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Love Is In The Air
Valentine's Day and the season of love are just around the corner. Before you know it, all the hearts, flowers, and champagne will be in the st....wait...it's already in the stores.  Anyway, next month will bring all the love stories and contests to the site. Are you ready?
If you've thought about having an activity or contest for Valentine's, now is the time to prepare. Set up your forum and check your gift point stash and see what you can offer for prizes. If you need judges for the contest, start recruiting now. This way people can block in time on their schedule to give you a hand.
If you typically enter contests in the love genre, think about what you might write. Obviously, you won't know all the details until the contest starts, but think about a plot or characters to have on hand to get started. Perhaps you liked a minor character in one of your past stories and you'd like to give them a story of their own. Or you might want to outline a date-gone-wrong story and be prepared.
Give some thought to the language of romance. Write down some phrases you typically use in romance stories and try to come up with some fresh ideas. It's important to shy away from cliche and overused phrases. How many ways can a person propose? My uncle taped an engagement ring to the inside of a frisbee and tossed it to his girl. And she threw it back. So he threw it again. And she threw it back. I'll let you imagine the rest of the scene.
I'm suggesting you be prepared, the love fest is on its way. Enjoy, and Write On!
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Prompt for January 15 - 21: The non-dating web site hookup. It's common for people to find love in many different places. There are even some love stories from this site where people met online here before developing a romantic relationship. Write a story where someone finds love on a web site that isn't geared towards romance.
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This month's question: Do you have evergreen characters you like to drop into stories? Send in your answer below! Editors love feedback!
Last month's "Contests & Activities Newsletter (December 21, 2022)" question: Do you save incomplete work to use later?
oldgreywolf scribbles  : Yes. Marginally edited (and unedited) story drafts; unfinished stories; edited & polished, plus draft worldbuilding; notes 'n' ideas; and non-decipherable scribbles.
A writing journal, whether pen 'n' paper or verbalizing into your phone's memory (for you newer to the idea), is invaluable down the path(s) you tread.
And listen to someone who lived with their boots in the mud if you want a different perspective.
Spring in my Sox  : Unfortunately most of what I have saved are unfinished works.
Penelope Moonbeam  : I have many notebooks with bits and pieces of things I have heard and seen.
flash : Not really. I've been writing stories from start to finish.
Serena Blade  : yes i do. they are stories that are not completed for a reason. the bigger picture is in the making.
s : Yes.
Sometimes I don't know enough to continue, sometimes I made a wrong turn, sometimes the story has no end in sight. I have well over 500 incomplete pieces. My longest time between starting something and reusing it has been about 25 years.
My mantra has always been never throw anything away when it comes to writing. You bever know when it might come back to life. It is something I tell beginner writers when I am teaching or mentoring them. Never throw anything away - you never know when it could come in handy later.
Maddie Sunshine Stone : Yes. There are pieces that I have gone back to read that I can't remember it was me writing them. Some of them, I cringe and think - wow, look at how far I've come from then! Others, I think this is really good, I would buy this if I found it at a bookstore. It encourages me and inspires me to come back and finish it.
D. Reed Whittaker : Sure, working on an article now which has been sitting on the shelf just waiting for this moment. Waste not, want not.
Nostrum : Indeed.
Most of the time, I see them to rework those ideas into new stories. Perhaps they didn't work at first, at that story, but they somehow resurface in a later work, and checking it out helps me give it new life while solving something I might have in that new story. Very rarely I continue it, though, but that's because I prefer to see things to their conclusion. I feel bad about incomplete stories, for one.
~Lifelessons~ : I keep it for a while but if I keep seeing it and nothing moves me forward, it's out.
N.A Miller : Yes... If I think it's not going anywhere and yet it has potential for something else. I slap a "to be continued" on it or put it aside in my files to be used (all or pieces of) for something else.
tj ~ endeavors to persevere!  : I do save some incomplete works to use later. Do I use them later? Usually not, that's why they're incomplete.
Crystal Dragon : 100% :)
LJ Apollo : Yes you have to.
Ideas are not stories but are the beginning Of what could be, I love Steven approach, Sometimes you have to let the stories write themselves Or be Better prepared To connect our readers To the world we want to represent.
Starling : I have a file in my files on Google drive which has several papers of various lengths which can be used later. They are all incomplete works.
dlspiritwriter 🙏☯️😻 : Holy 🙄 cow 🐮! Yes so much I have written over past journal's then years online. Most of books 📚 all gone ( about 75 lost to the storms of life) online still gathering up shards of my words, from blogs, multiple Facebook accounts ( public and private!) Will be interesting 🤔 to see what's waiting 🙀😎🎶.
To fit in the slot's here!💜💗🕯️
lynn avalon : all of it. often, different bits from unfinished works get sewn together (along with new bits, of course) in order to create a finished piece
TheBusmanPoet : Yes I do.
THANKFUL SONALI 17 WDC YEARS!  : Yes!
Khola Mousethyme : If it wasn't for incomplete work, I would have nothing saved. _-_
keyisfake : Dido! I will never throw words I wrote away.
Osirantinous  : Yep, sure. I might pick up a piece I dropped a decade ago and carry on as if I've never stopped. And I pulled out of a contest recently but I'm actually still writing to it (not officially), because I wanted to see where the story ended.
Over all my writing life there's only ever been a handful of things I've really gotten rid of (and probably only a handful of things that I've ever actually finished. Ha ha.)
Bob : Incomplete files is the way I beat writer's block. I may have half dozen different stories working. When I get locked up on one, I just close it down and move to another and the juices begin flowing immediately.
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