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  Noticing Newbies  1. About this Newsletter 2. A Word from our Sponsor 3. Letter from the Editor 4. Editor's Picks 5. A Word from Writing.Com 6. Ask & Answer 7. Removal instructions   Welcome to the Noticing Newbies Newsletter! You come across this site, by accident, or perhaps following a link from some entrenched Writing.com'mer. Soon you are drawn into the supportive community who all share a common dream and passion - writing. After that initial excitement of finding Writing.com there comes the need to make the most of the many opportunities afforded. This newsletter is to welcome you, our 'Newbies' and to help make you experience here an exciting, friendly and rewarding time. In this newsletter we will showcase some of our talented Newbies as well as providing handy tips and advice. We welcome you to submit questions, ask for help or say hello. We are here to help. Many non-newbies read this newsletter to. A warm welcome to them and a huge thank you for helping to make our new members feel welcome and supported. Your host this week is: Puditat    Passionate about writing? Take your passion to new heights - with an online Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, available only from top ranked National University. Choose workshops based on your interests. Work with experienced and published faculty. Prepare for a variety of career opportunities. Use a state-of-the art online system: Study where and when you want. Click here to get more information!   The Currency of Writing.com When I first joined Writing.com back in February 2002, I received some gift points in my account. What a feeling it was. I was surprised, pleasantly, and I was curious. What did it mean? Very soon I realised the value of those gift points and since that time, more ways to spend those GP's have arrived. If you are not sure exactly what a gift point is, refer to this link for a comprehensive explanation: http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/157441/system/1 There are many uses for your gift points - You can give them to encourage a fellow member, reward a great item or review, purchase an upgraded account, bid in a charity auction, pay for a contest entry (where it is required), gift merit badges members or awardicons to items, sponsor your own or another's item ... the list goes on. But, when you are new to the site, the financial account may be small and you have not the cash to get these things. Gift points are a wonderful way to afford things on Writing.com and there are numerous ways you can accumulate them. Here are some ideas to boost your GP supply so that you can afford to reward someone else or to help become an upgraded member.  Enter competitions. Not only do you have the chance to win great prizes but you get exposure for your work also. Some contests require an entry fee, but not all. Make sure you read the rules thoroughly before entering to ensure your best shot at taking out a prize, then write your best work too.  Complete Surveys. Quite often a survey will reward you for completing it. Not only that but they are fun to do. Review other's work. The Review Reward System automatically gives you 50 Gift Points for reviewing someone you have never reviewed before. From time to time there are "specials" whereby yu get even more GP's (there is a current double-points-deal on till end of October!) You also get GP's for doing more than 3 reviews over 250 characters in length in any one day. Do more reviews and the higher the GP reward is. If you write a good review and make it public, others may gift you points to reward you for your work in supporting others. Review Items That Auto-Reward. Some items offer a set-value automatic reward for reviews of 250 characters or more. These are great, but please be respectful and honour the system. Do not write superfluous words just to qualify for the length. This is unhelpful, dishonest and dishonouring. Become an Entrepeneur. Do you have a service or ability that would help people and that they would be willing to pay for. You may be creatively gifted to make beautiful signatures, take wonderful photographs or draw exceptionl pictures that you could turn into C-Notes. Get Exposure. Plug your items in review forums, review other's work. This will get you some return reviews and if people like your work, they may gift you points. A return review is a very minimum courtesy for these kind people.There are probably many more ways to increase your GP holdings, these are just a few of the common ones that I could think of. Thanks for reading. Puditat   Here is this week's offering of wonderful Newbie talent. Please take a moment to stop by. 
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A contest especially for Newbies, with no entry fee.
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