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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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 Have you noticed? All the stores have their Christmas displays up and are trying to lure shoppers in with their glitter and glam.
Can you say the same about your portfolio?  Is everything polished and ready to enter in the numerous holiday contests and activities that will be coming in the next month? Oh yes, I just said it...holidays. While you're out shopping for just the right pashmina scarf for your Aunt, your friends will be here hosting and entering all the holiday contests and piling GPs in their coffers like squirrels with acorns.
 If you're planning a holiday contest or activity, now is the time to start creating your contest page and deciding what to offer as prizes.
 Check your gift point totals now and see if you have enough for the prizes or if you'll need to do some marathon reviewing to build up your numbers. If you plan on running a new round from last year's contest or activity, now is the time to clean up your page and tweak what needs to be improved. Was there confusion on some of the rules? Try to make them clearer. Did members enter after the deadline? Highlight the deadline more prominently on your page. Just like the NaNoWriMo participants are doing right now, set aside some time each day to work on your item. Then when your contest or activity is running, use that time to manage your item and help the participants.
The more prepared you are, the more you can participate and have fun! The best run items on the site are from members running them smoothly and members participating. Not just entering, but interacting with the other entrants. Be sure to send some cNotes to friends you've made on the site and perhaps a note or two to your favorite Moderators. 
Watch the "Writing Contests @ Writing.Com" and "Activities @ Writing.Com" and of course, the Contest and Activities newsletter for upcoming events for the holiday season - so you don't miss out!
What is your favorite holiday activity?
Send in your feedback below! 
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Excerpt: What I want to do is have you write a poem about something you are grateful for. The contest will run from November 1st through the 30th.
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Excerpt: The Wheel of the Year turns with each passing month and Season, and as it turns, it brings new inspirations.
That's what this contest is all about ~ finding inspiration as the Seasons change.
Excerpt: When writing, a great vocabulary can mean the difference between an ordinary story or poem and a piece which will be remembered -- sometimes for years afterward. Each month this contest will present ten words, many of which you will have to look up the definitions, for inclusion in a work of short story or poetry.
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Excerpt: The challenge in this fiction contest is to write a (very) short story inspired by one of these real-life secrets!
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Excerpt: Guess how many Jelly beans are in the jar! If you are the closest guess or the right guess, you win a Problem Solving Merit Badge and 50,000 GPS!!!! Ends Nov 11
Excerpt: Try some classic fun!
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Excerpt: Do you need new ideas on what to cook for the holidays or just need a simple dish during this busy time of year? Look no further, Holiday Catering Inc. is here to help by providing delicious recipes to help you out. We can provide appetizers, soups, salads, side dishes, entrees, desserts. If you have special needs like low calorie/fat, diabetic, or just need simple recipes, we can help with those too.
Excerpt: Proceeds benefit some great groups.
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Write what you wish, do your best, and pass the baton. 1000 gps prize per addition. Enjoy!
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Excerpt: You will use the word or phrase in the choice line inside your piece. Before you go, you will leave any words or phrases on the choice lines for the next person.
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Excerpt: This story takes place on the eighth day after the creation of the world. God wakes up (after the seventh day, on which he rested) and discovers the mess us people have put the world into (Since time is a human construct, a day to God could last a long, long time.) and is too sick to fix it. Why God is sick and how he could get sick should remain left to the imagination.
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This month's question: What is your favorite holiday activity?
Last month's question: What gothic / horror / scary element makes you most squeamish?
Shannon  replied: The thing that makes me most squeamish.... probably either bugs (like i'm talking swarms of cockroaches here)or children who are evil. Like has anyone seen the omen? Or has anyone read about that child murderer Mary Bell? seriously creepy stuff. They give me the shivers every time...
scribbler commented: Anything based on a true story, or that involves human characters acting within the realm of possible human actions. *shivers* If it COULD happen, then it's scary.
Tick answered: Anything that has to do with the abuse of children makes me ill, especially in gothics or historical stories because those days when you were unprotected you really were unprotected. In some stories if the writer gives me too much blood and guts, that just annoys me. Love the newsletter!
BIG BAD WOLF Happy July 4th!  said: What is scary? It could be the blood-and-guts being taken out of some poor sap. It might be that theme music (DaDun DahDun!). It might be that surprise visit from Mother-in-law.
Of course this guy might say it's the wife's girlfriends.
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