I've Joined the Club in Trying to Get all My Writing from a Site
By Marsha
@MarshaMusselman (38865)
Midland, Michigan
August 21, 2016 9:18am CST
I've been spending most of this month working on getting items off a site. For the site I'm working on they aren't closing and probably never will or at least until the owners die and maybe they'll have something else in place by then. but I'm changing my membership status instead.
This is a site where we don't get paid to use it and make any money that gets sent to an account to use personally. You do get paid it's just in gift points to use on the site itself. The site is a great place to improve your writing skills and help others do the same. It's also a place to store what you've written without worrying about the site crashing, or your computer crashing, or someone hacking into the accounts there.
They charge for memberships which means that they store your writings there if you're willing to pay for that service. With each level of membership comes the ability to store more things. I downgraded my membership either last year or the year before, but I paid for it with cash rather than my gift points. I used to have millions of gift points stored there, but with my getting involved in bubblews, hubpages and now mylot, I don't spend any time there anymore at all, so instead of paying more for continuing my membership, I'm downsizing my portfolio from 250 items to 50 which I did have enough gift points for.
I've been a member there since 2007 and kept my membership mostly for the contacts in the event that my husband ever got his book published I could advertise it there freely.
This image was done by a member there, SaraJean @writing.com I paid points for her to come up with images for me and I gave her the words to put on the images based on the pictures. I then tried to make more gift points by having them in a shop. She graciously is allowing me to display these if I give her credit for them.
I may share about this place more as I share each image.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
21 Aug 16
I've looked for a long time for ways to produce those myself. I probably have the program already, but never took the necessary time to learn to use it properly.
You're becoming incognito even for me that already knows who you are. I had to think a bit, but got it shortly thereafter. As time goes by I may not be as quick to remember.
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@responsiveme (22923)
• India
21 Aug 16
@MarshaMusselman I would not like not to be remembered :) but then I went incognito.
I guess if we sit and work out by trial and error we get to learn ...that as you say takes time.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
22 Aug 16
lovely artistry :) i've ne'er heard 'f this place, though 'tis somethin' i'd not venture to. sounds a tad complicated fer this ol' country gal. i dunno how folks tend to so many places?? i've 'nough trouble jest keepin' 'p here 'n dribblin' somethin' o'er 't my blog 'bout once a month.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
22 Aug 16
When I joined back in 2007 that was the only place where I did anything online. It was years later in 2013 that I first found hubpages and then bubblews and now of course mylot with a few other places in between. Once I began writing at bubblews, wdc took the back burner. I've barely visited there at all any year since as I'm too busy elsewhere to manage more than one at a time.
Made some great friends, several of which will stay with me the rest of time. I first met Valerie there, and a gal that was on bubblews called whome that DE/robb knew there and a few others.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
22 Aug 16
It wasn't set up to pay people for their writing, it was set up to help people improve their craft and for the community there. It's given people a start and helped writers that write novels be able to produce their work to publication. That was the intent of that site all along.
I'm just saying that if some want more help with their writing to work toward better English, or would like a place to store what they've written without worrying about computer crashes or other cloud service crashes, they could check it out.
I'm not active there any longer because it served the purpose for me to get me started until other sites did begin to pay.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
21 Aug 16
That was the first place I joined and it was back in 2007 long before any of the other writing sites were around, or at least before I ever heard of any of them. It's not a place to make money by displaying your writing there like we do here at mylot. It is a good place to store things that you don't want to lose though.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
21 Aug 16
That's a great image. So you are still keeping your membership there then? It truly is a great site to get feedback on your work. It was the feedback that led me to the final revision I did for Scarred that ultimately led to being published in 2012. I always used my gift points to pay my membership and upgrade it as well. I gave my points to someone when I canceled my membership due to my involvement in Bubblews. Scarred is now in second edition.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
21 Aug 16
I'm keeping it mostly until I have or make the time to get everything off the site. It is a great place to keep ones works from prying eyes and without fear of the place shutting down or your work getting lost if your computer crashes completely. I'm downgrading from an upgraded membership to just the basic. Then I may opt for the free one which is only ten items.
I'm not sure whether I'm ready to break away completely just yet or not, so now I have another year to make that decision. If I could ever afford the upgraded again to pay each year with my funds, I would store everything of importance there to keep them safe. But for now I don't have the finances to support that each year.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
24 Aug 16
Yes, but I was only active for seven years there. Since then, I've done barely anything. It's the place where I really got my start writing and since it's not closed its doors nor changed in any way it's hard for me to let it go completely. Besides which that's a lot more work to get everything removed.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
24 Aug 16
@CRK109 On the contraire, the site is more active than possibly here. It's me that isn't active there any longer. A husband/wife team run it and they continue strong even through the illness of a child, although they do have lots of help from long-term members.
If I hadn't discovered all the best writing sites I'd have stayed there easily.
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@CRK109 (14556)
• United States
26 Aug 16
@MarshaMusselman wow that's great! Sounds like they're very dedicated to keeping the site going.
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@DaddyEvil (174749)
• United States
22 Aug 16
Hmmm... well, that's interesting, Marsha.
I honestly have no idea what site you are referring to, but I have a question or two, if you don't mind?
Is there a reason you should store whatever you've written there instead of just keeping what you've written on a flash drive or something similar? I mean, is there some advantage to storing your articles on that site instead?
I may have misunderstood something, but it sounds like you are paying them to store your stuff when you could be storing it yourself for free.... Unless that site allows other people to read the articles you have stored there?
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