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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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Simple Pleasures of Summer
When the weather is nice, many of us would rather be outside enjoying the fresh air and sounds of nature. So it seems computer time becomes limited to social media, answering email or whatever could be accomplished on a cell phone or tablet. But the writing bug is still there...isn't it? Itching and whining like a mosquito, telling you there is something to write and you should find the time to do it.
When you do find time to sit at the computer or open your laptop - like a rainy day or a quiet night, take the time to peruse our contest and activity listings. There are still hosts out there waiting for members to visit their forums and participate. Wouldn't this be a great time to try a new genre, or sketch some flash fiction? Or maybe there is a fun scene you'd like to portray or a character in the back of your mind, just begging to come out and play... Don't leave those contests and activities lingering, stop in and donate, participate, or enter!
Or check out some of the fun interactive stories on the site and add a chapter. Interactives are fun in that you only need to add a quality chapter, you don't have to commit to the whole story, or participate on a certain turn. Even if the topic of the interactive might seem a little off the wall, try stretching your imagination and adding your own twist to the story.
If you're not up to that, perhaps you could take a few moments and help the members currently running contests and activities. Help them tune up their page in preparation for busier times and new rounds. Your suggestions could help them become a top performing contest or a popular activity. So, I'm posting a review challenge below, it's pretty simple and you have until July 14th to email me. Three reviews in a month? Seems easy to me.
This month's question: Do you write while on vacation? Send in your answer below!  Editors love feedback!
Leger's Newsletter Challenge
Review three current contests or activities - 300 characters or more and public reviews. Site contests do not qualify. These reviews should have detailed, helpful comments. Then email the review links to me and I will award you a Teamwork merit badge. Since most contests or activities are hosted in Message Forums, these reviews will not qualify for "Good Deeds Get CASH!" , so this is a way to be rewarded for your quality reviews. |
The current prompt is Summer Romance.
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Excerpt: Creativity needs room, but also needs to be challenged to fully blossom. Therefore, this contest requires that you post TWO entries in a month. One should be based on a prompt that I will set, the other topic is totally your choice. Only short stories and poems allowed.
Excerpt: This is a weekly fiction writing contest. Every week will feature a different mythical creature.
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Excerpt: This weekly contest will select the best Science fiction or Fantasy flash fiction stories as winners. Entrants will be competing for a Science Fiction or Fantasy MB. Do you have what it takes?
Excerpt: This is a place to share some of your thoughts, goals and dreams. A place to sit back, read and know we are not going through this "stage" of our life alone!
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Excerpt: I want weird stories, tons of twists, ludicrous plot lines, general oddities and absurdity wherever possible. I revel in the insane, the inane, the incontinent…Wait, got carried away, just the first two. If you think your fiction is frivolous or your short story superfluous, this could be the contest for you.
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Excerpt: Would you like an upgraded membership, but do not have the funds to get it? Well this is the contest for you! Get your running shoes on, check out the rules and get started! You may end up the winner of a beautiful upgraded membership, built to last for six months!
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Excerpt: From 17th June to 31st August 2013
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Excerpt: A minute later, José woke up, feeling groggy, and realized that the meteor was no longer glowing. He decided to leave it alone, since he now heard police sirens approaching from a distance. So he turned around and ran back to his dorm, when he got to his room and went back to sleep, not realizing that he had yet to experience the full effects of having touched the strange, alien meteor.
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This month's question: Do you write while on vacation?
Send in your answer below! Editors love feedback!
Last month's question: How do you stay motivated??
Kay Anderson  replied: It might be strange, but I get motivated by daydreaming. Sometimes while riding in a car with my family, my mind drifts and I just think of the characters. I get zoned into what is like a movie strip playing in my mind and I see the characters interacting, talking, etc. I either get motivated by this, or I act out the characters and find what should be next through my acting. I know it's weird, but it helps me.
~ Aqua ~  answered: I motivate my self to write, joining contests at first forcefully  but then gradually I get use to writing and I enjoy it too! One activity I join every summer is "I Write in June-July-August " so that my free time is not wasted in summer and I am also thinking about joining "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" this summer  Ofcourse, the prizes in the end are a treat too 
Elisa the Bunny Stik  says: Believe it or not, crazy deadlines are the number one way for me to stay motivated. This is especially true when I start writing pieces that are in the novelette-novella territory (which I'm finding is my writing happy place). I find it much easier to write 20,000+ words if I have only a month and a half to get it done rather than twice that amount of time. Of course, if you'd asked me this question 5-10 years ago, I'd have answered with seeing how many people are incensed or just don't get the stories I write. My, how things change as I get older.
BIG BAD WOLF is hopping  admits: Simple, Scotty keeps pressing the Hiperdrive button on my Imagination console, launching me past Warp 1000!
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