Site News & Announcements (Book) https://www.Writing.Com/main/profile.php/blog/support Introducing WdC Writing Season! Registration Opens August 19! For the past several months, we've been working behind the scenes on one of the biggest new projects we've introduced in years... and we're finally almost ready to open the doors! Welcome to the first annual WdC Writing Season! Every autumn, writers everywhere start thinking about National Novel Writing Month and setting ambitious writing goals. We wanted to capture that same excitement, but build something that feels unmistakably Writing.Com....[Read Full Post] Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:13:50 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1121152 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1121152 The following winners for the June 2026 running of [Link To Item #1803133] were chosen from the 11 entries submitted. Each entry was judged based on the criteria provided below. Congratulations to the following three winners: First P lace - [Link To Item #2360829] Second Place - [Link To Item #2360427] Third Place - [Link To Item #2360500] Thank you to our pool of official contest judges, and to...[Read Full Post] Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:46:44 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1120466 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1120466 The Achievement Milestone Merit Badges for Reviewing, Forum Posting, Review Rewarding, Newsfeed Activity and Badge Giving milestones have been improved and extended! Every milestone category now runs the same 20 step ladder, all the way to 250,000. Go visit to see if you've got any new milestones to claim. As always, you'll get emails when you backfill any badges by loading the claim page... and the "newly claimed" milestones show a b...[Read Full Post] Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:24:07 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1120337 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1120337 Small but HUGE update for WdC... This particular update has been a long time coming. After almost 26 years, we're finally retiring the term Static Item. Believe it or not, there was actually a good reason for that name. When SM built Writing.Com back in 2000, "static" was programmer-speak for something that doesn't change. You write it once, save it, and unlike dynamic content, it simply stays that way. After enough years, "Static Item&#...[Read Full Post] Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:53:48 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1120310 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1120310 We've made several improvements to the Favorites page to make organizing and managing your favorite items faster, easier, and more enjoyable. (To get there from the navigation, choose: My Account / Favorites.) Here's what's new: A Cleaner Layout Folders are now displayed as organized cards, making it much easier to see everything at a glance. Drag & Drop Reordering Drag a folder and drop it wherever you'd like to r...[Read Full Post] Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:08:34 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1120035 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1120035 The following winners for the May 2026 running of [Link To Item #quotation] were chosen from the 10 entries submitted. Each entry was judged based on the criteria provided below. Congratulations to the following three winners: First Place - [Link To Item #2359465] Second Place - [Link To Item #2359132] Third Place - [Link To Item #2359615] Thank you to our pool of official contest judges, and to [Li...[Read Full Post] Thu, 02 Jul 2026 03:26:54 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1118836 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1118836 The following winners for the April 2026 running of [Link To Item #quotation] were chosen from the 15 entries submitted. Each entry was judged based on the criteria provided below. Congratulations to the following three winners: First Place - [Link To Item #2357516] Second Place - [Link To Item #2357176] Third Place - [Link To Item #2358362] Thank you to our pool of official contest judges, and to [...[Read Full Post] Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:23:54 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1116979 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1116979 Weâre introducing something completely new to Writing.Com: Sheets (Beta)! Sheets are collaborative spreadsheet-style items that now live right inside your Portfolio. You can use them to organize information, track projects, plan stories, manage submissions, build logs, create charts, collaborate with groups, and a whole lot more. This has been a major project built entirely in-house from scratch specifically for Writing.Com, and weâre real...[Read Full Post] Sun, 31 May 2026 06:58:10 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1116772 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1116772 Congratulations to the following three winners of [Link To Item #gooddeeds] in April 2026! First ($50): [Link to Review #4862537] by [Link To User luminementis] Second ($25): [Link to Review #4863685] by [Link To User gervic] Third ($10): [Link to Review #4862570] by [Link To User sybaritescribe] Thanks to all of our April reviewers... We appreciate your feedback! ~~SM ...[Read Full Post] Wed, 20 May 2026 17:14:56 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1116155 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1116155 good deeds You now can create and use custom colors and highlights in the Editor. The updated color picker lets you pick custom colors and pin your favorites. You also get a new "Recent" colors line... 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