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This newsletter aims 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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Pick A Theme
Whether you're entering a contest or hosting a contest or activity, it's easier and more cohesive if you pick a theme for your item. If you want people to interact with your activity and have fun, make it fun!
iKïyå§ama  has awesome contests and activities that are themed. She does one based on Alice in Wonderland that's fantastic! You can do it too! I'm not suggesting you copy...no. But think about what you want to host, and then find a theme that would coordinate. For example, if it's nearing Halloween, you could pick a horror theme, like skeletons, ghosts, or graveyards. If it's Christmas, think Santa, gnomes, elves, and gifts.
It doesn't have to be a holiday. While the hemispheres might not coordinate what is outside your window, you could choose a winter or spring theme. Adding images to the page certainly helps. If you're able to raise the gift points to purchase an upgraded account, you'll be able to jazz your pages.
Once you create a forum for your activity or contest, be active! Promote the page and when people post in the forum, respond! This helps keep our community vibrant and active. If you're a participant in a contest or activity, try to be engaged. Dropping an entry is okay, but it's nice to show interest in others.
Enjoy and Write On!
This month's question: Do you look for themes when entering or participating in a contest or activity? Send in your answer below!  Editors love feedback!
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This is a Poetry AND Short Story Contest about achieving Peace in the world.
The goal of the contest is to use one of the titles in the prompt as the title of your story.
(So if ten people are playing, we could end up with several stories that all have the same title!)
A new prompt will be posted every day in the forum at the bottom of this page at approximately 11:00 pm WDC time. (Eastern US time). The prompt will have the date of the next day, the day it is due. After the prompt is posted, you'll have about 24 hours to post your entry.
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
A place to answer daily questions and spark conversations.
This is the venue where I will first share questions. I may post some of them to the newsfeed but not all. From this In and Out, you are welcome to use these questions for your own prompt-based activities, journaling, group discussions, whatever! I want to questions to circulate far and wide. Do what you want with
See how many words you can find!
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This month's question: Do you look for themes when entering or participating in a contest or activity? Send in your answer below! Editors love feedback!
Last month's "Contests & Activities Newsletter (June 4, 2025)" question: What writing do you do in summer?
Stik to My Own Beat  : Well, since all the seasons are rapidly becoming a uniform level of busy for me, I still manage to do some writing in the summer months. Even if it's just my journal or blog, it's writing. And let's be honest. Those books tend to be where I drop full essays on topics. This summer will see me drop a recap of my spring trip to Houston in my journal; said recap is likely to be a few thousand words in length.
TheBusmanPoet  : Whatever may come to mind, that's when I write. There's no set pattern.
atkbereaoh : All I could say is that depends on the subject matter that suddenly pops into my head.
oldgreywolf on wheels : Whatever/whenever my fingers start scribbling.
Dave : Same as autumn, winter, and spring. Whatever the Muse pops in my head.
Jeffrey Meyer : In the summer, when I get a chance to just sit in the sun and be, my writing comes in like breezes. I doodle a lot, maybe try (badly) to sketch something. Snatches of verse might occur to me, and I write them down. Or an idea or paragraph. A few days later, I add all that to my Freewrite journal. Sometimes they germinate into a story or poem; other times they cross-pollinate with other stuff in the journal. Mostly, they just lay dormant. But that's the weird, gauzy way summer writing happens to me, mostly.
dragonwoman : Whenever the spirit moves me and the muse irritates me enough, same as any other time of year.
A'Leigh : Whatever flows. Just trying to keep it going consistently so I don't get out of my routine.
S 🤦 : This past summer I wrote a lot of poetry and short stories; winter tends to be my novel writing time. At least, I am 12 days into winter and all I've written beyond columns and ghost writing assignments is my novel.
Stik to My Own Beat : Mostly journaling
Bodhisattwa Parekh : Summer is the season of sweet floral essence.
So it the best time write the love stories.
Thank you all for your responses!
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