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Contests & Activities: December 03, 2014 Issue [#6697]

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Contests & Activities


 This week: Time to Clean House
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1. About this Newsletter
2. A Word from our Sponsor
3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
5. A Word from Writing.Com
6. Ask & Answer
7. Removal instructions

About This Newsletter

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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Letter from the editor

Time to Clean House


It's coming to the end of the year and if you're like me, you like to make resolutions for the new year. It's a whole different matter whether or not you keep them...but it's fun to think about what you might like to accomplish in the upcoming months. One of them, for me, is to clean up my portfolio. If my portfolio were a garden, I would be ripping out old dead plants and chasing leaves with the blower. But what I will do in my port is clean out the old contest entries that didn't go anywhere and tidy up my contest and activity pages.

If it is a forum, sometimes cleaning out some of the old posts is necessary. I like to start with a fresh version, taking out all the old entry listings, checking my reference links to make sure they are still linking to an actual page. If you do a contest for each season, consider making a template and keeping it in your portfolio so you don't have to reformat each season.

Think about sorting your items, perhaps keeping all your poetry in one folder, or sorting all your award winning entries in to one place. The advantage of having an upgraded portfolio is being able to keep your items organized and direct readers to the items they most want to review. While a free ten slot portfolio is a great start and anyone can use, after a decade, I need a little more space. Even then, it's good to clean house once in a while and toss out the deadwood.

So take a look at your portfolio and see if you can get a head start on the resolution season, give it a good dusting! Write on!


This month's question: How do you handle portfolio housekeeping? Send in your answer below! *Down* Editors love feedback!


Editor's Picks

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12 Days of "Christmas" Open in new Window. (E)
The holiday season is the perfect time for a holiday music challenge! Runs every December.
#2014890 by Jeff Author IconMail Icon

For 12 days beginning on December 9th, pick a favorite Christmas or holiday song and write about it! You can choose songs from your childhood, your favorite songs today, serious songs, funny songs, hymns or satires and parodies

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#2009928 by Not Available.

Alliteration doesn't have to rhyme but your words should work together and not simply be a random grouping.

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Newbie Portfolio Project Open in new Window. (E)
How would you like a pretty ribbon for your portfolio? Non-newbies welcome!
#1995591 by Cinn Author IconMail Icon

This activity is open to both traditional (6 months or less) and non-traditional newbies (older account but only recently became active in the community). Any new person who does not have a portfolio awardicon is eligible.

 Scrivener's Workshop Open in new Window. (E)
A review for serious authors, based on Google+, running from January to June in 2015.
#2019897 by Tyson Young Author IconMail Icon

If you're interested and you can commit a chunk of your time for the six month period, and if you have a strong drive to improve as an author, please send me an email!

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Shadows and Light Poetry Contest Open in new Window. (E)
Do you love the challenge and creativity of free verse poetry? This contest is for you.
#1935693 by Choconut Author IconMail Icon

What is free form or free verse poetry? Well, the formal definition is poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set fixed metrical pattern. But the exact definition is written by the poet. Free form poetry has become the favored form for new and experienced poets alike. It provides the freedom of creativity, without the structure of traditional poetry.

However, it is deceptive in its simplicity, and can actually be very difficult. Do you have the skill to conquer this form of poetic expression? Have you mastered this art? Or do you just want to see if you are on the right track? This contest will put those skills to the test, and give you valued feedback from qualified judges. The prizes aren't bad either.


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A Contest For The Funny Side Of Life. CLOSED
#1965952 by GeminiGem🐾 Author IconMail Icon

Make me laugh in 2000 words or less or 40 lines of poetry or less and win prizes

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A fun way to get in the holiday spirit!
#1494614 by Leger~ Author IconMail Icon

Get in the spirit of the holiday and be a Secret Santa! As a Secret Santa, you will anonymously surprise your giftee with little tokens of joy. The giving period will be from Dec 12 - Dec 24. Gifts can be a cNote, a review, or small gift tokens like sigs or tickets to a raffle. At the end of the holiday, your Secret Santa will be revealed.

 
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Ask & Answer

This month's question: How do you handle portfolio housekeeping? Send in your answer below! *Down* Editors love feedback!

Last month's question: What genres would you like to see in upcoming contests, and why?


Indelible Ink Author Icon answered: I enjoy contests where there are a mixture of genres; where at least two or three are required. "Randomly generated" works just fine, because the more incompatible the genres appear, the more the mind has to work to tie the little devils together. My brain is exhausted already.

Steve adding writing to ntbk. Author Icon replied: Thank you for featuring a couple of groups I know and love well. Those I reviewed I indicated your featuring them here. For me the genre I'd like to see more of is poetry; acrostics specifically; because I love the genre and can with inspiration create an acrostic out of most any set of words. I specialize in using peoples names but enjoy other ways of utilizing the genre.

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