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Noticing Newbies: September 08, 2021 Issue [#10961]




 This week: Learning is a Life's Pursuit
  Edited by: JACE Author IconMail Icon
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Table of Contents

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

Hi, I'm JACE Author Icon.

Welcome to this issue of the Noticing Newbies newsletter. Join me as I take you into some nooks and crannies of Writing.Com that you may not have found time to check out yet. This newsletter is about and for you. And for you seasoned members, I hope you'll find something you can take from my ramblings. *Smile*



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Letter from the editor

As with everything in life--a task, a hobby, or a vocation—there are things that must be learned to be successful. The question is how do you learn?

What are you doing to learn the craft of writing?

Writing.Com is a writing site without peer. What make this site unique is two-fold—a unique and versatile platform containing static items of and Groups dedicated to the fundamentals of writing AND members who make this all happen.

WDC has more than 90 thousand members. That’s a lot of heads being better than one. Over the past 21 years, hundreds of thousands of items have been written and stored on site for your reading and reviewing pleasure. Many are stories and poems. But some are essays and How To articles designed to impart the mechanics of writing to our members and to those fortunate enough to visit our site.

In addition to essays, members have written countless newsletters, official and unofficial, expounding all facets of writing techniques. Some focused on grammar, some on plot, some on characters, and so on. Needless to say, you can find information on whatever aspect of writing you in which you’re weak.

Use the WDC search engine to find an article or group that can help you along your particular writing path. Some groups are genre-oriented; some hold classes on various techniques of writing. And some group members may be just that mentor you need for improvement.

Consider checking out some of these groups and items (some may need revision, but still contain great information):

GROUP
WDC Writers University Open in new Window. (ASR)
writing classes... a 3-time 2020 Quill Award Winner, and a 2 time 2021 Quill HM Winner
#2223767 by Jim Hall Author IconMail Icon
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Crosstimbers Novel Workshop Group Open in new Window. (18+)
User Group & Bank for the CNW Forum, Activities, Awards, Contests, and Publicity
#2249696 by Carol St.Ann Author IconMail Icon
 
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Writing 4 Kids Group Open in new Window. (E)
Join us! We'd love it if you would!
#1997507 by Cubby Author IconMail Icon


Grammarama Open in new Window. (13+)
A library featuring commonly committed errors of the English language.
#890221 by Davy Kraken Author IconMail Icon
 Excellent Writing Articles Open in new Window. (E)
Articles written by Writing.Com writers (and others) about...........writing!
#307039 by Red Writing Hood <3 Author IconMail Icon


Of one thing I’m certain—this passion we have for the craft of writing will never allow us to stop learning.

Write on!



Editor's Picks

Check out this forum designed to assist Newbies.
FORUM
Noticing Newbies Open in new Window. (13+)
A warm welcome to our newbies; come meet new and not-so-new members of Writing.Com!
#126963 by The StoryMistress Author IconMail Icon


Then drop in on these Newbies. Take a moment to review this offering ... or something else in their Port. Welcome them to WDC through a scribble in their Notebook.

 The introvert's story Open in new Window. (E)
A message from a drained introvert who is tired of being forced to be fake.
#2257298 by Tinotenda Rodney Alfaneti Author IconMail Icon

 
STATIC
Tremors Pulsed From the Containers Image Open in new Window. (13+)
"When one talks in conversation with God, does life seem unreal even onto miracles?"
#2257466 by C.R. Rathkamp Author IconMail Icon

 
STATIC
Holding Hands Open in new Window. (E)
Remembering my wife and when I knew she is the one.
#2257356 by Dale Ricky Author IconMail Icon

 Lucidity Open in new Window. (E)
A lucid dream report.
#2257335 by Indrajala Author IconMail Icon

 Feeling Grey & Blue Open in new Window. (ASR)
Why am I caring?
#2257329 by claire Author IconMail Icon

 The One-Eye Dog  Open in new Window. (13+)
A detective goes on a mysterious case involving a dog, but things go out differently.
#2257266 by Bruce Myers Author IconMail Icon



 
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Ask & Answer

Thanks for spending time with me today. At the bottom of every newsletter is a section entitled

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followed by a text box. If you liked what you read (or if you didn't), please take time and drop me a line. I'd love to hear your ideas.

From the mailbag:

From Vaishali Author Icon: Thank you for the newsletter. I was given the task of reviewing newbies as an assignment but I wasn't able to find some good stories. Your editor's pick column helped me!

         Glad I could help.

From hbk16: September is a great festivity indeed where someone can get a pleasant experience in both writing and reviewing. I hope that it would be an occasion where it is possible to offer more opportunities like lucrative ones; for authors too.

         Indeed!

From the Newsfeed:

From jdennis01jaj: I tore up and burned my fake ID. Then I pulled into the nearest bar and ordered a drink. It tasted flat, and I never finished it. The fun of getting away with something illegal was lost forever. I almost wished they had raised the drinking age that year, but then I got over it. Shortly afterward, the weight of reality settled on my shoulders, and I began to see things through a different prism

         I didn't have the fake ID, but I do remember getting away with a thing now and then.

From Alex Morgan Author Icon: You expect us to remember back that far?

         I certainly know what you mean.

From JCosmos Author Icon: I went out of course to a bar and drank with friends. I wanted someone to ID me but no one did. I had first gone to a bar to drink when I was 17 and never got carded until I was 30!

From s Author Icon: I turned 21 a month after finishing my first university degree, so it was a double celebration. Party at my mother's place, 50-odd people there, very low-key. My 18th - that was the big party. I think there was alcohol involved.

From Elphee Author Icon: I was curious about a bar. So, I went, had a couple of drinks. watched people dance and become drunk, had many males hit on me, even though I had told many I wasn't interested. Persistent little buggers. And I decided right then and there, this wasn't a place I would be coming to again.

         

From elephantsealer Author Icon: I did not turn 21; I went on to old age...

         LOL

From Anna Marie Carlson Author Icon: I don't remember exactly what I did when I turned 21, but I know that I got married on April 16 when I was 21. I will tell you something strange but kind of funny about that. My brother-in-law was a funeral director at the time, and I got married in the funeral chapel.

         I'll bet there's a story there.

From Robert Waltz Author Icon: I got peer-pressured into drinking 21 shots of "tequila."

The quotes are because I later learned that Cuervo Gold is only technically tequila.

I still drink at least a little bit of it (the good stuff) on my birthday every year for tradition's sake. And to remind me not to get peer-pressured. This makes sense only to me. Perhaps it is a rationalization, because I really, really like tequila.

         It's so nice to older and (more) immune to peer pressure. Maybe?


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