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February 2023 Writing Challenge: Killing for a cause

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Would a "reading-as-a-writer" tag be useful?

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Suggestions for making a question about how to ask for good non-professional criticism?

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January 2023 Writing Challenge: Ironic Contrast

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The next writing challenge could be yours

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August 2023 Writing Challenge: Introduce yourself

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Are reader-centric questions on-topic?

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June–July 2023 Writing Challenge: Voices of Protest

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Can I ask about translation works?

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May 2023 Writing Challenge: Secret Specialized Knowledge

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March 2023 Writing Challenge: Science Fantasy

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April 2023 Writing Challenge: A fighter against the rebellion

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Your new site design is live!

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Proposal for a Writing SE custom logo

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Custom Writing design and logo - Information gathering

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Writing site design and logo — Draft

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Featured meta posts are not visible on main site!

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2022: a year in moderation

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AI-generated answers are no longer allowed on Writing.SE

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December 2022 Writing Challenge: Talking with the prisoner

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November 2022 Writing Challenge: Death of the protagonist

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Should answers be able to be downvoted without a reason?

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October 2022 Writing Challenge: Revenge

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September 2022 Writing Challenge: Conversation with themself

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August 2022 Writing Challenge: Weatherwise

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We should be able to reward people who edit our questions with reputation points

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What's the issue with this question that's about how to make the best use of a writing tool?

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Should asking for tool suggestions be considered on-topic?

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Question timeline is showing a question got on the HNQ more than once. (A very hot question?)

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July 2022 Writing Challenge: Sharing Secrets, Coming Out, Spilling the Tea

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June 2022 Writing Challenge: Transformations

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Should Writing reduce the close vote requirement from 5 to 3?

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If we could have a custom design, what elements are most important?

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May 2022 Writing Challenge: Sensory experiences

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Is this an exchange for novelists, poets, lyricists, and writers of all kinds?

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Am I allowed to promote a Discord server?

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April 2022 Writing Challenge: Write a mute character

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March 2022 Writing Challenge: Writing it again, with a different len

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February 2022 Writing Challenge: Tell a story with a terminal log

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To allow or not allow (a topic)? That is the question

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Writing prompts challenge... with a twist

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What is a positive question record?

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2021: a year in moderation

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Where can I get a critique of my work?

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Can the name of our site in SEDE be updated?

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Let's hear from the Writing Community - 2021

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