 Contests & Activities: November 06, 2013 Issue [#5984] |
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This week: My Tush is Asleep! Edited by: Leger~  
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The purpose of this newsletter is 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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My Tush is Asleep
Oh don't say it doesn't happen to you. We all get busy writing or poking around on the internet and next thing you know, you can't feel your legs.
Let's say this newsletter is about activity more than contests this month. I'm sure some of the NaNoWriMo writers can agree, sometimes it's hard to sit in front of the computer and create. So why are you sitting there? Get yourself a little notebook, or the back of an envelope or something and move. I do my best thinking when I'm cooking, so the grocery list notepad gets more notes about writing than food. But, whatever works.
The point is, when writing for your novel, or a prompt for a contest, you don't have to sit down and think. The brain is attached to the body and has a tendency to go wherever you go, so go! Walk the dog and speak ideas into your phone. Go camping, fishing, horseback riding...okay, maybe hard to take notes on a horse...but you get the idea. Sitting and staring at a blank screen on your computer gets you eyestrain and not much more.
Once you have some fresh ideas saved in your phone or in a notebook, sit or lay somewhere comfortable and expand on your ideas. Do some free-writing and add scenes and characters to your notes. Then when it's finally time to sit down at the computer, you have something to reference and work on. This helps with computer chair back pain and numb legs.
But before you leave, take a look at some of the contests and activities listed below, and see what you might enter.
This month's question: What do you do to help your creativity flow? Send in your answer below!  Editors wither and blow away without feedback! |
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Excerpt: Each month, beginning December 1, 2013 (due to the November NaNoWriMo event), we'll explore a different genre and maybe even dip our toes into the pool of sub-genres and off-the-beaten-path genres. We'll explore fiction and non-fiction avenues as we ultimately strive to take our craft as writers to the next level.
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Excerpt: Through this survey, I want to find out where members are in their writing journey and which role Writing.Com plays in that writing journey. As an ulterior motive, I am also interested in finding out if there are people who want to put action to words, literally. (ouch)
Excerpt: The purpose of "Poem Request" is to ask Walkinbird 3 Jan 1892  to write a brief poem on a topic.
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Excerpt: We accept entries from all members that have been registered with WDC for 6 months or less at the time you post your submission. (The "Est. date" on your suitcase) Only poems (40 lines or less) and short stories (2500 words or less) can be entered.
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Excerpt: For this horror round there are 2 prompts you can choose from. Pick one and scare me to death.
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Excerpt: The idea is to create the best story you can in a week.
Excerpt: Write on any topic/experience--use "bitem" format please--may be previously written or new poems.
Excerpt: The contest will end and begin a new round every Saturday.
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Excerpt: In this contest there will be a series of daily types of stories. There will be no prompt, but you must write in the type of story provided.
Excerpt: Write the best story (1000 words or less) or poem (40 lines or less) in 24 hours to a daily prompt and win 10,000 GPs - what could be easier?!
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This month's question: What do you do to help your creativity flow? Send in your answer below! Editors love feedback!
Last month's question: If you don't participate in NaNoWriMo, what do you do in the month of November?
Joshiahis  : I plan to do what I always do; work, raise my kids, and try to write when the time presents itself.
BIG BAD WOLF is Howling  : One must have fun.
Comments on last month's newsletter:
Creeper Of The Realm  : Thank you for featuring "P.E.N.C.I.L. Anniversary Fundraiser " ! It picked up a lot and the game that runs with it seems to have attracted a lot of players who are really enjoying themselves.
Glad it helped!
scorpialex: Loved the newsletter!  It showed things I didn't even know were there. Thank you. 
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