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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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Does it ever end?
This newsletter is about contest deadlines...or rather, dates in general. Everyone has opinions about them, I do too. I'm of the opinion that if the closing date for a contest is 11:59 p.m. on Feb 29, that is the closing time - period. No matter what. I don't want to hear from a contestant that their cat died and on the way to the vet, they had a car accident and got food poisoning in the hospital. Sure, I feel very bad for them, and I wish them well, but if you make one exception, you've compromised the contest.
Some people like to extend the final date to gather more entries. I feel if they really had something of quality to enter, it would be posted in the forum already. Oh I've done it, I've come up with the greatest idea for a story entry in a contest and typed my fingertips off trying to finish it on time, but a person has to sleep and I definitely was sleeping at 11:59 p.m. If I don't get my story submitted to a contest in time, well that's on me. And if I didn't edit properly and I get a scolding in my review, that's on me too. I still have a great idea and story framework to complete, on my own.
The same goes for the person hosting the contest. Your contest should give the people entering some idea when the winners will be announced. Now...if the history of the contest shows ten people normally enter and you get fifty, you might note in the forum that there may be a delay. I think a week to judge is a reasonable amount of time. Not a month. Not six weeks. Judge in a timely manner and send out the prizes! Everyone loves prizes!
In conclusion, make sure your rules are clear about beginning and ending dates and times. If other rules are needed, make those clear too. Stick to them, it's only fair. And as always, Write On!
This month's question: What are your experiences with contest deadlines? Send in your answer below!  Editors love feedback!
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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.
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This month's question: What are your experiences with contest deadlines? Send in your answer below! Editors love feedback!
Last month's question: What do you do to prepare your writing for a contest?
Dave  replied: What do you do to create the best and shiniest writing? Sift through all that grist and sludge to find the golden nuggets for polishing and arranging into a sparkling piece of treasure.
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