Young Writers Society

Poetry Peeps

@LadyBird I'm glad I always have someone to rant with, and also all of our evil plotting. I hope you know you're awesome, and talented, and one of my favorite parts of YWS. Also your poetry is fabulous. <3

@Aley My wonderful Poetry Crew Leader, Squills Buddy Extraordinaire; so much love to you, Aley! <3

@TheBlueCat - Shout out to one of my favorite YWS Cats. You are spirited and peppy, and I'm so glad to be on Poetry Crew with you. Thank you also for following my NaPo poetry this year!! <3

@Casanova - dude - thanks for the Review Challenge!! It motivated me to do a bunch of reviews! I also had fun running that poetry workshopping event, and if you ever want to Review Challenge Rematch - just let me know!

@Clarity - Haven't known you very long Clarity, but I've enjoyed all of our site and PCrew & Squills interactions! You totally rocked Spooktober by the way - and I'm glad you're a part of this site <3

@niteowl - I'm putting you in the poetry peeps section too, since you are a poetry peep! Love when you jump into write-ins and also all of your enthusiasm and dancing elephants!

@Arcticus, @amelie, @hexglass, @Snazzy, @fortis - you all are such talented poets, never stop writing poetry friends!

@MJTucker @Oxara @Cloudkid I had so much fun writing that collaborative poem together! <3 Ya'll are talented and wonderful people - and I enjoy catching up with you in write-ins!

Squills
@EternalRain , @TheWeirdoFromBeyond, @WritingPrincess, concord, Aley, LadyBird and the rest of the Squills family - ya'll are awesome and hard-working and I'm proud of all the successful Squills issues that have come together this year!

Write-Ins
Write-ins were huge this year on YWS! It was so fun to get to know more of you more and chat and check in. I know I'm missing a few peeps here ~ thankful for all of you folks though.
@BlueAfrica (YWS MOM! You are wonderfully level-headed and caring Blue!)
@CloudKid (you are a fabulous poet and writer, don't forget it!)
@mellifera @BiscuitsLeGuin @MJTucker
@zaminami (I enjoyed following your novel while you were writing it! And I always enjoy getting one of your reviews. Also did I thank you for that alligator/squid collage??? because I love it. a lot! )
@ShadowVyper (YWS's resident Fish Expert!!!)
@Oxara - Hey! thanks for listening to me blabber about all the random poetry nonsense. You're a good friend!

Other Shout-outs

@concord - you are so supportive - from NaPo to Squills to reviewing, you're seriously wonderful concord.

@EagleFly - Eagle, I'm so glad we met this year! I've seen you grow so much in your poetry writing, you're really kind and a good friend to have around. I'm also glad we had a chance to write a poem together!

@QueerHumanBean - I know you're not on anymore, but if you ever are, I do hope you are doing well buddy!

@PrincessInk @Querencia @Traves You're all sweet and thanks for following the Poem of the Week thread, I notice!!! <3

Other YWS peeps I'm going to give a quick shout-out to for either being hilarious, kind, wonderful, encouraging, talented, enthusiastic, or all of the above!
@Lael, @Wolfical, @Mea, @rosette, @AriannaC, @SnowMonkey, @Magestorrow, @inktopus, @Coffeeism, @Chinku, @Lightsong, @Rydia, @erilea, @Charm, @Messenger, @SpiritedWolfe, @tgirly

@AllOfMyFellowModerators (including some of you dark blue and orange names!!) you're a hard working and dedicated bunch! And I'm glad to be a mod along with you all.

There are many people I missed tags for because there are just so many people on this site that have kept me coming back to it. Thank you to all of you who have listened and encouraged me, or just shared their talent and writing. Thank you for contributing to this site and making it the welcoming and exciting community that it is.

@mellifera @shaniac @CloudKid ---> Shoutout to the late night crew that got me through long days and even longer nights <33 I love you all to bits.

Mellie - you are so sweet

shan - I miss your awesome reviews

and Ollie - I love your writing I love your determination to make it through this world <3

here's to hoping a better year for all of us.

@LadyBird @Aley @alliyah @EternalRain @elysian @Clarity @Kanome @TheWeirdoFromBeyond @WritingPrincess also shaniac and @Charm and props other people too ---> Massive hello to all of my fellow Squillians (even if I'm super in-and-out) I really appreciate all of your work to help Squills along. c:

Lizz - I love your different topics and who you are and how you're not afraid to speak your mind <3

Aley - my queen of poetry I miss you and appreciate you helping me become an editor and yeah you're simply amazing <33

alliyah - my other queen of poetry and poems and I bow down to your greatness because you're amazing and everywhere and you're so enthusiastic about everything I very much appreciate it <33

Rain - my other fellow editor - I love the work you do and just love talking with you about random things - I hope you're doing good. <33

Elysian - I miss you but I hope you're doing good.

@Vervain @Rosendorn @Evander ---> To give you all some love and say thank you to the wholesome conversations we've had and the amazing stories you all are writing and the reviews you've left me that have helped me a lot.

@Featherstone @soundofmind @Magestorrow @Omnom @AstralHunter (also @Rydia and @Elinor ---> To give some SB-ers some love and say a major thank you to welcoming into your events and getting to know all of your characters and I'm just appreciative of your help and your enthusiasm with what you do <33

@BlueAfrica ---> You are simply amazing and I love you and I love spying all of the Kiernan/Benjamin scenes even when I don't read the rest XD

@Oxara @lemonboi @MJTucker @ShadowVyper ---> Hello some of my fellow WFP-ers. I have really enjoyed holding conversations with you all <33

Shady - I appreciate all of the talks we've had about different things and yeah

@Panikos @BiscuitsLeGuin ---> I had a need to say that you both are amazing and do great work and I love seeing you work in a pad.

@Arcticus @bluewaterlily @Casanova Charm ---> Necessary shout-out to some fabulous poets that have shown YWS some amazing stuff not only this year but also past ones <33

blue - Thank you for your NaPo input <3 Here's to hoping we both can do it again.

@Carlito @fortis @Pompadour ---> Necessary shout-out to some fabulous writers on here (Lizz, you're also included here, as is Elinor and a bunch of other peeps whoops).

fortis - I will get caught up on Connection because it's too good to get too far behind in, eech.

@Mea ---> You are simply a wonderful person and I love seeing you do all of these different events on YWS from mod stuff to The Duels of the Reviewers because that was fabulous.

I want to finish a book, not just the first draft but actually finish and refine a book

I did finish the first draft of my novel. I didn’t finish the second draft like I hoped but I have been working and I am proud of the progress I have made. It’s hard for me to say that. I was really bummed out at the fact that I didn’t get the chance to fully complete this goal.

I want to start a new writing project

Because I didn’t complete my first goal, I didn’t get a chance to complete this one.

I want to stop wondering if I'm good enough for people and instead wonder if they're good enough for me.

I have grown closer to some of my school friends but I think I’m also very much in the mentality of a senior in high school that is about to graduate and change schools (and countries). I also put up with a lot of crap this year that I didn’t necessarily needed to. It wasn’t as bad as 2017 but it wasn’t as good about it could be.

I want to create and stick to a solid exercise routine. I've started doing yoga and running but I want to really refine my routine.

Hahahahahaha

I want to learn more Korean.

Sadly I fell out of my studying and never got back into it.

I want to keep up my habit of doing well in school.

I have been studying really hard this year! I really brought up my GPA and my grades have been all As except for one B+.

I want to try and get into university

The “trying” has been happening but I’m not done with all my applications and I won’t hear back from universities until Spring most likely.

I want to learn to drive. I mean I already know how, but I want to get on the road with other cars. I want independence. I want to go on road trips alone but also with friends.

I did get my license but because of my car crash there was a while where I didn’t have a car and I haven’t been able to drive around with friends.

I want to get a job and make money, money, moneyyyyyyy!

I didn’t have time to get a job. Also when I did try to get a job no one called me in for an interview sooooo...

check non-school email more often

I get it everyday so yay look at me go

stay organized

Sure I guess I did this

And lastly, I want to love myself. I think this year I finally understood that life is a process of learning and I had thought that I have mastered the art of self love but that was naive of me. I will continue to change and as I change I will have to continue to learn how to love myself. I loved myself for who I was yesterday, but I want to love myself for who I am today and who I will be tomorrow.

I’m still learning and growing and struggling.