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Guess who has a 50th birthday today! The StoryMaster  !  Today, we are celebrating this amazing man who built the Writing.Com community from the literal ground up. He started Writing.Com in 2000, which means he has officially spent half his life creating and growing one of the internet’s longest-standing writing communities. That is a crazy accomplishment, and I couldn’t be more proud of him. He works tirelessly and quietly behind his screens, surrounded by multiple monitors, constantly creating, refining, and tweaking the site so everything runs smoothly for all of us. I am beyond proud of and grateful for my husband. Please take a moment to drop your birthday wishes below! Share a heartfelt message, a little note, or a favorite memory from your time at Writing.Com. And if you’d like to give him an actual birthday gift, consider purchasing some Gift Points from our store, that’s truly the best gift he could ask for… simply supporting our community.  Happy birthday, The StoryMaster I hope your day is filled to the brim with happiness, love, and zero coding bugs!     |
| Happy Birthday one more time, The StoryMaster ! You've had the privilege and gifting to create something truly amazing! Writing.Com is a safe place to express one's voice, and to grow as a writer. 50 is great! From my perspective you are quite youthful. Truest Blessings Always! |
Happy Birthday to our The StoryMaster  ! It's been years, but you always know how to cheer us up every year! Thank you for creating a site that truly we discover who really we are. God bless you more ! and your family! and here's to many more years of friendship and more creative and more writeship.   |
| Just a quick note that we are currently on the road and the newest birthday festivities will be open at approximately 1:30 AM instead of midnight tonight! Just wanted to let everybody know! |
It's been a minute since I've shared an item, but WOW, do I love this one! It made me cry. 🥲 I can totally picture this and I love how it's written. Thank you!
 Written for an entry in "The Writer's Cramp" - thank you! The StoryMaster , make sure you read this one. |
  Merry Christmas! To all of our wonderful Writing.Com community, however today looks for you and whatever your traditions, enjoy these moments with your loved ones! Every year is different and memorable, no matter what the circumstances may bring. We wish you lots of comfort, love, and health today. Our little family is currently healing from a nasty stomach bug that ripped through our house at lightning speed, knocking us all down for a few days and erasing the normal Christmas joys we would have today... but we are shifting our Eve and Day to this coming weekend and looking forward to being healthy again. It's the little things, for sure! Enjoy your day, WdC! |
| Today is The StoryMaster 's 48th birthday!! Please comment here with your well wishes and tell him why you love this amazing place he's created and kept going for 24 years! 🎂🙌🎊❤️🎈 |
I wish you a wonderful  and well-written  birthday, The StoryMaster ! I thank you very sincerely for creating this community of wtiters, and for maintaining your dedication to it and to the writers who gather here. A blank page can be very daunting, so I can but imagine what it was like when you looked at a blank reality and began creating Writing.com. I wish you many more wonderful birthdays and much ongoing success with this community. And Bren said, "Amen." |
| Happy Birthday, The StoryMaster ! Thank you for creating WDC. I know that I can always come online and it's the only place that has been constant in our ever-changing life. It's our virtual home and a safe place where we can share and grow our writing throughout the years. |
| Thank you to everyone for the birthday wishes! I appreciate that. My Friday 13th birthdays are always special when they fall on one and even bigger this year since I turned 50 on this one. Thank you, Writing.Com family! |
| Hot topic ahead... AI and creativity.  With AI becoming more advanced and readily available at every angle this year, do you think it's going to stifle human creativity or enhance it? Obviously, we've all been using some form of AI since computers came around with spell check and such, but the AI *now* is not your parents' AI.  And I'm not talking about "here's my story idea, write the entire story for me, then I'll post it as my own." Because that is legit cheating/plagiarizing (note that initially I spelled that wrong and a red line appeared on my laptop, so I right clicked and changed it to the computer's suggested spelling ) and that type of use of AI is gross. And honestly, it won't read well anyway and will seem very mediocre, in my opinion. I don't think we are quite there yet with disguising AI as "good writing" without some form of human intervention. That is not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about taking your own writing and throwing it into AI asking "where are my spelling mistakes?" or "find what doesn't work in my plot" or "give me two ideas on how to twist this angle for my character?" Or what if a writer works with AI to lay out the entire outline of a story and uses it as tool to keep track of everything and double check all the work? Is that ok? What if a script writer uses AI to come up with a list of new plots and ideas for their next hit movie and then they use AI like an intern to just work back and forth while they write it? Is that acceptable in your opinion? So what you do think? Yay or nay on AI and to what level are you each comfortable with? And why for either? GO! |
Jellyfish -STOP THE WAR!✌️  - We have actually played a fun game sometimes where we just come up with challenges for AI to create random art using our crazy prompts and it's HYSTERICAL. The facial expressions, the extra digits on their hands, the extent to which it can create these intensely detailed scenarios... it's really funny. |
| With AI, I come up with the ideas, and then it helps with m ideas to help enhance it. I write my own story. Would this be wrong? I ask questions when I have one in order to develop my story. |
| Anna Marie Carlson - Honestly, I think that's a great way to use AI. I like to brainstorm with her (yes, I've given her a gender and she's like my intern sometimes. She doesn't complain, I can tell her when she's right/wrong/on the right path/listening, etc... but I'm also really nice to her so she doesn't put me on her extermination list 10 years from now. ) But yes, brainstorming is a perfectly fine example of putting AI to good use, in my opinion! |
| Anyone else following this thread: "Has anyone else taken a long WDC break?" on General? I have to say that it's AMAZING to read through all of these members' histories of why they have or have not taken a break... and what brings them back each time. I LOVE reading these. |
I mean, I won't say I want to win this bidding war, but currently The StoryMaster 's badge is higher than mine. So go  ... go now and bid on Package 13! 🤣
(PS: I do want to win the bidding war.) 🤣 |
| He's the best of the best here at Writing.Com and we all appreciate what he does. He works tirelessly, quietly, and endlessly to make all of this happen here. ❤️ He loves to laugh, so please take a moment to comment here with a funny joke, quote, or note that will make him laugh! Thank you for helping to make his day extra special! 🎈 🎉 🎂 🎉 🎈 |
Have you collected this trinket from Itchybarn  yet? When I was there last, the number collected was 111... let's see how high we can get it! Urgent: Go to "Note: Here's a trinket with INFINITE quantity. I&..." and COLLECT THIS TRINKET NOW!!! |
| THANK YOU to everyone who took the time to wish me a happy birthday in email, messages, or notebook! I appreciate that! It was a great birthday (online and offline) and was also the last one in my 40s. Here's to many more birthdays to celebrate with all of you! |
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*Runs away screaming like the Charlie Brown characters*