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RE: A Contest about Contests!!!!
My idea is based around commonalities amongst us all.
- "My favourite..." (everyday the title changes based on the topic)
- Everyday, you at freewritehouse pick an item, and have writers describe their favourite blank and why. The key is description and persuasion, so essentially they're trying to make their favourite, your favourite. For example, What's your favourite burger? beach? beer? scotch? wine? holiday spot? summer/winter activity? movie? book? pet? You get the idea ;) They can also include a personal anecdote if they have one as well. Perhaps the favourite burger was eaten on the night of a first date with a person who eventually became the spouse. Perhaps add a word count as well.
- You could be objective and use a random number generator to choose a winner, or have other contestants vote on their favorite and the winner is the person with the most votes. I've seen that before, but sometimes really good entries just don't have the followers to participate or others get all kinds of people to vote for them without even looking at the post. So maybe the 'judges' at freewritehouse can include their votes as 50%?
There's the general idea; hope you like it :)
- Winner gets the post payout or 1/2 and 1/2 to freewritehouse? I've just found @freewritehouse , so I'm not sure how you usually do this part.
Great idea!! How long would you run this contest for? And potential winners have to participate in all days?
The Freewrite House is still young and doesn't have much of an income. The first 2 weeks of the contests we did were founded by donations... Your entry is accepted for the original FH contest.
3 lynncoyle1
for the SBI drawing
Thank you!
I've had the general idea in my head forever, but haven't figured out all the details :)
I guess the contest could run as long as possible if the interest is there because there are an infinite number of 'topics'. I don't know that I'd run it daily though because it would become so overwhelming; maybe run it weekly giving 3 days for posting and then the other half of the week make it a condition that others must upvote and comment on their favourite and why; so commenting could be included in the criteria and the post payout would also increase. Then the prize money could come from that, with a portion going to The Freewrite House for future prizes?
I'm just throwing out all of my ideas here haha because truthfully, I hadn't thought it through this much!
I'm more than happy to hear your thoughts on it all at a later time too!
Thank you again ;)