Post-Blogiversary Events: Poetry & Prose Reader Showcase + Poem Collab + Reader Survey

Howdy! Happy November to you.

October 8, 2017 marked Edge of Night's third anniversary, or blogiversary (if you missed it, check out that post here!). I gave a few general updates, including one on Nightfall, offered to send you all a little thank-you card, and then I left it open to suggestions on how else to celebrate. That's where this post comes in: Welcome to The After Party!

Scheduled events include a new poetry and story reader collaboration, as well as a second kind of little poetry collab, and a fall Reader Survey that will help me see how your experience has been here lately, and if there's anything I can do to make it better. More details on each of these below!

Poetry & Prose General Reader Showcase #2 *CLOSED*
Check the post out here!

If you weren't here for the first go-round or don't remember it, I put one of these out back in 2015 and called it a "reader collaboration," with "Reader Collab: A Collection of Outside Poetry & Prose" being the full post title. It was great fun showing off my fellow writers' works, and this is the same thing -- it just got a name change.

(This is actually something I'd like to offer occasionally. It'd be sweet to try out some different themes once in a while. But it depends on the interest how often they'll come around. If there's a lot of interest, I'll certainly try to put 'em out more than once every couple of years. 😉)


The details:

A writer of poetry and/or stories? Even if you don't typically write such things, this would be the perfect time to give it a go! If you submit your work to me within the next three weeks, I will include it in a special post along with other submissions.

• Start-End Dates: November 15th, 2017 -- December 6th, 2017.

• All pieces must be submitted by Dec. 6th!!

• This is a general showcase. No theme to follow!

• Submit your work in one of two ways:

• Via this form.

• By emailing it to eve.edgeofnight@gmail.com.

• Emailed works can be sent either as attachments or directly in the email. Please also include information such as: (1) your piece, (2) a name to identify you with, (3) if wanted for credit purposes, one link per author to a website/profile, (4) any author notes you want to be included with the piece.

• No length limit for poems, but short stories should be a maximum of 1,200 words.

• Submit pre-written pieces or start fresh!

• Only one caveat: If you've submitted to my blog before, please avoid duplicates!

Poem Collaboration *CLOSED*

Check out the completed poem here!

I did this thing with a friend one time... He started us off with a line, and from there we both took turns, writing one line each, whatever came to mind. Maybe the end result made sense, maybe it didn't -- we just went with it and had fun.

I thought I'd try something like that here. Who knows what the finished product will be!

Below you'll find a form where you can contribute a single line of poetry. I've given you the first line, now what comes next? I will gather all lines after November 29th and put them together, in the order I received them, and publish the completed poem soon after the deadline. Go on, then -- let's see what we can mash together!

Can't see the form? Click here.
To summarize the important parts to this,

• Given the first line, write one further line of poetry to add to the poem.

• Don't stress! No rules beyond that. Let fly whatever comes to mind.

• All contributions will be gathered up by November 29th, 2017. Posted soon after.

• Have your line in by then!

Reader Survey *CLOSED*

Thanks for your feedback!

I'm sure this was the part you were all waiting for lol. Hooraaay, another Reader Survey!

These really do help me out a lot, though. I sincerely appreciate the feedback from you, and I want to know what is going well and what isn't. Unfortunately, some things I can't help -- my erratic posting, for one. And some things I may need more specific responses on in order to properly fix them, like navigation issues (I've got categories, labels, widgets, etc., so what might I be missing?).

But every little piece of information helps, and I look over each response carefully to see if and how I could implement suggestions or improve on things. Sometimes nothing comes of it, but don't let that discourage you from sharing your thoughts with me.

So if you find yourself with a spare couple of minutes, please consider taking the below survey and letting me know how things are going!

Can't see the form? Click here.

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In other news, lucky me got a Jury summons in the mail the other day, and I've got to report in the week of November 27th. During this time (~Nov. 27 -- Dec. 1), I'm going to be either unavailable to reply to comments & messages, or my responses will be delayed. Either way, I'll get back to you ASAP!
Thank you all! I'm totally looking forward to reading your submissions -- please contact me if you have any questions, concerns, or just need something clarified!