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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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Wing It!
Many years ago, when I first joined WDC, I would read some of the contest prompts and maybe even start writing a story for that prompt. I would see activities and think they looked fun, but didn't enter. Hey! I'm shy! Even in the virtual world. Okay, maybe not terribly shy but I was nervous about showing my writing to other people. For the exact reason I joined this site, to become a better writer, held me back from sharing.
I put a few things in my portfolio and behold, the lovely members of this community read my work and reviewed what I put forth. I felt so encouraged. I felt even more encouraged when I was given Preferred status. How nice! I felt a sense of community and positivity from the beginning on. Quite a few years later, this is still my home. And the people here are awesome.
Why am I getting all nostalgic? I want to remind all of you how you felt at the beginning, and perhaps take a moment and pay it forward. Send a review, enter a contest, say hello in the Messenger. While they don't seem like much to you, to someone just joining, or even someone feeling lonely in these days of isolation, it means a lot. Start or join an activity and encourage others. Review a newbie. Or hey, respond so a newsletter question 
One more word of encouragement - if you talk about your writing with your family, friends, or the people on your zoom meetings...invite them to join our community. If you haven't visited our Linking to Writing.com page, give it a peek. You might help a budding writer find a home!
This month's question: Do you promote your portfolio outside WDC? How? Send in your answer below!  Editors love feedback!
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If you want to improve your writing, over-come writer's block or just want the practice, this exercise will help you:
1. Work on characterisation (what your protagonist's personality is like, i.e. what sort of person they are).
2. Practice writing from a definite point of view.
3. Practice “showing” the action rather than “telling” readers what is going on.
4. Get your writing brain fired up again
This is not a contest, merely an activity to enjoy.
Come get lightly confuzzled with me.
The task is simple: Write a short story using the photograph prompt as inspiration!
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MARCH PROMPT/THEME: Open prompt but must be about pets, not wild animals (even if they are kept as pets). Farm animals are okay if they are treated as pets.  Short Stories only this round
Spring Edition! On the blue-green world of Earth, Spring threatens, at last, to be sprung upon the northern hemisphere! In this and similar worlds, life stirs from the slumber encouraged by its axial tilt. What new opportunities - or threats - come with the dawning of Spring?
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