Did you come here and sign up intentionally, or did you discover this place by accident, like I did? I stumbled on here about two years ago when I was searching for local writing groups in my area, decided to sign on, and the rest is history...of a sort... :P
caring carer
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Same as you just stumbled on it looking for a book group in my area.
nora
I signed up for a Yahoo! mail adress several years ago. I was young and mum wouldn't let me have an email, so I went and made a secret one. This was it.
I found Yahoo!Answers not long after.
I didn't really understand how Yahoo!Answers worked. I just stumbled around the site and answered question I thought I knew the answer to. My answers were wrong about 80% of the time. I was an ickle preteen back then, not very bright and didn't speak English too well. I feel somewhat embarassed looking back at all my badly spelled answers.
I came back a couple years later, bringing with me my newfound love for books and writing. The Baby Names section was the first place I crashed into, and I still crash there from time to time, but I eventually made my way over here as well.
And here I am: proud Y!A Books & Authors lurker.
Good day.
Anonymous
I started because I really needed to ask a question about SSAT scores and a lot of questions about private high school. My family had never been through the process so we were really lost, and I wasn't sure if my scores were good enough, what I needed to do, etc.
Honestly I forget how I came to be a B&A regular. This was obviously my favorite section, but most of the time I just watched from afar. Then the Tribook Tournament (2.0) came around, and I signed up for that and I met a bunch of people... actually I had already met people before that, but that was when I really joined the family. Yeah...
Vanilla Bear
I discovered Y!A on accident too. I was searching for some new baby names to expand my list and this website just popped up. I got a Yahoo! account just to try it out and I fell in love with how thorough of answers I could receive. I was originally just on here for the Baby Names section, but then I found Books and Authors when I was starting my first novel. Now, I use this section all the time!
Anonymous
I joined for movies, originally. If you go through my answer history (and I mean way, way through to the start) you'll just see pages and pages of answers on movies. I still do occasionally venture over to the movie section.
Then one day a writing buddy of mine happened to mention in passing that they were answering questions on writing, and I decided to check it out. I found it a lot more motivating and rewarding than naming off several thousand movies every ten seconds, and eventually it just became a go-to place when I had writers block or if I was just in the mood for some editing and what have you. Not to mention it seems to have a nicer sense of community than the other sections. You've got regular askers who express interest in what you're writing, and sometimes that's all the motivation you need to go back and type up another 500 words. It's helpful to everyone.