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 Writing.Com is celebrating its     25th Birthday Join us as we celebrate this amazing milestone! In honor of Writing.Com's 25-year birthday, we are hosting a week-long schedule of festive events celebrating this momentous occasion! Besides the massive amount of Gift Points we will be giving away (did we mention millions?), there are brand new contests, activities and much more going on for the first seven days in September. Make sure you log in every day and add this item to your favorites so that you don't miss a single thing!  Gift Point Sale! New Releases Writing.Com Contests & Activities Community Writing Contests Community Birthday Activities Skins and Decorations Thank YouStock up for the birthday festivities! Gift Points can be used to do so many fun things around the community: send merit badges, reward reviewers, give an awardicon, surprise a newbie, and more! Writing.Com Gift Points are on sale through September 7th @ 11:59pm. Don't miss this chance to grab GPs at great prices!  http://www.Writing.Com/main/store 100,000 for $10.00 (No Extra) 257,500 for $25.00 (3% Extra, Free!) 530,000 for $50.00 (6% Extra, Free!) 1,090,000 for $100.00 (9% Extra, Free!) 2,800,000 for $250.00 (12% Extra, Free!) 5,750,000 for $500.00 (15% Extra, Free!) Please remember that your purchase of GPs supports Writing.Com, helping us to provide more tools, resources and readers to our community.During our week-long celebration, we will release something new for you to use on each day! Make sure you add this item to your favorites so that you don't miss any of these announcements! (We will also post this in "Site News & Announcements"  , but the ambiance is much more fun in here!) And just an added note that everything released during the celebration is here to stay! We will not be removing them after the celebration is over. Day 1: September 1 ▼ Day 2: September 2 ▼The task is simple: Write a short story that prominently features elements of a specific genre! Win one million Gift Points, an exclusive Merit Badge, and an exclusive awardicon for your item!
Start reviewing everything you read! For each of the seven days we are celebrating our birthday, we will choose 11 random public reviewers throughout each day to award 10,000 Gift Points. That's 77 chances you have to win during our birthday celebration!
Getting good deeds done might win you some cash!
RAOK surprises for WdC reviewers: the more you review, the more you'll get a chance to receive a review reward.
What Else Is Writing.Com Giving You? 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.) * Physical merit badges are not free and are the same additional cost. http://www.writing.com/main/badges Automatic Gift Points from Writing.ComEarn 2,500 Gift Points for every day you log in! Each of you can gain 17,500 Gift Points if you log in every day during our celebration. Daily Review RewardsRewards are TWENTY-FIVE Times Normal this week! ...and Don't Forget These! Tributes to Writing.Com Have you written something special about Writing.Com for our birthday or in general? Plug it here! Member BirthdaysCheck out our members' account birthdays! Find out who else is celebrating a Writing.Com birthday by choosing Account Birthdays from your Writing.Com Tools pulldown menu. Scrolling MessagesBirthday elves will be around and about on the scrolling message system playing games and giving away Gift Points throughout our week of celebration. Thousands of Gift Points will be up for grabs! Click the little  you see in the left column. (Upgraded and above membership required.) Test Your Memory Try your hand at this game and see how good your memory is!   TOP Many of our members are hosting their own contests and activities in celebration of our birthday. Be sure to check them out; there is much fun and many prizes to be had! WRITING CONTESTS TOP Join "The Cramp" as we celebrate WDC's 25th Birthday with a week of themed prompts, a 25K GP Daily Prize(!), a Cramp Trinket, and special awards from our Birthday Fairy.
A blogging activity that combines a love for music with a celebration of the Writing.com community which has been going strong for 25 years.
The Bard's Hall is celebrating WDC's AWESOME 25th Birthday with our Annual Cop Shop Mystery! Something mysterious is always brewing in Bardstown during the Founder's Day celebration! The question is: Can YOU solve the mystery in EXACTLY 25 Sentences?
A Delightful Way To Celebrate Jane Austen and WDC's 25TH Anniversary!
A fun, longer story challenge where it asks the question: What if? This year we are leaning in the struggles of the world by doing a dystopian round.
This Writing.Com Birthday, I invite you to invite someone else to write with you. For one month - and if you'd like to, far beyond this event - you can be poetry pals!
A fun flash fiction contest that looks for romance and erotica stories following a weekly prompt.
How about Blogging in the week of WdC’s Twenty-Fifth Birthday? I will provide a prompt every day from September 1 to September 7 (WdC time). You make it a daily entry for seven days. Simple as that!
25 prompts to celebrate WDC's 25th birthday. Accepting poetry or short story!
Welcome to my new short story/poetry contest! I hope to run this monthly and see some golden apples in the form of writing!
Invincible like Writing.Com for a quarter century? Thump your chest in poem…how you conquer, endure, an unbreakable champion.
September’s contest dives into this theme all month long. Across major religions, sacred texts reveal and remind us of the divine, preserving the good news we share. Earth’s libraries overflow with our reflections on God, life, hopes, and dreams. Platforms like Writing.com celebrate human creativity, inspiring stories that capture the full spectrum of our shared experience. Today’s AIs can flawlessly quote every book ever written — and even craft polished, perfect prose of their own. So, has technology replaced the inspired human author? Can we still tell if our chat partner is a person or a machine? What will creative forums look like 25 years from now? Why do we still write? What unique spark do human authors bring? And are words still more powerful than any AI could ever be in shaping culture and vision?
BIRTHDAY ACTIVITIES TOP Step into Wonderland, with Alice and her pals, as we celebrate Writing.com's 25th Anniversary in the most nonsensical and delightful way!
A Scavenger Hunt and Review Activity!
Once again, the masquerade is back to send your creativity to crazytown. Come for the mystery, stay for the fun!
The annual Angel-Witch Bingo is back to celebrate WDC's 25th Birthday! Community FUN for EVERYONE! It's FREE! Nothing to lose, PRIZES to win, so come on in!
Have fun with ALLITERATION!!! (the frequent repetition of the same initial letter or sound!) You might win Merit Badges! All Qualified Entrants will be entered into a Drawing on 9/8/25 to win the grand prize of 250,000 gift points!
Celebrate Writing.Com's 25th Anniversary with reviews. Earn twelve exclusive merit badges plus one extra for collecting them all. This year, instead of asking members to review only those who have their account anniversary in September, this will be about celebrating our active members from the site's early years 2000 through 2005!
A daily raffle between 1-7 SEPT to celebrate WDC's 25 candles with Exclusive Bee Hive Merit Badges as the prizes! This will be a daily raffle. Participants can buy raffle tickets with GP's or enter by creating one of the following bitems: a madlib, quiz, crossword, word search, poll, survey, product review, ,etc.
Do you like Merit Badges? Write a review and get a ticket!
How long have you been here in WDC? Here is a list of 25 questions to test if you really know WDC. Anyone who gets a perfect answer or score of 25 will win the exclusively awesome GOT A PERFECT SCORE MB.
A fun activity with comedy tasks for seven days. Complete each day and acquire Chester Jester's goofy portrait. (MB) Spend your gold coins on some other portraits, too!
A 25th WdC Anniversary Celebration!
A super sale in celebration of WDC's 25th birthday and appreciation of the Quill awards. You have can choose a community badge, an exclusive badge, or a package that includes an awardicon.
Stop by and see what you what's going on in the forum. You will have a chance to win a MB package by a Virtual Dice Roll.
A challenge to inspire positive daily habits and friendship. You can earn cool prizes too! In September 2025, in honor of Writing.Com's 25th anniversary, there will be a special award bonus award of 2,500 gps for people who check in 25 times (on 25 different days)! This is in addition to the exclusive merit badge super achievers earn for checking in 21 times.
Can you write 100 words a day for 25 days? If so, then this activity is for you!
Do you love merit badges? Fantistic. Do the task, earn the badge, and the only competition is yourself!
Step right up and enter the Big Tent — full of fun and games! Exclusive merit badge raffles, gift point raffles, an auction, and daily games and fun activities to help celebrate our community!
Since writers hone their craft through reading, this activity celebrates and reading and the chance to share good reads with everyone. Tell us what you have found in public book boxes that struck you as memorable to inspire your fellow WDC members and be in the running for some lovely prizes!
As we celebrate 25 years of WdC, the amount of the rewards will be: 2000 gift points for awesome reviews. 1000 gift points for great reviews. 100 gift points for short reviews. Other amounts at my discretion...
A fundraiser raffle to raise funds for Take Up Your Cross Blog Group and the new Golden Apples Contest.
The older they get, the more they wanna live it up – so, let's party hard at The Bash for WDC's 25th, and my 42. Merit Badges, Awards, and more to win, plus supporting great groups around the site. See you on September 1st – the more, the merrier!
Daily raffle for WdC Birthday Celebration. This will be edited this coming week for 2025.
Party & Celebration Decorations! Decorate your signatures, contests, and items with shared Writing.Com birthday images! (Upgraded and above membership required.) Writing.Com Images For Upgraded Members Have an Upgraded Membership, but no signature to flaunt? Or ready for a change with the one you've already got? You're more than welcome to use ours! (Upgraded and above membership required.) Wear a Birthday Skin! TOPNo celebration is complete without those fun decorations all around you! Decorate your workspace with one of these celebratory skins! Click to view our colorful suggestiions! ▼ Writing.Com is TWENTY-FIVE years old! We want to sincerely thank everyone for making this site such a creative and inspirational success. It's been a wonderful time for us so far, and we are excited to see what the next many years holds in store for this incredible community. A special thanks goes out to our Moderators and Senior Mods for their dedication to and support of our members. Another thank you is extended to our Preferred Authors for their participation and activity throughout Writing.Com. And a big huge thank you to ALL of our members for making this the best online writing community around! We couldn't imagine a better environment in which to spend our time.  NOW LET'S CELEBRATE! |
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