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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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Hot Sun & Summertime
It's Summer in the northern hemisphere so many of our members are busy with vacations and spending time outdoors. Some of us have EXTRA time to spend online during our downtime. So what to do with it? For me, job one was to get my email cleaned out and sorted. I even had time to add some filters to save myself time in the future. I was pretty pleased with that. Then there is the site contest; many people are away and the pool of entrants might be smaller. Give yourself a great chance and enter!
Some other things to do involves prepping for future needs. If you run a season contest and it's over, set it on private and clean up the forum. Run through it and make sure all the dates are changed to this year if you know when you'll host it. Some other things to do are clean out the contest bank, make sure donors have all been listed and winners noted.
If you want to do something new, create the page now and set up as much as you can. If you want to create a special image banner or something, you have time to order it and embed it now. Certainly make sure your prize fund is replenished and ready to go. It's bad form to count on gift point donors just to make a minimum prize. You can certainly raise the prize fund if friends help you with gift points later on. They can also support you by donating an image or gift points before you take the item off private. They may want to help you when the item goes live and is running. Define their role clearly and choose someone you know will not let you down.
You definitely want to have the page in best form when you open it to the public. Be sure rules are clear and concise. It might feel a little silly creating a winter or spring item if you're sweltering in your office, but it will give you time to perfect the page and make it clear, rather than a muddled mess forcing members to ask questions just to be clear on the rules. This makes it more fun to run the contest or activity when the time comes.
Write on and enter on!
This month's question: How do you prep for future contests or activities? Send in your answer below!  Editors love feedback!
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The task is simple: get inspired by the music linked in the contest and write a short story using this inspiration!
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: Each day around 12pm NOON WDC time, one of our dedicated volunteer judges will judge the previous day's entries and post a writing prompt. The contest for that prompt ends before NOON (11:59am WDC time) the next day. All entries that follow ALL of the prompt requirements will be judged according to the creativity in responding to the writing prompt only.
Excerpt: What classifies as supernatural?
Supernatural ~ A manifestation or event attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature; magical, mystical, occult. It's as easy as that. If it's not human and it's something that science or nature can't explain, it's supernatural. The most common supernatural creatures are ghosts, vampires, werewolves, zombies and fairies, but there is an expansive list.
Prompt: Your poem must be about the first snowfall of the winter and it's Christmas Eve.
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Prompt for July/ The Avenger From Atlantis.
This contest is for photos. However, a small piece of related writing will be required along with it. Writings may be short descriptions, poems, short essays, or short story.
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This month's question: How do you prep for future contests or activities? Send in your answer below! Editors love feedback!
Last month's question: How do you earn gift points in WDC?
dogpack:saving 4 premium: DWG  replied: I earn gift points on WDC in many of the ways stated in the news letter. Also whenever there are challenges posted in the news feed, which I keep a look out for, I enter these challenges time permits. Some of the challenges are reviewing challenges and others vary. Another way of acquiring gift points is by entering into interactive stories because some of them reward entries with gift points. There are educational forums which award gift points for posts. Looking through auctions for packages which offer gift points and bidding on them can be lucrative. Even committing to New Horizons classes can give you gift points depending on the incentives offered. There are other classes sponsored by WDC members which give gift points. Another way of acquiring gift points especially for a needed up grade is to announce this need in your bio block.
Kimbug  said: I earned my first points by doing reviews. If a writer's work moved me in any way, I let them know how much I enjoyed their writing. I didn't realize at the time that it earned points.
Yemel hints: Another way to earn gift points in WDC is to review other members' work. I am still not entirely sure how all the pieces work - there seem to be several - but at a minimum, the "Read & Review" link on the sidebar brings you to selections for your reading & reviewing consideration.
Paul  reveals: I review others work. I'm pushing myself to learn this craft well enough to write things others like reading. My kids are pushing on me to write the story of "ME" for them and grand kids. I'd like them to want to read them. I'm telling some of them here to try them out.
I learn from each story I read and I believe in and try to follow Writings' review guide.
I also,write and enter contests. I've discovered I enjoy the flash fiction format of 1,500 words or less and dialog is my favorite to write. I enjoy playing the different voices (parts) in my head and writing in several different voices.
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