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More Updates and Improvements to Writing.Com: 1) Book Manager Update The book manager got a glam-over, clean-up. There's now a more proper toolbar that allows you to turn on/off all the gizmos and doo-dads, like bulk ordering, access restrictions and more. Tags have been added as well. Clicking the tags let members manage the individual entries as well as filter the entire book's entries by tags. The bulk system has tags available, too. Check 5 entries, click the "Tag" tool from the bottom and add tags to all 5 at once.  (Shout-outs to Brandiwyn🎶  for the initial tag request and Amethyst Angel ♡  for the bulk tagging request that led to this latest beautification.  ) 2) Item Edit "Time" Update Previously, every edit to an item updated its modified time. Now, only changes to the item's title, brief description, or main body will automatically update the time. You'll find a checkbox at the bottom of the item edit form for the modified time. It will be checked automatically when you change any of those three listed areas. If you didn't change any of them, you can still opt to update the time by ticking the box.  (This has been tested, but until it's been out there for a good bit, please don't rush out and test this with some item you haven't edited in 10 years because you didn't want to lose the modified time from 2016.  That's a terrible test case. A forum you edited last week is a much better test case. Please feel free to report any bugs in "Bug Reporting" .) 3) Three New Emoticons! It's PIE for everyone! All kinds of PI(E)! (and just in time for Pi Day March 14!)    ( pie, piechart, pi ) |
| The updates to the book manager have been great! |
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| Awesome it's pie time. |
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| Portfolio Update Your Portfolio Tools and Highlighted Items have been given an updated look and feel on your portfolio page! The tools themselves haven't changed, but they should now be easier to spot. Just a small tweak to make navigating and organizing your work a little smoother. Search Added to Portfolios You can now search within your portfolio or someone else's right from the portfolio page! This IS new... enjoy! (Click Portfolio / Portfolio from the left navigation to see the changes.) |
 Details: "Each day around 12pm NOON WDC time, one of our dedicated volunteer judges will judge the previous day's entries and post a new writing prompt. Entries for each new prompt must be posted by 11:59am WDC time the next day. Entries that follow ALL of the prompt requirements will be judged according to the creativity in responding to the writing prompt only. This means that grammatical errors WILL NOT be a determining factor in deciding the winner!"  This item was submitted through "Community Spotlight" . Have an item you would like showcased on Writing.Com Support's newsfeed? Click to submit your own! |
Wild Wednesday  Let's get crazy... Comment with a single sentence that's just wild or wacky. |
 Featured Merit Badge of the Week! Patience Recognizing calmness and persistence through challenges.  Associated Genres: Inspirational, Emotional Date Introduced: September 5, 2021 Total Badges Given: 100 |
~Lifelessons~  - I feel you, I feel like I'm constantly playing hide and seek with my patience, where I'm the seeker. And losing my patience in the process even more! |
Pressure or passion — which moves your pen faster? Let’s compare styles.  |
Wren_Loves_Storys!  - So true! Deadlines are synonymous with worry and seem to be more unhelpful than productive. |
 Another week in the books... That means it's time to post your Weekly Goals followup in "Weekly Goals"    |
Beginnings? Middles? Endings? Let’s normalize the hard parts.  |
| Beginnings. Not necessarily the beginnings of the actual first few chapters, that's were I have lots of ideas, but how to start off the beginning of a chapter and get it going... That I can find difficult. |
| Explaining what the book is about. When someone finds out that I like to write, and they ask, "What are your books about?" I never know how to respond. The new series I've been working on is especially hard. I might say, "They're about squirrels, and other creatures in the forest... they fight villains, rescue captives, and make unlikely friends." And then people look at me like I'm crazy. I think I need to figure out a better way to describe the Prone To Wander series. |
A look at how tightening the elements of your story increases its impact. What sentence are you emotionally attached to that your story could live without? |
Ordinary places hold extraordinary stories. Show us.  |
A newletter on hero types. Do you choose what type of hero your character is, or do they develop during the story? |
| My characters tend to develop into heroes over time. Often, the most memorable heroes in the stories we love begin as individuals who are initially considered “nobodies.” That origin is what makes them relatable. It was reminded of something I once heard in a speech: “Have you ever noticed that heroes and villains often share similar backstories? The difference lies in how they respond to them. The villain says, ‘This hurt me, so I will hurt others.’ The hero says, ‘This hurt me, so I will protect others from experiencing the same pain.’” |
Make us see it, hear it, feel it. Short and powerful.  |
| Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scratch. Well, that was new. *** The tools lining the wall gleam silver. When I run my hands across them, they're freezing. Scrape. Wooden planks line the ceiling, brown spatter dripping off of them still. And finally, the best part, a cage, silver red brown stains on the ground, soft croaks filling the room. Scrape. |
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