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In the past year, The Talent Pond has had the pleasure of “catching” a tremendous amount of talent in our nets. When we began our fishing expedition a year ago, it was easy to catch and review all our wonderful freshly caught authors. As time went on and Talent Pond grew to the enormous size it is today, with all our responsibilities, it became much harder. In the past few months, we've been trying to decide where our group should go. We decided to try and get back to our humble beginnings which was all about highlighted authors and getting them quality feedback.
"Catch" the Spirit highlighted past catches when it was opened and gave over 200K out in review recognitions and prizes. It was such a success, we decided to make it a monthly event to get our catches some wonderful reviews!
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The Challenge
We challenge you to review the author’s listed and we will reward you for your efforts. Please read through the rules because we cannot be responsible for any reviews given and not rewarded that do not follow the rules. This is meant to bring positive, helpful reviews to our catches over the course of the month.
The Rules
This is a
quality reviewing event -
NOT quantity.
Reviews must be on a
written item from one of the authors listed for the week you are reviewing. By written work I mean stories, books, poems... get the picture? Yeah, no pictures!
Feel free to rate and review your heart out on images, folders etc. but they don't count.
Your review must be public containing 250 characters or more.
Your review must contain the image listed below:
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Which is {image:1468451} or (if you are not an upgraded member) you must include the following:
{b}{size:4}{c:red}I’M BEING REWARDED BY THE TALENT POND FOR REVIEWING!{/b}
Click the item below to find out how you can too. {e:smile}{/C}{/SIZE}
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If you copy and paste the above, it will show as:
I’M BEING REWARDED BY THE TALENT POND FOR REVIEWING!
Click the item below to find out how you can too!
This event runs all month - every month - unless otherwise noted in the forum.
You must post in the forum after you have completed your reviews. All you need to post is the author's name you have completed reviews on and how many reviews you've completed. We will check your public review listing, read your reviews and credit them from there. Your public review must be set to "Yes, Display Publically" so we can see them when we visit your port.
Your reviews must be polite. This seems like an obvious rule but we will not count nor reward reviews that are rude to the author.
The Rewards
Reviews will be rewarded with (at least) 25 GP's through the public reviewing system. You are encouraged to review more items for each highlighted author than just what is posted. Any reviews (for qualifying items) will be rewarded.
Additional prizes may be awarded to recognize special achievements by our reviewers each month. These may include:
Gift Certificates, GP's, Merit Badges for consistant quality reviews
Remember, this is a
quality reviewing event -
NOT quantity.
The Authors
They are separated into two categories:
Prize Catches
(Family rated material rated E-13+)
and
Murky Waters
(Horror, Erotica, any 18+ rated material)
Keep in mind this does not mean everything in the author’s port falls under that category. They are separated simply so that way you can review the type of writing you are most comfortable with.
Here are your authors for:
We're on hiatus here while we're running our Seasonal Events. Catch the Spirit will be on hold to allow our members and staff time to fully participate in our writing and reviewing challenges.
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