Hey everyone! This is just a reminder that the deadline for the Timed Writing Challenges is tomorrow night! There's also a poll to vote in, featuring some nifty things to read that were posted last week.

And here is a silly little survey, because everyone likes clicky boxes to click. Click away!

Poll Reading and Writing, but no Rithmatic

This week, there were two entries on the ballot, and in both cases, the point spread among participants was very close.

First, there was our poetry exercise to write a Tanka, with submissions from myself, everywordiwrite, and lrig_rorrim. My attempt received one vote, everywordiwrite carried away three, and lrig_rorrim won the day with four. Her poem, Winter., was a beautiful tribute to this time ( Read more... )

Here in the U.S., Thanksgiving for this year has come and gone, and yet I'm still eating various types of pie. Go figure! *grin*

Poll PIE!

It's not as sweet as pie, but I'd still encourage you to cut out a piece of this week's Timed Writing Challenge for yourself. Only one person has submitted a work so far, so there's plenty to go around ( Read more... )

Unfortunately, because of a lack of submissions, I cannot provide you with a ballot to vote on this week. The What's In A Place for November 2, Writing Challenge for November 11, and Random Writing Challenge for November 12 sadly received no submissions.

The Poetry Exercise for November 5, and the Timed Writing Feature for November 9 each ( Read more... )

A quick reminder that you've got just a few hours left to vote in this week's AWOS poll. So, if you haven't voted yet, please go here and give all of our fantastic authors your support.

Dan

Yesterday, I flew out of town for a business trip, and encountered one of the most dreaded sounds a person can hear while traveling inside a vehicle, a baby crying ( Read more... )

My apologies! I did not intend to spam you all with yet another repost of our community's sticky post on your friends page. lrig_rorrim and I have created a joint ID we can both use when the links in the sticky post need to be edited, thereby eliminating any need to repost it again. I had hoped that back dating the entry to 2009, when AWOS was created, ( Read more... )

To paraphrase Holly from Red Dwarf, "There's a poll going on… It's still going on…" Of course, it won't go on forever. In fact, it ends tomorrow, so clicky that link, read some Timed Writing stuff, and vote, would ya? (And if you don't know what Red Dwarf is, you haven't been watching enough holographic television ( Read more... )

Just a quick reminder to everyone that tonight's the deadline to get a response in for this week's Random Writing Challenge, which you can find here!

We've also got our Main Writing Challenge for this week going on, and you can find it here! links to Submissions for that challenge can be posted through Saturday, but don't put it off for too ( Read more... )

Good Saturday morning to everyone. I meant to post this last night, but decided to sleep instead. *smile*

Unfortunately, there won't be a tie breaker challenge in AWOS this weekend. barrelofrain is suffering from something yucky, an upper respiratory infection, and is therefore unable to write at the moment. I'm certain that everyone here joins me in ( Read more... )