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 Welcome to the Noticing Newbies Newsletter! Our goal is to showcase some of our newest Writing.Com Authors and their items. From poetry and stories to creative polls and interactives, we'll bring you a wide variety of items to enjoy. We will also feature "how to" advice and items that will help to jump start the creation process on Writing.com.
We hope all members of the site will take the time to read, rate, review and welcome our new authors. By introducing ourselves, reviewing items and reaching out, we will not only make them feel at home within our community, we just might make new friends!
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You might be thinking, Why am I receiving this newsletter? Or perhaps wondering if there are other newsletters available and how to sign up for them. Wonder no longer, because this week's edition of your Noticing Newbies Newsletter will hopefully shed a little light on the matter. And to be perfectly frank, I love getting newsletters in my mailbox. I may not always have time to read every one of them, but if I do, I can. Plus they are free! Hmmm.... perhaps I should also mention you might learn something you didn't know.   Okay, enough babbling from me. Let's get down to business.
First of all, here is a complete list of newsletters put out each week that are written by a staff of Writing.com moderators. Other well-written and informative newsletters are also available through various members of this community, but this week we will concentrate on the following:
Noticing Newbies
Everyone who becomes a member of the Writing.com community will automatically receive a copy of the Noticing Newbies Newsletter each week. The editors try to concentrate on topics that are helpful to the newcomers of the site.
Action/Adventure
Whether you seek adventure through written words or you yearn to create thrilling stories yourself, this newsletter will serve you well. Pick up great advice on how to make your writing believable while still making your reader's heart race anxiously with each twist and turn. Add some action to your tale to really spice things up. After all, we all like a little adventure, don't we?
Comedy
Do you like to laugh and make others laugh, too? Perhaps you're not too funny in person, but on paper you are hilarious. Whoever you are, whether you enjoy telling jokes or just need to be around people who make you laugh, this newsletter covers it all.
Drama
Drama creates tension... That sit-on-the-edge-of-your-seat anxiety. If you need any lessons on how to write sweaty-palm fiction, this newsletter could be for you.
Fantasy
Do you prefer dragons to kitty cats? Wands to remote controls? Or perhaps fairies to bugs? If you do, this may be the newsletter for you! You'll not only discover a whole new world, but possibly learn how to create one, too.
Horror/Scary
If you like getting spooked or spooking others, you've come to the right place! It's an absolutely frightful environment, so beware of what you may encounter!
Mystery
Discover clues to help you write a better mystery. Learn to create a piece that will leave your readers puzzled, turning each page in search of answers. Get great advice on how to make others hunger for more.
Romance/Love
Are you a hopeless romantic? Perhaps passion plays a big part in your life. Do you enjoy candle light dinners, tear-jerker love stories, and snuggling with your lover? Hmmm.... you'd better sign up for this newsletter right away! You will not only enjoy the featured items, but learn how to add zest and passion to your own words of love. 
Spiritual
Find meaning and purpose while reading this newsletter's inspirational stories, poetry, and quotes., along with great tips for writing your own.
Contests & Activities
If you like to enter contests, this is definitely the newsletter to sign up for. You can also find raffles, auctions, and other activities to keep you busy year 'round!
Poetry
Here you will discover endless forms of poetry to learn. If you've only written traditional and/or free verse in the past, challenge yourself with fresh new patterns. Do you like a good work out? This is the place!
Short Stories
Are novels too overwhelming for you to write? You've come to the right place. You'll discover new ideas and great advice to help you write your own short stories. 
For Authors
Ideas, advice, suggestions, tips, and more can all be found here in this newsletter for authors. A great place to find some inspiration.
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Excerpt: A feeling I had never known began pouring over me. Panic, fear, horror, rage, sadness, uncertainty, all mixed into one. A cold sweat swept over my body, violent shivers, nausea. I wanted to scream, to pound the masked man into the wall. How could he be so calm and laid back? I began shaking, rage seeping out of me, my furious body didn’t want to restrain anymore. The ropes around me tightened, cutting into me more severely than ever.
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Excerpt: Like I said, I was always too busy psycho-analyzing him to pay any attention to him. I am – that is, was – a psychology professor. Of course I had been fired when the whole affair was uncovered, and the police soon came for me. Naturally, my first inclination was to hide. But then I thought, why deprive the nation of the truth? Why allow the media to take over and let them slander my name and pass unfair judgment, let them twist reality and leave it to them to decide what’s fact and what’s myth? So I turned myself in, and after passing all tests attempting to disprove my sanity, I was admitted to the State Penitentiary, where I now sit on the edge of my bed, waiting for my lawyer to waltz into my cell with his mock sincerity and smile carefully crafted by a plastic surgeon, anxious to make me aware of the latest script changes in my trial.
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Excerpt: "I'll do my best," I replied, shaking three colorful leather balls out of my right sleeve. Tossing them lightly into the air, I began to juggle, an activity that was so natural to me now that I found myself doing it without noticing. The familiar feel of the routine calmed my nerves. With one hand, Javanelle pushed open the icy entrance and with a deep breath and a shake of the head, I ducked inside
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Excerpt: A kettle sang from the stove. Before rising to silence the scream, she tossed the last two of six dice across the intricately hand-painted board. The first four had fallen single dotted on the complicated board. These two fell the same. Six lidless eyes stared back silently at her.
Ruthy-Ru sighed, pulling long gray hair back from her wrinkled face, fastening it back with a tortoise shell comb. Foreboding clenched her gut like swimming cramps.
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** Image ID #1051791 Unavailable ** jessdavin
I think I get most overwhelmed when I think about the long-term. "Oh no, I've only written this many pages in so-and-so amount of time, and my personal goal is to finish a novel by the end of the year!" I do much better when I write just for the sake of telling a story and having fun with it. When I'm trying to write twenty pages, I'll finish about two and give up, but when I'm just trying to put my thoughts on paper, I'll write about a dozen pages and not even realize it!
It's good you have goals. Perhaps when you feel pressured to write and can't get past two pages, you could branch off into another direction with your character(s) on a separate piece of paper and write until something sparks for you. Then go back to your original storyline, using a fresh idea, and see how far that will take you.
** Image ID #1051791 Unavailable ** Serenity Love 
Hummm...what overwhelms me about writing? I guess the intensity of emotions that I feel when I'm writing my poetry, or the truth I learn about myself from the characters that come forth. I guess that makes the rejection aspect of the being a writer so nerve wrecking for me. But I'm going to write more this coming year too.
It's amazing, isn't it, how our very own writing can make us feel.
** Image ID #1051791 Unavailable ** b_boonstra
Cubby, not all your images came through in the newsletter. Still I wanted to wish you all the best for 2006...
Thank you, my friend! And I also wish the best for you, too.
** Image ID #1051791 Unavailable ** Breezy-E ~ In College
What overwhelms me the most? I can't write good battles! ARRRRGGHH!
Breezy-E
LOL! Well, I just bet you will some day! It would seem like a hard thing to write, at least to me, but I wouldn't be surprised if you master it after a while.
** Image ID #1051791 Unavailable ** jacaranda
Great newsletter Cubby! I hope that your writing will be abundant and meaningful for you in 2006.
---Jacaranda
Thanks so much, Jacaranda. I hope you are right. And I wish the same for you, as you are a very talented poet!
** Image ID #1051791 Unavailable ** wolfpoetress
?What overwhelms you the most with your writing?
when i write, i just kinda zone out and see what falls. sometimes the emotion that hits the page is overwhelming. but it gets things out of my system so that i don't carry them around with me.
~Teena~
Sounds like you give it you all, Teena. I always think that if I can make myself cry from a story or poem I've written, it must be pretty good.
** Image ID #1051791 Unavailable ** tammy_lvn_nurse
Great newsletter!
My writring is my outlet. Sometimes just facing the emotions that I am trying to get down..can be VERY overwhelming.
Tammy
I agree. And yet, I think it's also very theraputic at the same time.
** Image ID #1051791 Unavailable ** rapunzel247
I'm a newbie and this site looks very complicated. I'd like to do some competitions but can't find any I like. I'm having trouble learning the ropes. Any advice?
No offense, but I feel a little cheated. It said registration was free but there's only so much you can do with the free account.
I love the feedback you can get on your items with this site.
If by now you are still having difficulty, please email me or any other Moderator and we will certainly point you in several good directions. Yes, this place can be a bit overwhelming in the beginning! There's so much one can do here, and the site offers a variety of interests. Please, do not hesitate to send an email out to one of us. One suggestion I'll quickly make is to sign up for the Contest Newsletter if you like competitions. Just follow my instructions in this newsletter and hopefully, that will get you started in the right direction.
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Quote: You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
~ Jack London
Cubby's Question of the Month
If you have ever read one or more books on writing that you found helpful and inspiring, please share it with us! Include the title and the author (if possible) and also why you would recommend it.
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See you again on F-F-February t-t-twenty-second!!
Happy Writing!
Love, Cubby ")
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