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Moderator Post[MODPOST] May Chapterfy writing contest! Big prizes and other fun stuff!(self.WritingPrompts)
submitted 1 decade, 2 years ago* (edited 1 week, 4 days after) by RyanKinderFounder / Co-Lead Mod to /r/WritingPrompts (18.8m)
INTRODUCTION
I'll open with a TL;DR, but you ought to read everything below:
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Yes, $100 for first, and more money for second and third is indeed a big prize, especially since we don't make money from the site, it is all out of pocket encouraging more people to try to write. Hope you have a great day. :)
have you thought of trying crowdfunding to make it bigger? sorry, i couldn't help pointing out that 100$ is really what most would consider a big prize. made me feel clever
It's no problem, internet friend. :) I had considered crowdfunding, but I hate going hat in hand to the people. I wrote a small book of prompts that I use to pay for some of the prize money, but it only makes about 20 bucks a month, lol. I'm hoping that the primary thrust of participation is the desire to write, with things like $100 just being an added bonus should the person win.
yeah i've often wondered about the balance of incentivizing behavior vs just letting it be it's own reward. thanks for putting up your money to encourage people to write. i've been thinking of starting a scholarship to encourage students to do FOIA based reporting on their schools to counter-act many journalism schools teaching public relations, but i don't have a lot of money - so that's why i asked about the crowdfunding. thanks again.
Without an entrance fee $100 isn't too bad. Most contests do have $500 or more common is $1000, but they also charge $15 or even $25+ just to enter. Sooooo, a free contest ain't too shabby imo, especially since the whole point of the sub is to encourage more people to write, and a free to enter contest does that.
Yeah, for a subreddit run by volunteers who all have their own lives, $100 is a big prize. Feel free to submit your work elsewhere if it's not worth your time.