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Hi, I'm JACE .
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.
Don't forget to toss me a note about what you liked or didn't like in my column, or about a topic you'd like to see discussed. This newsletter is about and for you. And for you seasoned members, I hope you'll find something you can take from my ramblings. 
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My last newsletter talked about how you might acquire gift points. This issue I'm going to talk about spending them.
It's a pretty simple exercise--spending those hard-earned gift points (Gps). Here are several suggestions.
 "The Writing.Com Shop" : Some of the things you can buy here include Paid Memberships, Writing.Com Branded Gear, Gift Points (although buying gift points with gift points seems a mite futile), Journals, and more. Upgraded and above members receive a discount on physical items in the Shop. Memberships and Gift Points are excluded from these discounts.
A link to pay with gift points is available when you check out. Follow checkout directions carefully to ensure success. You can purchase items for yourself, or for others. If you wish to purchase something for another member, you might look at their Wish List. You can find that list on the member's Community tab located below their WDC Anniversary date. Not every member uses this list. (See "Wish List" )
Members may also gift other members with Paid memberships.
 Merit Badges and Awardicons: This is probably the most popular way to spend your GPs. Merit badges cost 10,000 GPs each and are given to individual members. You can send out one merit badge free every 30 days, and you can also send a physical version of the badge for an additional 32,500 GPs. The recipient must provide their address for this option. (See "Merit Badges and Achievements" )
Awardicons are virtual items awarded to a member's Portfolio or individual items (including Static, Book, Forum, and Group items, to name a few. The cost ranges from 10,000 to 500,000 GPs. As with MBs, a physical version of the Awardicon can be mailed to the recipient for an additional 32,500 GPs. (See "AwardIcons" )
You can also commission a merit badge or Awardicon of your own for a special project or Group you have. There is a fee for this. (See "Custom Merit Badges and Awardicons" ).
 Reviewing: This category covers a couple of options for spending your GPs. You can Request a Review under the Community tab in the Navigation menu offering a number of GPs for anyone who will review the specified item. Reviewers participating in this feature state their reviewing qualifications. Pick a reviewer who you feel is in line for the feedback you desire and submit a request offering a number of GPs for a review.
You can also increase your chances of getting reviews by automatically awarding your reviewers with Gift Points. Edit the item you wish reviewed allowing a specific number of GPs to be given.
Finally, you can reward members who review one of your offerings, or a reviewer who pens a review of another member that you find especially worthy by using the Public Review Rewards system. (See "Public Review Rewards" )
You'll notice I've cited some entries from "Writing.Com 101" . If you have questions I didn't answer, that's the place to go for those answers.
Spending your gift points supports Writing.Com in so many ways. Think about it--how do you feel when you receive a merit badge from another member for no particular reason other than they just felt like giving it?
Spread the cheer.
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Check out this forum designed to assist Newbies.
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.
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Thanks for spending time with me today. At the bottom of every newsletter is a section entitled:
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 Lilli 🧿 ☕  : Fantastic and well-timed newsletter!
From NaNoNette  : Thank you, Jace for this straightforward letter on how to earn gift points and on what not to do to receive gift points.
Thank you both for your encouraging words.
From the Newsfeed:
From TheBusmanPoet : Majority of mine is a purchase. I do get some when my poems are reviewed.
From Louis Williams : I buy them. Use them to advertise my blog or my book. Don't get a ton of sales (yet), but we all have to start somewhere, right?
From Mouse says gobble gobble  : Most of the time I buy gift points, but I also have " Mouse Colony 50/30/20 Raffle" going every month. I also try to review but that doesn't bring in much for me. Finally, I enter contests when I can.
From Allan Charles  : Reviewing and scroll games. Though, I’m impulsive, and I’ll probably be buying more soon  At least this is a place I don’t mind spending some money at.
From Nixie🦊  : A combination of using the read/review option and buying gift points.
From The Puppet Master  : Mostly from giving reviews, but sometimes I win them in contests.
From WakeUpAndLive~doingNaNo'24  : Reviews, Review group, Weekly Goals, Buy
From s : Reviewing mainly. read & Review is a great source of GPs.
From jackson : I usually purchase, but add to from reviews, etc.
It's looking like an almost even split between buying GPs and earning them from doing reviews.
From Humble Poet PNG  : I obtain many of my GPs as The Tongue-in-Cheek Bandit, holding fellow WdC-ers at punpoint. 
Interesting.
From Kile Johnson : When people review my stories they gift them to me. Thank you so much everyone.
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