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Is it true that everything I post on FW is considered “published”? Yes. Anything that appears on a public site, whether that be a blog, a public message board, the FaithWriters site, or something else, is considered published, in the strictest sense of the word. Many publishers will not care if the...

The word count for the weekly challenge is from 150-750 words. Your article will be removed from the challenge if it does not fall within those guidelines. As long as you do a word count through a program like MS Word, it will be OK. A SLIGHT cushion is given on the word count, but it is only to all...

Go to Profile at the top of the page, and type in whatever you want to have in your signature. You can add links, just follow the directions in the thread here about links.

If you want to get feedback on your stories on FW, go to the actual article (from your profile, manage articles, or the Writiging Challenge areas)

Then you can insert a link in your post, as described here:
http://www.faithwriters.com/Boards/phpB ... php?t=3701

Go to the post you would like to quote and hit the “quote” button in the top right corner of the post. It will open a new post window with the quoted words. You may edit the quote, but be sure not to take away the coding. You can also quote manually by typing: [quote]the text you want to quote[/quot...

Yes. You can use Photo Bucket or another hosting place, and then paste the url in your post with [ (minus the spaces in the coding). Please follow the same rules listed under “custom avatars”. For example, if I wanted to post a copy of a picture in a post: I would go to my photo bucket, copy/paste t...

There are a couple basic ways to get an Avatar on each of your posts. FW supplies some that you can select from. Go to your User Control Panel (at the top of the forum). When that opens, click on the PROFILE tab. From that page, select the EDIT AVATAR option from the menu on the left. You can then e...

You may post the links by pasting the url in your post like this: [url]http://www.faithwriters.com[/url] http://www.faithwriters.com Or you may have the link show up as text by typing: [url=www.faithwriters.com]FaithWriters[/url] FaithWriters Or if you simply type the link www.faithwriters.com , it ...

It's just a fun thing FW gave us to help keep track of our number of posts. For each 50 to 100 posts, the pencil grows one hole. At 500 posts the pencil turns orange and stops growing. Moderators have green or black pencils. You may hear us joke about “pencil envy”. ;) And Deb (breathfreshair) has a...

There are two systems of Private Messages (PMs) on FaithWriters. On the regular FW site, you must pay a small fee to access your PMs. You may send PMs for free and do not need to be a FW member to send them. Subscription to the PM service comes free with Gold and Platinum memberships. More informati...

There are two different sets of codes for doing formating: Challenges and Article Submissions: To use italics , bold , center and underlined text: <i> italics </i> <b> bold </b> <center> CENTER </center> <u> underline </u> Note: If using formatting for Challenge entries, please keep it to the most b...