 Contests & Activities: July 31, 2024 Issue [#12668] |
This week: Chunky! Edited by: Leger~  
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This newsletter aims 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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Chunky!
Is your contest or activity getting a little chunky? Do you have a lot of previous winners or donors listed?
It creates quite a block of text that distracts from your current version of the contest or activity.
We have a tool to help with this - the Dropnote!
A Dropnote is an area that drops down when underlined text is clicked. Choose the word(s) (shown below as "TITLE") that you would like underlined and place it within the dropnote quotes in the open tag. Then place your dropnote open and close tags around the text you would like displayed within the dropnote area. NOTE: Be sure to use "quotes" around your Dropnote title in the open tag.
The instructions for this tool are in our WritingML Help > WritingML Help for dropnote
The text on your page would look like this (I have this centered):
Donors ▼Generous General
Moneybags Duck
Richey Rich
Whereas listing all the lovely generous people can create a big block of text. We want to thank those who support our contests and activities, but we have to keep in mind that someone new might not manage to scroll by.
This also can be used for more detailed instructions for the contest, like how to Bitem link or bold the required prompt words.
The little arrow to the right of the words tells people to click and see what is in the Dropnote. Give it a try, and experiment in your Notepad until you have it looking the way you want!
You can use many of the WritingML codes within the dropnote, like links to users and items.
You can also use dropnotes within your items for things like giving backhistory without distraction. Or showing the contest link if it is a contest entry. You can even show links to other items in your portfolio. We have all this cool tools at our fingertips!
Give it a try and always Write On!
This month's question: How do you use dropnotes? Send in your answer below!  Editors love feedback! |
Excerpt: Do you have a humorous story collecting dust? Do you feel like writing a new funny story, or how about a fun snippet from your wonderful life? Consider entering it here to spread the laughter. If your story makes me laugh the most, you will win a prize!
Excerpt: You must follow the prompt. Each week, three songs will be chosen by me. You can choose only one of them for your entry. you will use the music, not the words, of the songs to write poetry that also tells a story.
Excerpt: Is a month worth of prompts too much to keep up with? I hear ya. I am not a big fan of prompts, and doing a month's worth would drive me crazy. Plus, blogging/journalling activities should come in all sort of configurations. That's why I decided to do something kind of prompt-ish but scaled down. I wanted participants to have some more flexibility and be encouraged to do new things along the way. Thus, Journalistic Intentions was born.
Excerpt: Do you have that Sultry sizzle?
Excerpt: Welcome to Words, Wonderful Words. The purpose of this activity forum is to share our favorite famous quotes, phrases, and lines of poetry. There are terrific combinations of words weaved by WdC writers. I listed some in my first post.
Excerpt: This is a targeted review challenge. You will be reviewing Newbies who enter our contests for gp's and merit badges.
Excerpt: A fun badge exchange for the upcoming birthday week in September. Participation is required.
Excerpt: You know it's Sci fi when ...
Have some fun!
Excerpt: The main character is Tanya, a beautiful 19 year old girl who gets shipwrecked on a deserted island after a storm destroys the ship she was on.
The island can be inhabited by tiny people (about three to four inches tall), by normal sized people and a giantess, just the giantess, or just by normal sized people (in such case Tanya will have to grow into a giantess). This will be determined by the storyline you choose.
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This month's question: How do you use dropnotes? Send in your answer below! Editors love feedback!
Last month's "Contests & Activities Newsletter (July 3, 2024)" question: Are you punctual with your portfolio housekeeping?
JACE  : Probably a quarter of the items I review have outdated links in them, mostly from a contest long deleted.
Hmm, I wonder if the StoryMaster might invent a way to detect a broken link within an item so that a notification number appears on that item. Sorry Sir, if you actually read this--I'm being facetious ... kinda. 
NaNoNette  : I am not very punctual in my portfolio housekeeping. But after seeing so many people had created items that provide a sort of guidebook to their portfolio, I set up "Guest Book & Portfolio Guide" as a way to organize my things.
GaelicQueen  : Do I clean-house within my portfolio? Answer: sometimes. If I've written and story that nobody has reviewed or commented on, it gets moved to my offline story folder. I do ever review and clean that folder? Yes, if I can't find a venue or contest to enter, or the story line is stale.
D. Reed Whittaker  : What housekeeping? What are we supposed to do? I guess the answer is no. I incorporate suggestions from contest reviews, beyond that, nothing.
Indelible Ink  : Typically, I'm all over the housekeeping: dusting, vacuuming -- you name it. (You know how people will talk if the old port gets, well, portly...)
oldgreywolf on wheels : Not applicable.
Write_Mikey_Write!  : I occasionally wipe a little dust off of my monitor, the better to see my port. Does that count? If not, then my portfolio and Real World housekeeping skills are on a par with each other (which is to say - nearly nonexistent).
Mouse says gobble gobble  : it depends on your definitions of punctual and housekeeping...
bobconstable: I thought portfolios had more to do with bookkeeping.
ashok25: I'm very serious about housekeeping, especially gardening.
writer  : I did it regularly
TheBusmanPoet : No.
Thanks for your responses! L~
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