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Welcome to the Contests & Activities Newsletter. I'm spidey , and I'm your Editor this week. I'd like to discuss Reviewing Entries.
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Reviewing Entries
You've set up a contest, given clear rules and are offering great prizes. What more can you offer to entrants? How about a review of each entry? When hosting a contest, it's important to offer attractive prizes and while these usually consist of gift point prizes, why not consider an in-depth review, too? There are a few great advantages to this:
 Reviewing entries lets participants know you've read and analyzed their entry. It can be a reassurance to entrants that you're judging fairly by reading and thinking about each submission.
Offering an in-depth review can attract entrants to your contest. For many on this site, a review is just as valuable or even more valuable than gift points. Most of us are on this site to improve our writing and to get feedback from fellow readers and writers. One way to provide that feedback is to offer an in-depth review of each submission!
Reviewing helps the host as much as the entrant! By looking in-depth at a submission, it'll help you in the judging process by being able to compare each entry with each other.
Reviewing will helps the reader just as much as the writer! Reviewing helps you look critically at writing, which will help in your own writing, too!
Reviewing is such a great tool, one of the best offered from Writing.Com. It's mutually beneficial to readers and writers alike, and there are quite a few motivators and benefits to Reviewing on this site (see "Reviewing @ Writing.Com" for more)! Reviewing helps connect us as writers and members of a writing community.
Always keep on writing!
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Contests:
The following offer reviews and/or port raids as benefits of entering!
And I have to share this one because I love the topic! (Be warned: If you're afraid of spiders, you might not want to view the forum...)
Activities:
Know of some gems that deserve exposure? Submit them in the feedback form or submission form at the end of this Newsletter, and I'll put them in my next one!
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Thank you for including my contest "Invalid Item"  .
Phoenix ~ Phoenix  
You're very welcome! 
I would like some recognition for my new group, The Edge. I need new members. Maybe you can feature it in a newsletter.
Thank you. ~ egobox 
Sure thing! I've featured it in the Editor's Picks area.
I have a few books of prompts that I have bought, plus I always at least check out the prompts of contests on writing.com. I keep an index card file with the prompt on one side and the types of stories it first inspired on the back. ~ kristiana
Those are some great ideas!
I didn't know my interactive inspired your novel, Spidey. How exciting! I hope it was a great adventure. Leger~ ~ Leger~ 
Yep, it definitely inspired me!
Never waste a good depression! Get the tissue paper out (whole box), pen, paper and a big pot of tea (jasmine and orange pekoe mix--loose tea) and cry your heart out! Let 'er rip. Wallow in self-pity and despair...immerse yourself in it. Only write it all down. Leave nothing out. You won't believe the ideas you'll get out of all that whining and snivelling. Although it often makes for incredibly lousy poetry and a red nose, it's just great for story ideas! This is especially great for when a love relationship dies:). Good and unique murderous plots will emerge to give you enough fodder for several novels. I kid you not! There is nothing more creative than a broken heart and immense sadness. Do the same when you feel overwhelming joy, too. You may not need the Kleenex (tm), though:) Deeply felt emotion drives the idea machine and the gets the desciptive juices flowing. ~ Marysue5252
Great idea! Emotion can be great inspiration!
My Inspiration comes from relationships,whether it be friends or more.Asfor writers block, you need to get the mind,body and spirit in the right places and times and I promise no more block.
Thaddeus ~ therooster
Thanks for the comment! Relationships can provide great inspiration for writing!
Questions to think about:
As a host, do you offer reviews? As an entrant, do you prefer a host to review your entry? |
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