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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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Dance Like A Rockette!
The Rockettes are a precision dance company that performs at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. During the Christmas season, the Rockettes perform several times a day, seven days a week. The end of every show is closed with a routine of precision, eye-level high kicks in chorus line unison. Oh, to be that limber!
How do the Rockettes relate to contests and activities? I knew you'd ask. Being a dancer takes discipline and precision. Just like a theater performance, a contest or activity has to be well planned with perfect timing or will be booed off the stage and never become successful. It requires dedication and discipline, and if you want to be the star of the show, you have to be reliable and do your high-kicks even if you're not feeling up to it. This means creating solid rules, being available and courteous to your participants and making it fun for everyone.
It takes hard work and dedication. Even when someone wants to be a diva and not do their share, you have to be the director and get them to stick to their commitments. That might not make you the favorite person of the day, but the reward is the applause when the curtain closes. And if you run a successful activity, more people will join in the fun and help make the work easier. If you don't really love what you're doing, it will be difficult to succeed. Try hosting a contest or activity that you think will be fun and members will have fun too.
Also, just like on Broadway, if you join a contest or activity, send the owner a review so they can get some feedback on their efforts and improve.
This month's question: What do you think is the most important point to making a contest / activity successful?
Send in your answer below!  Editors love feedback!
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In three sentences or less, write me your proverbial. Be creative. The most creative contestant will win first place and gift points!
Humorous proverbials have a better chance of winning
Proverbials causing one to think and go hmm...have a good chance of winning, too
What the heck is a Proverbial? You ask. My definition for this forum : Any writing three sentences or less exibiting wisdom, intelligence, and/or wit.
Excerpt: It's simple. Send me a prompt. I pick the winner.
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Excerpt: ROUND 4 PROMPT--- I realize that February is the month for lovers. That said, what about those of us who are single?
Not everyone has a partner to playfully ask "Will you be my Valentine?" For those people, myself included, Salutations! This contest is for you!
Excerpt: Welcome to ACRO*BATICS! As you may know, an acronym is a sequence of letters formed from the initial letters of a group of words. For example, in the case of a SWAT team, SWAT stands for Special Weapons And Tactics. In this game, however, you work in the opposite direction: I will provide a series of letters that will serve as an acronym, and your mission is to offer the most creative answer to the question of what that acronym represents.
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Excerpt: Prompt - Choose one of these five word prompts to feature in your story. Touch of Magic - The Dragon Kingdom - What Lies Below - The Dark Crystal - Celebration of the Eclipse
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.
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Excerpt: This daily contest is for Japanese short form poetry, including haiku, senryu, and tanka.
Excerpt: The rules are simple: write a letter to yourself and tell you what your goals are for 2015!
Excerpt: For each day of the challenge ~ the 28 Days of February ~ choose a song that has special meaning in your life and write about it. Your entry can be a journal or blog post, a piece of poetry, an essay or a short story, fiction or non-fiction ~ whatever your favorite music inspires you to write.
Excerpt: Each week on a Sunday, the following week's blog prompts will be posted. They will all encourage you to write an entry recording your life. You may complete all or none of them. You may complete them in any order you choose. Some prompts will fit some days better than others.
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