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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.
This week's Contests and Activities Editor
Leger~
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Bid Click
Okay, you've been around the site for a while and built up a few gift points. What can you do with them? Besides save them up and upgrade your membership at Writing.com or buy a cool Writing.com mug in the Shop, you can use those gift points to advertise your items. Ever wonder how items end up in the Sponsored Items column or in the ad space on the IM console? Bid Click. You can find your Bid Click ad manager by clicking My Account > My Bid Click Bids.
What's a Bid Click? Bid Click is an self-serve advertising system in our community. What you "bid" on is how much you're willing to pay "per click" of your ad. The higher your bid ranks on the list of bids for that area, the higher your item shows on the list. Just like anywhere else, you have to watch and spend your advertising budget wisely. If you only want to spend a limited amount of gift points on your ad, watch your bid log carefully. Or if you have an upgraded membership, you can create a group to store your ad gift points in, and advertise through the group.
Now, how to best spend your advertising gift points. If you look at the bids in the Sponsored Items list, the bids right now are pretty high for a new member with a limited budget. The bid for the top of the list is 3500 gift points per click. If you have a limited amount of gift points, a few clicks could sap your funds. Another method to get on the Sponsored list is to bid 400 gps or more in an Item Type or Item Genre listing. This can put you at the top of the sponsored list for someone viewing a genre listing like "Western" or an Item Type like "Crossword Puzzle" AND a slot on the rotating Sponsored Items list. More ad for your gift point value.
If you have a very limited amount of gift points to spend on advertising, some genre and item listings require very few gift points bid to get in the top three. You could be at the top of a genre listing for as little as a 15 gift point bid.
Take a little time to become familiar with our advertising system, it may be well worth the investment when you receive some reviews in your Inbox.
This month's question: Have you used Bid Click? Did you get more quality reviews? Send in your answer below!  Editors love feedback!
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Excerpt: You're probably not old enough to remember, but in the 1930's thru the 1950's pulp magazines were all the rage. Many of the great authors we hold dear today got their first paying jobs writing for pulps like Weird Tales, Astounding Tales, and True Detective, just to name a few. Speculative fiction writers like Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, H.P.Lovecraft, and Robert E. Howard all began submitting their stories and honing their skills.
THIS contest is designed to take you back to those days. So now you TOO can write for the old pulp fiction magazines just like the 'master story-tellers' did back in the day.
Excerpt: Can you write a truly terrifying tale? Do you have a knack for frightening fiction? Are your stories... sinister? If so, you've come to the right place! Formerly known as the Necronomicon Contest, Sinister Stories is a monthly prompt-based short fiction contest hosted by "The Dark Society" .
Excerpt: The contest is simple and free to all users of writing.com. Create a forum post in this forum, no {b-links}, in three or less sentences. Your writing doesn’t have to be funny. If I do a double take, or go ah-hah, you could still win the Keenest Joker.
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Excerpt: As an avid reader, I'm always looking for the next paperback to read and share with other book addicts, and I am super lucky to be a bookshop manager too! This bookclub is a place to share this joy of reading, and to discuss a new title every month...
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Excerpt: We can use all the help we can, getting the word out about Please, Help Me! The more members we have, the greater the chance that someone will have an answer to your question.
Excerpt: Indie-publishing: My own term for publishing in any way other than going through a traditional publishing company and signing a contract handing over rights to your work. This is better explained in an article soon to come that will be available to all group members.
Publishing outside the realm of going through a traditional publishing company is becoming a more mainstream option. It remains controversial, however, and many large-chain bookstores refuse to cover "self-published" books. Newspapers refuse to review them. There are writers who are condescending about the idea.
Why? Because authors doing it on their own didn't get the okay from some overworked editor who gets many more submissions than s/he can handle and only wants a certain niche at a certain time? Because, yes, a lot of indie-published books should have had a lot more editing before being put out there?
Excerpt: Please note that we are not a group based on only giving reviews - the act of goodwill extends BEYOND that. It's in welcoming a new member to our site. It's in promoting our site to others who might not have heard of us. It's in granting an upgrade to one in need or to newbies to foster their writing. It's in dropping someone a c-note or just a little message to let them know they are being thought of, it's in participating in writing contests and improving our skills to become better, and so much more.
Excerpt: Welcome to the 9th Annual NaNoWriMo Write-A-Thon, the activity where you can compete in NaNoWriMo and raise GPs for some great Writing.com causes at the same time! This event is my way of showing appreciation to all the wonderful groups and activities on this site that encourage members of this site to read, write, and participate in the community. I hope you'll all join me in showing your support by participating as either a writer or a sponsor (or both)!
The concept is pretty straightforward. Much like a typical walk-a-thon where participants are supported by sponsors who have committed to donate a certain amount of financial support for each mile walked, this activity has Sponsors who commit to donating a certain number of GPs for each word written by their sponsored Writers!
Excerpt: National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30. Read more: http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/whatisnano |
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This month's question: Have you used Bid Click? Did you get more quality reviews? Send in your answer below! Editors love feedback!
Last month's question: Do you have your eye on some Oct/Nov contests? Which ones?
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