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'''[[Writing.com]]''' is a [[Archive Binge|massive]] website dedicated to providing a encouraging environment for aspiring writers and hosts everything from short stories, to poetry, to interactive fiction. Needless to say, it is one of the best places on the web to find something to read, or if you feel up to it, someplace to write.
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* [[Author Existence Failure]]: If this somehow happens, the author's portfolio is turned white with a 'picture' of a feather in honor of their memory.
* [[Doorstopper]]: Many interactive stories goes on for ''hundreds or thousands'' of chapters in less than a few months, some other stories aren't so lucky...
* [[Bragging Rights Reward]]: Awards that cost huge amounts of gift points.
* [[Bribing Your Way to Victory]]: GP (Gift points, which are like currency.) are easy to gain by doing reviews, adding to certain stories, logging in daily and, of course, being given them as a gift. However, you'll
** Also noteworthy is the ten item limit for free users. Once you hit ten you can't add any more work until you delete or transfer your old stuff to someone else (at the cost of 1000 GP). Of course, people who pay for a membership get much more room for their items.
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: Gray portfolio icons for non-authors, black for authors, yellow for preferred authors, blue for moderators, purple for senior moderators, red for staff, and white for members who have passed away.
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* [[Shout-Out]]: Countless authors include these... sometimes way too many.
* [[Shameless Self Promotion]]: A lot of authors do this to their stories, causing a backlog of old stories popping out of nowhere.
** This is actively encourage to an extent by the website itself.
* [[Wall of Text]]: This happens a lot, but most authors (thankfully) know how to properly space out paragraphs.
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: A popular theme in the interactive stories section. The are dozens of these (maybe hundreds or even thousands) of varying quality. Some authors put a lot of effort into the story and establish a coherent universe while others put the reader into the role of a mindless zombie slaying action hero. There are also a ton of fanfiction interactives that center around zombie games like [[Left 4 Dead]] or [[Dead Rising]].
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