 
Writing.Com is celebrating its
    26th Birthday
Join us as we celebrate this amazing milestone!
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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 ▶︎
 TODAY IS OUR FIRST DAY!
First up on this amazing weeklong celebration is our very first WdC Writing Season 2026! We are so excited to launch this wonderful three months of writing and we sincerely hope you all take part! First is our Fun Run, where you will choose either a 5K or 10K word count goal, and that starts TODAY!
Register now and START WRITING! You'll have your own Writing Season page, hit milestones and earn merit badges, and earn a portfolio awardicon at the end. See you in the event!
. . . INTRODUCING . . .
Head to the left side navigation and choose Tools & Help / Writer's Toolbox and you'll find a brand new section called Writer's Toolbox to inspire new ideas for your writing! Prompts, characters, names, plots, twists, and so much more... plus, Upgraded members can save their favorite inspirations created from this page. We've even included a Procrastination Station underneath your toolbox for those necessary writing breaks!  It's the perfect addition to Writing Season, but it's here to stay year round. Enjoy!
NEW MERIT BADGES!
During our birthday week, we will release at least two new merit badges each day! Today's new additions to the Merit Badge Shop represent our Writing Season! These are available to the entire community to send to each other. Please check out our complete Merit Badge collection to see these and many more badges available for giving!The above badges can be handed out by everyone in the community to celebrate the start of Writing Season, participation in any event, and congratulations for joining in on this momentous inaugural occasion!
Choose a member (or more!) and hand out these badges! For every day of our birthday week, you get to hand out one for FREE!
2026 Writing Season Triple Crown
And THIS one is only available to those who conquer the ENTIRE Writing Season, all three months! 
And only Staff can award this one... but at least you know it's here! 
There...  dangled.
 NEW EMOTICONS
We are excited to release brand new emoticons for everyone to use, and WOW, do we have a big chunk to release today! We thought it might be nice for everyone to have access to new writing and Writing Season-related emoticons, so today's big release contains the following:
 Banners
 BaseCamp
 Bib5K
 Bib10K
 Bib25K
 Bib50K
 Bib75K
 Bib100K
 BibBC
 BibCheer
 CheerCrew
 FinishLine
 FunRun
 Marathon
 RunnerM
 Runners
 RunnerW
 RunningBaseCamp
 RunningFunRun
 RunningMarathon
 Season
 Tent
 TreesB
 TreesG
 TripleCrown
 WaterCup
 WDCSeason
 GRAB A TRINKET
And finally, here's a fun little trinket you can grab this week right here at "Writing.Com Party Central 2026!" !
Enjoy and we'll see you tomorrow for more fun releases! 
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Day 7: September 7 ▶︎
We are so excited to launch this brand new activity... a wonderful three months of writing and we sincerely hope you all take part! First is our Fun Run, where you will choose either a 5K or 10K word count goal, and that starts TODAY and lasts throughout the month of September!
Register now and START WRITING! You'll have your own Writing Season page, hit milestones and earn merit badges, and earn a portfolio awardicon at the end.
On this page, keep an eye out for the  icon! If you see it on an event or challenge, that means your writing there can count toward the Fun Run, too!
See you at the starting line!
The task is simple: Write a short story using the contest prompt as inspiration! 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!
| | | 7-11 [E] #1700597 Writing.Com will award 11 reviewers per day during our 7-day 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.Com
Earn 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 Rewards
Rewards are TWENTY-FIVE Times Normal this week!
...and Don't Forget These!
Writer's Toolbox : Everything you need when your writing needs a little help: prompts, character building, plot ideas, character names, and more! Upgraded Members can save their ideas.
Procrastination Station : Match portfolios, slide puzzles, and catch your case from the top. Just a few quick little games, fun to take a break!
Puzzle Hub : Take a break and try your hand at some daily word puzzles: Words, Anagrams, Word Chain, Word Train, and a Daily Wordsearch!
Tributes to Writing.Com
Have you written something special about Writing.Com for our birthday or in general? Plug it here!
 Member Birthdays
Check 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 Messages
Birthday elves will be around and about on the messaging 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.)
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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!
Visit The Writer's Cramp (WDC's longest running daily contest!) as we celebrate 26 Years of Writing.Com! The party week will include 26K daily prize, a special Trinket, and the Cramp Birthday Fairy will award extra prizes throughout the week.
The Bard's Hall is celebrating WDC's AWESOME 26th 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 26 Sentences?
Calling all poets and interested WdC writers to enter to win prizes for your poetry word art. Celebrate WdC's 26th birthday in poetic style and shine a light on this awesome community with your poetic stories.
Same prizes, go for gold! 10 poems and 10 short stories will equate to double rewards! Write about the 26th anniversary or birthday of WDC based off of a prompt or more!
Some quick fun in honor of Writing.Com's birthday. Write tiny poems, share jokes, plug items and you never know... you may walk away with a prize.
How & What we share. Taboo genres, subjects and styles? Cultures are replete with taboos and prejudices, regarding how and what we share with each other, that are always worthwhile examining. Consider how you speak to others members at the 26th Birthday Party. What are the taboo subjects, genres or styles of our age and why?
Celebrate Writing.com's Birthday with a delightful trip into Wonderland and win some great prizes!
The The Soundtrackers Group annual activity to write a series of interconnected, music-themed entries during WdC Birthday Week!
| | Barrel of Monkeys [E] #1987725 An annual interlinked musical blogging challenge! Runs every September. |
For the 13th year, you have the chance to join an interactive role-playing writing exercise. Choose your character identity, participate at your leisure, and win prizes!
Our writing community began on 1 September 2000, back when flip phones were cutting edge and DVDs were taking over. Twenty-six years, thousands of stories, countless characters and a whole lot of world events later, it's time to see how much you remember!
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 know WDC in 26 questions? How long have you been here at WDC? Try this simple quiz to test if you really know WDC. A perfect score will get you the exclusive You've Got A Perfect Score MB.
The annual Angel-Witch Bingo is back to celebrate WDC's 26th 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 9/8/26 to win the grand prize of 260,000 gift points!
26 daily tasks, to be completed in 24 hours. Tasks will center around Writing.Com's 26th anniversary festivities. The idea is to explore the whole site and the many things that there are to do. Tasks will take less than fifteen minutes to complete.
Members give each other badges to celebrate 26TH WDC Anniversary.
A super sale in celebration of WDC's 26th birthday and appreciation of the Quill awards.
Here's the word search, you need to get it solve it, if you want a special surprise.
For 18 years, I have celebrated my birthday (9/7) together with WdC's. Rafflers helping me out can again win MBs, awardicons, and other gifts along the way. Let's party, guys!
A fun community activity to get in the WDC birthday spirit by gifting party bags to fellow members for one in return! Plus earn a raffle ticket or 2 for the chance to win an extra prize at the end!
There will flash sales, and though this will be a continuing raffle, during the birthday bash week there will daily posts with ways to earn free tickets!
| | Let's Raffle [E] #2363498 A monthly raffle supporting various groups with prizes! Special deals for WdC's birthday! |
Earn the Badge is back, with new challenges and opportunities to collect Merit Badges. Each merit badge has an associated task. Complete the task, Earn the Badge. It's that simple!
| | Earn the Badge - Open [E] #2133333 You want it? Earn it. How? Complete these simple tasks and the badge is yours! |
An open-ended, low-stakes blogging activity where you accrue points and earn exclusive merit badges for responding to any of the several hundred prompts in our prompt repository.
| | Blog Harbor [E] #1700829 A prompt repository for bloggers that sometimes hosts one-off activities! |
In honor of the B-day celebration, Impress Me is becoming Impress WdC for the month of September. We will be hosting some of our best prompts - including "If you could go all out for WdC 26th B-day, what would you do for our beloved SM & SMS to say TY for the most wonderful site on the web?"
A drabble - exactly 100 words of writing - a day for 26 days through the month of September. It's just 100 words. How hard could it be?
This is a year long activity that will start on September 1st. The first week will be prompts based around WdC and writing in itself, in honor of our 26th birthday. The activity is meant to be a year's journey of self-healing through meaningful writing.
| | Let's Heal [18+] #2362970 A year-long writing activity focused on healing prompts. Daily prompts for WdC's birthday! |
Write reviews, get free raffle entries. Win exclusive Merit Badges, or a ribbon!
Party & Celebration Decorations!
Decorate your signatures, contests, and items with shared Writing.Com birthday images! (Upgraded and above membership required: Paid Memberships .)
Images for Upgraded Memberships
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 our Images! (Upgraded and above membership required: Paid Memberships.)
Wear a Birthday Skin! TOP
No 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! ▶︎
#100148 • Birthday: Chalk Greeting
#100147 • Birthday: Fireworks
#100145 • Birthday: Party Supplies
#100146 • Birthday: Party Supplies on Black
#100143 • Birthday: Stars on White
#100144 • Birthday: Stars on Black
#100086 • Birthday: Candles and Cake
#100087 • Birthday: Colorful Confetti
#100084 • Birthday: Balloons in Violet
#100085 • Birthday: Blow Out the Candles!
#100083 • Birthday: Balloons in Blue
#100092 • Birthday: Cartoon Balloons
#100093 • Birthday: Cartoon Streamers
#100091 • Design: Stripes (Purple & Green)
#100094 • Design: Stripes (Blue & Orange)
#100088 • Design: Checkers (Purple & Green)
#100090 • Design: Checkers (Yellow & Purple)
Writing.Com is TWENTY-SIX 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. 
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