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Contests & Activities: February 14, 2024 Issue [#12416]




 This week: It's All About Love
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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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It's All About Love


It's the season of love here on WDC and there are lots of contests and activities celebrating the season. Many like to write about romantic love, but what about the other kinds of love? I did some digging, as usual.

Studies say maternal and romantic love are different forms of the same love and that love isn't an emotion, it's a physiological drive that society concludes is an emotion. Love is a complex mental function, interacting with other functions such as memory, attention, and even taste.

We are beginning to understand the addictive nature of love as well as its drive attribute, along with many of its psychological, behavioral, and neurobiological peculiarities. Among the qualities or components of love, perhaps attachment, empathy, altruism, and sexuality are best known as seen in numerous studies on behavioral, hormonal, genetic, or neural components. In general, for people, everyday experience and media exposure tell us that love ought to be an emotion involving deep connection and commitment.

This widespread misinterpretation of love as an emotion has several causes, and unfortunately, it is an error that has been consolidated and disseminated by science. Examples of this include underestimating love in relation to sexuality, as in the influential school of psychoanalysis; insisting on the superiority of willpower over love, commending the commitment that can prolong a marital relationship once the passion diminishes, as in the well-known love triangle theory; or encouraging the belief that love has a limited time period, based in the defense of the children. These and many other misconceptions are extraordinarily serious, because they may cause people enormous suffering and even death.

Love has been dissected with extraordinary precision by scientists and also by poets, but Western societies consider love to be an emotion optionally accompanying sexuality. When researchers ask participants to list states they consider emotions, love is typically near the top of that list The population ignores the nuances that have been attached to love by scientists, e.g. “motivational force”, “affective state”, “complex feelings” or “impulse drive”.


Next time you write for a contest or activity, give these ideas some thought. Perhaps love and the mental function of that state affect other parts of the brain and functions. Show those in your writing.

This month's question: Is it possible to write about romance if you've never had a deep relationship? Send in your answer below! *Down* Editors love feedback!


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This month's question: Is it possible to write about romance if you've never had a deep relationship? Send in your answer below! *Down* Editors love feedback!

Last month's "Contests & Activities Newsletter (January 17, 2024)Open in new Window. question: Do you prep for future seasons or holidays?


tj-turkey-jobble-jobble-hard-J Author Icon: Yes, usually a day or two ahead...

oldgreywolf on wheels Author Icon: Generally I give myself a day or two advance notification, to include considering time zones for Greenwich and further.
That also depends on whether I'm sending an electronic greeting, a snail mail card, or a package (which may go through British Customs; how they accomplish anything with both thumbs you-know-where is a mystery).

GeminiGem🐾 Author Icon: If you are referring to prepping a contest for upcoming seasons/holidays, I would say that any time I open one of my contests, I try to keep in mind when the contest will be running. This is especially true if I plan to run a prompt that may be related to the season or holiday. I don't prep months in advance, though, because I am too impatient. If I have a contest ready, I want to open it and get it going. I usually work a month or so ahead.

For a brand new endeavor...no, I'm just as impatient. I want to open it NOW.

Spooky, Cute & staiNed Author Icon: I'll have Christmas done by May. Birthdays till next Oct done. Others holidays are just time together. My fav season is Fall lots of walks. *Cleaver*

kimauge Author Icon: When I rest for a while, makes some prep outline for next items.

NaNotatoGo! Author Icon: It is inevitable to prep for seasons. I have a shed with supplies that need temperature controll so I have to prep the cooling unit or the heater.(both require work) depending on summer or winter conditions.

Also every summer I have to mow the lawn because the township mandates the grass be a certain height. So I have to get it ready for that in spring.

Winter may or may not need me to shovel snow and salt the walks(every other year it's so mild I don't have to.)

Blah blah blah...boring adult stuff. Oh yeah clothes. Hair cuts etc. all seasonal stuff you have to take into account.

Life is one long, big prep for the next phase. Oh yeah and eat and sleep but who counts those?

I like prepping for other things too like Halloween. I always insist on decorating even if it's not scary. And I will plan my Halloween costume in advance because that's the only fun thing I have left in my life. Because no one goes door to door anymore! *Sad*

Mouse says gobble gobble Author Icon: I've been working on my Christmas Romance stories all year round... Does that count?

Jeff Author Icon: Prep? I can barely remember to acknowledge current seasons or holidays. *Laugh*

elephantsealer Author Icon: Because "seasons or holidays" come to us as regularly as a daily walk, I believe preparations with regard to these seasons and holidays are not necessarily a time to prepare. Seasons and holidays come as regularly as the day we wake up from a deep night sleep; and preparations become a terrible task to accomplish or do. So, save your strength and loosen yourself in the coming of these seasons and holidays; there is always a bit of time to reflect first on whether or not one can afford these seasons and holidays; or maybe we just let these days come. After all preparations are really not necessary.....

loneplayboy: I do! I LOVE holidays! Especially Thanksgiving & Christmas. It’s family tradition to always come together during those holidays. Unfortunately, my family doesn’t do it anymore, but I plan on building new, healthier family traditions. - Maãlík

Massive Friendly Derg Author Icon: Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?

KitKat Author Icon: Typically? No. This year, however, I found something I want to give my mom for Mother's Day so I may be prepping for that earlier than normal.

TJ Author Icon: Prep, eh? Seasons and holidays, eh? "Bah Humbug!", I say, eh? The only "prepping" I do, if you could call it that, is to make sure everyone's reminded (in plenny of time) that I DON'T DO seasons and holidays! Ergo, to leave me ALONE! Let us call it "anti-prepping". And ya know what else? I'm finding, to my enchanted glee, that I'm having to do less and less anti-prepping as the occasions pass by. *Wink*

Thank you, everyone, for your responses. Legerdemain

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