“YYGS helped me realize how people from different backgrounds and stories are still able to empathize with others in some way, because they are people, and therefore, have troubles, thoughts, challenges which are, dare I say, universal.”
The Jovens Adultos (Young Adults) project started because a few friends and I are really passionate about literature and thought it would be incredible if there was a website where we could share the pages we had been writing.
I started thinking a bit more about the idea and started developing the goals of the website and what it was going to look like. Afterwards, I talked to friends of mine, and together we created this website where teenagers or young adults who are willing to share their texts with others could send us their creations so they could be posted on the website.
We plan to release the website to the public this winter. We want people to fall in love with writing and reading, especially people our age, because it has changed and impacted us so much. We look forward to giving teenagers a space to be creative and to be around people with the same love for words. We want them to have a place to express themselves without hearing that they are too young to know what they are talking about.