Approaching its 7th year (in website terms that’s 700 years), YARS is hoping to pump some fresh blood into its veins in the form of new editors to tackle the frontline of pixelated opinion.
Well…we always have been.
YARS stands here to give wanabee writers the opportunity to gain confidence in what they scribble down by giving them the chance to see their work published on the worldwide interwebs. None of the guys started here down to recruitment or headhunting. They’ve all got their stuff on here simply by signing up and typing up their opinions down on pixel paper.
Whilst we reach out to volunteers to get their stuff online, we also build a core team of editors to offer feedback to those who consistently upload good quality stuff on a regular basis. No one here gets a single shilling for what they do and purely focus on their passion for games when writing for the site, so if others share that that very passion, they could become members of the editing team themselves (which looks somewhat shiny on any CV).
With our unselfish, volunteer based attitudes, we don’t get the money to shell out on lots of shiny consoles, so if you own the consoles we’ve barely touched upon, that is most likely your route in (I mean…the only WiiU title we have is an April Fools jokes I did.)
If you take a look at any of my stuff and think ‘I can be a darn sight jollier than that’, you hold the key to banishing me from this very realm. In other terms, you most likely also have the enthusiasm we need here on the site. Bloody hell, if I’ve warranted a high horse and write at the same rate as a psychopathic llama, I’m pretty sure you can do it too.
Becoming an editor means that your workload becomes a tiny icky bit heftier, with news stories needed on a daily basis on chosen platforms…but if you’ve shown enough passion to gain the role then it really isn’t that big a task to take on. Plus the benefits of being an editor may include getting flat bagel based entities known as discs, which many refer to as ‘games’, and then you can scribble about those as well.
Without this on my CV, there’d be a lot of blank space. Without this on my CV, I probably wouldn’t have got a couple of jobs in game based retail (not too glamourous but it got me money) and I certainly would not be studying game development now (more glamourous).
So if you type good, grammar good and want to see your stuff published beyond blogs, tap write review up in the top right and…well…just start!