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auspicious 1. promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable: an auspicious occasion. 2. favored by fortune; prosperous; fortunate. Reference: Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) (based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Random House, 2006), http://www.dictionary.com This word suggested by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} majorsamfan.Would you like to suggest a word? Reply to this post with your idea. -o-o-o- Here is our vocabulary building exercise. Each week we will be posting an unusual word that may not be in regular usage. The aim is to build up the thesauri in all our writing brains. To further that aim, we will not be providing obscure words, but words that are a little unusual and present an alternative to more common words. As to what everyone would like to do with these words, it is up to you. If you feel inspired, by all means write something and post it. We love to see all new creations. -o-o-o- |
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Hey, everyone, I want to apologize for being so hit and miss lately on posting the Creative Writer Events posts. I have Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, and have had to deal with some pretty severe attacks for the last couple of weeks. I'm doing what I need to do to help myself get back to normal, but when these happen I become pretty dysfunctional. They are rare in the first place, and they have never been this bad before. I'm asking for your patience, Creative Writer will be back on track again very soon. I am doing better. Thanks,
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Hi, Scarlet_01, we'd like to add you to this journal and to Creative Writer, but we need a post telling us why you would like to be a member. If you could do that, we'll get you added. Thanks, Bethanna |
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There were two polls taken. One poll was posted to Creative Writer and another poll was posted to my personal journal. I have combined both for the results. People who are members of communities are 23 to 19 comparatively as having fewer ten communities on their friends page (23) or having more than ten communities on their friends page (19). What this means to you the writer is while a higher percentage does not have community after community to wade through on their friends page, there is still a high percentage (45%) that do. This means the writer on Creative Writer has to compete with all of the other communities being read. Keep this in mind if you want to have feed back on your individual posts. You are competing for attention. ( READ MORE )
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Creative Writer wants to help the posters on Creative Writer gain more feedback. I will be posting a poll to the READERS of Creative Writer to see what formats would be the easiest to manage on their friends page. If you have any questions you can think of of how to format your INDIVIDUAL pieces, please reply here so that I can include your questions in the poll. We are looking to gain READERSHIP to at least 25% of our membership. So, please, if you can think of anything you want to know concerning how too's to help the reader manage their time here and to improve comments on your posted work, please please please reply to this post with your quesitions. I am hoping to post the poll by Monday of next week. I haven't decided how the poll will be posted or where yet. We need to gather as much information as we can - from as many people as we can. . . so there may be one poll posted in several different places. If you would be willing to post the poll to your personal journal and email me the results, please let me know - this would be an incredible help. Edit: We will not be changing the guidelines to Creative Writer with this information. The format of Creative Writer may change a little depending on what will work. Information concerning individual pieces will be collected and will be added as a link in the weekly Welcome Mat as suggestions of how to post your work so that you receive readership and comments. The actual posting format will be up to the individual member. Thanks!
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This past week has been somewhat slow for Creative Writer on the ownership level. Ayoub and I have both been sick - **cough** **cough** **sneeze** **horn blowing Kleenex attack**. The ‘cruds’ seem to be going around as well. If you’ve been attacked by the typical winter viruses, we hope for you a speedy recovery, and a healthier rest of the winter. Heh, I’m about as done with being sick as I can possibly be!! ( Some Small Changes ) ( Ongoing Creative Writer Challenge: Why I Don’t Write )
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Posted Creative Writer's Block Buster Left 24 membership verification replies Removed 8 members - no reply to Member verification replies Removed 1 member - deleted journal Removed 1 member - no ability to leave reply, no email address 75+ weeks since last posted. Current membership: 1032 CW Work desk opened: 9:00AM CW Work desk closed: 11:00AM total time - 2 hours |
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I'm going to have to bring the membership down to 925 before the membership increases any more in order to get the remaining 40 closed journals to show up on the search. Heh. . . I'm going to have to be quick about it with the rate our membership increases, though. . . :( **frustrated**
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Beginning Membership: 1059 Removed 9 members - no reply to Membership Verification Replies left on journals. Removed 5 members - no ability to reply, never posted to journal more than 6 months. Removed 1 member - deleted journal Removed 2 members - no ability to reply, has not posted in 130+ weeks. Left 21 Member verification replies. Membership: 1042 Posted Creative Writer News Letter Will work on tagging tomorrow. Beginning time: 5:00AM
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Happy Monday, everyone!! (Yeah, I know, it was hard for me to get out of bed this morning, too. Bleh.) This week we have a lot to talk about since last week I was in bed sick with the worst stomach flu in the world – but things are right as rain today! Here’s what’s going on! ( Weekly Event Posts on Creative Writer ) |
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Thinking about keeping an accurate and current membership count... To find out which journals on our list are no longer used, we used to use the lj advanced search, and that would sort by last updated. But the search is limited to 1000 results, and we have more than 1000 members. Ideas so far: Ask LJ if they can provide a search option to reverse the order of the search, so that we see the longest unused first. Move to another site and syndicate, giving us full control of our data in terms of when members have logged in, and automate messages to people who haven't logged in in six months. This would require some investment. Another option that came out in discussion is to let the current site syndicate to other sites that support OpenID, but we still have the problems with tracking member activity. Moving to another site of our own design gives us access to produce good quality demographics as part of the plan to go non-profit. Ideas and comments are welcomed and appreciated. Ayoub
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Posted Creative Writer's Block Buster Beginning Membership: 1051
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We hope you've been enjoying 2007 so far! On Going Writer's Challenge – Why I Don't Write Creative Writer is challenging its members to write a short piece (500 words or less) on why you don't write. Each week the most interesting, most entertaining reason will be placed as part of this news letter. Let your fellow strugglers see that they are not alone! Deadline for submission each week is Friday midnight YOUR time. You may enter as often as you wish (there are a lot of reasons why those words just cannot find their way into print!) Submissions received after 8:00 AM LONDON time will be added to the next week's submissions. To submit, send email to cw_owner@anarkian.net or cw_owner@livejournal.com. Please do not send as attachment, place piece in the body of the email. Please include your LJ user name in subject line. We had no submissions on this since the last News Letter, but we're hoping a friendly reminder will get a few fun pieces for us to share! This Writer's Challenge is open to Creative Writer Quarterly Writer's Challenge We posted the Quarterly Writers Challenge this week, and that has been updated on the sidebar on the main page, the link is named "Creative Writer's Current Writing Challenge", and we're waiting with bated breath for your emailed submissions! Creative Writer Sidebar On the left hand side of the Maintenance Tagging of all posts is continuing, but there is a lot of work to do still, so keep an eye on the tag list on the sidebar, because it's growing! A guideline change had to be made regarding posting linked posts, please read the guideline here We moved the New Member list to the Welcome Mat post, where it will be reposted weekly, giving us all a chance to meet our new writers. Verifying membership is continuing. The numbers will fluctuate between 1000 and 1050 for a while as we continue to work on getting dead and deleted journals off of We began discussions on the business plan for Creative Writer, and we have our work cut out for us! The first step is research, and we hope to keep you posted! Have a great week writing, everyone! Ayoub (filling in for an unwell Bethanna, please send her your wishes for a fast recovery!) |
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Will not time log due to hectic morning of juggling more than one thing. Posted Creative Writer Weird Word of the Week. Answered one email concerning link request. Added community to cw_owner to see if it is an appropriate community to link Creative Writer to.
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Start time: 7:30am End time: 10:00am Total time: 2.5 hours Wrote and Posted Creative Writer Character Honing
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There will be a new link section added to Creative Writer called Publisher Links. This will be links to online publishers who PAY for your work. I will do a search and set up beginning Saturday. |
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Please post your ENTIRE work to Creative Writer. Please do not put a link to your journal with the piece. If you MUST receive all replies to the piece you are working on in your journal, place a link for replies to your journal at the TOP of your complete piece and change the comment settings to DISABLED. Please let the reader know all replies to your post are to be made on your journal using the posted link. The reason for this is that when a journal is deleted or closed, the link becomes inaccessible to the reader. All posts from this point forward with a link only to your private journal will be rejected with a request to resubmit with entire piece. If you have any questions/concerns concerning this, please feel free to reply to this post. Thank you!
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For January 08, 2007: Wrote and posted Creative Writer News Letter Time 2 hours. Today Posted important community guideline change to Creative Writer/CW WORKDESK. **Need to update Communtity Guidelines on the entry page of Creative Writer** End time: 9:40 am 2 Hours 40 minutes
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We hope you had a GRAND Holiday Season! New Members New Members will be added to the weekly Welcome Mat beginning next Saturday, January 13, 2007! We added 17 new members this week, please give them a warm welcome!! Welcome to our new members for the week of December 31 to January 08!!!
New and On going Writer’s Challenge – Why I Don’t Write Creative Writer is issuing a challenge to its members to write a short piece (500 words or less) on why you don’t write. Each week the most interesting, most entertaining reason will be placed as part of this news letter. Let your fellow strugglers see that they are not alone! Deadline for submission each week is Friday midnight YOUR time. You may enter as often as you wish (there are a lot of reasons why those words just cannot find their way into print!) Submissions received after 8:00 AM LONDON time will be added to the next week’s submissions. To submit, send email to cw_owner@anarkian.net or cw_owner@livejournal.com. Please do not send as attachment, place piece in the body of the email. Please include lj user name in subject line. This Writer’s Challenge is open to Maintenance Tags If you will notice, there is no longer a TAG CLOUD on Creative Writer. Instead, the tags have been placed with a scroll bar for easier access. Tags are listed by user name, type of work, and genre if a short story or a novel. Introductions, other writing community information and member questions are also tagged. Membership Verifying membership is continuing. The numbers will fluctuate between 1000 and 1050 for a while as we continue to work on getting dead and deleted journals off of Ownership I am now at a place where I will be taking the OWNERSHIP of Up Coming Events The quarterly Writer’s Challenge will be posting on Saturday. We have moved this to a quarterly event to give writers more time to write a piece that brings them a source of pride. The announcement will be January the 13th. The deadline for submission will be February the 28th, 2007. We are still working on the actual challenge and the award for first, second and third place winners. We will post all of the details and rules on the 13th. January 13th will also bring Ayoub and my first meeting to begin forming a structured business plan for Creative Writer. The goal is to bring Creative Writer into Non Profit status. We will meet for two hours to outline our goals and steps we will take. This will be a monthly meeting until the business plan is complete, then the meetings will move to quarterly. Have a great week writing, everyone! Bethanna
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Trying to pull CW work time to an hour and a half a day due to need to write for income. Start time 8:00 am Posted Creative Writer Premise Match |
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