Amateur Writerz is a web service that was started in December of 2004. Its purpose is to help writers and authors of all kinds to gain recognition by publishing their works online for free.

How it works

Amateur Writerz is not limited in genre or style for what it publishes. Instead the editors merely screen the works submitted for excessive profanity and adult content. Stephen Paul Weber, Amateur Writerz's director, says: "We do not want to cramp anybody's style, we just want to make sure that anyone can be free to read, and to let their children read our site."

Every work listed in the database is categorised by genre. Then, after a work is listed, any member (membership is free) can then rate each work. All listings are sorted by rating, so the hope is that as works get rated the better ones float to the top.

Who runs it

Amateur Writerz was written and is run almost entirely by the originator and director of the project - Stephen Paul Weber. He is aided by the one other editor currently on the project, Caleb Case. Of course all the authors that submit works help the project run too, since without them there would be no works to list.

The Future

"We're very small now," says Stephen Paul Weber, "but we just started. Eventually we hope that this service will be of use to many budding authors in getting themselves before the world. For now we are on a free webhoster, but I hope that will change in the near future. We need more authors, and we need more readers, but eventually I think this is something that people will enjoy reading."

References

• The Amateur Writerz website
• Interviews with Stephen Paul Weber

See also

• Amateur writing
• Creative writing
• Self-publishing
• Publishing
• Writing
• Author
• Writer