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The following winners for the November 2010 running of "Good Deeds Go Noticed"  were chosen from the 168 entries submitted.  First: PatrickB   Second: ~WhoMe???~  Third: janice48 Have a Nice Day!! Congratulations and thanks to everyone that spent time reviewing this round! ~Diane Need inspiration? Check out "Quotation Inspiration: Official Contest" ! |
| Happy Holidays Writing.Com! The StoryMistress  has put together 19 new skins with some holiday flair... And here they are:These are all available from the Skins selector when you move your mouse up to the right of our logo, as well as in our full skins list, which is linked from your "Skins & Themes" account page: http://www.writing.com/main/skins/action/list_skins Best wishes for a very happy, merry and bright holiday season, ~~SM |
| Hello Members! We just can't help it ... all of the Cyber Monday hoopla has rubbed off on us. We're doing a little special that we've never done before, and it's something we think will help get everyone in the spirit of holiday gifting.  Buy yourself a membership, gift one to someone else for free! Purchase yourself an Upgraded Membership or above, use the special Cyber Monday coupon code (given below) and Writing.Com will gift a paid membership to a member of your choice, on your behalf! The length and type of membership gifted will be based on your purchase. We'll gift the same type of membership you purchase - Upgraded for Upgraded, Premium for Premium. When you purchase: 12 months, we'll gift 3 months... 6 months, we'll gift 2 months... 3 months, we'll gift 1 month. For example: Buy yourself a 12 month Premium, gift someone else a 3 month Premium for free. Buy yourself a 6 month Upgrade, gift someone else a 2 month Upgrade for free. When checking out, enter the coupon code: GIFT: username * Please make sure you replace "username" with the username of the member you'd like the bonus gift sent to. Don't have anyone in mind for the added gift? No problem! Use the coupon: GIFT: RAOK ... and we'll gift 20% of your paid membership order to "RAOK Upgrade Brigade Group" ! Spend $49.95 on a membership for yourself and RAOK gets 99,900 in Gift Points! Important Notes & Rules: * Applies to all purchases in "The Writing.Com Shop" for Upgraded Memberships or above and purchased for your own account. This offer does not apply to gifted memberships. You must enter the coupon code on the checkout page of the shop.* This offer is only valid on purchase made "Cyber Monday 2010" -- Monday, November 29th, 2010. * Any payment method is accepted and valid for this offer! * Mailed payments must be postmarked by Tuesday November 30th for the coupon to be honored. * To keep things simple, if your giftee has a higher level than the gift, we'll send them the Gift Point equivalent of their 1, 2 or 3 month gifted membership instead.  * Only one coupon per order -- you can not use the coupon to gift a membership and the coupon to gift GPs to RAOK on the same order.  I think that covers it. Any questions? Post a comment! Thanks for your support and happy gifting! ~~SM |
| The following winners for the October 2010 running of "Short Shots: Official WDC Contest" were chosen from the 32 entries submitted. Each entry was judged based on the criteria provided in "Short Shots: Official WDC Contest" . Congratulations to the following three winners: First: "A Present for Daisy" by Milhaud - Tab B Second: "Bad Day at Black Wall" by Indelible Ink Third: "Invalid Item" by A Guest Visitor Thanks to all who entered and to the judges for a difficult decision! ~Diane The Site Contest for November is: "What a Character! : Official WDC Contest" Like to review? Enter "Good Deeds Get CASH!" for a chance to be rewarded with gift points and an exclusive merit badge. |
| Greets, Both {indent} and {s} have been upgraded to allow a number of iterations right within the tag: Rather than doing {indent}{indent}, you can now do {indent:2} Rather than doing {s}{s}{s}, you can now do {s:3}Examples: {s} or {s:1} {s:2} {s:3} {s:4} {s:5} (same as {indent}) {indent} or {indent:1} {indent:2} {indent:3} {indent:4} {indent:5} Per the examples above, the tags still work fine without any number. {indent} and {s} both assume "1" if nothing is included for them. Note: The maximum for {indent} is 10 and the maximum for {s} is 50. (As of this posting, the WritingML documentation has not been updated to reflect this change.) Hope this helps! ~~SM |
| The following winners for the October 2010 running of "Good Deeds Go Noticed" were chosen from the 151 entries submitted. First: Stephanie Grace Second: Free_Rip Third: blainecindy Thanks to all who reviewed and entered the October round! ~Diane Need inspiration? Check out "The Writer's Cramp" and "What a Character! : Official WDC Contest" . |
| Greetings Members, We're pleased to announce that we're increasing the Static Item size limit for all of our paid memberships! Free: 50 KB => 50 KB Basic: 50 KB => 100 KB Upgraded: 200 KB => 250 KB Premium: 200 KB => 500 KB Premium Plus: 400 KB => 750 KB Now you can Write On, more!  Thanks to everyone for their support. Best wishes, ~~SM |
| If you've got a web site or off site blog, we've got a couple widgets for you to try out. [Widgets are little bits of web code that you can add to your web page to automatically add bits of functionality...] http://www.writing.com/main/widgets In this initial release, you'll find two widgets: Our Writing Prompt widget that allows you to embed a random writing prompt on your pages. It draws and links back to our prompt page -- http://www.Writing.Com/main/writing_prompt ... It also embeds your referring user information, so you get credit for anyone who clicks through and decides to signup on Writing.Com! The 2nd is a Recommended Reading widget that automatically includes items from your "Recommended Reading" section. It randomly displays 1 to 4 items, depending on the size of the widget. The widgets are very customizable by changing a few settings in the web code, but you can also use any of the preset examples we provide. As always, we're interested in your feedback and suggestions on the new feature. What other widgets would you like the ability to use? Best wishes, ~~SM |
The following winners for the September 2010 running of "Good Deeds Go Noticed" were chosen from the 245 entries submitted. First: ~A.J. Lyle~ Second: Just call me Omni Third: ♥tHiNg♥  7 Honorable Mentions - WDC 10th Birthday Special! Awarded 25,000 Gift Points and an exclusive Good Deeds Merit Badge! Lee: Namaste! khaki LJPC - the tortoise Happyfingers Marsha Musselman Neko ♥ Away gjfindleyCongratulations to the winners and thank you to everyone that reviewed during the Writing.Com birthday celebration! |
The following winners for the September 2010 running of "Ten Years Ago in 2000" were chosen from the 36 entries submitted. Each entry was judged based on the criteria provided in "Ten Years Ago in 2000" . Congratulations to the following three winners: First Place - "The End is the Beginning" by Jeff  Second Place - "Millenium Chaos (2nd WDC 10 Yr Contest)" by BScholl Third Place - "Y2K - Bust Or Bounty?" by Just an Ordinary Boo! This was a very close call with lots of wonderful entries. Thanks for sharing your stories and celebrating the ten year anniversary of Writing.Com with us. Thanks also to the judges for their time spent reading and deliberating. ~Diane |
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