Nate

The new Literary Spotlight page is now up: Literary Spotlight By default, it displays the top 100 works of all time, though I think some of the counts may be ...

Added the Featured Member Hall of Fame and a listing for all Staff Picks: Featured Member Hall of Fame All Staff Picks Hall of Fame The HoF goes back to ...

This is a change you won't notice until your work is in the literary spotlight, but from now on, once your work reaches that exalted status, you'll receive a PM ...

Hey all, I've attached the analytics report for the first 6 weeks of the new Writing Gooder (April 1 - May 17) to this post. Just as heads up, one ...

Staff picks have now been added to the front page -- just look under the literary spotlight. Staff picks update every 24 hours at 4am GMT. At the moment, you ...

its like announcing a patch in a videogame @Verser ->> I like this comparison a lot, and I may have to steal it! Previous big upgrades to YWS were largely ...

Please use the Report a Site Bug thread for bug reports. Thanks!

Another very small update: the homerow (showing the featured announcement, leaderboards summary, and featured member) has been moved back up the front page to just below the banner image. This ...

First small update: random quotes at the bottom of the site. Not a big thing in the slightest, but I've been having fun scrolling to the bottom just to see ...

Updates to YWS: Cassini, the current version of the site, will be listed here. Major updates will also receive their own thread.

The Day the Earth Smiled - Mosaic of images taken by Cassini on July 19, 2013 The Young Writers Society has gone through a lot of updates over the years. ...

I neglected to mention this earlier, but if you joined prior to March 11 of this year, then you already have a YWS Wordpress blog. Just go to: For me, ...

Yikes! I just switched the logo so hopefully it's not happening anymore.

Great article on Mashable: 15 words you should eliminate from your vocabulary to sound smarter Technically, the article is referring to your everyday speech, but I think it works even ...

The showing of private works in the recommended area is a bug, and I'll go ahead and take care of that. Thanks for reporting it. With it suggesting the same ...