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The purpose of this newsletter is to highlight some of the current contests and activities on the site, help educate members on how to host contests and activities, and provide clues to submit quality entries to contests. Write to me if you'd like something in particular covered.
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I'll Tell You a Secret
Everyone likes to do a good deed once in a while, don't they? How about money...does everyone like money...real money? Or a pile of gift points? A pile big enough to roll around in and toss in the air? Do you love Writing.com?
If you answered yes to all those questions, I'll tell you a secret. You can do that right here on our site. And have fun earning that cash! Oh, don't go doubting me. I know you're looking at your monitor and shaking your head. But you can do this, in a simple way. Just find some interesting stories to read and give them a thorough review. And when submitting that public 250 character count review, click the Good Deeds button at the bottom.
What? You don't believe me? It's true! Check out this link and get the details: "Good Deeds Get CASH!" What a great way to help your community, spread some happy around the site and put yourself in the running for a chunk of money. On top of that, reviewing can make you a better author and editor of your own work. You get practice spotting not only spelling and grammar issues, but things like passive writing and plot holes.
So Write On and Review On!
This month's question: How has reviewing helped your editing? Send in your answer below!  Editors love feedback!
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Excerpt: Spring time; A time for renewal, an awakening, a cleansing.
Whether your characters are discovering each other for the first time, or renewing an established love, their emotions are a big part of what makes a relationship. Show me those emotions.
What brings a couple together? A song that resonates with them? Or is it a conflict they resolve together? Maybe it’s a cause they both feel strongly about. Something drives people toward each other, and something drives people apart. What drives your couple? Show me their wants, needs, and desires.
Both old and new love are filled with conflict and fumbling, mistakes and over reactions. How does your couple handle these issues?
Let the couple’s emotions soar, or fall from the sky to crash to burn.
It’s springtime, and anything can happen.
Excerpt: So far we 've seen poems take trek where it's never gone before. Kirk in an asylum and then romancing his ship, trek characters comment on a romulan movie, a Star Trek Quatrain, a Poetry slam, trek limericks, an acrsotic and even the Borg show up! Generations for trek characters meet in time rift and Spock meets himself! No Bones about it!
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Excerpt: Journey to the lands of fanfiction - where you will find the endless stretch of alternative universes of already established worlds existing in peaceful harmony: where Watson takes over the role of Sherlock's nemesis; where Elsa is tempted to use her powers for evil purposes; where Mal and Wash share a bunk on the Serenity; where Malfoy is much less of a bratty snob.
Ever wanted to see more of your favourite characters or add more to well-known locations and settings? Then you're in the right place.
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Excerpt: This contest is to promote diversity within your portfolio! Every month there will be a new prompt for a different genre. You can either follow the prompt or write a short for a new genre that you don't have in your portfolio. If you already have the prompt genre for the month in your portfolio you may still enter with the prompt but try a genre you don't have.
Excerpt: RULES: 1. TYPE OF ENTRY: POETRY THAT RHYMES THIS MONTH -- OLD OR NEW.
2. ONE ENTRY PER PERSON - RATING UP TO 13+ 3. POST YOUR ENTRY IN BITEM FORMAT IF POSSIBLE
4.. ORIGINALITY COUNTS! 5. IT'S A NO PROMPT:CONTEST -
6. ITEM CAN NOT HAVE WON AN AWARDICON PRIOR TO POSTING. (DOES NOT INCLUDE A GIFTED AWARDICON).
7. ENJOY - AND ENTER!
Excerpt: The premise is simple; write a short story or poem based on one or more of the seven deadly sins listed below.
This is a competition to let loose all the pent up political incorrectness, let your bad side shine, let the devil on your left shoulder hold sway.
Excerpt: Hands up if you loathe cliche!
I thought so. Well, if you like to mock it, you've come to the right place! Every couple weeks or so, I'll post a cliche, overused or just plain amusing quote. With each one, I'll leave a spot blank. This is where you put in your own word or phrase to breathe some new life into these sayings.
Excerpt:  To the authors: The purpose of "Request Reviews" is to match those Writing.Com authors who are looking for serious critiques with those Writing.Com members looking to give them. Items should only be posted here if the author is looking for honest and helpful reviews.
 To the reviewers: Please be as helpful and honest as possible. Authors posting here want your truthful opinion of their work because they know constructive criticism helps them improve. They want your opinion... good, bad or both!
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This month's question: How has reviewing helped your editing?
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