 Contests & Activities: June 03, 2009 Issue [#3091] |
  Contests & Activities
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The purpose of this newsletter is to inform members of some of the great contests and activities currently running on our site. Give the featured items a look, perhaps you'll find some inspiration and make new friends.
This week's Contest & Activities Editor
Leger~
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First, a quick note to everyone who reads the Contest & Activities newsletter each week: I've joined this month as a permanent monthly editor, so you'll be seeing my name in here often. Thanks to The StoryMaster  for letting me take on the challenge. I hope you all enjoy my articles and send in responses at the bottom of the newsletter so I know you're reading.
This month's article is about flash fiction. If you're primarily a novel writer, writing flash fiction or microfiction can be great practice in breaking the wordiness habit. With only a few thousand words to tell your story, excessive description can cripple your word count.
Leaving a few clues for your reader can help them form their own image and help your plot platform have something to rest on. Even though flash fiction is short, you still need your basics. Start with an introduction: move on to your storyline - ascending conflict, climax and a resolution.
Pulling all these elements together in so few words is a challenge. Practice your skills with some of the many flash fiction contests on our site. Sometimes your story will outgrow the rules limit or you might not finish in time, but the point is you're writing and developing. I think the most fun is taking a prompt and twisting it into something compelling or funny.
So give a flash fiction contest a try, you'll have fun exercising your arc. 
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A fan fiction contest providing five prompts to choose from. It is a new contest but offers generous prizes. This round closes June 15th.
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Write a poem or a 500 word short story filled with humor and make Willy laugh. Closes June 30th.
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If flash and horror are your forte, this is the contest for you. Use 500 words to write a prompt story to win a prize. Round runs from May 31 to June 6. Bonus to this contest is the list of past prompts to inspire your writing.
Not just for newbies! Peek in each day to see a new prompt and challenge yourself to write under 1,000 words. Cramp judges love to have fun!
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Jump in quick, this contest ends June 9th but has an interesting prompt, "the other side of summer".
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Romantics, take a look at this contest. Plenty of time to write, Round 3 ends June 30th.
The ultimate story contest! Write a 100 word story without repeating a word. A great challenge!
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You don't have to be a movie buff to enter this contest, just write a story (less than 2500 words) or poem that contains the five prompted movie titles.
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This month's question: What are some of your favorite contests on the site? What makes them so fun?
I'll post your feedback here for others to enjoy next month. Send in your response below!
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