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Be Generous
Here we are, in a new year and full of hope and resolutions! And here I am with another newsletter. I've written one before on kindness. We could all use a little more kindness right now, don't you think so?
Now I'm asking you to be generous. If you're hosting a contest, I don't mean prizes. While prizes are nice and help members gain gift points to renew their membership, be generous with your reviews, comments, and with your advice. Help a newbie with formatting, help someone with passive voice by offering tutorial links so they can learn. A simple review is helpful with details, but help your fellow members become better writers.
If you're hosting an activity or participating in something...the most valuable thing you can offer is time. Be generous and encourage others. Be generous and friend a newbie. Be generous and help! And if someone helped you in the past, pay it forward.
The best way to get attention to your contest or activity is to get the word out. You can do so by networking with friends and other contest and group hosts. And don't forget to post your item in the appropriate contest or activity listing. I look forward to seeing all the activity and creativity this site produces each year.
Good luck and be generous! 
This month's question: How do you encourage fellow members besides reviewing? Send in your answer below!  Editors love feedback!
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Excerpt: Do you have big plans for yourself this year? Will you finally finish that story that's been haunting you for so long? Will you try your hand at a brand new genre? Do you want to read and review a certain number of items by April? Will you take that first step toward self-publishing your latest masterpiece? Set some goals and resolutions for the new year and you could win big prizes!
Excerpt: Authors on Writing.Com are looking for good, useful feedback... and of course, exposure within Writing.Com. You can do a good deed by reviewing any qualifying item* on Writing.Com and you might win! Enter as many times as you want to increase your odds of being selected as a prize winner!
Excerpt: This is a Rising Stars Contest to celebrate the Registered Authors* of WdC!
Excerpt: January, 2022 prompt---Use one of these situations in your story. You do not need to quote the prompts word-for-word in your story.
Excerpt: Write the first chapter of a book, inspired by the prompt.
There are no set rules on how many words are allowed in your chapter. If your first chapter is interesting and keeps the reader reading, word count won't be an issue. A wordy chapter that doesn't go anywhere, might need trimming. You won't be judged on word count but how you make your words count! Short or long, your first chapter is important. Set the tone, introduce your protagonist, set the scene, create a sense of what your main character is up against (conflict, obstacles, challenges.)
Excerpt: Your short story must have a plot (protagonist v antagonist) with some sort of speculative fiction element (Dark & Grim-dark Fantasy, SciFi or Horror) integrated into it, it must be based on one of the prompts and follow the 3-act structure i.e. have a beginning, middle and end. Vignette entries will not qualify.
Excerpt: Your Static Item needs to be a Short Story, 500 words or less, and must consist of only dialogue.
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Excerpt: Write a Poem welcoming Spring or Fall if you are in the Southern Hemisphere.
Excerpt: Prompt 1: A younger sibling reveals they're LGBT.
Prompt 2: With a new year starting, your character also decides to start something new.
Prompt 3: Envy
Excerpt: Nominate items written last year for the spring Quills ceremony, our version of the Oscars. Any active contests, groups, etc. can be nominated, but static items (poems/stories) must have been written in 2021.
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This month's question: How do you encourage fellow members besides reviewing? Send in your answer below! Editors love feedback!
Last month's "Contests & Activities Newsletter (December 22, 2021)" question: What will you do differently in 2022?
Sumojo  : I always look forward to the official WdC contests the most. I suppose mainly because of the prizes offered. The Contest Challenge I have found has forced me to write In genres previously not even considered. I Write 2021 has seemed to fall a bit by the wayside this year. It’s a big ask I suppose to enter a contest or activity every week of a whole year. Not many of the original starters reached the end.
I certainly appreciate the time and commitment from the members who run contests and activities and always feel sorry when the don’t attract much interest. Often though the judging and the winner announcement is delayed, often for many weeks, causing people become less interested in contests these days. I find them a way for me to keep writing on a regular basis, although by this time of the year I must confess feeling a little jaded.
Max Griffin 🏳️🌈  : We've changed the rules and added a more explicit prompt. Hope everyone enters!
bryanmchunter: If anything, try to keep my sanity since I know there are good things to look forward to; the return of Thomas Wooden Railway, Pac-Man Museum+, and the Jakks-Pacific action figures of Rouge the Bat and E-123 Omega, Shadow the Hedgehog's teammates from Sonic Heroes.
tybo777: Dunno, but I’ll keep on trucking.
ErinLynn  : In 2022, I will open my ears to hear the comforting whisper of the Word of God and my heart to feel His healing presence.
JCosmos  : resuming traveling
first to Chejudo never been to hike the famous ole round island trails
then to DC, Boston to explore New England - not spent too much time there
then to Oregon, side trip to Bay Area, maybe LA and Baja California
an in October perhaps hiking the Scottish highways trecking trails.
COVID and Fire Gods permitting of course.
0ofie  : My main goal is to work more on acquiring the opportunity to have my dream job. Writing. So I'll having to sit down and work on something everyday even if it's research on a specific time period or something.
It feels like that's what I'm truly meant to do.
elephantsealer  : I think I shall do better in 2022. I mean, I think I should write more...
s : Well, now that I've graduated from university again, I guess what I'll do differently is look for work as opposed to studying?
graybabe  : Trust in God more. This year I've been tormented by crushing doubts about my future and my family's welfare. I've prayed and prayed. So far we're doing ok. That's God working in our lives. Everything works out for the best, I pray.
Lynn Nichole : I have already begun making some much-needed lifestyle changes. I am getting organized in several areas, and I am preparing to write more and differently.
Happy to write : Seek help more often from people who are willing and able to help me become the person I want to be.
dragonwoman : Keep in touch with family and old friends more often.
MaxBwrites78 : I will work out more and write more.
darkscape: Finish this book!
anna banana : Keep my journal going and write more.
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