differences, but mainly, their friendship.


Sureal
To start off with, Jonathan was voted as the 'Funniest Member' in the official YWS awards. Despite a tendency for not taking many subjects completely seriously, he does quite enjoy debating various different ideas and thoughts over in the 'Debates and Serious Discussion' Forum. Sureal may also argue against something, just because he can. In real life, he's a sixteen-year-old boy. And he lives in England.

STORIES
Choiceless: Leo find himself finds himself thrust into a war he wants nothing to do with. Unfortunately, he has no choice but to accept the burden that falls upon him. And its not just Leo – other teenagers are being brought in too. Torn apart by the feelings of hopelessness, war and the savage truth that they are not entirely human, they battle amongst one another. Nothing – not even love – can save them.
[Prolouge]
[Chapter One]

[Circus of Sorrow/The Spirit of the Circus]: An ageing man wanders through the circus he had spent his life in, feeling like a stranger in his home. Perhaps it’s time for him to leave?

[Morning]: There's something there... can you hear it? It's getting louder...

[A Shadow's Cry]: Sometimes, even a child can fight. Sometimes, even a child can kill.In a world where assassins have free reign, Matt pushes onwards, through the storming elements and freezing air. His stay in an inn was meant to be peaceful. A time to rest. It wasn’t.

[Regarding Vampires]: Learn of the vampires. Their strengths, weaknesses and beliefs. Learn how they have hidden themselves over the thousands of years they have lived beside us. They are the shadow of humanity. The hunters of humanity. The predators. You must know.

[A Difference in Opinion]: Confronting your boss is scary enough. But it’s time for Kaoiren to confront herself and her people as well. The debate between Karen and Lithre – her insane boss – rages backward and forwards. Emotions run high as Karen defends her new people and Lithre condemns them. Is this the end?

[An Odd Life]: Ted is not... altogether ‘with it’ in the head. Fortunately, he has Chris helping him. Unfortunately, Chris is a git.


Duskglimmer
Duskglimmer, though most people call her Dusky or Dusk around the forums. She is 15 years old and has been writing since before she really even knew how. Her inspiration comes from anything and everything, "as I'm sure, most writers' do."

STORIES
[Shereth]: A Science fiction story about a girl who comes from an enhanced human race, a race not much liked around the galaxy.

[The Bearer]: A fantasy story about a girl who lives on a ship and gets caught between two of the warring Sea Clans

[Voices]: A short story depicting what might be going through a girl's head as she watches her ex with his new girlfriend.

POEMS
["Stargazer"]
["Can anyone hear me?"]
["Missing you"]


Reichieru
Reichieru, also known as Helen Baumander in the real world, is the club's resident ten-year-old in the body of a nineteen-year-old who is going to take a college course to become an educational assistant in September. She writes prose in many different forms, from short novels to interior monologues. Novels are her favourite because "they really allow you to explore a character's world and you can spend weeks, months, or even years, with it." Much of her writing comes from trying to deal with the miseries in her own life, but she also draws from fairy tales and Celtic mythology. She often gives the kind of harsh critiques that she recieved from professionals, regardless of the writer's age and ability.

STORIES
[Little Girl, Not a Little Girl]and [The Human Side of Things]: Both are about learning to balance fantasy and reality.

[The Rainbow Connection]: A first person narrative musing about the meaning of a song with the same title.

A Different Kind of Goblin: A semi-autobiographical novel about many things that happened to me in high school. It is meant to realisticly portray a teen with severe social anxiety that includes a parallel story about a young elf who faces a literal threat of goblins attacking her forest.
[Chapter One]
[Chapter Two]
[Chapter Three]


Elementary Memories: Act one in her play "Always Another Rainbow", also semi-autobiographical, in which the character grows up afarid of the world, believing she is a freak and a screw-up. It continues in "Act Two: High School," where she begins to learn how to move beyong her painful childhood.
[Act One]
[Act Two]


Incandescence
In 1902, Brad escaped from the womb of a female trapeze artist. His parents, both loving and affectionate, despite their obvious obsession with the circus, experimented with strange chemicals on him and, eventually, sold him into slavery to a large alien colony. Once emancipated from the alien slave colony, he returned home and enjoyed a life of peanuts and mathematics. Tragically, his father died when he was only 8 (picnic, lightning). On the other hand, his mother, quite the lepidopterist, always told him she would die around his 15th bithday. And did.

Since this, he has occasionally been seen playing with chemicals in labs, stealthily running around college campuses with bookbags and a gradebook, and generally darting bullets and mad deans. He currently resides in Atlantis.

STORIES
He has written one complete story: Nat, or Naught: A Family Chronicle. It acts as a parody to Nabokov's Ada, or Ardor: A Family History, and a Freudian translation of the Bible. He has written multiple short stories and political commentaries that have been published in The Beaumont Enterprise, TeenINK, and the Lamar University Press.

POEMS
Most of his time, however, is focused on the realm of poetry. Viewed by most as an overtly scathing critic, he has recessed for fear of random animal maulings. He states that "it is in my own best interest" to "hate poetry from afar," though he concedes his own poetry is "not what it should be." He plays around with many ideas in his poems, most recently: time and our perception thereof. Overall, he says that his own poetry is, what he calls, "post-existentialist mumbo jumbo."


Niteowl
Niteowl is 15 years old and has only recently started writing in the past year when some friends told her she wrote well. Her job is to give "gifts" to new members, Members of the Months, members on their birthdays, those that will be leaving for a time, and any other occasion she feels may be worthy of a gift.

STORIES
[Portfolio]

POEMS
["Hall of Mirrors"]
["I Was His Slave"]
["Confusion"]
["My Butterfly"]
["7 Years"]


Forum Links


Fictionpress.com: A showcase of fiction writing and poetry, post up to fifteen writing pieces to be read and published on the web.


Fanfiction.net: A resource for writing, reviewing and reading fanfiction stories.

The Young Writers Clan: A forum much like the Young Writers Society that was started by our own ElectricBlueMonkey. It is a place to write, read, review, and even to participate in role-playing.

4Everything: Bobo's generalized forum that was recently revived. It has the Gladiator RPG; this rpg is a D&D-pased PvP with the d20 system. In other words, it's a text based free-for-all in the middle ages and/or the fantasy realm. More RPGs are being planned as well, including Zombie Mayhem, a Resident-Evil adventure game.

If you have any questions, comments, requests, etc regarding this guide, please PM me.