Site News & Announcements (Book) http://www.Writing.Com/main/books.php/item_id/206127-Site-News--Announcements The following winners for the October 2009 running of [Link To Item #quotation] were chosen from the 28 entries submitted. Each entry was judged based on the criteria provided in [Link To Item #quotation] . Congratulations to the following three winners: First Place - [Link To Item #1609671] Second Place - [Link To Item #1609148] *^*Bullet*^...[Read Full Post] Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:10:21 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/676318 Hello Members, Back in August, I had posted [Link to Book Entry #663253] where I introduced that we'd be updating the review system to allow members to review individual entries/chapters within Book Items. I'm pleased to say that this update is now in place for official testing by the membership! Members can now review the book item as...[Read Full Post] Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:44:55 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/675393 Greetings, It was noted recently that there used to be a means for an author to delete a review of their work, but in our recent update to include the { } ML, the delete review link got lost. Given this, it seems the appropriate time to re-name and re-introduce that links as Hide Review . Acknowledging that reviews are the writing of one autho...[Read Full Post] Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:54:54 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/675135 Thanks for your patience today throughout our many, many changes to the Writing.Com header. We hope that the current layout that we now have will help our newer members find their way around a little easier. This might even make some new areas pop out to our elder members who never knew they were there! If you find something missing from t...[Read Full Post] Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:54:45 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/675035 Greets, You'll note we've made some changes to the header layout. They include: - Moving the search (with a bigger text box) to the top right - The sponsored item to the top left - Moving the 4 top button down and rewording them Please feel free to provide feedback by commenting on this post. Best wishes, ~~SM ...[Read Full Post] Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:33:14 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/674981 Greetings Members, I'm interested in getting together some people who would be both interested in and capable of creating video tutorials on how to use Writing.Com. I'm hoping we have some people who have some experience in using those screen-video-capture software packages that record your screen and your mouse movements, allowing one to cre...[Read Full Post] Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:27:20 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/674864 Hello Everyone, Good luck to everyone participating in this year's NanoWrimo. This post is just a reminder of the activities and tools available to you here on Writing.Com. NanoGroups "National Novel Writing Month (NanoWrimo) is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30." ~~ NanoWrimo.Org For those participating in th...[Read Full Post] Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:21:38 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/674097 Hello Members, Introducing the newest WritingML tag: {{review:#####}} In this tag, the #'s are replaced by a review's ID number. The "Review ID #" can be now found on all of the review listing areas, including the public reviews and a member's own sent and received reviews list. It is also now included in your review no...[Read Full Post] Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:39:09 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/673586 Greetings Members! For a long time, people have asked for a way to make their URLs into nicer links. We've been against that primarily because we felt offsite links should clearly present themselves as URLs, making members However, it is now becoming more known that single underlined links stay within a site, while double underlined links send the visito...[Read Full Post] Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:56:41 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/673290 Hello! This entry is to introduce our new Authorized Accounts system -- however it's overshadowed by the Twitter features supported by the system. Though it opens now only with Twitter features, the Authorized Accounts area will be our central "hub" as we expand to more support more sites. In time, we'll provide the means for you...[Read Full Post] Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:19:52 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/672655