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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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What Makes a Contest, a Contest?
In my opinion, a contest is at its best when the entrants all feel like they have a chance to win. Now we all know the basics, like follow the rules, make sure you edit your work, and give it your best shot. But as a contest host, what can you do to bring in the contestants?
First of all, make it simple. For as much as we'd all like to spend all our waking hours on the internet, few of us can. So make the rules simple and inspiring. Jumping through fifty hoops and trying to decipher complicated instructions and be a turn off. Next, make it fair. There is nothing more disappointing than seeing someone who entered late or exceeded the word count win. Or stay up all night finishing an entry, only to have the host extend the deadline for a friend who wasn't ready to post.
Also, advertise! Promote the contest so a lot of members come in, view it and hopefully enter. Would you feel better winning against fifteen fellow contestants, or two? Be active and encouraging in anything you host. It's a great way to get to know other members and network on the site.
Last of all, be humble. Be grateful members take the time to write and enter your contest. Be sure to thank them.
Write on and enter on!
This month's question: Do you follow up with gratitude or do you let it slide? Send in your answer below!  Editors love feedback!
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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.
The task is simple: Write a short story using the quote prompt as inspiration!
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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 three months!
The prompt: Space Pirates! Whether your pirates swing a light-saber or would fit in Ocean's Eleven, bring your tales of betrayals or derring-do! (In space!)
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Are you a night owl that likes to interact with others, but find there's never anyone around when you're in your prime? Come on in! This forum is for chatting, the occasional contest, and possibly other fun activities.
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A drabble is a short work of fiction of around one hundred words in length.
This is a short story contest where you are challenged to write with no dialogue. I'll give you a topic and you create a story without using dialogue or inner dialogue.
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This month's question: Do you follow up with gratitude or do you let it slide? Send in your answer below! Editors love feedback!
Last month's question: What suggestions do you make most often to contest or activity hosts?
THANKFUL SONALI 17 WDC YEARS!  replied: Great topic, Leger!
I think an important point is -- 'Did I feel motivated to enter'?
There are so many to choose from, that something has to motivate me to enter a particular one!
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