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Revamping Your Item
I'll tell you up front, this is a hack. This is a cheat. This is underhanded and devious. Bait and switch.
This is about traffic. If you have traffic to your item, people might participate. Interested? Great! Let's say you did a Christmas activity that got a lot of interest. And now you're thinking about a summer activity. Let's also assume that many people favorited that fun Christmas activity so they could visit it every day and have fun. Chances are, they didn't delete the favorite.
And chances are when they log in, they look at their favorites list to see what has been edited and moved to the top of the Favorites list. Meaning someone added a post or made a change to that item. And of course, they click it. So even when YOU edit it, it bounces to the top of their list.
This includes the title and body of the item. When you favorite something, you save the item by the item number. This means you can change your really cool Christmas activity to a summer one and it will alert everyone who has it favorited. Of course, before you do all this craziness, you need to save the Christmas activity template so you don't lose the fun that attracted everyone in the first place, but you can save that in a private static item.
I would definitely advise doing this only once, or the favorite will get dropped. And I'd recommend advertising the item again, don't count on the favorite clicks to get people to join. Do explore bidclicks and drop a few gift points in there for a few days (I'll do a newsletter on bidclick hacks at some point}
Also, take the time to list your item in "Writing Contests @ Writing.Com" or "Activities @ Writing.Com" . Ask the leaders of groups to which you belong if they can help you advertise.
Give it a try!
This month's question: Have you revamped a favorite item? Was it successful? Send in your answer below!  Editors love feedback!
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April WDC Site Contest
Prompt: Quote Prompt for April 2022:
"It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most.
They teach us how to think.
If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact.
But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers." -- Patrick Rothfuss
Excerpt: Each day around 12pm NOON WDC time, one of our dedicated volunteer judges will judge the previous day's entries and post a new writing prompt. Entries for each new prompt must be posted by 11:59am WDC time the next day.
Excerpt: This contest hopes to recapture those memories by encouraging you to listen to a favorite album again and allow the songs to inspire your creativity through writing.
Excerpt: APRIL PROMPT/THEME: Write a story about a pet that is used to living in the city but has to transition to life in the country OR a country to city transition. Any pet is acceptable, including wild or farm animals who are kept as pets.
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Excerpt: The setting/location for your story must be a real place, current or historic,
within the geographic boundaries of Canada.
Excerpt: This contest uses only spoken words or internal dialogue!
Excerpt: A place to answer a daily question and spark conversations.
Excerpt: The aim is to get readers immersed in your stories.
Excerpt: This isn't a contest, but rather, a place to share your poetic expressions!
Excerpt: May contest - Key words = succeed / exceed / failure
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This month's question: Have you revamped a favorite item? Was it successful? Send in your answer below! Editors love feedback!
Last month's "Contests & Activities Newsletter (March 16, 2022)" question: How do you use In & Outs? What other fun items have you tried?
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