The Contest Challenge

YAY! It looks like you are working on doing catchup entries! I'm always excited when people are working to catch up in the challenge! Mind you, it's more work for me, but it's happy, good work.

For doing catchup entries, there are a couple of things I need. You included the contest title--Great! You need to do that for all entries, catchup or not. But I think there was a bit of confusion about the date I was looking for. I don't want the date you posted the entry, but the date you want the entry to count for. I checked and you already have May 2022 accounted for. That's the only recent time I've highlighted The Writer's Cramp (as far as I can tell, according to my dropnotes of Previously Highlighted Contests). So, we can count it 2 ways...because I always do my best to count an entry, if at all possible. Either we can count it for May 2021 because no contest from that month is currently open or we can count it for February 2017 because that's the last time I actually highlighted it. I would suggest counting it for May 2021, but it's up to you. If you intended it for another month that has nothing open or if I missed a month when I actually highlighted that contest, let me know.

So, ideally the title of a regular entry that isn't to catch up would be, in this case (if I'd highlighted The Writer's Cramp for December 2022) simply "The Writer's Cramp." (No need for the quotation marks. They are just to show you what's the post title here vs. the instructions about the post title. ) If you are catching up, the post title here would be "The Writer's Cramp--May 2021" though that would be if you'd previously gotten permission to substitute that contest for a month that it wasn't highlighted because everything else was closed...or the only things open are offensive to you. For example, if the only contest open is a sexy writing contest and you don't feel comfortable trying to write around such a thing, I can replace it.

If the only thing open is a romance contest and you don't like writing romance, too bad. This is a challenge. I don't like writing romance so when I'm forced to, it's either funny or weird or whatever. One attempt was about a new zoo keeper who had a crush on the zoo keeper who was training him. She was going around and talking about all the gross and weird mating rituals of the animals. (For example, hippo males twirl their tails and fling poo all over to attract females. ) Yeah, it wasn't your typical romance, but it officially counted.

The other thing I need when you post an entry is proof that you posted an entry in the contest's forum. You do that with {post:XXXXXXX} linking to your entry post in the contest's forum. You don't have to link to your actual item you wrote because I can follow the link to the forum and find it there. I just need proof that you entered.

Sorry to be behind on the forum! I hope I didn't cause you too much grief! I'm excited for you to be catching up! Good luck! And if there was some snafu and you didn't already post a May 2022 entry like I have recorded, please let me know what you intended. Thanks!