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Okay, you children's authors, S 🤦  has a publishing resource for you...56 of them, actually! "Note: A few here have decided to give writing for child..." There are a lot of scammers out there! Use legitimate publishers. Of course, this is for traditional publishing, not self-publishing. |
Uh-oh! I would have advertised this sooner, but somehow I missed it.
 Classes start tomorrow, Monday, April 14!
There are 2 class options. Sign up for one or both TODAY! (Or tomorrow, I guess, if you don't see this until Monday and registration happens to still be open when you see it.) Some classes are racier than others. However, you can always edit your work to your own comfort level and learn what you can, applying it in ways that make you happy. If you have questions or concerns, reach out to Purple Catching Up   |
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Elycia Lee ☮
Sleepy  , no one does at first. When I finally learned to tag, I only knew user, so everyone got full tags. Hahaha! Oh, and when I learned to fan, I thought I could fan items from the links Nope. I fanned a lot of people I didn't mean to and didn't fan a lot of things I meant to. Oopsie! Lol Ah, newbies. They're so entertaining... **gives Allan Charles 🐾 a side eye and smirk** Hahaha!  |
Allan Charles 🐾  I tried to find a GIF that said, "You're my favorite newbie," but apparently no one has ever said that in the entire history of GIFs. Hahaha! |
In case you missed Elycia Lee ☮
Sleepy 's post, "Note: Hey, peeps. Was nosing around [Link To User ge...", about
I thought I'd post the item link for all you Premium and Premium Plus members! Don't know anything about creating or hosting web pages on WdC? start with the Writng.com 101 entry link below. "Create/Host Web Pages"  |
GERVIC  , so does that mean you create off-site pages only for Premium or Premium Plus members? Hahaha!!! |
Schnujo's Giving Away GPs  - That, you better pay him cash.  Don't think it matters what level of membership you are then. |
If you like sharing your opinions, Friendly Neighborhood Derg is looking for opinions.
Help him name his female dragon! |
CONGRATULATIONS, JODYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!
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Schnujo's Giving Away GPs - I have a more legit reason to do it.  People need to know they won. Pronto! |
| Maybe tell SM ahead of time next time? lol How long did you get blocked for, Elycia Lee ☮
Sleepy ? Or did you just tell him and he unblocked you? But wait, you're scared of him, so what did you do? Hahaha! |
| BTW, congratulations for being a finalist (that's what the feather means, right?) in Best Short Poem, Structured! That's pretty awesome! |
If you are looking to try to publish some poetry, check out S 🤦's "Note: Allegedly it is US National Poetry Writing Month...." to help ensure you go through a legitimate source and don't get scammed. |
| Amazon Kindle publishing for online and print on demand. Easy upload. Can have a print copy sent before approving release. All kinds of self-promotional tools. I’d have 20 books by now. ADHD, OCD, low vision, other stuff. It’s been the process that’s served me. Need a purpose to write something that actually feeds my soul. So self-publication wouldn’t seem ‘vanity’. "Self-pub?" The rest of my meandering on this in link. |
I can't find my favorite interactive. Does anyone know which one I'm talking about? CRISIS AVERTED! It's called
I thought it was called something like Rotten Wishes? I checked my favorites and I have no saved interactives there, so I hope it's not deleted. Eek! Update: I checked and it IS favorited -- not sure why it didn't come up when I searched for all interactives in my favorites. Can you not do that? It was really fast and easy to write in. In it, you ruined the last person's wish and then wrote your own. For example, if the past person said they wished for a million dollars, you might say... Poof! You have a million dollars! You begin throwing bills into the air gleefully and imaging all the wonderful ways you'll spend them. Suddenly, a SWAT team is pounding on your door with a battering ram telling you your place is surrounded and demanding you give yourself up for the bank robbery earlier this morning. I wish to be popular. What interactive is this? Is it gone? I can't find it. I hope it's just a Schnjo moment. Update: No surprise. It was a Schnujo moment. But why could I find it when I searched all of WdC for interactives, but I couldn't find it in my own favorites when I had it saved as a favorite? Things that make you go, "Hmm..." |
Schnujo's Giving Away GPs - Thank you very much for showcasing
I pay up to 2k for chapters. |
Looking for some fun and easy GPs? Earn up to 2k GPs (depending on the length and quality) by writing a nonsense chapter in
Yeah, good luck figuring out how to write quality nonsense. lol |
NaNoWriMo is Ending Well, all you anti-NaNo folks will be happy to hear that they are shutting it down after the last couple of years of drama. Personally, I'm super sad to see National Novel Writing Month go and I definitely hope we continue the tradition here, including
It's one of my favorite activities on WdC. And, yeah, I'm even including my own. Lol https://lithub.com/nanowrimo-is-shutting-down/ Goodbye, NaNo! You will be missed!  If you have anything on there you want to save, you should go get it ASAP. I don't know how long the site will remain up. I'm going to go to my favorite section -- Adoption Society. They have tons of ideas for the taking. You can take as many as you want and use/change them as much as you need. It's a goldmine IMO. |
| Elycia Lee ☮
Sleepy - Yes contests and activities and generous members. I am in Bradbury and I Write. Halfway in I Write almost. I am going to be at 10 of 25 entries soon. Computer still work after October 14th? I don't know. It's Windows 10. If it can't upgrade to Windows 11 then I need a new one. Libre is compatible with Word I think. |
For those who can't draw, but have a specific idea in mind, AI (at least ChatGPT) can now take your drawing and turn it into an image (so no more worrying about stealing other artists' work). Check out starting around minute 12. If you decide to watch from the beginning, (it's over 17 minutes long, either he didn't noticed one of the ChatGPT images has "a a' or he hoped we wouldn't notice. lol |
Jeremy  - Uh, at the risk of offending, I was going to say that it was obvious at first glance that the 1st one was written by a human because the 2nd one seemed to be trying too hard and had too much in it and I just didn't like it as well. But then I saw the typo and realized it was probably written by a human. Oopsie! So, uh, yeah, if this was written by you, I totally understand if you now block me. Hahaha! It doesn't mean my response it the "right" one, but I did prefer the 1st one. (Remember, I have a brain injury, so I'm not to be trusted. lol) Alas, it's not a skill I possess Bruce.  , so I was excited by the idea of being able to create something from my head. I've tried to describe things from my head, but AI doesn't usually make what I'm thinking. (I really need to work on prompt generation.) But if I can draw it, even poorly, that might help. While this might not be exciting for you, it definitely is for me! I've used AI for years with GPS, Google searches, Hulu recommendations, Canva filters, etc. But now I can actually (maybe/hopefully) use it for something creative. Exciting for me! |
It's Everyone's Favorite Month! Well, if you're a poet, that is... National Poetry Month!
celebrates it every year in honor of eyestar~*  (who apparently hasn't been able to get her white case yet -- I didn't realize that). She's the one who insisted that every month of "The Contest Challenge" contain at least 1 poetry option, though especially back when I first started "The Contest Challenge" , poetry contests were harder to come by. But at her urging/pestering/complaining, I started including poetry contests and have stuck to it ever since. When I started creating dedicated months, I decided to celebrate National Poetry Month on "The Contest Challenge" to make up for all the months of no poetry contests at all in the beginning of my challenge. Though I admit that I do sometimes include a contest that allows both poems and stories, if I happen to run across one, simply to prevent whining from the storywriters. Though I don't generally purposefully seek one out for April. If I find one, great. But the early poets who joined "The Contest Challenge" suffered for months while eyestar~* worked to convince me that poetry contests needed to be included every single month so the storywriters can suffer for one month a year. And there you have it! That's the history of this challenge celebrating National Poetry Month!
Only for members here less than 1 year -- enter while you can! If you find a contest you love, be sure to fan it by clicking the link and double clicking the heart in the upper right corner of the contest forum until the heart turns gold/yellow.  If you click the hearts on the links above, that fans the owners of the contests, which is a great idea, too! |
Tomorrow is National Virtual Vacation Day in the U.S. (Yeah, there are a lot of obscure "holidays" no one actually celebrates...or even knows exists. lol) I found this and thought some of you might enjoy it. You mostly just need to be able to click, drag, and sometimes use the back button to enjoy these virtual tours. Here are 100 free virtual tours from all over the world.  https://medium.com/brightnow/100-free-virtual-vacations-and-online-tours-familie... |
| TheBusmanPoet , that's so awesome! They are lucky you found them, though I'm sure the same can be said for them finding you. My current lifestyle isn't really conducive to having pets of any sort, but I would want to raise endangered animal breeds to save them from extinction. |
| Schnujo's Giving Away GPs - You do what you can, as you can. That would be nice to take care of endangered species. I often bring wildlife babies who are abandoned and left to die to our States wildlife rehab center. I just delivered to them a baby squirrel about 2 weeks ago. I got to him in time and they are no raising him and once grown will be released into the wild. I'm retired as is my wife so we can take the time and give the care that these animals need. I will do this until I'm unable or not around any longer but until then, I will be their caretakers until they pass. They will know warm welcoming home, good food and treats, love, compassion and empathy because in the end, The Cat Knows.  |
| Optionally, if I decide to go to the shelter, black dogs and black cats have the hardest time getting adopted, so I may just go that direction. They're cheaper than an endangered dog or cat breed lol |
Time is running out for the March contests in
Check them out while you can...
Anyone can enter this contest.
Only for members of WdC 1 year or less.
You must have entered the 1st week, if you want to enter other weeks.
Deadline was March 13. Remember to fan the contests and owners you love the most with a double click until their heart turns gold! |
| Well, you can do any consecutive 12 months, so April 2024 - March 2025 or January 2025 - December 2025 or whatever floats your boat and I allow catching up, so if it takes you 3 years to do those 12 months, it's okay. If you ever do other contests, check the Previously Highlighted Contests dropnotes to see if I have highlighted that contest (doing a quick Ctrl F helps) so you can get that entry to count because you can't do the contest entry, then later come back and try to count it for the challenge when you weren't actively participating in the challenge. But you can participate in the challenge, hit or miss, a month here or there, as you enter contests, until you manage to fill in 12 consecutive months. But if all you do is Promptmaster, yeah, I doubt I'll end up highlighting it 12 times in a row. lol |
If you haven't checked out
definitely do! What a fun challenge! And, you know, MBs are involved, so what could be better? |
| Thank you, Jody! I have a related challenge, too.. "Note: We are doing a Merit Badge Magic Mash UP! ..." |
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