Writing Contest Winner!

Just a quick post to say......

The First Prize winner of Maple's First Writing Contest is....

Writing Entry #2!!!!

Honorable Mentions are #10 and #8!!!!!

Thanks for entering everyone. :-)

Last Day to Vote for Writing Contest Entries!

We were traveling for a week, but now we are back. 

Huzzah! More blog posts!

Today's post is a reminder to read the Writing Contest entries and vote for your favorites. 

Today is the last day to vote. 

We appreciate every vote you send in - you can comment with your vote or email it to nora.demington@gmail.com.

Penny will choose a First Prize Winner later this week.

We have 14 entries for the Maple's First Writing Contest. There are 8 entries under the first link and 6 entries under the second link - just to make it slightly easier to read them.

http://thedollwardrobe.blogspot.com/p/contact-us.html

http://thedollwardrobe.blogspot.com/p/current-photo-contest.html

Please read the entries and vote today - you will be encouraging the creativity of our readers!

Writing Contest Voting Starts Now!

Sup!

We have 14 entries for the Maple's First Writing Contest. There are 8 entries under the first link and 5 entries under the second link - just to make it slightly easier to read them.

http://thedollwardrobe.blogspot.com/p/contact-us.html

http://thedollwardrobe.blogspot.com/p/current-photo-contest.html

Please check that your entry is there!

If you sent in an entry and you don't see it on the two pages, let us know via comment and send it to us again at nora.demington@gmail.com.

You have two weeks to vote. The last day to vote is May 8th, 2012. The first prize winner and two honorable mentions will be declared later that week.

Send in your votes to nora.demington@gmail.com or comment with them below.

If you have an entry in the contest, feel free to advertise it to your friends and family. :-)

Entrants should have all received this button to use on their own blog/Facebook/Youtube/website, etc.

If you have any questions - 

feel free to ask in the comments or via email.

Thank you for entering and reading the entries everyone!

Every vote counts and helps Penny decide who will win the $20 AG gift card! :-)

Writing Contest Entries Due on Sunday!

Yep, a month has almost passed by and entries for Maple's First Writing Contest are due. Woot!

We already have several entries, which you can read here: http://thedollwardrobe.blogspot.com/p/contact-us.html

If you are interested in the contest go here to learn more: http://thedollwardrobe.blogspot.com/2012/03/maples-first-writing-contest-begins.html

The First Prize Winner will receive a $20 AG gift card!

All entries are due on or before April 22nd. Voting will begin after we upload all entries. :-)

Enter today! 

Show off your writing talent! 

Share your story with the "world"/our blog readers! ;-)

Maple's First Writing Contest Begins

Hola everyone!

Today we wanted to announce the start of a new contest:

Maple's First Writing Contest.

Maple loves writing. She loves creating new characters and seeing how they will interact within her stories. But she finds it difficult to set aside time to write. Life is busy!

She did manage to start up her own story blog and she is very proud of it: 

http://maplesfantasticstories.blogspot.com/

So she would love to encourage all of you to write stories as well!

For this contest, anyone can enter - but if you are younger than 18 make sure you get your parent's permission.

The first prize winner will get a $20 AG gift card - which we will mail to him/her (hence why your parents should know you are entering if you are younger than 18).

So for the first time we are trying this type of contest there will be one first prize winner (who will get the gift card), and two honorable mentions.

We'll gauge how popular the contest is to see if we should keep doing them, and if we should offer more than one prize.

What should you write?

1) A fictional story! No real-life stuff. Real-life is overrated. It can be science fiction, or historical fiction, or fantasy, or a mystery, or a romantic comedy, or an adventure, etc. etc. - any genre you want to use. But it has to be fiction.

Sure, it can be grounded in your own experiences and your own mindset - but make sure you aren't just telling us that exciting thing that happened at Applebee's last week. Be creative peoples!


2)  Also it needs to be age-appropriate. In other words - nothing adult or too violent. If you wouldn't want a nine year old girl to read it - then you know it won't work for this contest.

3) We are looking for something between 5 to 8 pages in length, i.e. approximately 1250 to 2000 words. If it is less than 5 pages - that is fine, too. But we thought 5-8 would give you more of a chance to engage your reader.

4) Your entry can be a complete story or a snippet from a story. So don't think you have to have a beginning, middle, and end all in 8 pages.

Think about what you can accomplish in that length and use it to your advantage. It can be overwhelming to say: "I'm gonna write a book!" But it is much less scary to say: "I'm gonna write 8 pages!"

So your entries are due one month from today:

April 22nd, 2012.

Hopefully this will allow people to work it into their schedules. :-)

Please email them to nora.demington@gmail.com.

You can attach them as Word documents or copy and paste your text into the email itself.

If you want to include an image or two, feel free to do so.

But as usual - do not send us pictures of yourself or your family.

Feel free to use a drawing, or a stock photo, or a picture of your dolls, etc.

All of the entries will then be posted on a specific "Writing Contest" page here at The DW,

which will be accessed by a tab in the top menu.

So yes - the whole world will be able to see your entry. :-)

We will most likely try and post people's entries as they send them in.

Readers will have a chance to read them and vote on them.

Perhaps we will create a button that those people who entered can use on their blogs or FB pages to mark that they entered this contest.

Then Penny will choose the First Prize Winner, and the two honorable mentions from those entries ranked in the top 50%.

Any questions?

Feel free to comment with them below!

We hope you are all excited about this contest. :-)