Tech Thursday: FIGMENT, Online Younger Writer's Forum

"Figment is a community where you can share your writing, connect with other readers, and discover new stories and authors. Whatever you're into, from sonnets to mysteries, from sci-fi stories to cell phone novels, you can find it all here." (from website home page, http://figment.com/)

Figment allows you to read other young writers' works OR submit your own writing (must have an account) to share with others. Assign your own metadata tags for easy finding. Note that you must sign in to comment (no anonymous comments allowed!).

Signing up is free, and you can connect your Figment account with your Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblrs account for streamlined sharing.


 
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Create a Group or browse existing groups -- groups are your place to meet up with other Figs and talk about the things you love. Ninja's? Sketching? Tolkien? Chat with others who share your interests.

 Discuss writing and books with others at the Figment forumts.

Invite your friends to join the Figment community.




Questions? Visit their FAQ page and see if it's there: http://figment.com/faqs
Question not answered on FAQ page? You can contact people directly (how awesome is that?): http://figment.com/contact

Teen Fire

Do your friends just not understand your love of books? Are you searching for the right community to get your nerd on in safe online anonymity? Well, the publisher Sourcebooks may have the social network for you.

Teen Fire has book groups, forums, chat, authors, contests, free stuff, and other nifty (yes, I AM that old) features. Users even have the ability to create their own profiles and pages. There's even a whole section devoted to videos of teens and their favorite books (which reminds me - you are working on your entry to our video contest, right? ;))

Check it out. You never know. You might just love it.

via SLJ