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Amazon's A New Night Before Christmas Writing Competition - closes this month
There's a link to the full terms and conditions and it doesn't mention only unpublished writers in the eligibility section.
This line "Entrants may not be members of any guild, union or other organization that may prohibit them from participating in this Competition and that would restrict, require due payment or otherwise have the right to oppose such entrant’s participation in this Competition. "
They do. at times. Mine is extracted from a story I wrote for my grandsons several years ago. The original is nearly 6000 words, so this is vastly different, but coming up with an original idea with such a close deadline was a no-no for me. I'm not as prolific as you
Done mine this morning, after reading it to OH and Mum and sending it to #1 daughter in IReland for proof reading. I can do no more!
I copied and pasted mine into the body of the email, failing any other instructions, putting the personal details they asked for first, including a sentence saying what inspired my story, which was the most difficult part!
Is there any way to keep your original formatting when pasting into the body of an email? Those long line lengths look a mess to me. Or has anyone sent as an attachment?
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Great opportunity though.
This line "Entrants may not be members of any guild, union or other organization that may prohibit them from participating in this Competition and that would restrict, require due payment or otherwise have the right to oppose such entrant’s participation in this Competition. "
But that won't apply to many writers in the UK.
Mine is extracted from a story I wrote for my grandsons several years ago. The original is nearly 6000 words, so this is vastly different, but coming up with an original idea with such a close deadline was a no-no for me. I'm not as prolific as you
Wouldn't it be great if a TBer won?!
I'm sure I saw someone else mention the document formats, and they were the standard types.
I copied and pasted mine into the body of the email, failing any other instructions, putting the personal details they asked for first, including a sentence saying what inspired my story, which was the most difficult part!
I did a typo there - now edited - and spelt the long word with an F instead of a G