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Here It Is!
Yep...the end of the year and as usual, my end-of-year advice! I know, you're excited!
We had a lot of challenges this year, staying safe and healthy, along with some of us dealing with new routines and adventures. I have a few friends who put writing on the back burner because they had to focus on homeschooling their children. Other friends have had extra time to write and participate because they're not spending time commuting to their workplace.
As a member of this community, an enjoyable part of my life is participating in contests and activities on WDC. Stepping away from the everyday challenges I deal with and diving into my imagination to write helps keep my stress level down and relax. I also enjoyed hosting activities and contests in the past. Some were very popular and some not so much.
My end-of-year challenge is this, think about what worked and didn't work when you hosted contests or activities. What would you do differently? What got your interest and participation in a contest or activity? What parts of the community did you find most helpful and enjoyable? This is your site, your community, respond to this newsletter and tell us what part of WDC you love the most.
As always, Enter On, Host On and Write On!
This month's question: What will you do differently in 2022? Send in your answer below!  Editors love feedback!
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This month's question: What will you do differently in 2022? Send in your answer below! Editors love feedback!
Last month's "Contests & Activities Newsletter (November 24, 2021)" question: What do you do with your clunkers?
Detective  : When it comes to clunkers, whether I've completed them or not, I set them aside for a while and come back to them later. I also ask my best friend (whose thankfully also a writer) to read it and give me feedback.
GaelicQueen  : I write my short stories and novellas offline and when I get stuck or out of time, they get moved to a WIP folder that only I see for later reconsideration and revision. I save copies to external hard drive and flash drives.
WriterAngel  : When I saw the title "Clunkers", I was sure that one of my stories was going to make the recommended reading list. 
You're recommendations are great. I've absolutely saved chunks of stories that I didn't have time to finish for the contest I inteded them for, only to tweak the text and use it for something else later. You're absolutely right that it's best not to waste anything you've written by deleting it. Sometimes adapting it to a new prompt can be exactly what it needs to bring it to life.
dogpack:saving 4 premium: DWG  : Everything I write is treasured because within there are gems and other wonderful valuables. Writing the very worst story imaginable still can have awesome treasure among the debris. Ideas are precious, characters can be very interesting even when they are dull, or clumsy. Scenes can be given CPR by using the scenes to explain the terrane. A narrative can be given life by using words that show energy and excitement about the information shared in the story. He was sad, is telling. His mouth drooped and shoulders slumped, as he dragged himself from one place to the other, is showing. I put myself into the story so I can imagine and show the events.
LorenIsOneOfMyNames : Salvage the idea, stick it in the pile.
tybo777: ........WHAT? what a clunker??????
Ray Scrivener : Save them! After time goes by, you come back to give those ugly ducklings a face-lift. Works like a charm :)
s : I've written around 1600 pieces to completion. I've submitted around 250 of them (not all wee accepted, of course). Some are just waiting for the right market to open and others...
Others won't be seen until I die and my kids go through my stuff. I also have around 500 pieces that are in a box marked "Unfinished" because the idea petered out or it felt like a clunker before getting to the end.
Clunkers are a fact of life for writers. We just have to live with them... But nothing is wasted. Ideas can always be re-used, characters can be brought back... So nothing is discarded, all good.
LinnAnn -book writer  : We call clunkers old cars that don't run anymore.
~SilverMoon~ : Or lemons.
elephantsealer : "Clunkers" did you say? They remain in the clunkers world, unwritten and uninspired...
TheBusmanPoet : What's a clunker besides a junked car? I don't consider any of my writings a clunker. Others may but I don't let that bother me.
Anna Marie Carlson : I would try to unclunk the unclunker, learn from the clunker, and turn it into something creative and fun.
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