Due this week

General Writing. Send in your best work – poems, short stories, essays. (Feel free to do it throughout the year, but this gives you a deadline.)
Deadline: Oct. 10.

To submit to Newspaper Series

  • Log in. (Click "Not a YWP member?" to create an account.)

  • Click "create content" and create an ENTRY
  • Fill out "title," "author name, school & grade" and "prompt" boxes.
  • Paste story into "body."
  • Click "Submit." You are done.
    NOTES: Your account email must be accurate; a "blog" entry must be resubmitted as an ENTRY to be considered.

End?

Usagi's picture

So many people have been leaving lately.
I can’t say I haven’t noticed
haven’t noticed why.
I guess everything has to change.

There’s a part of me that wants
this to be my last post;
wants this to be my final goodbye.
Bang and there goes
Usagi, joining the ranks of
Imagine and PT and Awsm and Obscure and MM--

offline
and out in the real world.

I know I’ll never hold to it.
There’s a bigger part of me
that won’t be able to stop posting.
YWP is what kept me from exploding this year.
Leave the site and
there will be a bang.

But YWP’s not what it used to be.
I can’t rely on it anymore.

I guess everything has to change.

SnowStars's picture

evryone's leaving.

Submitted by SnowStars on May 10, 2008 - 09:46.

Not you too!
(why?)
(and will you really?)

Geist's picture

A shame. This site has been

Submitted by Geist on May 10, 2008 - 12:44.

A shame.

This site has been a focal point for my efforts in writing a novel, mostly due to the support and advice you 'oldies' have given me, both in comments and the amazing pieces you write.

Oh, well. Change happens, we must move on, and there is always a bang somewhere along the line.

It's been good knowing you, Usagi.
____________________
"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives." -William Dement

Hmmm

Submitted by ggevalt on May 11, 2008 - 01:29.

Usagi,

We have greatly enjoyed your writing. All of us.
Thank you.
gg

bluedisch.'s picture

I miss everyone who is gone,

Submitted by bluedisch. on May 16, 2008 - 22:18.

I miss everyone who is gone, or "on sabbatical" or "vacationing". whatever they want to call it, for whatever reason. now I have to miss you, too? who will write poems for me to read in the middle of the night when I have nothing else to do (that is, that I feel like doing)? anyway, I kind of want to say thank you to everyone who has left, and to everyone who is here, and to you, for your writing, and for making YWP what it is. of course there are bangs, because that's life, but i still rely on YWP for not becoming an exploding firework, no matter how entertaining they are for onlookers. I want to combine life and YWP, and I wish everyone could have stayed. but I still love you all, "always and forever".
:) there, that was my speech for today.
love, blue

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