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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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Last month, I wrote an issue on cleaning up your portfolio at the end of the year. Now that you have room and can find your work, how about tossing in some new items? After the holidays, things will quiet down and we'll have time to enter some contests and participate in some activities. Now that your port is all organized and pretty, you'll know exactly where to put that shiny new story or poem when you enter a contest.
If you don't have something in mind, a prompt contest is a fun way to get started. Looking at prompt words or an inspiration picture can certainly get the imagination purring and the fingers in typing gear. As always, be sure to read the rules and instructions for the contest or activity, so your item will not get disqualified for a silly thing like listing your word count. And if you run out of time or go off on a story tangent and drift from the prompt, no matter, get it set up front and center in your portfolio and show it off for some reviews! It's a great way to get opinions on your "voice" and character development.
If you are requesting reviews, brush up on the "how to" here: "Review Requests" . Find your favorite reviewer from the public review page or a friend from your favorites and ask them to look over your work. Be sure to indicate if you want some particular part of the item reviewed, such as grammar, character, story arc, setting...etc. Spell check your work and be sure it is the best you can make it before asking for reviews. If you're not going to take the time to run a spell check, why should a review take the time to read it?
And a last note for this last issue for the year....I'm wishing you all a new year filled with inspiration and creativity. Write on!
This month's question: Where do you find members to review your work? Send in your answer below!  Editors love feedback!
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Excerpt: Once a month, we will post a prompt. There will be one prompt for both genres. Use the prompt to write either an erotic story OR a horror story.
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Excerpt: Any Short Story of any genre, Any Word Count (but I tend to fall asleep when it's too long)
EDIT all you want. Make it perfect before the first of the month---that's when I start reading and reviewing
Excerpt: Though inspiration as a poet truly comes from within, nature can act as a means to enhance imagination and devices used in our poetry. I believe that nature possesses a unique and grandest beauty that only poets can perfectly describe. And I want you dear poets to bring forth your NATURE POETRY to prove this.
Verdant Poetry Contest is espcially created to bring out the best nature poetry you guys could possibly create. And of course, delightful prizes await.
Excerpt: Winter. I hate it and I don't even get snow where I am! So the challenge for this round of A Romance Contest is to convince me that winter can be romantic, that love can not only blossom but strengthen and last through this season.
Excerpt: Writer's block got you down? Need to stretch your fingers and your muse with a short story or poem, using a prompt offered by other members? Check out The Cramp - where daily winners receive 10,000 GPs!
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Excerpt: This auction is to help raise 1 million gps for the Paper Doll Gang
Excerpt: Welcome to “Crack Kraken’s Code”! For each round, I will disguise a quote—which could have been sung, spoken, or scrawled—and your task is to be one of the first five people to decipher it.
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This month's question: Where do you find members to review your work?
Last month's question: How do you handle portfolio housekeeping?
Angels in my Ear  replied: There seem to be more and more new contests every day. The contest list stings are continually changing and it gets harder to make sure your contest is visible to writers and attracting the right genre. So, to solve that problem we have created a contests listing by genre and type where writers can quickly and easily find the best contests for them.
Make sure we have your contest listed. We can also help hosts with funding, judging. Come take a look.
Odessa Molinari answered: I do housekeeping at least once a week. New contest entries remain in the main port until they are judged and then they are filed away. At least once a month I go through one or two folders and get rid of the dross. If you leave it all to one mammoth session it can be overwhelming. If you have a lot of stuff in the same genre, put it together in a book to free up space.
BIG BAD WOLF is hopping  said: I use folders.
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