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Location: Inside the Writer's Digest office | In 2010, Writer's Digest will turn 90. To celebrate, we'll be counting down to our nonagenarian years with a look back at WD history in the magazine and on the website. Now we'd like for you to share this celebration with us.
Post a picture of yourself with your oldest issue of WD (Even if it's a recent one, we want to see it!). At the end of the year, one participant will be randomly chosen to win a copy of Legends of Literature: The Best Articles, Interviews and Essays from the Archives of Writer’s Digest Magazine.
For more on the WD History, visit:
http://www.writersdigest.com/article/90-years-literary-heroes
To learn how to post a photo on the forum, visit:
http://forum.writersdigest.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=14524&posts=1&start=1
Your WD friend,
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Location: Inside the Writer's Digest office | ps-I'll be posting my photo in the next few days. |
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Location: Hm... not sure. People say I'm a lot like Dory. | 90? Seriously? I'm about, oh, 74 years behind.  |
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Location: Under the stairs. | Brian - 2009-02-11 3:59 PM ps-I'll be posting my photo in the next few days. So where's the photo?
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Location: Inside the Writer's Digest office | Here is me, in my messy cube, with a picture of the first issue I ever worked on: February 2004.
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Here we are with the three oldest bound volumes from the archives, doing our best to look thoughtful about WD. We considered posing in cheerleading pyramid formation, but couldn't figure out how to do that and hold the archives at the same time.
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Location: Inside the Writer's Digest office | I think I was so scared of the pages blowing away in the wind that I missed the memo to look pensive. Redo (in proper pyramid formation)! |
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Location: Land of the Jack Rabbit's | The three musketeers! You guys are cute! Let's see, we have, Athos, Porthos, and the big question in Slumdog Millionaire was this: What was the name of the third musketeer? Anybody?
Anyway, thanks for sharing. It's always nice to put faces to names.
If I can capture a decent photo I'll send one in!
Cheers,
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| JStraws - 2009-02-26 10:45 AM
Here we are with the three oldest bound volumes from the archives, doing our best to look thoughtful about WD. We considered posing in cheerleading pyramid formation, but couldn't figure out how to do that and hold the archives at the same time.
Hi Jessica, Zac and Brian, I don't have a photo, but I do have a Writer's Digest dated April 2003 -- my first copy. When browsing the magazine section at my local supermarket for children's magazines (I had just completed two writing for children courses), I happened to meet up with another wannabe writer. She told me she was searching for a copy of WD -- that it was the best magazine on the market for writers. Of course I bought one, too. I liked it so well that, for my birthday the following December, my husband bought me a year's subscription. I have been receiving WD ever since (he's still payin'), and have saved every copy. Congrats on your 90th birthday, WD! Joan |
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Location: WD Headquarters | What a great story, Joan! Thanks for sharing. (Incidentally, I just peeked at my own April 2003 WD and saw that I profiled the author of "Born on a Rotten Day" for my First Success column in that issue--I always thought that was a great name for an astrology book.) |
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| JStraws - 2009-02-27 7:57 AM What a great story, Joan! Thanks for sharing. (Incidentally, I just peeked at my own April 2003 WD and saw that I profiled the author of "Born on a Rotten Day" for my First Success column in that issue--I always thought that was a great name for an astrology book.) Thanks, Jessica. It took a minute for me to find the profile you were referring to (Strawser, I guess, is your married name). I enjoyed reading the article again. If Hazel Dixon Cooper was "Born on a Rotten Day" (yes, a terrific name for a book about astrology), I guess it was "written in the stars" that she would become a writer. Joan |
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| The third muskateer was Aramis whose full name was René d'Aramis de Vannes. I thought everyone knew that. =-)
kaymoon - 2009-02-26 6:51 PM
The three musketeers! You guys are cute! Let's see, we have, Athos, Porthos, and the big question in Slumdog Millionaire was this: What was the name of the third musketeer? Anybody?
Anyway, thanks for sharing. It's always nice to put faces to names.
If I can capture a decent photo I'll send one in!
Cheers,
Dorraine
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I am pictured here with my oldest Writer's Digest from December 1996!
I found it in my old writing notebook  Pretty fantastic cover!
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Location: Inside the Writer's Digest office | Nice! I'm always surprised when you go decade by decade through the archives--the magazine's constant evolution is pretty intriguing. |
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Location: Southwest Virginia | I have a serious question - how did those of you come up with an issue that hasn't been used to bits? I've got to look through mine to find the oldest, (I think it's from '96, or somewhere there-abouts), but I'm sure it's got to be bended, marked up...USED! How'd ya'll do that?! |
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Location: Inside the Writer's Digest office | Hey WD moderators, leave these spams. I have our IT group looking into it.
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Location: WD Headquarters | Thanks for being the first reader to post, daydreamer--and we've been honored to have you with us for a whopping 13 years! |
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| Okay, I can't get an image to load from photobucket. Any tips.
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Location: Visiting with the people in my head! | "Okay, I can't get an image to load from photobucket. Any tips." James, You need [ then img= at the beginning, then the file location (ie:http://blablabla.com/bla/bla.jpg), then ] at the end. You can find the file location by clicking "share" above your photo in photobucket...clicking on "Get link code"...and copying the "Direct link for layout pages" code.
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Location: Visiting with the people in my head! | If anyone is having trouble posting a picture, check out Brian's thread in the FAQS forum titled "Adding a graphic image to your signature line".
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| Here is me with a few of my Writers Digest magazines the one up front is dated February 1962 for 35 cents
the other 3 are Writers Digest Yearbooks 1960,1961 & 1962
Joe
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Location: Visiting with the people in my head! | Condor, I thought I would help you out with your picture (I hope you don't mind):  |
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Location: Visiting with the people in my head! | BTW Condor,
That's a cool Writer's Digest from 1962! |
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Location: Somewhere Over the Rainbow... | James, have you reduced the size of the image? If they are too big, they won't upload. |
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