Young Writers Society

Perhaps you're frantically typing away, trying to make your wordcount on the last day of NaNo. Perhaps you're already in bed, tucked away cozily under the covers. Perhaps you're casually scrolling through YWS. Whatever it is you're doing, a train whistle suddenly grabs your attention, and you get up to peer out of the window.

And lo and behold, it's the Polar YWS Express!

A strange chicken-batfish-elf creature hops off and beckons you forward. You rush out of your house.



He smiles an adventurous smile and says, "My name is Holl Lee Joll Lee. Nice to meetcha!" Then he hops back on the train and crows, "All aboard!"

And with that, your journey on the YWS Express begins. Will you make it to the North Pole? Will you find writing inspiration there, or perhaps help Santa write a story or a poem? Will you meet sentient candy canes?

Anything can happen on the YWS Express! Go forth and write your adventures! >:D



A note on tagbooks: Tagbooks are a special kind of storybook. Instead of making a character profile, the character you write for is yourself - and other members of the site! Your goal is to tag as many users (using the @ symbol and their usernames) as you possibly can in your posts, while also telling a story. In this case, you're telling the story of The YWS Express.

Tagbooks are usually wacky, random and filled with memes, puns, and fourth wall breaks. If you're lucky enough to be tagged, or just want to pop in with a post of your own, you're in for a treat!

If you want to see what past tagbooks have been like, here are some examples:

• The Search for the Golden Goose (Tagbook)
• A Pig, Space, and a Lot of Chaos
• Walking in a YWS Wonderland
• Finding Nate the Dragon
• The Haunted Holiday Lodge
• The Great YWS Treasure Hunt
• The S.S.Y.W.S.
• #Classified vs. #LongLiveBigBrother

Lady Mysterio scrolled though yws, looking excited at all the Christmas cheer. She decided with the amount of Christmas spots she'd just made, that she had the Christmas zoomies.

She glanced out the window at the pouring rain. Wait a moment. She stood, it was snowing? But it'd been racing two moments ago. An shrill whistle sounded and she bounded to the window. It was a dream from true. A magnificent steam engine sat. Decorated cheerily on silver tracks. @TheMythMaster would LOVE this. Lady tore into her wardrobe, flung on a red velvet knee length dress with white trim, and her knee high black heeled boots. Then practically jumped all five steps in the flight of stairs leading to the downstairs level of the house. All the while frantically texting @Quillfeather , @ailahevelynmae @kaiajersaga and @teatiime in their everyday wfp.

@TheMythMaster sat writing, as per usual by the fire place. "MYTH". She shouted in glee,"THE YWS EXPRESS IS HERE"
Then ran outside, running the length of the long drive, kicking snow behind her. Knowing he'd soon follow.

Lady leaped onto the train, warmth and cheer greeting her as she waved to the strange chicken bat creature who'd invited her on.

Myth was still processing Lady’s words as he replied.
“Just a sec, I gotta get this down.”
He was finally to a good part of the story and- What had Lady said? The realisation hit him and he dashed out the door, laptop left behind.
Steam coming off of the magnificent train swept past him as he delved toward it, bumping into @FireEyes in the momentary fog.
“It’s the YWS express!” He shouted at them. The rhythmic thumping of the pistons was building. It was pulling away.
“Waaait!” He shouted uselessly as the cars started to pass by him.
Reaching out his arms strained as @momonster reached out and pulled him aboard. He mumbled a thanks as he stumbled inside. The door shut with a bang. Lady greeted him and they headed to a nicer car. However, passing between the cars, Myth checked behind them, there were still several figures running after the train. He counted, @Spearmint @Snoink and @IcyFlame among others.
Before he could voice his wish it was granted and the train screeched to a stop throwing him forward. He found the ladder ahead of and him and seeing @BluesClues up there climbed up to see what had stopped them.
As the steam cleared a black dragon was visibly blocking the train. A Bat/Chicken conductor person was climbing down; arms waving at the beast.
“@MercedesBlue!” Myth shouted.
One of the people getting on the train looked up.
“Wait, if they’re down there… who is the dragon?”
It looked like @Nate the dragon was making sure some more people could get on.

momo sighed happily as she sat down in front of her computer with her cup of warm tea, ready to write poetry. she pulled her burrito blanket up to her lap, cracked her knuckles, and placed her hands on her keyboard. she gazed outside at the freshly fallen snow, smiled, and quoted the wise words of lorelai gilmore, "everything is magical when it snows." she turned back to her computer and took a sip of tea.

just then, momo heard a train whistle, and the call of, "all aboooard!" confused, momo looked back outside and spat out her tea. a train had appeared in front of her house. and not just any old Long Island Rail Road train; an old-fashioned steam engine was sitting outside her house. a funky looking creature {bat? fish?? elf??? bat-fish elf?!?!} stepped out.

"all aboooard the young writers society express!" it called out again.

momo gathered up her tea, computer, and blanket and ran to her door with excitement. she paused for a moment and wondered if this was how horror movies started, but shook off the thought and opened her door. she looked around and would have spat out her tea again if she had some in her mouth. @LadyMysterio was climbing on board in a long red velvet gown. looking further down the street, momo saw @alliyah , @starshipgirl , @PaigeFantasy , and @GengarIsBestBoy also climbing onto the train.

momo waved excitedly to her friends, overjoyed at getting to meet them in person for the first time. careful not to trip on her burrito blanket, she too started to board the train. once inside, she saw @gremlingeodes , @OrabellaAvenue , @Quillfeather , @luxeterna, and many other members sitting at various tables. momo ran over and greeted her friends, then took a seat at a table while she waited for the train to begin its journey.

the train started to move, chugging and spitting out steam. momo watched out the window, then jumped up in shock. @TheMythMaster was running after the train! momo ran to the door and reached out a hand to him, and pulled him up onto the train. he faintly said, "thanks." before rushing past her into the train. momo shook her head. "you're welcome!" she headed back to her seat and cozied back up with her tea and blanket. she grinned. this was going to be an amazing adventure.

Lady couldn't stop looking around in awe . Feeling like she'd just stepped back in time. Whe gathered her fluffy skirt, holding the gathers by her knees, so the skirt wouldn't brush against anyone sitting in seat. @TheMythMaster trailer behind her as the entered another car. The train had just started moving again. @Nate trailing behind them.

She scanned the car for her friends. @TheMythMaster poked her and said he was going to explore. So she sat down in the nearest seat, skirt billowing around her. And counted the heads of those who already sat. Some she recognized some she didn't. Maybe some members had yet to board. Like @luxeterna @lullaby @AceassinOfTheMoon and she realized the very Christmasy @Spearmint she hasn't seen yet.

Lady finally spotted some of her friends, @Quillfeather @kaiajersaga @ailyahevelynmae and @teatiime were huddled together at a table. She stood and waved at them frantically.

Kaia put her head down on the table. She wasn't exactly sure where in the world she was. All she knew was that her enthusiastic friend @aliahevelynmae had dragged her out of her bed and dragged the half asleep writer across the perfect snow drifts that had somehow appeared overnight to a train.

Now Kaia sat in a bench sleepy eyed beside her friends. She spotted @LadyMysterio waving to her and instantly she became awake. She waved back to her and gestured her to come join her and @Quillfeather, @teatime, and @ailahevelynmae

tea, holding a large mug filled with lemon tea, was drawing prototypes for @LadyMysterio 's 20th birthday invintations. He was showing them to @Quillfeather, @AilahEvelynMae, and @KaiaJersaga, He even texted a photo of it to @LuminescentAnt. He then got up and looked outside, was that... @Spearmint and @AmayaStatham at the next station? He tapped Kaia on the shoulder and pointed.

Spearmint blinked. She'd been suffocating under the mountain of supplemental essays she had to write for college applications, but suddenly, the YWS Express had arrived and saved her! (Or, more accurately, distracted her >.> But everything was alright; she'd catch up later-- at this point, mint was becoming rather an expert at balanced procrastination.)

She ran after the train, panting (being the chair potato she was). mint squinted. Was that @Snoink in the distance, emerging triumphant from her NaNo victory? mint called excitedly to @Snoink, and to @WeepingWisteria and @LuminescentAnt and all the other cool ywsers she saw.

Finally, she reached a station and met @AmayaStatham. While they waited to board the train, using some minty magic, mint whipped out a mint-colored notepad and scribbled some more invitations. She folded them up into origami cranes and blew them into the air.

With a whiff of mint, the cranes flapped their way to their recipients: @Plume, @IcyFlame, @looseleaf, @Ari11, @winterwolf0100, @KateHardy, @RandomTalks, @yosh, @OrabellaAvenue, @foxmaster, and many, many more. Amused, mint made an extra-special crane for @AilahEvelynMae, whose username had been misspelled three times in the last three posts.

Then, finally, mint greeted the wonderful Holl Lee Joll Lee and boarded the YWS Express! She settled down in a corner with a cup of peppermint hot cocoa, watching eagerly for new ywsers boarding the train and the adventures they'd inevitably bring with them.

Ari plucked a sprig of pine needles off a branch in his front yard, fixing it carefully in his hair. It smelled like Christmas trees, the perfect scent to start December. The lights hanging from the neighbor's house twinkled across the street, casting a multicolored glow on the white snow. It was already starting to melt(snow never lasted long where Ari lived), but it was still festive.
His breath steamed in the cold air as he turned to go inside, but he was suddenly interrupted when something light hit him in the side of the head. The thing tumbled to the ground, landing at his feet. Ari leaned closer, picking up the small, soggy object.
It seemed to be a crane, folded out of mint-green paper. There was also some sort of message written on it. Unfolding the crane, Ari was met by @Spearmint's signature handwriting. It read:

Come quick! YWS Express!

"YWS Express?" Ari repeated under his breath. "Like the Polar Express? But I thought that was a children's...story."
As the words were still leaving his mouth, a high-pitched whistle rang through the silent snow-filled air. Ari turned just in time to see a huge train pulling up in front of his house, steam pouring from the enormous funnel-shaped smokestack. Inside he could see at least a dozen other YWSers waving at him, including @alliyah, @starshipgirl, @momonster, @PaigeFantasy, @GengarIsBestBoy, @OrabellaAvenue, @Quillfeather in the back and, of course, @Spearmint.

"All aboard the Young Writer's Society Express!" the conductor(who was some sort of bizarre mashup of at least three different creatures) cried. Ari didn't question it. He was an alien totally normal human, after all. He climbed eagerly onto the train, ready to start whatever fantastic adventure was about to unfold next.

In all honesty, chi had forgotten about the upcoming holidays. One might say he was even a bit of a Scrooge. Bah humbug! Yeah sure, whatever that means.

He was writing poetry one night, as always. I mean, someone has to do it! These ghosts aren't going to write themselves! He had left the window open for some fresh air, despite the December coldness that had lurked its way in. There was the occasional snowflake here and there as well. Until... Whack! Something hit him right on the back of his head. A bird? A plane? A paper crane? Yes, it was a paper crane.

chi was baffled when he discovered this. He doesn't even like birds! Especially birds that invade his personal space and break into his house. Upon closer inspection though, there was some sort of note written on the crane that piqued his interest:

"Come quick! YWS Express!"

Wow, who could this be from? It sure did look a lot like @Spearmint's handwriting! The whole YWS Express thing didn't phase chi much, but the urgency of the message did. This could be a big deal! If anything, this could also be an excellent way to avoid his real-life commitments. Who needs a job anyway?

Just as he finished reading the note, he heard a train in the distance. It sounded like it was approaching his house. Man, someone must've leaked his address! He hurriedly put on a jacket and his shoes, and then he mentally prepared himself to open his front door. It was too cold outside for something like this!

When he opened the door, there really was a train. Goodness gracious, that's strange where he lived! It must've been the YWS Express!

"All aboard!" yelled some weird science-experiment-gone-wrong looking creature. As chi inched closer to the train, he saw people he recognized! @Ari11, @GengarIsBestBoy, @Quillfeather, @OrabellaAvenue, and @teatiime among many! Oh, and @Spearmint was there as expected.

He boarded the train, a little dazed. One thought persisted in his head. Who's going to take care of my cats while I'm gone!?

@foxmaster was very busy hanging up paper snowflakes when she decided to check out YWS. She smiled, excited, because she knew that the holidays were coming up, which meant that YWS was going to go crazy for christmas!

Fox wasn't honestly very happy with her new, holiday-themed avatar, so she decided to search up a very nice one on google. After saving, she logged onto YWS, and was about to edit her avvie when she got an email: All aboard the YWS express! It said, written in a jolly script.

Fox raised an eyebrow. Is it some kind of roleplay? she wondered. Hmm.

All of a sudden, the ground began to shake, and quake, the piercing sound of a train whistle echoing all around. Fox ran outside to see what was going on, and noticed a gigantic train in front of her house, with YWSers on it just like @Spearmint, @creaturefeature, @LadyMysterio, and others that she just felt too tired to write down.

Fox grabbed a coat, and jumped onto the jolly train!

tea was very tired of writing at this point, and decided to walk around the express, passing by @Spearmint, @creaturefeature, @foxmaster. I'm starving... he thought. There HAS to be a food booth here somewhere... He continued walking, and looked outside. The next station was coming up, and he could make out quite a few people. He saw @PKMichelle, @OrabellaAvenue... and was that @GengarIsBestBoy? He poked his head out of the window and yelled out to them. "Hey! Come on the Express!"

Deadman was really bored.
So, Deadman got on YWS, the obvious answer to boredom. After logging in, She decided to check out some Roleplays.

Hmmm, what is this?

After debating with herself for a hot minute, Deadman gave in to her curiosity and clicked on The YWS Express. In that instant, a train horn blared, announcing the arrival of The YWS Express. Deadman ran to her bedroom window, throwing it open. Outside, she saw a train, unlike any train she had seen before! Without any hesitation, Deadman climbed out her window and aboard.

She was greeted by spottedpebble, BluesClues, and even Snoink!

While Deadman walked through train car after train car, she bumped into AmayaStatham, Rose, and regrettably [user]Big Brother
[/user]. After apologizing to him multiple times, she went into the next train car.

Oh! Look it's teatiime

@PKMichelle looked toward the train as she heard @teatiime call. She had been working on a story, but quickly dropped her pen and jumped with excitement at the sight of the YWS Express. She hopped up from her seat and began to race toward the train, leaping with joy.

Once inside, she looked around in awe, taking in all of the beautiful decor and exploring all of the cabins, finding wonderful artwork, and meeting all of the other passengers inside. And when her exploration ended, she took a seat next to tea and thanked him for inviting her.

momo had finished her tea, and decided she needed more. she stood and looked around the train car, and spotted a sign that pointed to the refreshments car. she strode towards it, passing @LadyMysterio scolding @TheMythMaster for being late getting onto the train. sibling things, momo thought with a chuckle. i can relate to that.

momo reached the refreshments car and was overwhelmed by how many choices of drinks this train had. there were vending machines, coffee and tea dispensers, bottled water from every brand you could think of, and a few drinks with elf-ish names that momo had never heard of. @gremlingeodes was there filling a five gallon container with coffee. he looked very tired, so momo decided to give him a pat on the shoulder and a sympathizing smile.

just then, holl lee joll lee came rushing through the car. it seemed very nervous and upset.

"hey, is everything alright?" momo asked with concern.

"um. no?" holl lee wrung its hands. wings. whatever it had. "i've lost my pet mammoth."

momo blinked. "you...lost your mammoth?"

"yes. he has separation anxiety so i know he's probably terrified right now."

momo shook her head, trying not to laugh. "where did you see him last?"

holl lee wiped away a tear. "i can't remember! he was there, and then he wasn't."

momo rubbed holl lee on the shoulder. wing. flipper. whatever it had. "don't worry; we brave members of yws will help you. why don't we tell everyone and they'll help us, okay?" momo looked towards the camera. "can you help us find the mammoth?"