 Contests & Activities: July 30, 2025 Issue [#13273] |
This week: Resolutions! Remember those? Edited by: Legerdemain  
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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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July Site Contest
The task is simple: Write a short story inspired by the featured song prompt.
July Prompt: You may be literal or metaphorical in the usage of the prompt, but it must be clear that you used it.
Lodestar: It has become unavailable. Fix it, find it, or learn to live without it.
Week 5: July 27 - Aug. 2:*WATERMELON* Include the word WATERMELON (one sentence limit)
Ask and answer questions about Peace. Contribute to the discourse about Peace. Your thoughts?
Every week there is a new question. Share it early and often.
Excerpt: The answers are all breakfast items, but the clues are scrambled versions of the answers.
Give this Madlib a try!
Here's to celebrate artists at their best.
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Word search of words starting and ending with the letter "L"
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Simple word search where every word starts and ends with the letter L.
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This month's question: Have you met some of your New Year goals? Send in your answer below!  Editors love feedback!
Last month's "Contests & Activities Newsletter (July 2, 2025)" question: Do you look for themes when entering or participating in a contest or activity??
Friendly Neighborhood Derg  : Not really, but I am picky about what themes I will write for.
D. Reed Whittaker  : Not so much themes as the commitment. I don't like those requiring multiple submissions - one a month. I try to write all genres and take what comes (themes). Not a fan of fantasy or horror, but I have written some good stories for those.
TheBusmanPoet  : No themes.
Jeffrey Meyer : Nope, just whatever gets sparked in my imagination.
Hades : Only if it's required for the activity.
Conrad Moriarty : I like prompts, guidelines, or the mandatory use of x amount of words. I always prefer to generate my own themes; comes from my heart in that particular moment. I mean having to incorporate certain words into a writing.
Dave  : A theme is as good as any other prompt.
Thank you all for your responses! L~
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