Young Writers Society

Uhm so i am new, i mostly write poems but i am a little confused as to how this site works. Someone want to give me a few tips? Please?

Easy peasy.

Do your best, have fun and make friends. Plus, no chat speak and for everything you post you must have review two peices.

Have fun! Wonderful ways to ake firnds is to PM (private message) people who has written stories or poems you like! Or the people commenting on here! Like me! But you already know me.. Tee hee!

*giggles*

have fun!

Gladly! My name's Shannon. I'm sure you'll come to know your way around soon.

But first, remember to stick to the rules

1)No chatspeak, we're too fancy for that.
2)Stick to the 2:1 ratio, for every one piece you post, review two others, it's very simple!

Now, as far as getting around, if you go to "writing" up top, and then "read and review," that's where you'll post your poetry, short stories, etc. This is also where all the aforementioned reviewing takes place, as you might assume. If you wiggle on over to "Community" and go to "Community Forums," you'll find... this forum, obviously, and The Lounge, Writing Tips, About the Authors, etc. Moving further to the left "My YWS" is where you can make all your changes to your account. I reccomend just going through everything there and setting things up just how you like it. Home obviously, is home. Groups are little group forums you can join to chat with people on certain points of interest. Resources is just information for writers, Squills is sort of a literary magazine we put out, and Blogs is... everyone's blogs. You can set up your own blogs or just read other people's. Messages is where you can receive all your PMs and send others out, and Help and Support is... help and support. It seems kind of overwhelming at first, but that's the basic basics, YWS has a lot of hidden layers and I'm constantly finding new things out! If you need anything else, speak up! Everyone's very helpful.

So, what else should we know about you? Who are some of your favorite authors? TV shows? Movies?

Oh thnak you so muhc, i'll keep the rules in mind. And my authors chnage cause i read tons, right now it's Ellen Schreiber and i watch way too many movies to know my favorite. I guess i'd say it's The Notebook. I only watch TV when it comes to mives so no favorite Tv shows.

Hellooo, Emotastic_Writer! (I sound like those greeter robots, I know.) Is there another shorter name you'd like to be called? Whatever. Welcome to YWS!
I'm Lily. Hola.

As you already know the rules... *pouts at Shannon* I might as well just elaborate a little more on the chatspeak rule. No CAPITALs allowed, though mild abbreviations are okay. Ex: POV, lol, MC, A/N. No excess of exclamation marks, no "i" instead of "I".

So.. poetry? Do you do any form of prose? Because I suck at poetry-reviewing. If you do any stories, I'd be glad to critique 'em! Just give me a call.

Any other hobbies? Football, perhaps? Or soccer, if you're from the US. I used to play football when I was little.. till my football deflated.

So PM me for anything, especially if you're lost.

Cheers,
Lily.

Hey.

Welcome to YWS.

I am one of those greeter robots too.

so what genre are you writing?

pm me if you need anything.

See ya around.

Okay wow lots of questions. My writing isn't really one specific style i just freewrite and it goes from there.

1)What is your favourite color? It's Purple
2)What is your favourite book? Right now Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
3)If you could go anywhere in the world where would it be? Italy
4)What is your favourite animal? Horse
5)And finally, What is your favourite holiday? Halloween

And the only sport I play is softball, though I do play volleyball every so often.

Thank you you guys!

Hi there Emo_Tastic. I'm Niteowl, the original Greeter robot (although I've been kind of rusty lately.) Plus, I'm the only Greeter who actually has a robot. His name's Charlie, and he's a 75-year-old cheesy announcer. He's awesome. You'll meet him in a second. Anyway...so I know you've been bombarded with questions, but I'm going to add one more. Ellen Schrieber? Is she the author of the Vampire Kisses books? I used to love those.

Anyway, there's only one thing left to do now...give you a gift! Charlie?

EMO_TASTIC COME ON DOWN! YOU'RE THE NEXT CONTESTANT ON...WAIT, IS THERE A GAME SHOW? NO. DARN IT! ANYWAY, YOU GET A GIFT JUST FOR PLAYING...ER, JOINING THE SITE! HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERE'S YOUR GIFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!