Prizes for a Wattpad competition?
Alright, so me and my friend are holding a writing competition on Wattpad, and for the end of it we do not know what to give the winner as a prize. This competition is really long and it takes a lot of work so we want the winner to receive something more than just a shout out a read on their book or a boat. We have decided that the winner of each competition will go to a championship writing competition once we have enough competitors. But, we are stuck on what the price should be for the championship! Or those that do not know Wattpad is a reading/writing site where authors can get their books out there. It isn't much you can do for prizes decide to vote on someone's book recommend them in your own that kind of thing. This is why we are stuck, so if anybody has any kind of ideas please let me know! We are stuck and want to reward these people properly for their hard work
On Wattpad, what kind of contests do I host to make my community more popular?
Contests with prizes. Something along the lines of a shout-out from a popular profile, a review of one of the person’s books, a permanent follow… any of these things. And contest that are easily accessible, meaning anyone can enter them, and any type of story/user can win.Hope this helps!
Good creative writing contests?
NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) (http://nanowrimo.org/) is one of my favourites. You have to write at least 50,000 words each November (I think) and it's free. I'm not sure if you win a prize or anything though. Some authors have writing competitions on their websites too. Like Cathy Cassidy (http://www.cathycassidy.com/you/writing_workshops), for example. I've entered a few of hers. Every once in a while there's a new one, and they're all in different categories. The category for the current competition is 'Broken.' It closes on the 31st of March and the story only has to be 1000 words or less. It's good for beginners who want to get noticed. It's free as well and you can win something. You don't have to be a fan of Cathy Cassidy to enter. Even if it's the complete opposite of her style of writing, you can still win if it's good enough. You can also enter poems. One that I just randomly googled is: http://www.prizemagic.co.uk/html/writing_comps.htm I'm not sure if they're any good because, like I say, I just randomly googled it. Some of them have entry fees but some are free - or at least one because I only looked at it for like 30 seconds but whatever. Some good websites that you can post your writing on are Wattpad and FictionPress. They aren't competitions but you can get constructive criticism and you can get really popular and stuff on them. I know that some people have gotten really popular on Wattpad and publishers have read their books on there and offered to publish them. Or if they get good feedback they sometimes self publish them and tell their followers and readers who buy them. If you really want to go for it, you can even sell your books on Amazon or something. Go to http://www.amazon.com/gp/seller-account/mm-summary-page.html?topic=200260520 and you can get it published either on Kindle, to print or on audio. If you publish it on Kindle, it costs nothing but you still make money. So that one's pretty good. I'm planning on doing that sometime. If you decide to check out Wattpad (or if you already have and you like it) then check out my profile notAllieTaylor (http://www.wattpad.com/user/notAllieTaylor). I haven't written any stories on there yet, but I'm probably going to unless I die or something before I get the chance. ;) Hope I helped! -Allie xxx
Teen writing contests 2012?
This site lists some contests for teens.
Are writing contests really worth it?
I've been entering writing contests off and on for several years now. I'm beginning to wonder, though, if they're even worth it. You bust your head for a week or more trying to come up with stuff, and all you get is zilch if you don't win. You don't even come in second sometimes. And if you don't win absolutely, your work isn't even recognized or critiqued. All the effort boils down to nothing more than a personal writing exercise. I'm starting to feel that writing contests don't allow writers to shine at their best because they're just highlighting the favorite work in the JUDGES' opinion. But just because the judges didn't regard the work as win-worthy doesn't mean that it was no good, yet no one will ever know how other readers really felt about all the entries that didn't make the cut. That doesn't do so much good for the writer's self-confidence. It makes a writer second-guess their abilities and talents, and I even wonder whether the "losing" works don't get filed away for good story ideas by the judges themselves. Needless to say, I've never won a writing contest. I fared better on a fanfiction piece I wrote once on an online gaming site, and even on Wattpad. I'm starting to believe that writing contests are just exploitation, especially when the winning piece is dumber than what I submitted (yes, that's happened). I can accept defeat gracefully when I see someone who entered a good masterpiece, but that doesn't always happen. Just wonder what others' opinions are.