The Contest Challenge

No worries. You can work in any order, skip around as things are open. Anything that is only offered in October, you should enter while you can, no matter which year. I'll only push you to finish a specific year if I'm about to do a celebration and you are just like 1 or 2, maybe 3 contests short of qualifying for a celebration, but you don't because you've skipped around so much. But it's fine. You'll get celebrated eventually. It's just that it's not always exactly as timely as I might like...or the participant, for that matter. lol

If there is a contest that is closed, but you really want to enter, you can also ask them if they will reopen it or are planning to at some point. Sometimes folks are pondering it and that might just be the push they need.

Also, check out eyestar~*'s entry she just posted for an example of a simple, streamlined post here. I don't want you doing a bunch of extra work then getting burned out.