Writing Gooder

For those who remember, the Young Writers Society went dark for two months in the summer of ’06.  It almost seems hard to believe now, but back then, the site was still quite small.  Unfortunately, the server costs at the time were way more than what I could afford, especially given the paltry advertising revenue at the time.

After YWS went dark, the denizens of the site moved their activities to a forum that Duskglimmer graciously set up called “The Society Revisited,” or TSR for short.   A lot of what you know about YWS actually began on that site for that’s when SPEW really came into it’s own, and CCF was born.

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Over the next few days, I plan on making a series of posts looking back at YWS over the past year.  The YWS Blog has been an off & on venture that first began in 2006, but withered away.  We began it again in April of 2007 with 12 different authors.  Over time, those authors were narrowed down to just four: myself (Nate), Suzanne, Via, and Trident.

The blog, though, didn’t really take off until August of 2007, and now it’s a fairly well trafficked part of YWS.  2007 ended up being a good year for the blog, but here’s hoping that 2008 will be even better!

The top 10 blog posts out of 872 from the past year by comments are as follows:

1. You Write? by Whence with 19 comments
2. August Statistics by Nate with 17 comments
3. YWS Will Become Text Only by Nate with 14 comments
4. Argh Matey! That’d Be YWS Swag! by Nate with 13 comments
5. Growing Up On YWS by Nate with 13 comments
6. Write Me = ? by Via with 13 comments
7. Buffalo buffalo… by Suzanne with 13 comments
8. Why Firefox Is Better For Writers by Nate with 13 comments
9. The Big Move by Nate with 12 comments
10. Plotting With Note Cards by Suzanne with 11 comments

Why not take a trip down memory lane and check out a few of those?  Some are no longer applicable (August Statistics and Write Me = ?) but others are fantastic (You Write?).