Thanks, Leah! Someone on Gather criticized my cat limericks with a "do people really want these?" which I thought was missing the point of sharing creativity...what do you think?
Here's a NEW challenge to Gather members: Email a limerick entry to limerickcontest@comcast.net about PETS before the June 30 deadline or one about FOOD or DIETS before the July 31 deadline and your entry is FREE, but you must put Gather in the subject line, visit:www.limerickcontests.com and tell me what you think of the site in your email or as a Post to this article. Gather members - pass this on - you may WIN CASH!
My longtime writing partner, Al Adler, and I started an on-line writing contest May 1, 2006: www.limerickcontests.com and in the 6 weeks it has been running we've received entries from all over the world - England, Australia, South Africa, Europe, Canada and the USA. We've worked hard to create meta tags which search engine web crawlers have found. Links to our contest now appear on the opening pages of Google and Yahoo for anyone who does a search for "limerick contests". We also sent news releases to many newspapers and writers circles, some of which have been picked up and run.
There is a $4 entry fee - most on-line contests have one. I've entered some articles in contests and placed just out of the money on several, but received on-line and anthology publication. For our contest, the jury is still out on how much action the web will bring. In year's past Al Adler and I had two nationally syndicated newspaper features, one a puzzle feature called LIM-R-IDDLE which sold to over a hundred papers, ran for several years and was reprinted in two books by Simon and Schuster.
My advertising background tells me, it's all a numbers game - the more ways one is able to reach the greatest number of people, the more successful any project will be. To that end, we've put a proposal for three related newspaper features based on the limericks we are receiving in the hands of a major newspaper syndicate. If they should take the feature, the limerick writer will see his or her work in many newspapers. The "shirt tail" on the bottom of each feature printed in a paper should draw people to our website.
I'm surprised we haven't had more hits from the "limerick writers" web searches - can't yet figure out why - is the $4 entry fee, too much? Do writer's think it's hard to write limericks? Don't other writers look for contests on the web as I do?
So far our best response has been from the Writer's Group websites and news letters which have picked up our web address. I've posted information here on Gather - even offered Free Entries to members, but have only had a couple of entries. Where are you Gather members?
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they'd probably love to move to Amherst!
Thank you, Jude, Salud,
other do but mostly you do!
Salud,
Well you've done it again! Another gem and this time for one of my favorites on Gather, Mariana!
I've got your porch corner all set for the picnic!
Cheers,
Colonel Possum
My longtime writing partner, Al Adler, and I started an on-line writing contest May 1, 2006: www.limerickcontests.com and in the 6 weeks it has been running we've received entries from all over the world - England, Australia, South Africa, Europe, Canada and the USA. We've worked hard to create meta tags which search engine web crawlers have found. Links to our contest now appear on the opening pages of Google and Yahoo for anyone who does a search for "limerick contests". We also sent news releases to many newspapers and writers circles, some of which have been picked up and run.
There is a $4 entry fee - most on-line contests have one. I've entered some articles in contests and placed just out of the money on several, but received on-line and anthology publication. For our contest, the jury is still out on how much action the web will bring. In year's past Al Adler and I had two nationally syndicated newspaper features, one a puzzle feature called LIM-R-IDDLE which sold to over a hundred papers, ran for several years and was reprinted in two books by Simon and Schuster.
My advertising background tells me, it's all a numbers game - the more ways one is able to reach the greatest number of people, the more successful any project will be. To that end, we've put a proposal for three related newspaper features based on the limericks we are receiving in the hands of a major newspaper syndicate. If they should take the feature, the limerick writer will see his or her work in many newspapers. The "shirt tail" on the bottom of each feature printed in a paper should draw people to our website.
I'm surprised we haven't had more hits from the "limerick writers" web searches - can't yet figure out why - is the $4 entry fee, too much? Do writer's think it's hard to write limericks? Don't other writers look for contests on the web as I do?
So far our best response has been from the Writer's Group websites and news letters which have picked up our web address. I've posted information here on Gather - even offered Free Entries to members, but have only had a couple of entries. Where are you Gather members?