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-- C.S. Lewis
About The Editor: Greetings! My name is Jeff and I'm one of your regular editors for the Noticing Newbies Official Newsletter! I've been a member of Writing.com since 2003, and have edited more than 400 newsletters across the site during that time. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me via email or the handy feedback field at the bottom of this newsletter! 
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Writing.com Birthday Week
In just under two weeks, Writing.com will be having its annual Birthday Week festivities. If you're new to the site and this is your first time experiencing one, it's a week of all kinds of birthday-themed activities and giveaways that users can take advantage of, all in honor of the fact that this community started on September 1, 2000... twenty-four years ago at this point, which is I don't even know how long in internet years! 
Starting on the first of the month, you'll have access to a "Party Central" link in the left-column navigation menu of the site, and each day there will be announcements in "Site News & Announcements" detailing some of what's being unveiled each day of the celebration. Over at Party Central, there will be a list of both official and member-hosted activities that are birthday-themed and open for participation. In addition, The StoryMaster  and The StoryMistress  often unveil a number of new features. While each year's new additions are always a surprise, in the past some of the most common goodies have included:
 New Merit Badges
New Emoticons
Trinkets
Occasional other features like new skins, a new site features, etc.
Additionally, there are often other perks during Birthday Week such as a sale on Costumicons, Gift Points, and the ability for CR to reset daily when sending things like Merit Badges. Everything about Birthday Week is designed to get people excited about Writing.com and interacting with the community, which is why I always think it's a bit of a bummer at the inevitable tapering off of excitement when the Birthday Week is over.
If you are around for Birthday Week and choose to participate, I'd really encourage you to see it more as a jumping off point than as an annual one-off. Check out some new activities and give them a try. If those are recurring activities, maybe it'll inspire you to add them to your regular rotation of places you participate on the site. If the activities are a one-off, if you really enjoy them, check out what else that member might run throughout the rest of the year. Meet new people. Make friends. Incorporate some new features into your repertoire of emoticons or WritingML use. Spiff up your Writing.com experience with a new Skin.
Whatever it is that excites you about Writing.com during Birthday Week, enjoy yourself and have a blast. But also ask yourself how you might keep that enjoyment and active participation on the site going after September 7th.
Until next time,
Jeff
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EXCERPT: I did a few things differently this last Thanksgiving. First of all, I shaved. I also put the store-bought chocolate pecan pie into a glass pie plate instead of bringing it to Nana's house in its original plastic container. It's all about the illusion. I didn't fool anybody by relocating the pie, though, because my family knows that my past performances are almost always an indicator of how to predict my future performances.
EXCERPT: Angel Draiker had always been drawn to speed. It was his escape, his way of outrunning the pain that clung to him ever since that fateful night when he lost his father. The police called it an accident, but Angel knew better—it was murder, plain and simple. The anger that simmered inside him had nowhere to go, so he channeled it into speed. Whether on a bike, skateboard or behind the wheel of a car, everything else faded away. The world became a blur, and for those fleeting moments, he was free. That was how he felt that night, racing in a stolen car as fast as the wind. He felt like he was in heaven and the world was lifted off of his shoulders. He was finally what he always wanted to be, a race car driver. He felt unstoppable like a captured Mustang being set free in the wild. But that freedom came with a cost.
EXCERPT: There was always a pause in his steps as he crouched in the shadows. Too much was on the line now for any mess ups, and if he did it, would cost his life. It wouldn’t be pretty as far as his death was concerned. Not when it involved the Nobility with their sleazy attitude and desires. It was one thing to die a petty death from some poor farmer, another to by the blade of a scorned lover of high lineage. Hester would like to prefer neither outcome in all cases of the situation, so he made sure to stick to the darkness of the trees. It was getting later and later than what he had agreed upon to meet. The cause for patience was becoming slim to Hester and he wanted nothing to do with wasted breath.
EXCERPT: At this point you might have heard the news that Susan Wojcicki has died following two years of living with cellular breakdown in the lungs. Indeed, even as I compose this it feels difficult to me that it's valid. Susan was quite possibly of the most dynamic and lively individual I have at any point met. Her misfortune is crushing for us all who know and love her, for the a great many Googlers she drove throughout the long term, and for a large number of individuals all around the world who admired her, profited from her backing and initiative, and felt the effect of the extraordinary things she made at Google, YouTube, and then some.
EXCERPT: I stand amongst thousands of flowers left on stone tombs belonging to people who once had a life, once belonged and once were loved by those who cared. Before me 10 or so living souls stand gazing over a casket, holding someone awfully familiar someone I know or knew as some might say.
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