The Legends of Druidawn is an on-line open-source magazine, a writers’ community for young writers, a role-playing game, and perhaps much more. On the web at www.druidawn.org, it’s an on-line community for writers aged 7 to 18, where they can write and post stories within the Druidawn universe, join real-world or on-line writers’ groups, and more. It’s new to this writer, and there’s a lot to wrap one brain around, but to quote from the site’s on “what’s going on?”:
“Druidawn is a lot of things. It’s a series of anthologies written by and for children and teens. It’s an opportunity for young writers and artists to have their work published and get paid. It’s a role-playing game used by language arts and creative writing teachers to motivate kids and get them excited about writing. It’s a group of writing clubs in Colorado and online dedicated to helping young authors develop and hone their skills in a comfortable setting, in a group of like-minded peers with similar interests. It’s an interactive website, a safe environment where kids interested in science fiction and fantasy can hang out, chat, play games, keep their own journals, and have a good time. Maybe, someday (hey, we can dream!) it’ll even be a movie or a television series.” In other words, it looks like an interesting site for your budding writer.