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There was a day, last week or nearly a decade ago, that you typed "writing" into your search engine. You wanted to show off some of your poems, short stories, or maybe even get feedback for a whole novel. You found Writing.com.
On this site you found all that you had searched for: Portfolio space, helpful reviewers, encouraging groups, style and grammar lessons from peers. But nothing had prepared you for the amazing bounty of:
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In this week's newsletter, I want to highlight some of the activities that promote reading, reviewing, and writing.
Reading is an essential part of the writing journey. I was a reader before I was a writer. Reading, and thinking about the text can help us in many ways. When reading classics, you find out a lot about the ways and customs of people who lived a long time ago. Even in fiction, there will always be an element of the writer's environment, the people he meets, and his surroundings that will play a role and show us different places. Reading newly published books helps us to understand what sells, what's popular, and in which direction we should take our writing to become competitive in the literary world.
Dawn Embers  has founded a group for reading published books and discuss them. Here is what she says:
There are many writers on this site and most of them are also readers. We love books, so why not share them with each other. This is a new group that is shaped like a book club. No books are chosen yet, but there will be ones soon as there are enough members. Each member will be able to vote on genres, authors and books.
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Reviewing is an integral part of Writing.com. Through reviews, we not only help another writer to see her words with fresh eyes, we also increase our own vocabulary. Reading the reviews on the public review page can be very educational. I can not count how many things I learned from looking at the corrections I saw for others. Punctuation, style, grammar and spelling are all areas that I have improved in by simply taking the advice I got from reviewers and from reading well made reviews.
Writing. That's what brought us here in the first place. Check out the selection of classes, groups, and forums that help you refine your art through targeted feedback and instructions. The writing activities don't just help with your stories, poems, and novels. Good writing is a life skill that will improve all your communication, written and verbal. Take advantage of the wonderful member-created and run groups on Writing.com.
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For next time, I'd like to know:
Do you belong to any writing or reviewing group on Writing.com? How have those groups helped you to improve your own writing? Do you feel you've made a difference for those you reviewed?
In the newsletter from 2/27 I asked:
For my next Contests & Activities newsletter, I would like to know which contests you have entered. Did you like the experience? Did you learn from the experience? Lastly, did you place, maybe win?
THANKFUL SONALI Library Class!  says:
Hi! I've entered millions of contests on WDC. Well, that's a bit of poetic license, but you know what I mean.  I've been lucky enough to place in and win a few, too. I absolutely love "The Writer's Cramp" - and all the 19999 others!  Sonali
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