A blog for young writers and everyone else from YoungWritersSociety.com
For many of you YWS’ers, the name Bobo strikes awe, admiration, and even aspiration. To most of you, however, it probably just strikes you as odd and unfamiliar. I invite you, however, you cast your eyes upon the top of the YWS home page, where you will see a logo much like this one:
Now, you [...]
Nate, I confess, this started all because I wanted to prank you. I saw that one thread in the mod forum (you know the one) and instead of being a nice human being and comforting you, I had the craziest urge to give you the biggest prank that I think YWS has ever seen. The [...]
I haven’t been posting at all for the past two weeks as I’ve been concentrating on getting the Young Writers Literary Journal done. And, now it is!
http://stores.lulu.com/yws
Check it out.
Web sites targeted to young writers are a rare breed. I’ve never completely understood why as those who write spend a lot of time on the computer by definition (at least by the modern definition). Plus, it’s hard to find someone who is 14 years old and doesn’t like writing a story. They may not [...]
The Young Writers Society has only been on its own server for six weeks now, and already we’re straining it! We’re very good on RAM (got two gigabytes of it), but not so good on CPU processing. Right now, the CPU is trying to process over two requests per second, when a good number is [...]
The Young Writers Society has two newsletters now. The first is sent out monthly to anyone who has registered as a member on the main site. The second will be sent out weekly and you have to subscribe to it through the blog here. The first has site announcements; the second has [...]
It’s October first, which to most normal people mean it’s the beginning of the month. Of course, we all know better. That means it’s time to sign up for NaNoWriMo! They’re resetting the site tonight, which means you can sign up and fill in all the lovely things about your NaNoNoWriMo novel for this year, [...]
Starting up a separate blog newsletter, to which you can subscribe in the sidebar. Simply put in your e-mail, then confirm that you do indeed want the newsletter.
The general YWS newsletter will still go out from to time, however I plan to use the blog newsletter on a weekly basis. Along with some featured blog [...]
Starting an internet radio station for the Young Writers Society has been my pet, top-secret project over the last month. I finally went ahead with it today, and we had our pilot program at 8:30 pm EST. By all measures, it was a smashing success! Over 70 listeners, and I only gave 30 minutes notice!
In [...]
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