 Contests & Activities: July 29, 2015 Issue [#7128] |
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This week: Challenge Yourself Edited by: 🦄🏳️🌈Sapph  
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The purpose of this newsletter is to share my thoughts, ideas, and experience with anything and everything relating to contests and activities. Information from me to you on entering and running activities here on Writing.Com.
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Challenge Yourself |
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Whether you're entering something or running something, there's this sense where we quite possibly want to stay in our comfort zones. This can be good for enjoying what we do but it's not the best to really expand what we're capable of doing.
Something that I stick with in my life is to try something new as much as I can. This means trying writing in a genre I'm not comfortable with or learning something new so that I can write a new poem form. If I'm running an activity or contest, I like to give it an edge that will push those who enter to challenge themselves through genre or what may need to be done in the activity. I value a good challenge and I think it's a great way to expand on yourself as a person and your skills.
Here are some ways you can challenge yourself:
 Enter a contest with a genre that you've never done before.
 Come up with some elaborate activity that could be something new.
 Go for that longer or shorter word/line count in something. Push your limits on where you're comfortable with your writing.
 Break out of that typical routine of what you read. Try a new genre or item type.
 Judge a variety of contests to see if there's something you may be missing out there.
 The biggest way to challenge yourself is to just continue starting new things. The more you start, the more you can push your own personal boundaries.
The key to challenging yourself is actually getting started and believing that you can get this done. If you can start something challenging and keep yourself on track with it, you can make something worth it in the end!
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My question for you this time: How do you challenge yourself when you're running a contest/activity or entering one?
Question from before ("Contests & Activities Newsletter (June 3, 2015)" ): How much promotion can you stand before seeing so much annoys you? How much do you think is too much?
Dragon is hiding  replied: I don't want to scroll through a page of posts on someone's notebook, to find out they all say pretty much the same thing! With that, it'd also be annoying to have every 3-4 posts on your newsfeed be from the same person promoting the same thing. I think once every (at least!) 36-48 hours is more than enough, and even then, it shouldn't always be the same thing. I think that would be very boring; it'd also be good reason to remove someone from your newsfeed.
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