There's a lot of fun and games happening today, but at the end of the day, at the end of ten years, I think what most of us feel is gratitude towards this site.
If you've stuck around for however long, be it ten years or ten days, you've become a part of the fabric here at YWS, and I think that it's only right we have a place to collate all those heartfelt thank-yous. Put yours below.
So thank you not only to Nate, but to everybody who has kept the site alive and kicking. Thank you to the staff, thank you to every single one of over 30,000 members who took the time to register and helped the site to grow into what it is today.
But thank you especially to Nate as well, for giving us the opportunity.
Thank you YWS, for giving us a safe space to be at the end of the day. Thank you for binding people together with a shared passion the way you have. Thank you for nurturing so many amazing writers, for teaching them how to grow and evolve, and for teaching them how to teach others. Thank you for spreading the word about grammar, about showing-not-telling, about paragraphs and purple prose. Thank you for being a place dedicated to helping others. Thank you for helping me with my writing, and thank you for giving me the privilege of now reading the polished, excellent work of writers that you have raised.
Thank you for being such a welcoming community. Thank you for the people who jump on the Welcome Mat, thank you for the ever-rotating list of Post Your Pics and other silly Lounge posts. Thank you even for SD&D, even though it makes my head explode occasionally. Thank you for the chat room. Thank you for creating a place where anything could be happening when you walk in the door. Thank you for Storybooks, the way they tie writing and roleplay together the way nowhere else really does. Thank you for the characters and scenarios that arise there and the adventures that we have together.
Thank you for collecting some of the best people from around the globe. Without YWS, I would be lacking some of my best friends. Thank you for creating a support system. Thank you for attracting people who read my blog when I'm down and promise everything is going to be alright. Thank you for letting me meet those friends whose bond now stretches beyond YWS, for whom I check my phone and my Facebook, who know nearly everything about me and are okay with that. Thank you for introducing new friends to me in my teenage years, when everybody needs someone they can trust. And thank you for letting me hang onto them, seven years later as adulthood creeps up on me.
Thank you for being so much more than a writing site. Thank you for being home.
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