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Noticing Newbies: January 15, 2014 Issue [#6107]

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Noticing Newbies


 This week: Ask the Right Questions
  Edited by: Annette Author IconMail Icon
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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

Hello new comers to the site and seasoned members alike, I am Annette Author Icon, your guest editor for this issue.


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Letter from the editor


Ask the Right Questions


Be specific when you ask for help, or the answer will be: read Writing.Com 101.


Trying out a new thing usually comes with a learning curve. At some point, we were all newbies, and who better than a member to explain how to use a site feature?

When seeking a way around the site, it is not helpful to say, "Please help me. I don't know how things work." Whenever I see that blanket question, my auto-pilot response is to refer to "Writing.Com 101" Open in new Window.. There are simply too many things to explain on the site. Be specific in your questions.

For instance, if you want to participate in a contest and one of the rules says "Post your word count in your item," and you are not sure what that means, send the contest owner an email asking to clarify that one aspect.

There are writing groups who have the requirement that you have to be able to create a book item for instance. Don't know how to do that, or can't do it due to membership level? Ask the owner of the group if there is a work around, or how to set up your book. By the way, how to set up a book item is also in "Writing.Com 101" Open in new Window. "Book" Open in new Window..

As a newbie, you don't have to know a lot, you just have to ask the right questions. *Smile*



Editor's Picks

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A vision of many flowing.
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past lives, the idea that we are connected to people
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About my child whose autistic and different in many ways
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Ask & Answer


This is my first Noticing Newbies Newsletter, so I don't have any feedback from readers yet. For my next Noticing Newbies Newsletter, I would like to know what was/is THE ONE most puzzling aspect of Writing.Com for you?



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