An easy way for you two to stay caught up is with following each other via email. This means that when you publish something, your friend will receive an email of your writing and vice versa.

Check out the video below on how you both can set this up for your blogs and follow each other. Read past the video for a quick walkthrough.

Setting up your blog

First, you both need to set up following by email for each of your blogs. To do this, go to your blogs page and click the Customize option under the blog you're publishing to.

Once there, scroll down to Updates. Underneath you'll find Email subscriptions. Select this checkbox.

After that, scroll down and click “Save Changes.” You added the ability to follow your writing via email!

Following the blog

You & your friend can now follow each other's writing via email. Once both blogs are updated, send each other a link to your respective blog. To get this link, go back to your blog's Customize settings and select the “View Blog” option.

This will take you to your blog's home page. Copy the link from the address bar and share this link with the other person through social media, email, or text message.

When you go to the blog via this link, scroll to the bottom of the page. There will be a form to follow the blog via email. Enter an email address you want to follow their writing from.

When ready, hit the “Subscribe” button. A pop-up appears saying that a confirmation email for following the blog has been sent. Once you both find that email and click the confirmation link, you're following each other's writing!

Just go to Write.as, click “Start Writing,” and start drafting your thoughts.

When you're ready, click “Publish.” This will take you to your new post.

At the top of your post will be a “Share” option. Click that and you'll see a pop-up appear. This will have the link to your post that you can copy and paste inside your tweet.

In the pop-up you'll also notice a suggestion to tweet your post. If you select the “tweet it” link, it will redirect you to a draft tweet window, allowing you to edit your tweet and quickly publish it on the Twitter account you're currently logged into.

So if you have a longer tweet, try publishing it as a Write.as post.

Students can go straight to Write.as and click “Start writing” to begin. This will take them straight to the editor.

Once finished, students simply press “Publish” to get the link to their completed writing.

This link is secret, so only those with the link can read what the student wrote. This keeps the student's writing private by default, so students can express themselves without worrying about criticism from their peers. All they need to do is share the link with their teacher, whether through by email or their LMS.

Students also have access to their writing on the same device they published on. They can go back to Write.as at any time and click “View your posts.” This will take them to a list of published writing that they can edit and delete as needed.

But sometimes students want to access their writing across devices — from their laptop and also from school computers. If that is the case, students can sign up for a free account. From this account they can publish their writing anonymously while being able to access it across devices.

From creating writing and essays to journal entries and reading responses, Write.as is a flexible complement for class assignments.