Contests & Activities: July 19, 2023 Issue [#12070] |
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Replies to my last Contests & Activities newsletter "Motivation" that asked How do you motivate yourself to enter contests?
Dave Ryan wrote: Hi,
Re your motivation question - I don't really motivate myself as such. I just find myself occasionally having a go at a competition when I need to take a break from working on something else. There are about half-a-dozen competitions I keep an an eye on, just in case the prompt for the day/week/month looks promising. These tend to have a tight limit - 500-1000 words for prose or ~40 lines for poetry - so that it's not a huge investment of time to have a go.
That's a great way to work on your own projects while still taking part in the comradery of contests.
Beholden wrote: How do you motivate myself to enter contests? That's easy - survival. It's all about those gift points. But that's not all I gain from contests. They also provide me with plenty of practice and we all know that practice makes not perfect, but better.
True words!
Creeper Of The Realm wrote: There are times where I'll enter a contest without a full on inspiration but rather use it as a decent try at a new genre or something I'm having a very hard time writing. I never look at the incentive. It's either the inspiration I get from the contest or the subject/genre itself that will make me write. It doesn't always produce the best possible writing, but sometimes, writing anything is better than writing nothing.
I can't agree more.
Turkey DrumStik wrote: I must admit I'm too busy running my own contests to enter any myself. (I mean, aside from playing along in my journaling contest for funsies.) Plus admittedly I haven't really found anything that's prompt-free that I can really work with. Given how much stuff I do outside of WDC, I admit I haven't looked at this as closely as I maybe should.
You are so right that most contests have prompts. If you're willing to write in a given genre, but have the choice of choosing your own prompt, go check out "Fabulous Fantasy Contest " . It has an open prompt option. |
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