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 Welcome to the Noticing Newbies Newsletter! Our goal is to showcase some of our newest Writing.Com Authors and their items. From poetry and stories to creative polls and interactives, we'll bring you a wide variety of items to enjoy. We will also feature "how to" advice and items that will help to jump start the creation process on Writing.com.
 We hope all members of the site will take the time to read, rate, review and welcome our new authors. By introducing ourselves, reviewing items and reaching out, we will not only make them feel at home within our community, we just might make new friends!
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If you have other things in your life - family, friends, good productive day work - these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.
~ David Brin
User Names and Handles
What is the difference between a user name and a handle?
Your user name is what you signed up with. It's the name that goes between the squiggly brackets: {user:grcubby} Choose your user name wisely. If it is offensive in any way, you must change it or your account will be deleted. My user name is grcubby (short for Grandma Cubby), however I don't use this as my handle.
Handles should not be offensive either, but they can be fun! For example, I normally use just plain Cubby for my handle, but for holidays I might add a little flavor to it. In October, I changed my handle to Cubwebs. There are a lot of creative ways to change your handle to, if you choose to do so, and it's free. Be sure to check out the costumicons if you are able to buy a subscription, too. Or if you purchase a Premium Membership or above, it comes with it. 
So how do I change my handle?
1. First of all, go to My Account.
2. Next click on Edit Personal Information or [Change Handle] under your handle name..
3. Type in your new handle (also called a PenName).
4. Click "Submit Changes".
You may change it as often as you like! Be creative or just leave it the way it is. It's nice to have the choice, though. 
Enjoy your holiday and...
Have a wonderful week!!!
Keep on Writing!
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And Now For Our Featured Newbies!
Excerpt: I remember the times, The times I spent with the masters, the shamans, learning the dances of the wise--as they called--learning to call forth powers and entities that would enhance wisdom. I remember the music. Dark Music. Music that had but little to do with the Muses-but rather with the innate animal wildness that lies in the breast of all savages--and who is savager than man?
Excerpt:
Time and time again,
Crime and crime again.
Left it up to them,
Paid the price and then?
Excerpt: One step forward, the sound of gravel echoing in your ears. You notice your senses seem to have intensified. Suddenly, you hear every sound around you and it frightens you. Suddenly, you see the silhouet of the trees on the horizon and they seem to come closer. Your world seems to be closing in on you, growing smaller and smaller. You can almost feel how the sky is descending, a dark blanket with one goal: to suffocate you in its endlessness.
Excerpt: The next day, Julie Alvarez, barely thirteen years old, walked out of her tent as the sun rose over the craggy Colorado mountains.
"I made it through the first night," she breathed. After gathering all her school stuff into her backpack, she glanced nervously around her, hoping that no one, especially not her step-dad, was watching. Shouldering her backpack, she made her way up the path leading to school.
Excerpt: He couldn’t wait to get to the old summer house and start doing absolutely nothing! He wanted to explore the house again, and run along the beach, and climb the trees surrounding the house. He loved how old the house was, how different it was from their big apartment in the city. He loved how it creaked at night when the wind blew. It was almost like the house was alive sometimes, making it its own sounds and casting its own shadows on the walls.
Excerpt: Ever since he was a child Nicholas Christmas had hated this time of year. He hated it almost as much as he grew to hate his parents. Wasn’t it bad enough, having the surname Christmas? Why had they chosen to Christen him Nicholas… Saint Nick? Christmas? Was it their idea of a joke? Well, the joke ended up on him. All these years later and he could still hear the joking and jibing of his school mates:
’Where’s my present, Santa?’
‘How’s Rudolph, Nick?’
Excerpt: Today is Thursday and I’m on the hunt again. I’m eager and hopeful that today I will find exactly the thing I want and need. Stay positive, I tell myself. You will find it. Happy thoughts. With my focus at knee level and with my eyes shifting from side to side, I look for that one thing that gets me through: that portal to perfection, my electrical connection to both inner and outer worlds. I need my fix today, and I’ll need it again tomorrow. Some days I feel like a junkie, and perhaps I am.
Excerpt: A gentle smile lightened Marie’s face as the first tentative flakes of snow fluttered serenely towards Earth. Unlike many of her peers, Marie actually liked the snow. For her it was not the treacherous death trap so many of her age feared. No, for Marie snow represented magic and wonder. She had never been able to prove her father or teachers wrong no matter how hard she tried. In all her 91 years, she had never managed to find two snowflakes that were identical.
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