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June 2022 Writing Challenge: Transformations
As decided by vote, here's the next challenge, proposed by Nyctophobia457:
Write a scene where the character transforms into another creature. For example, they transform an animal or a hideous ...
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Custom Writing design and logo - Information gathering
Congratulations, Writing SE community! We’re going to be creating a custom site design for you that we hope will represent your subject and we want you all to really love it. You’ve been waiting over ...
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Am I allowed to promote a Discord server?
Am I allowed to promote a Discord server for a writing project that I want to include the community in?
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Is this an exchange for novelists, poets, lyricists, and writers of all kinds?
I am new to Stack Exchange, and do not wish to step on any toes or offend anyone. I searched for a group specific to poetry and song-writing, as this is my forté. I am an aspiring novelist as well, so ...
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May 2022 Writing Challenge: Sensory experiences
As decided by vote, here's the next challenge, proposed by Mary:
Write a scene where the point of view character comments on sensory experiences from at least three different senses.
Go onward and ...
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April 2022 Writing Challenge: Write a mute character
As decided by vote, here's the next challenge, as proposed by Ceramicmrno0b:
Write a mute character
Many of your favorite fiction characters can speak. What if they couldn't?
Write a scene, any scene ...
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March 2022 Writing Challenge: Writing it again, with a different len
As decided by vote, here's the next challenge:
Writing it again, with a different len
Write the same story twice (or more), but with different word counts that make each version distinct. Post both (...
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To allow or not allow (a topic)? That is the question
As I was once again clicking on the close vote for a question about 'what to write' it came to me that we the community ultimately decide what is on-topic.
For instance, the choice that critique ...
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February 2022 Writing Challenge: Tell a story with a terminal log
As decided by popular vote, the challenge this month is:
Tell a story with a terminal log.
Somebody is poking through a computer through the terminal. Try to tell what they're after and who they are ...
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The next writing challenge could be yours
Welcome to the future writing challenge proposal thread.
This is where you will decide what the next writing challenges will be. The next challenge will take place in March 2022.
How does the ...
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2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Writing prompts challenge... with a twist
Throughout the life of this SE there have been multiple instances of writing challenges, writing exercises and writing prompts. I wanted to suggest re-igniting that, with a few changes:
We have a bi-...
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Let's hear from the Writing Community - 2021
It's been over a year since our last community check in and a bit has happened since then. Mainly, we had our first proper (non pro-tem) election taking us one step closer to a fully graduated site. ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election Results
The first full election on Writing has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and your first non-pro-tem moderators are:
Please welcome Laurel, who will be joining linksassin and F1Krazy (the ...
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Updating the "existing literary works" close reason to point to Literature SE?
One of the current custom close reasons of Writing SE is:
The community has decided that questions about existing literary works, except in a writing-specific context, are off-topic. For more ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election
The 2021 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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Announcing a “Graduation” election for 2021
Summary: Writing Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for an election on November 1st, as your “graduation” election. When we ran an election here last year, we intentionally chose to make ...
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2021 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Writing Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, 2021-...
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Can I post my essays here for others to comment?
I am trying to improve my English writing and take the initiative to write daily. However I do not have a teacher to mark my work. So can I post my essays here for others to comment?
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Why are there two tags about the "show" and "tell" advice?
I came across a question tagged both show-dont-tell and showing-telling. There is a tag wiki for the second but not the first. It says:
This tag should be used for questions about the [technique] of &...
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Community Ads for 2021
September update: Community Ads are now live network-wide. All ads with a score of 6 or higher, or with a score of 4 or higher and no downvotes will be displayed (except for any that have a note from ...
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Should Writing reduce the close vote requirement from 5 to 3?
Stack Exchange is testing a three-vote close threshold on 13 sites across the network. Writing.SE was not included on that list. However the mod team feel that it might be a good thing here, so we're ...
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Censored comments?
Up until a few minutes ago, a relevant, important, and sufficiently constructive exchange was going on in the comments under this answer:
https://writing.stackexchange.com/a/55746/49392
Now, however, ...
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Writing challenge: Contrasting Opposites - 16 April 2021 - 21 May 2021
Welcome to the recontinuation of the Meta Writing Challenges! Anyone can participate, whether you first picked up a pen yesterday or you've published 20 books.
In line with the previous one (from ...
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Is it time to recontinue the writing challenges?
Remember the Meta Writing Challenges? Well, I wasn't on Stack Exchange back then, but they looked like a fun way to build community.
Lately, I have felt that I myself am going through somewhat of a ...
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What happened to the (potential) Writing e-book?
Browing through Writing Meta, I found a couple posts about the Writing SE e-book, which looked intresting.
Is it (the Writing SE e-book) published? Drafted? Planned? Or dismissed?
Who is/was/will take/...
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Specific cliche requests (and similar questions) - off or on topic?
Recently, I have seen a couple of questions asking if their specific scenario (such as a character or item) is cliche.
I doubt anyone else will have those exact problems so the answers would only ...
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Rewrite of help center sentences to be more open to all of our writers
Background
Back when this site was in beta, the "professional" aspect of writing was the main intent of the site. The goal was to create questions about publishing, editing, and professional ...
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Proposal for a Writing SE custom logo
I like this site and I really want to design it. Lately, I'm trying to make custom logos for Stack Exchange sites that doesn't seem to have one.
Just like Arduino's logo, I thought of a simple logo ...
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Are questions about book cover services on topic?
I want to ask a question about book cover services but am unsure if it is on topic or not. I don't think this is defined in the help center, yet is still kind of related to writing/publishing. If ...
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Answer wasn't very substantial but should it have been deleted?
https://writing.stackexchange.com/a/55063/10479
It seemed odd to me that this answer was deleted. It was on topic, non-spammy or abusive, and while it didn't add that would be actually helpful to the ...
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PSA: Adding these tags
This post is a response to Can we formulate a response to the large number of kids under 13?:
I am going to go add these tags:
rape
torture
I see that these tags have already been added:
profanity
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Do we have any active advertisments on other websites?
Do we have Writing SE adds out on the web?
Or, if not, do we have any adds on other SE sites?
If not that either, are there plans to?
If not, could we start planning?
If not, I've run out of ...
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When will we lose the beta site model?
What I have noticed, is that beta and non-beta sites have different setups. For example, on non-beta sites, you access first post and late answer queues at 2000 reputation. On beta sites, it tends to ...
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Is this question on or off-topic for our site?
This post asks a good question. I am wondering if we should migrate it to EL&U SE though, it seems like too specific of a grammar question for our site. I am asking here on Meta, so as I gradually ...
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Questions about wiki writing in general
Is it on-topic to ask questions about wiki writing in general? Wikis can be great resources but - in my experience - need special writing skills. Finding good titles, organizing content into pages, ...
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How to handle situations like this?
I was just sitting at my computer, watching the main site when this question pops up(now deleted, need 2,000+ rep to view). I open it up, read it, downvoted, flagged it, and then the rest can be seen ...
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Can we formulate a response to the large number of kids under 13?
I have been noticing a large number of kids, usually about twelve, who keep trying to ask questions on the writing SE. They get shut down, and they should, because that's the rule. But there is ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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Follow up on increasing the possible migration routes for Writing SE
Follow up on this question.
After seeing this question, this question, and this question, I realize we can't add a search bar like the moderator tool on migration sites for regular users, but could we ...
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Community specific reasons for closing only shows EL&U and Writing Meta SE options
A reason for closing is that the question should belong on a different SE site. The pop-up box only gives you two possible sites to migrate the question to, Writing Meta and EL&U.
Could we include ...
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Do we need a [characterization] tag or redirect?
I was writing a question when I noticed there was no tag for characterization, only "characters", which seems to serve the same purpose. I was thinking this might be a bit confusing because &...
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Typo in badge list for Electorate badge
First off, I apologize for the frequent meta posts, I'm not trying to be annoying - I'm just a curious person. :)
When I was looking at the list of badges I saw this typo:
I think it is supposed to ...
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I was wondering if there was a community-specific way to address questions with no accepted answer?
It seems to me, that the amount of people that are accepting answers is quite low. To some of you, this may not seem like a big deal. But for a newer user like me, that 15 points for an accept could ...
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How could this user have reviewed this queue?
While looking at who was rewarded the Custodian Badge, I noticed that the user this user was rewarded the custodian badge for completing a review task in the queue suggested edits. Their only Stack ...
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Are questions for webcomics but also somewhat about writing on topic?
I've just started writing a webcomic and was wondering if I can ask questions about it here. Obviously I won't ask 'how to draw X', but probably more about the layout of the strip and timing, as well ...
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Does Writing Stack Exchange support opinionated answers with no real research or evidence?
Disclaimer: I asked this question a long time ago, but since I now have higher rep and more experience with this site - I longer support the opinion I express in this question.
Currently, I am a ...
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Writing tips - on topic?
If I post “what are your favorite writing tips” will it get shut down?
I know the answer is probably yes, but I thought it would be cool, since the upvotes would rank them best to worst, and it would ...
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Would this question be on topic?
This is a question I have that pertains to writing, and I was wondering if it would be on topic if so I would migrate it, or ask it on the main site.
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What types of methods can be used in ...
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On topic for the website
Can I ask questions about a research paper I am writing and for introducing a thesis, and antithesis techniques? Like I am writing a paper 15 pages long and I wanted to know how to create a formulaic ...
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