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Community writing features

Learn more about what you can do within a community.

Written by Akilah

Within your community, you can share writing and participate in community writing activities. You can post writing prompts, play the back-and-forth writing game "exquisite corpse" with other members, and share writing for community feedback.

In this article:

  • Share writing in a community

  • Post writing prompts

  • Play exquisite corpse

Share writing in a community

All members can post their writing to the community and get feedback from others.

1. Click "Write Something" from your Community Home.
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​2. Select Write Something New.

An editor will open, similar to what would be shown in a class.

3. Write directly into the editor (or copy and paste from a document). You will be able to preview, save draft and post your work.

4. Once posted, writing will be shown under the "Stories" tab.

Post writing prompts

Anyone can post a writing prompt to the community. However, if you are an admin member of your team, you can also schedule prompts to go out on a weekly basis.
To do this:

1. Click "Write Something" from your Community Home.
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​2. Select Post Writing Prompt.

3. Add a title and description for your prompt.

4. Click Post Prompt.
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Exquisite Corpse

Exquisite Corpse is a collaborative writing activity that is played between two people. Each player takes a turn writing something and then passes to the next player who extends the writing.

To start an exquisite corpse:

1. From your community home, click Write Something.

2. Select Start an Exquisite Corpse.

3. Give your exquisite corpse a title and write the initial starting point for the story. Then click Start Exquisite Corpse. The person who starts, will wait for a second player to join in.

4. All stories can be found and joined from the "Exquisite Corpse" tab.

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