Woof Winners: Writer’s Offering Our Finest for December 26

WOOF Contest – Top Picks:

Poetry
Khaye Cardenas  - “The Woman’s Silent Prayer” - Every woman’s silent prayer.
Dragon Blogger - “Two Sides To Every Tale” - Poem about a man being wrongly accused and sentenced.
Dragon Blogger - “Why Does Mommy Cry?” - Emotional poem about parents fighting from the mind of a child.
Daisy Bookworm - “Breath” - A poem detailing the evils of wearing real, steel boned corsets for a woman.
exquisite corpse – “Great Is The Morning” – Collaborative Poetry.

Prose
Fiction
Jenn - “Worlds Apart (Chapter One)” - The first chapter of a multi-part story about a relationship doomed by the time in which it occurred.
Jennifer M Scott - “Dear God” - a woman writes a letter to god asking for her death.
Opinion / Non-Fiction / Non Fiction Rant
Harneet Singh  - “Life with an Aim” - Today people are becoming more materialistic. They attach their aim of life with the materialistic things.
Amritbir Kaur - “The Yardsticks of Life - Success and Failure” - Is life measurable? Can we divide it into watertight compartments of success and failure? Find answers to these and much more…
About Writing
Khaye Cardenas – “Please Excuse Me I Am Writing Again” - The writer talks about the things that keep her from writing.

Brought to you by PlotDog Press with the Serial Suspense Screenplay “Intervention” (WOOF participants should re-post all the links above by next Monday. The following links may be excluded as long as you include all the above links.)

Presenting the finest of the writer’s blogs by the bloggers who write them. Highlighting the top 5 posts as chosen by the December 26, 2008 WOOF Contest participants. We are back up and running! Want in to join the next WOOF? The next contest ends January 10. Submit a link to your best writing post of the last 2 weeks using the form at the bottom of this page. Participants, repost the winning link list within a week and you’re all set.

Other WOOF Contestants for 12/26/08

Poetry
Dragon Blogger  - “The Creature” - Random Twitter poem based on 8 words provided on twitter, was one of my better poems.
Dragon Blogger & Jennifer M. Scott - “A Lone Wolf’s Heart” - A co-authored poem created by Summerdragon80 and myself emailing back and forth.
Dragon Blogger - “Coming Out Of Your Cocoon” - Poem about transformation and starting life anew.
Daisy Bookworm - “The Words” - The power of one sentence to save a condemned soul.
Dragon Blogger - “Wash Away These Troubles” - Random Twitter poem about washing away your troubles in the rain.
Dragon Blogger - “Giving In To The Succubi / Chemical Reaction” - Two poems crafted from the same 9 random words, 1 light and 1 dark.
Dragon Blogger - “Patterns” - Poem about an artist painting.
Dragon Blogger - “Sunshine” - Poem about Nuclear Aftermath.
Jennifer M Scott - “Buck Shot” - Poem about getting their first buck.
Dragon Blogger - “The Lost Target” - Poem about an assassin who falls in love with his target.
Dragon Blogger - “The World At Nightmare’s End” - Chaotic Poem that was titled via a contest, was originally untitled.
exquisite corpse – “Great Is The Morning” – Collaborative Poetry.

Prose

Fiction

H. Benjamin Petrie - “Gumdrop Coat” - Desiring a girl in a gumdrop green raincoat, leading up to a kiss.

Opinion / Non-Fiction / Non Fiction Rant

Mike Fried - “Ubiquity in My Town (with apologies to J. Joyce)” - A rant on Blackberries.

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Woof Entry Requests

WOOF Contest for January 10

REQUEST FOR ENTRIES for WOOF Contest January 10

We are going for a bi-weekly contest to see if we can get enough entries consistently for top 5 poetry & top 5 prose!

Go to this page for the rules and information and here to submit a post.

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Rules and Entry Form
Click Here for Entry Form

When you participate in the PlotDog Press’ WOOF (Writer’s Offering Our Finest) Contest, we link your blog to what we think are some of the most interesting writing blogs and emerging writers online.

Use the form above to submit a link to your blog post for the next WOOF. There are no restrictions other than it be writing related, contain no strong adult content, and has been published on your blog within two weeks of the entry deadline for that week's WOOF.

WOOF participants vote on the top five posts. ALL participants MUST repost the top 5 WOOF links as published here within a week of publication to guarantee your inclusion and support the cause.

To participate you submit your post to the WOOF site by Friday NOON EST. If it meets WOOF’s criteria, your link goes up in the new WOOF edition on Monday. All participants repost at least the top WOOF links on their blogs by the close of the next weekend.  Criteria may be changed without notice to advance the success of the competition.

The entries are not pre-judged by us. This is a writer’s and reader’s vote. As long as your blog post qualifies, it will be included in the competition.

Surprise us with the creative nature of your entries. Articles about writing and the craft of writing, reviews of writing software, poems, short stories, chapters, scenes, graphic novel excerpts, pictures of writing implements or related to writing...as long as it’s about writing or a piece of creative writing, and was posted on your site within a week of the WOOF deadline it qualifies.

The top 5 posts with the most votes (including the editor's) get above the fold.

If you submitted your post and you were not listed, Let us know ASAP and we’ll fix it.

If you submitted your post and don't get an email to vote by Saturday AM please let us know ASAP.

Subscribe to the WOOF RSS feed for information on new posts, winners, and when the next WOOF goes online.

Join the WOOF, have a great time, read new writers, get strong links for your blog, get eyes on your work and have a great competition.

Frequently Asked Questions
Who can submit an entry/who qualifies to participate?
Writing blogs that meet the following criteria can participate:
 

• You MUST re-post WOOF posts properly
• The site has to publish RSS
• There has to be original content in the post (i.e. it can’t just be a link to something else or someone else’s work)
• The post has to be properly formatted (i.e. have a title)
• The content has to be published or re-published on your site since the week before last WOOF deadline (ie. within 14 days of the current deadline).

How do I join the WOOF?
To participate in WOOF, you need to submit a link to your favorite post for the previous 2 weeks. Send us your permalink, the URL to the specific post you’re submitting, not a link to your main page. We won’t go through your blog to look for posts.

The submission deadline is NOON EST each Friday. If you’re late, you’re submission will be included the next week.

You can submit for the next week’s WOOF as soon as submissions for the current one closes on Friday.

On Friday, you will get an email with links to posts you can “vote” on.

On Monday when the WOOF is posted, repost the top links or all the links on your blog.

You are required to post everything above the line: “WOOF participants should re-post all the links above by next Monday.”

Check back over the week for any last-minute updates.

Only WOOF participants can vote. On Friday all WOOF participants will be emailed a draft of the links for the upcoming WOOF post. Look over the draft and send us back your choices for the top three spots by Monday 8am.

What happens if I don’t post the links by the end of next Monday?
If you don’t post the agreed upon links by the following Monday, your link gets taken down and other participants are requested to update the WOOF post to take down the misbehaving poster.

If you can’t get the links up in time, email us and we’ll accept a late posting. If you don’t post you can’t play again.

You can link WOOF to your blogroll but you still must repost WOOF in a post.  It must end up on your primary RSS feed.