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 Congratulations to the following three winners of "Good Deeds Get CASH!" in January 2026! First ($50): Review of "Setting Words Free"  by Jeremy   Second ($25): Review of "Watcher" by Annette  Third ($10): Review of "Devil's Rain" by Moarzjasac  Thanks to all of our January reviewers... We appreciate your feedback!  ~~SM |
Congratulations to the following three winners of "Good Deeds Get CASH!" in December 2025! First ($50): Review of "A Ghostly Rendezvous " by Dawn Embers  Second ($25): Review of "Cookout" by Tiggy  Third ($10): Review of "Going Strong" by Joy  Thanks to all of our December reviewers... We appreciate your feedback! ~~SM |
Congratulations to the following three winners of "Good Deeds Get CASH!" in November 2025! First ($50): Review of "Giving me the Creeps" by Just an Ordinary Boo!  Second ($25): Review of "The Lighthouse Keeper" by Tiggy Third ($10): Review of "Maybel Bledsoe" by Jim  Thanks to all of our November reviewers... We appreciate your feedback! ~~SM |
The following winners for the February 2026 running of "Journey Through Genres: Official Contest" were chosen from the 14 entries submitted. Each entry was judged based on the criteria provided below. Congratulations to the following three winners: First Place - "The Lover's House" by Humming Bird   Second Place - "Keeper of the Night" by Amethyst Angel   Third Place - "Heartbreaking" by Danger Mouse it’s WW3  Thank you to our pool of official contest judges, and to Jeff  for continuing to keep Writing.Com's official site contests running smoothly! |
| ⭐️ A Brand New Way to Create (and Collaborate!) on Writing.Com ⭐️ We’re really excited about this one. Over the past few months, we’ve been quietly using a new tool behind the scenes… and we’ve completely fallen in love with it. Today, we’re officially introducing Workspaces. Workspaces give you a flexible, visual way to organize your ideas, plan projects, and build your writing in a whole new way. You can create lists, move things around, expand ideas, and really see your work come together. But where this gets especially exciting… ⭐️ You can also work in a Workspace with a group! ⭐️ If you give a group edit access, everyone in that group can jump in and work together: adding cards, organizing lists, building ideas, and shaping projects side-by-side.  You can even see who’s actively working in the workspace and follow along as things are happening in real time. It’s collaborative, creative, and incredibly useful. And honestly… we can’t wait to see what you do with it.
This is the first brand new item type we’ve introduced in a long time, and it opens up so many possibilities for writers, groups, classes, challenges, and projects across the site. Keep it private or make it public... it's up to you! We can't wait to see how you use these! Have fun!  The StoryMaster and The StoryMistress |
| A new page has been added to Writing.Com 101: Using the Editor This new entry walks you through the editor screen, its buttons and tools, and a few helpful tips to make things even easier. |
| Your Portfolio Tools and Highlighted Items have been given an updated look and feel on your portfolio page! The tools themselves haven't changed, but they should now be easier to spot. Just a small tweak to make navigating and organizing your work a little smoother. Search Added to Portfolios You can now search within your portfolio or someone else's right from the portfolio page! This IS new... enjoy! (Click Portfolio / Portfolio from the left navigation to see the changes.) |
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1) Book Manager Update The book manager got a glam-over, clean-up. There's now a more proper toolbar that allows you to turn on/off all the gizmos and doo-dads, like bulk ordering, access restrictions and more. Tags have been added as well. Clicking the tags let members manage the individual entries as well as filter the entire book's entries by tags. The bulk system has tags available, too. Check 5 entries, click the "Tag" tool from the bottom and add tags to all 5 at once.  (Shout-outs to Brandiwyn🎶  for the initial tag request and Amethyst Angel for the bulk tagging request that led to this latest beautification.  )2) Item Edit "Time" Update Previously, every edit to an item updated its modified time. Now, only changes to the item's title, brief description, or main body will automatically update the time. You'll find a checkbox at the bottom of the item edit form for the modified time. It will be checked automatically when you change any of those three listed areas. If you didn't change any of them, you can still opt to update the time by ticking the box.  (This has been tested, but until it's been out there for a good bit, please don't rush out and test this with some item you haven't edited in 10 years because you didn't want to lose the modified time from 2016.  That's a terrible test case. A forum you edited last week is a much better test case. Please feel free to report any bugs in "Bug Reporting" .)3) Three New Emoticons! It's PIE for everyone! All kinds of PI(E)! (and just in time for Pi Day March 14!)    ( pie, piechart, pi ) |
The following winners for the January 2026 running of "Dear Me: Official WDC Contest" were chosen from the 27 entries submitted. Each entry was judged based on the criteria provided below. Congratulations to the following three winners: First Place - "Dear Me" by John  Second Place - "Dear Me, 2026" by Carol St.Ann  Third Place - "Dear Me (2026)" by Charles  Thank you to our pool of official contest judges, and to Jeff for continuing to keep Writing.Com's official site contests running smoothly! |
| We’ve just rolled out an update to the Review Tool to make it cleaner, clearer, and easier to use for our power users. The layout has been reorganized so the most important parts of reviewing are easier to see and understand. Things like rating, review options, gift points, and group affiliation are now grouped more logically, making the process smoother on both desktop and mobile. This brings the Review Tool right in line with our recent upgrades to the item review area, so reviewing in general now just feels more consistent across the site. Your feedback is such an important part of the Writing.Com community. We want to make sure the tools for giving reviews feel modern, intuitive, and comfortable to use. Enjoy and let us know what you think! (You'll find the link to the Review Tool at the bottom of any item right under the green Submit Review button.) |
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