Contests & Activities: August 24, 2011 Issue [#4578]
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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

About This Newsletter

There was a day, last week or 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: Contests & Activities


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Letter from the editor

Anniversary Countdown


The countdown for this year's Writing.Com anniversary is on. In about one week, you will find a new link in the left navigation bar above "Things To Do & Read." It will say (if things stay the same from year to year, that is) WdC Party Central *Balloonr*. As soon as that link comes up, I urge you to click on it and read everything that comes up. Put it in your favorites to catch updates immediately. The whole month of September, with the first week in particular, will be buzzing with contests and activities to celebrate 11 amazing years with The StoryMaster Author Icon and The StoryMistress Author Icon. Tons of gift points, merit badges of all kinds, writing and reviewing challenges, auctions and raffles, and many other things will be set up for all of us, by site staff and by members. Be sure to be on board.

WdC's anniversary will mark the 11th year the site has been up and running, giving writers of all skill levels a place to mingle and hone their craft. Thinking about the number 11 reminded me that in German, we have a special word for birthdays that mark the 11th, 22nd, 33rd, etc. birthdays. After asking a couple of people (thanks, Harry) and trying an internet search, I realized that there was no one word for such anniversaries or birthdays with all the same digits.

Your challenge this week = come up with a creative word that could be used for such occasions. By the power of our sheer numbers, we will then bring that word out into the world and coin it as a new English phrase. To further illustrate, think of the expression "brain freeze." This has no exact translation. While Americans get brain freeze, people in other countries simply get a headache. Well, I'd like to see a word that can be applied to any birthday with the same digits. All ideas will be featured in my next newsletter and the best will make it into circulation through word of mouth.


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Ask & Answer

Question from my last NL:What are you doing to overcome the summer writing slouch? Or is summer your wildest time of writing and letting your creativity loose? Share your summer writing strategy here.

*Frown* Well, nobody felt like telling me the secret on how to overcome their summer writing slouch, but *Smile* I got a message:

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You're welcome! *Bigsmile*

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