Friday, May 16, 2014

Getting Involved In A Free Monthly Writing Contest

By Minnie Whitley


There are a lot of people who like to write. One way of improving is by getting involved in a free monthly writing contest. This will help you with your vocabulary, your sentence structure and your basic creativity. The more you practice in this way, the better you will become. You will be able to see what others are doing as well.

A lot of these contests you can find online on writing sites. Websites often try and promote themselves in this way, and they will offer some sort of reward for the person who submits the best article or for someone who writes the most articles. This can be something that is ongoing or it can be something that is just once off.

It is nice to find other people who are interested in the same thing as what you are doing. You will pick up tips there and you will be able to find advice there as well. Apart from that, it is important to get encouragement and motivation because you can become lonely if you doing this all by yourself. You need to get a push from others from time to time.

There is usually a community of writers that you can ask about various aspects of the articles. You can also ask about things relating to your own writing, such as sentence structure, for example. It is a nice way of picking up a mentor. If you have just got into writing, then it is great to find someone else who has been in this field for a long time.

Getting positive criticism at this stage is important, and this is something that people struggle with. People don't like to be judged, but you need to know where you are going wrong. This is way that you are able to make improvements in your work. You may be writing too many of the same words in a sentence, and you are not aware of. This is the reason your work is being rejected.

However, you can pick up some good advice in a professional writing forum. You may even find that you are getting good points for the way you are writing. There are a lot of people who have taught themselves in this way. It is not necessary to go to university, and it is a way in picking up a mentor. It is always good to have someone like this encouraging you.

Some people don't like their work to be put down. They don't enjoy criticism. However, this is necessary if you want to go a step further in this field. You won't know what you are doing wrong and why you are having your articles rejected all the time. It may be that you are repeating yourself, or something simple. This is where you need a thick skin.

There are offline magazines that you may want to get involved in as well, and when someone does spot your talent, then they may want to hire you as a columnist. This is difficult to get involved in, but you need to do this on a regular basis. If you get into a habit of doing this, then you may find that you will find an opening.




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