This first post is a copy of our current About Us page:
Welcome to the official Tumblr of the One Year Adventure Novel Group! This is a Tumblr run by OYANers, for OYANers, and for people like you, who may not know much about this mysterious thing called ‘OYAN’.
There is some debate about the pronunciation of the acronym, “OYAN", which stands for One Year Adventure Novel. Some people pronounce it ‘OY-uhn’, others pronounce it ‘oy-YON’, and still others pronounce it with the letters ‘O, Y, A, N,’! None of that matters much anyway though, if you don’t know what OYAN is!
One Year Adventure Novel is a high school writing curriculum developed by award winning author, Daniel Schwabauer. The course is groundbreaking and original - as it teaches you not just how to write, and write well, but to actually tell a meaningful, and hopefully enjoyable story! Many students and alumni of the course, called ‘OYANers’, will tell you that this Christ-based program is not only incredible in how it affects their writing skills, but how it changes their lives.
The course takes you through the school year with just 78 DVD lessons, a textbook, a workbook, and some useful extras, and upon completion, students will have written their own original adventure novel. This can be an amazing start to spur on a writing career.
What is the OYAN Community?
The One Year Adventure Novel course has a fantastic online forum where students can upload their novels and other writing and get critiques from other students, as well as discuss various stories. They can also ask questions of Mr. and Mrs. S. - that is, the teacher/course creator, and his wife, the forum admin. The OYAN forum is a safe, friendly environment where OYANers have connected and become friends with each other. The OYAN Community is vibrant, and full of life, energy, and love. Incredibly supportive of each other, the OYAN Community has branched out to many social networks including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and yes - Tumblr too.
What are the OYAN Workshops?
The growth of the OYAN Community inspired Mr. and Mrs. S to create the OYAN Summer Workshop in Olathe, Kansas - aka OYAN HQ. The first OYAN Summer Workshop took place in 2010. Since then there has been an annual Summer Workshop each year, and each time it’s grown an incredible amount. For high school and college aged students, the OYAN Summer Workshop offers a chance for OYANers to come for almost a week and attend sessions with various speakers, participate in live critique groups with other OYANers, and get to know and hang out with OYANers in person! Attendees of the SW know that it’s so much more than that however, as it’s an experience often talked about with the accompanying phrases, “I CAN’T EVEN, MY FEELS, WORKSHOP WITHDRAWALS, NOPE NOPE NOPE, TOTALLY AWESOME!, and CRYING FOREVER,". :P In 2012, the first Winter Workshop took place - a similar but smaller, more intense workshop for college students.
Thus, the OYAN Community has been strengthened, and the bonds of friendship have been woven across time, space, and the internet. In the past few years, there have been more and more OYANers on Tumblr. Periodically we have done a ‘reblog this if you’re an OYANer’, but as the group grew, it was harder and harder to keep track of who was who, and all of the OYANers. And so, the need arose to create an official OYAN Tumblr page.
The OYAN Tumblr Page is Multi-Faceted. To give you an idea of what it’s for, here’s a list of things you’ll find here, including but not limmited to:
The ‘Other Worlds’ Fantasy/Sci-Fi add-on curriculum
The ‘Cover Story’ curriculum (for middle schools students)
OYANers on other social networks and websites such as twitter, youtube, blogs, etc.
Official OYAN Tumblr Community Announcement
Testimonials from the OYANers
Pictures and Videos from the Workshops
General posts pertaining to OYAN
Info for those looking to know more about OYAN
Run by OYANers, not by Mr. and Mrs. S., and thus not all that you hear here will reflect the views, opinions, or intentions of the OYAN creators.
Happy to answer questions
A place for you to find an index of OYAN Tumblr users, their forum names, and URL’s, so you’ll never get lost again!
If you want to know more about OYAN, the absolute best place we can point you is the official OYAN website itself:
That’s it! If you are a new OYAN Tumblr user, welcome to the coolest place on the web outside of the forum where we hang out. If you’re a stranger, feel free to look around and check out the OYAN course….
It just might change your life!
So that's it! If you are OYANer, please do reblog/like this post if we've not already followed you!
AND you need to send an ask ASAP with info for the OYAN Tumblr User Index (which you can find on it's page) so you can be added to the list!
~ Lindsey (keeperofthetardis): Moderator
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