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| Happy Birthday, Writing.Com! On September 1, 2019, Writing.Com turns 19 years old! Can you believe that? NINETEEN YEARS OLD! That is a huge milestone for an online community and we are so excited to celebrate with you this week!  The Biggest Writer's Block Party EVER!From September 1st through September 7th, Writing.Com is hosting the biggest online block party for writers of all interests! This week, you'll find contests and activities hosted by Writing.Com and members of the community, increased daily rewards, reviewing challenges and rewards, new releases from us, and a 10% back sale... don't miss a single thing at "Writing.Com Party Central 2023!"    The Writing.Com 19th Birthday SALE!For every order placed in "The Writing.Com Shop" during September 1-7, 2019, we will manually send you back 10% of your order's total in Gift Points!* Purchase a one-year Premium membership at the regular price and you will receive 139,950 in Gift Points. Buy a 3-month Upgraded membership, and you'll receive 19,950 back in Gift Points. Buy 1 million Gift Points, and you'll receive an extra 100,000! And if you order tangible items like mugs, t-shirts, journals and more, we'll even include your shipping in that 10% back. We're that excited to be turning 19! * 10% back only when paid by credit card, PayPal, check or money orders. Orders paid with Gift Points are not included in this offer. This process is not automatic and we'll try to get the bonus Gift Points back to you within a day. New Badges, Awardicons, Skins & Trinkets!In honor of our first day of our 19th birthday, we are happy to release some new community and personal designs for you to use! Each day, we will release new awardicons, merit badges, skins, and trinkets... maybe a new feature, as well. Be sure to watch "Site News & Announcements" and "Writing.Com Party Central 2023!" each day through September 7th for our daily new releases, which will open around Midnight (WdC time) each night. Keep your eye on the community newsfeed to see what surprises might pop up and be sure to add Writing.Com Support   as a favorite so that you don't miss a thing! Costumicons Available!Costumicon subscriptions are available for purchase! This subscription will last through 11:59pm on September 30th, 2019. Subscribe to or change your current costumicon from the "My Account" area or directly at: http://www.Writing.com/main/my_account/view/costumicons  NOTE: You can gift costumicons to your fellow members and friends! To gift a subscription, head to your My Gifts Points page:http://www.Writing.Com/main/my_gifts/tab/shop  One FREE Badge Every Day of our Birthday!Normally, every paid member can send one free virtual Merit Badge every 30 days... but for the 7 days of our birthday, paid members can send one FREE virtual badge EVERY DAY! Choose a member, choose a badge and send it. It's that easy. If you are eligible for a free badge at the time, the Writing.Com system will automatically know this and discount the badge you wish to send. (You can not defer the free badge; the system will always use the free one first when giving badges.) http://www.writing.com/main/badges * Physical merit badges are not free and are the same additional cost.  Thank YOU!We are so proud to reach this milestone. NINETEEN years! Thanks to all of you, our members, for your support and participation. We love hosting this online home for writers... here's to the next 19 years!  We hope you have a great time celebrating with us this week. We look forward to seeing many of you around the site... invite every writer you know to come and join the party! Cheers! The StoryMistress  and The StoryMaster  |
Happy Birthday, Writing.Com! On September 1, 2019, Writing.Com turns 19 years old! Can you believe that? NINETEEN YEARS OLD! That is a huge milestone for an online community and we are so excited to celebrate with you this week! The Biggest Writer's Block Party EVER!From September 1st through September 7th, Writing.Com is hosting the biggest online block party for writers of all interests! This week, you'll find contests and activities hosted by Writing.Com and members of the community, increased daily rewards, reviewing challenges and rewards, new releases from us, and a 10% back sale... don't miss a single thing at "Writing.Com Party Central 2023!" The Writing.Com 19th Birthday SALE!For every order placed in "The Writing.Com Shop" during September 1-7, 2019, we will manually send you back 10% of your order's total in Gift Points!* Purchase a one-year Premium membership at the regular price and you will receive 139,950 in Gift Points. Buy a 3-month Upgraded membership, and you'll receive 19,950 back in Gift Points. Buy 1 million Gift Points, and you'll receive an extra 100,000! And if you order tangible items like mugs, t-shirts, journals and more, we'll even include your shipping in that 10% back. We're that excited to be turning 19!* 10% back only when paid by credit card, PayPal, check or money orders. Orders paid with Gift Points are not included in this offer. This process is not automatic and we'll try to get the bonus Gift Points back to you within a day. New Badges, Awardicons, Skins & Trinkets!In honor of our first day of our 19th birthday, we are happy to release some new community and personal designs for you to use! Each day, we will release new awardicons, merit badges, skins, and trinkets... maybe a new feature, as well. Be sure to watch "Site News & Announcements" and "Writing.Com Party Central 2023!" each day through September 7th for our daily new releases, which will open around Midnight (WdC time) each night. Keep your eye on the community newsfeed to see what surprises might pop up and be sure to add Writing.Com Support as a favorite so that you don't miss a thing! Costumicons Available!Costumicon subscriptions are available for purchase! This subscription will last through 11:59pm on September 30th, 2019. Subscribe to or change your current costumicon from the "My Account" area or directly at: http://www.Writing.com/main/my_account/view/costumicons NOTE: You can gift costumicons to your fellow members and friends! To gift a subscription, head to your My Gifts Points page:http://www.Writing.Com/main/my_gifts/tab/shop One FREE Badge Every Day of our Birthday!Normally, every paid member can send one free virtual Merit Badge every 30 days... but for the 7 days of our birthday, paid members can send one FREE virtual badge EVERY DAY! Choose a member, choose a badge and send it. It's that easy. If you are eligible for a free badge at the time, the Writing.Com system will automatically know this and discount the badge you wish to send. (You can not defer the free badge; the system will always use the free one first when giving badges.) http://www.writing.com/main/badges * Physical merit badges are not free and are the same additional cost. Thank YOU!We are so proud to reach this milestone. NINETEEN years! Thanks to all of you, our members, for your support and participation. We love hosting this online home for writers... here's to the next 19 years! We hope you have a great time celebrating with us this week. We look forward to seeing many of you around the site... invite every writer you know to come and join the party! Cheers! The StoryMistress and The StoryMaster |
The following winners for the June 2019 running of "Quotation Inspiration: Official Contest" were chosen from the 20 entries submitted. Each entry was judged based on the criteria provided below. Congratulations to the following three winners: First Place - "Freedom" by Bikerider   Second Place - "Invalid Item" by A Guest Visitor  Third Place - "Invalid Item" by A Guest Visitor Special thanks to Jaeff | KBtW of the Free Folk  for continuing to keep Writing.Com's official site contests running smoothly ... and of course to our contest judges for making the tough decisions nobody else wants to make.  ~~SM |
The following winners for the May 2019 running of "What a Character! : Official WDC Contest" were chosen from the 19 entries submitted. Each entry was judged based on the criteria provided in below. Congratulations to the following three winners: First Place - "The Day" by Dawn Embers  Second Place - "The Compromise" by Cubby~Cheering House Florent!  Third Place - "The Most Beautiful Sound on Mars" by Linn Browning  Thanks to Jaeff | KBtW of the Free Folk for continuing to keep Writing.Com's official site contests running smoothly!   ~~SM |
Once again... Time to catch up! I've not judged Good Deeds for many months... and so now I'm totally caught up*!  I'm posting now and will be getting everyone their badges, emails about prizes, etc - ASAP. Congratulations to the following three winners and two honorable mentions of "Good Deeds Get CASH!" in December 2018! First ($50): Review of "Blue"  by Satuawany   Second ($25): Review of "In The Stars" by Quick-Quill  Third ($10): Review of "Falling River, River Falling" by Choconut ~ House Targaryen  Honorable (50k GPs): Invalid Review by Anonymous Honorable (50k GPs): Review of "Barista" by Past Member 'runningwolf04' Congratulations to the following three winners and two honorable mentions of "Good Deeds Get CASH!" in January 2019! First ($50): Review of "English Class Narrative" by FalaKaye Second ($25): Invalid Review by Anonymous Third ($10): Review of "Where I Belong" by Azrael Tseng Honorable (50k GPs): Review of "There is a Solution" by Dawn Embers Honorable (50k GPs): Review of "Chapter 1: Behind the Scenes" by Elfin Dragon-finally published Congratulations to the following three winners and two honorable mentions of "Good Deeds Get CASH!" in February 2019! First ($50): Review of "The Gilded Wood prologue " by Brooklyn  Second ($25): Review of "Wandering Thoughts" by 🌑 Darleen - QoD  Third ($10): Review of "My Mississippi" by QueenOwl ~ A New Day Dawns Honorable (50k GPs): Review of "Winter's Silence" by Whata SpoonStealer  Honorable (50k GPs): Review of "Cake and Code" by Rima... Congratulations to the following three winners and two honorable mentions of "Good Deeds Get CASH!" in March 2019! First ($50): Review of "Word Picture Contest Book" by Azrael Tseng Second ($25): Review of "The Travesty of Pergine." by 🦄🏳️🌈Sapph Third ($10): Review of "The Oneirophage, Part 1" by Tobber Honorable (50k GPs): Review of "The Eccentric Gourmand" by Siobhan Falen Honorable (50k GPs): Review of "Mad Boy's Love Song" by THANKFUL SONALI 17 WDC YEARS!  Congratulations to the following three winners and two honorable mentions of "Good Deeds Get CASH!" in April 2019! First ($50): Review of "Singularity" by A E Willcox  Second ($25): Invalid Review by Anonymous Third ($10): Review of "Starting Again" by Dave  Honorable (50k GPs): Review of " Time to Write a Poem" by ♥Hooves♥  Honorable (50k GPs): Review of "His Cologne" by Lynn Nichole Congratulations to the following three winners and two honorable mentions of "Good Deeds Get CASH!" in May 2019! First ($50): Review of "The Eternal Ghoul" by Quick-Quill Second ($25): Review of "The Blasphemer's Cypher" by iguanamountain Third ($10): Review of "68 Minutes" by Charity Marie - <3 Honorable (50k GPs): Review of "Amber's Strange Encounter" by Sssssh! I'm not really here.  Honorable (50k GPs): Review of "The Blind Girl in the Tower" by LazyWriter Congratulations to the following three winners and two honorable mentions of "Good Deeds Get CASH!" in June 2019! First ($50): Review of "Captured" by Sumojo  Second ($25): Invalid Review by Anonymous Third ($10): Invalid Review by Anonymous Honorable (50k GPs): Invalid Review by Anonymous Honorable (50k GPs): Review of "A Tale of Fairies" by Kari ♥ To select the winners, 10 entries to the contest are randomly selected and then, with the reviewer's name and case hidden, individually ranked according to "Guidelines To Great Reviewing" .  Note: I am the sole judge, so I pick a couple honorable mentions most of the time.Thanks to everyone who reviewed and entered these past months and who continue to do so! Best wishes, ~~ The StoryMaster * I think it's all correct. This was a lot of judging and sorting.  |
Visit "Writing Contests @ Writing.Com" for this month's current official contest!The following winners for the April 2019 running of "Journey Through Genres: Official Contest" were chosen from the 32 entries submitted. Each entry was judged based on the criteria provided below. Congratulations to the following three winners: First Place - "The Bamboo Cutter" by Kirby Ray Second Place - "Silent Insurrection" by Roseille ♥ Third Place - "Goodbye, Tivity - Third, Journey Genres" by THANKFUL SONALI 17 WDC YEARS! My continued thanks to Jaeff | KBtW of the Free Folk for keeping our official WDC contests in sync and running smoothly. Thank you out to our judges for being promptly judgy. And last but not least, thanks to everyone who entered!~~SM |
The following winners for the March 2019 running of "Short Shots: Official WDC Contest" were chosen from the 29 entries submitted. Each entry was judged based on the criteria provided below. Congratulations to the following three winners: First Place - "Lucky Charm" by Roseille ♥ Second Place - "Original Sin" by 🌕 HuntersMoon  Third Place - "Invalid Item" by A Guest Visitor Thanks again to our judges... and, of course, Jaeff | KBtW of the Free Folk -- the glue that keeps it all together. ~~SM |
| The following winners for the February 2019 running of "Quotation Inspiration: Official Contest" were chosen from the 25 entries submitted. Each entry was judged based on the criteria provided below. Congratulations to the following three winners: First Place - "Daring Greatly" by debmiller1 Second Place - "Intercession" by Roseille ♥ Third Place - "Invalid Item" by A Guest Visitor Special thanks to Jaeff | KBtW of the Free Folk for continuing to keep Writing.Com's official site contests running smoothly ... and of course to our contest judges for making the tough decisions nobody else wants to make. ~~SM |
The following winners for the January 2019 running of "Dear Me: Official WDC Contest" were chosen from the 63 entries submitted. Each entry was judged based on the criteria provided below. Congratulations to the following three winners: First Place - "Dear Me" by Jaeyne of the Free Fab Five  Second Place - "Invalid Item" by A Guest Visitor Third Place - "Dear Me" by trailerpark bodhisattva  Special thanks to Jaeff | KBtW of the Free Folk and all of our judges for this round!That's a whole lotta organization and judging! ~~SM |
| The following winners for the December 2018 running of "What a Character! : Official WDC Contest" were chosen from the 28 entries submitted. Each entry was judged based on the criteria provided in below. Congratulations to the following three winners: First Place - "Guilt" by Myles Abroad Second Place - "The Repentant Bully" by Christopher Roy Denton Third Place - "Invalid Item" by A Guest Visitor Thanks to Jaeff | KBtW of the Free Folk for continuing to keep Writing.Com's official site contests running smoothly! ~~SM |
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