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I started writing because it was part of the curriculum at my high school, but then I found a love for it. I searched all over the internet looking for a site which would would give writing tips for any genre and get my work read by more than just my teachers. I found Writing.com and am pleased to say I'm addicted, every day I log on and find something interesting to door read!
I have been here just for two weeks and i love it here. Read articles pour your emotion through it. You have such a friendly and generous friend here.
If you love to write stuff and read stuff than this is your heaven.
writing.com is the best.
Writing.Com was a website I had been looking for. I always wanted to write my biography and maybe fictional tales, but paper and pen is just not the way to write essays. Either the ink is smudged or I need to cross out a word or two, and 'addio' neatness! The website is perfect. Serious writers who know how to review and kindly point out any mistakes, and help out. Thanks!
I found out about writing.com from a friend in my newspaper class who had recently gotten the premium membership. She suggested to all of us who were really serious about writing to get an account and that she was really enjoying having the paid membership. It wasn't until a few years later that I finally decided to give it a go, but I have not regretted it for a minute!
My handwriting is terrible, so writing something over and over again is a hard and sloppy way to spread my work, typing is better but it still wastes paper. W.D.C. however, is online, so I can type AND easily make my works public.
I joined WDC in 2007, not knowing what the site was, just hoping to get my writing life back. At first glance, I couldn't understand the format of WDC, and my other life, my "real" life, started falling apart. The company I was working for went bankrupt, taking 10,000 dollars of my back pay with it. I was stuck in Japan without a job and with a family to support. Writing was the last thing I could do at that time. Then, a year later, after the dust had settled and I had started my own business, the desire to write again just wouldn't leave me. I had been suffering from depression for a long time, and felt my previous talents were going to waste. The only person I would show my writing to was extremely critical and had nothing positive to say, ever. Going through my bookmarks, I found WDC and decided to give it another try. The first poem I read prompted me to write some feedback, and that felt good--I felt like I was back at university, helping a student with their writing. Their response made me feel like my opinions had some worth--a sensation I hadn't felt in a long, long time. The first comment I got on my first positing cemented my trust in the site: the reader was surprised at how bad my writing was given my background. The creative juices got flowing again, and I discovered a new discipline in me, a new work ethic. I worked hard from 2008 until 2010, positing stories and sending feedback. My depression lifted. I can say, with little reservation, that the people in WDC, their honesty, criticisms, comments, and encouragement, brought me back from a very dark place. I am submitting work to publishers, confident that they are my best work so far. Thank you, all who make up this community. You really did some good for this person. You really did pull me back into life.
Thunderlane Loves Writing.com. It makes the work seem like play.
I love writing.com. Before I couldn't find any other writers who I could talk to. Being in high school, it's really difficult to have an unusual hobby, such as writing. It immediately brands you an outcast. After a particulary bad day at school, all I have to do is get on WDC and read a few things. It makes me feel way better. I have drawing friends, but it isn't the same. You need way more talent to paint a picture with words. I used to get on a lot, but finally I just became a member. It's way different, trust me! This is an awesome site.
After finally taking tiny steps into writing for many years, I took a giant leap of faith and started doing this--writing on Writing.Com. It has been an eye opening experience with some amazing work from some unique group of people. Looking back I wonder why it took me so long. WdC is fantastic with some great tools to allow someone like me to progress and learn. Thank-you very much! And my Anonymous Upgrade gift was the cherry on top! May the Almighty keep us all blessed and happy! Amen to that!:) xoxoxoxox
I had stopped writing due to work and studies. but then i joined writing.com. it is so amazing and the people here are so nice. i started writing again and spend quite a few hours here. i just love being here...
SNM
I was only here just this day, and now I found myself writing story and poems! I was really indulged to this site with only a day! I really am inspired to write more and more. I want to improve, and make my works masterpieces. This site will totally help me!
I have been on Writing.com for almost a year now and I absolutely LOVE it!! I get a ton of feedback on EVERYTHING I write! Unlike all of the other sites I've come across, Writing.com lets you have your own portfolio for FREE! The other sites are boring, cost money, and are hard to navigate. Writing.com isn't! I love it and I hope to stay for a long time!!
Writing.com is a wonderful place for me. It allows me to explore and express my creativity in many ways on many different levels. This is the only place that I know of where I can express not just one part of me, but all of me, from my poetic side to my scientific side. And everyone has been so very supportive, offering both encouragement and useful criticism and advice, which in turn helps me to become a better writer. I love this place! Here, I feel at home! I would recommend writing.com to anyone serious about writing or who loves the literary arts!
I have only been a member for a few weeks and have fallen in love with this site and the community therin. It is packed with kind and helpful writers and fans! I fell my writing has improved immensley from all of the amazing feedback I have recieved. This site is a treasure for writers and readers alike. If editors started visiting this site, I doubt they could choose from the many talented people posting their work here!
I am so glad that I just found out about writing.com. It is so cool and I finally get to get all my writing and thoughts out to the world. Email me any time on here!
I joined writing.com in June 2010, and have enjoyed every minute of my time here. I highly recommend it to new and aspiring writers, as a way to showcase your work. It provides excellent exposure and feedback, helping all of us to become better writers. The community is supportive and encouraging. This website helps to connect writers from all over the world, exposing its members to different perspectives and different forms of writing, which help to broaden our writing horizons. I will continue to be a member as long as possible. Thank you for the opportunity to share my work with the world!
I have only been on "Writing.Com" for a week, and I'm considered a newbie, but as an aspiring writer, I can tell you that this is the place to be. I've spent hours reading some of the established author's work. I've been focusing on sentence structure, punctuation, and the flow of the stories. There are many excellent writers who are members of this web site. I have posted five stories so far. I've gotten some good reviews and some not so good reviews. What I will say is the review process is fantastic. I've been given some honest appraisals, which have put me on the road to improving my writing skills. I want to learn where I need to improve my writing. It may be painful, but It will make me a better writer. I can honestly say that I have work to do. But, that's okay. I've made a good start. Keep the reviews coming, but please be gentle. I am were you once were. Thank you "Writing.Com and all the reviewers.
I like writing.com because it's a great place to find fresh talent and it's also makes a great platform for aspiring writers. I can get great feedback for my stories here that I can't find anywhere else.
Writing .com is a superb site for writers and readers all over the world.Whenever i find time i visit this site and it brings sunshine to my mind....it empowers me with knowledge. There are numberless gifted writers, whose writings i can read now simply by clicking the mouse over to this site. The writings are fantastic and i am amazed.I myself had an aspiration to become a writer but my everyday life demands other things. Through this site i am having an idea of how to write. i like its every genre and its newsletters provide me with good guidance and information about how to write a poem, a short story and what not! writing.com has now come up in the facebook and now i can know about this site and its activities through facebook also. There are so many other things like C card, photographs,all sorts of stories, plays, novels etc. By visiting this site one gets an inspiration of being a writer, cause Writing.com encourages everybody to write. I thank myself for becoming a member of this brilliant site.
One time I used to check my post office box almost daily. That was before the advent of computers. Once I had a computer I began to check my emails daily. That of course has become a habit for millions of people.
One email I kept getting was from Writinig.com reminding me that I should visit the site and keep my information up to date. So I would go to the WDC site, log in look around, and log out. I kept doing that for almost a year.
In the meantime, my partner and my kids were after me to start writing again.
So, I went back to the WDC site to look at it again and try to remember when and why I had joined it. Answers to that were easily available if I was true to myself.
Some people think that you can train to be almost anything you want to be and to a certain extent, that's partly true. But sometimes I do believe some people are born to their art.
Everyone can think of a musician or a painter and even a writer who must have been born with something special in their DNA that helped them reach the level of greatness they've achieved. Whether that goes for our interests as well, I cannot say.
Why I wear my WDC tee shirts:
It's helped me change my attitudes to my writing. It's helped me feel secure about sharing my writing.
From giving and receiving reviews, I learned more about my own writing. Being a big promoter in life long learning it helped me build a confidence in my writing that is now on a firmer foundation; rather than mere ego.
WDC gave me a platform for my work. It allowed me to meet and mix and chat with other writers. That alone, promotes an interaction a lot of writers miss. Some of that interaction has made me a better writer, given me ideas for projects with ad hoc brainstorming in the chat box, and we have a lot of fun getting to know one another.
I encourage everyone to fill out their Biography. I think it should be a rule that if it's not filled out, you don't get reviewed! Some people think, and I've seen it said; "you can get to know me through my writing". Poppycock! Bollocks! Ragweed! That my friend is a cop-out and not a very good one either. So, fill out that Biography, so we know who you are.
Another thing about WDC I do like is the lack of ageism. People on WDC come from all walks of life, all countries and can be any age.
WDC is huge, and it covers the interests and needs of a great many people. The support services actually support you. It doesn't matter what you need to know. If you're trying to make a survey or fix your portfolio, they can and do help you meet your goals.
I've joined contests and taken an online course. I've enjoyed the experience of both and hope in the future to do more. It's a great site for anyone with an interest in writing. That's why I'm here. They didn't give up on me either!
Well, for a long time I have been told I am a good writer, and I appreciate that, but that doesn't make my confidence go up or anything...but, with writing.com I am able to type, instead of using paper and pencil. Personally, typing is a lot faster and more comfortable. And, I can share my stories with more people. I hope you all check out my stories and help me enjoy myself further here at writing.com!
Writing.com provides so much more than a portfolio. It is a community of support and affirmation everywhere you turn. I can't say that without WDC I wouldn't be the writer I am today; instead, Writing.com has made me a confident writer, a compassionate writer, a writer that understands there is so much more to the art than words alone.
I never had a lot of confidence in my own writing. Before I joined Writing.com I kept most of my writing to myself. Now that I joined, I have a lot more confidence in my writing and ideas that I didn't have before.
Writing.Com has opened up an area I didn't know about three days ago when I found and joined (5/26/10) the site. Just in this fraction of time I have already gained immesureable knowledge and feel that through here I will succeed.
MarcoMann
This website is amazing, I never thought there could be so much gained from a website. It has a great system for feedback and lets everybody share their stuff without making it exclusive to any rank of authors. It is a great playing field for aspiring writers as it shows you the reactions of real people and what people enjoy reading. I'm a newbie who's determined to stay. THANK YOU TO ALL STAFF AT WRITING.COM FOR MAKING THIS FUNCTION AND SOCIETY POSSIBLE. Thanks for taking the time to read this. I tend to ramble.
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