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 Writing.Com is celebrating its     24th Birthday Join us as we celebrate this amazing milestone! In honor of Writing.Com's 24-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 ▼ Day 3: September 3 ▼ Day 4: September 4 ▼ Day 5: September 5 ▼ Day 6: September 6 ▼ Day 7: September 7 ▼ Quotation Inspiration 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 awardicon for your item!
7/11! 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!
Review and Get Recognized For It! Getting good deeds done might win you some cash!
RAOK Surprise! 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 2,400 Gift Points for every day you log in! Each of you can gain 16,100 Gift Points if you log in every day during our celebration. Daily Review RewardsRewards are TWENTY-FOUR 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 Longest Running Birthday Contest! Join the party over in "The Cramp" (WDC's longest running daily contest) the week of September 1-7 as we celebrate WDC's 24th Birthday. There will be special themed daily prompts, a 24K GP Daily prize, a birthday trinket, "Cramp" Awardicons and Merit Badges, and other surprises sprinkled around by the Cramp Birthday Fairy!
Bard's Hall Contest The Bard's Hall is celebrating WDC's AWESOME 24th 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 24 Sentences?
A Birthday Virus A new virus has been discovered. It has no typical side effects and clears up in a few weeks. All it does is talk to you while infected.
Some Adult Birthday Fun If you're looking for some adult fun at a birthday bash, check out the Weekly Quickie contest. We are looking for romance and erotica that follow the unique present prompt.
Short Story for a Month A month long short story contest with a longer word count that asks What If questions focused around the topic of WDC.
Unicorn, Bunny Writing Contest This is a contest for writing stories about a unicorn and a bunny and their adventure!
Poetry Pals I invite you to invite someone to write with you. Let's be poetry pals!
Birthday Blog Event Blog Event in Birthday Week
Anagrams Anagrams Game
Free Form Poetry Jam A free form poetry jam  with a 100,000 gift point top prize, running through September 14th. No jazz allowed in forum.
BIRTHDAY ACTIVITIES TOP 11 Years and Counting! Join us for this annual role-playing birthday adventure! Choose your character and be the first to figure out the mystery!
Test Your Fortitude! A blind set of challenges hosted by Writing.com groups/members especially for WDC's 24th Anniversary! Come test your fortitude!
Review Knock Out Can you knock them down with your reviews? a forum that contains an activity that will measure how Champion you are in Reviewing here in WDC Anniversary month.
Bee Hive Raffle Daily Raffle Fun from the Bee Hive! 2 ways to enter to win exclusive Bee Hive Merit Badges. Come on out and celebrate WDC's Birthday 1-7 SEP at the Bee Hive!
For The Wordsmiths and Dragon Tamers! Unleash your inner quill-wielding warrior! Writing.com is turning 24, and we're throwing a fantastical fiesta to celebrate! Calling all wordsmiths and Dragon Tamers – dust off your keyboards, sharpen your metaphors, and join us for a night of jubilant revelry. We'll have more delightful prizes than a dragon hoards treasure, so come ready to flex your literary muscles and claim your share of the bounty!
Alliteration Fun Have Fun With Alliteration Sept 1 - 7!! Win Merit Badges!! Every One Who Enters Will be entered ONCE in a drawing to possibly win 240,000 Gift Points!
Birthday Carnival Step right up and enter the enchantment of the WDC Birthday Carnival! The Big Tent is bursting with fun games, exciting prizes, plenty of sweets and treats, and a bit of birthday magic!
Earn Merit Badges Complete the challenges to earn Community and Exclusive merit badges.
Do You Know WdC? How long have you been here in WDC? I have 24 questions to see if you really know your Writing Dot Com Home Family. By answering the list of questions below, you can test yourself if you really know WDC and the whole family who are building the Writing Dot Community. Can you get it Perfect?
New Day, New Leg! Have you ever heard of a GTA Road Rally? No? Okay. A GTA rally is a road race named for its "Game, Tour, and Adventure" elements. Each day of WdC's Birthday Week a new set of clues will be provided for that day's destination. At designated waypoints along the way toward the final destination, each competitor will be required to review an item in a port. In our version of the rally, scoring is based on your ability to correctly identify and review items in selected ports based on given clues, and the timestamps of your reviews.
Birthday Festivities 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.
Angel-Witch Bingo The annual Angel-Witch Bingo is back to celebrate WDC's 24th Birthday! Community FUN for EVERYONE! It's FREE! Nothing to lose, PRIZES to win, so come on in!
Reviews = Tickets = Merit Badges! Do you like Merit Badges? Write a review and get a ticket!
Olivia's Birthday Bash Celebrating WDC & my (9/7) birthday with a raffle for great causes across the site helping other members. Not only every 24th & 41st ticket but also every donation over 41k will get a MB
Gift Points Galore! Gift Points, Gift Points, Gift Points--awarded for up to SEVEN reviews during WdC's Birthday Bash! Read, Review, Repeat!
Habit Heroes September Special for Writing.Com's 24th Anniversary Celebration - you can earn an awardicon in addition to an exclusive merit badge this month.
Birthday Badges A super sale in celebration of WDC's 24th birthday and appreciation of the Quill awards.
Birthday Raffle Raffle during Birthday week. Tickets 1000 GPs.
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-FOUR 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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