We're super excited to announce a whopping contest collab with @ericvancewalton!
Memoir Monday has grown exponentially and inspired many of our Silver Bloggers to dig into the archives of our minds and in the nether depths of our cupboards and attics. I personally contacted family from the older generation (yes I'm not part of that era yet!) and asked questions and begged for photos. Many memories surfaced as I sat down and started writing and sharing precious memories! What a privilege that we have this platform as our personal memory bank!
We tried to get Blog of the Month on the road again on April Fool's Day 2024 and you did not disappoint, but life stuff happened. Good and bad!
Life has been a roller-coaster ride for the team, as it has been for many of you, our awesome Silver Bloggers, but we dust ourselves off, and get up again, right? Nothing's gonna stop us now or ever!
LINK.A contest is just what we all need to clear out the cobwebs, and Eric has an awesome thought-provoking #memoirmonday prompt which will be for this Writing Contest. You will find all about it in Eric's Memoir Monday blog, and here is the
EDIT - Some of our Silvers have responded to Eric's current Memoir Monday, and have not checked the correct link we provided.
No worries, at least you have another precious memory stored here on Hive😉
The Writing Contest question is - WHAT MAKES YOU SAD?
Whopping prizes to be won
@ericvancewalton is generously sponsoring 50 HBD and our founder @lizelle 50 Hive!
But first
The Silver Blogger's community has grown exponentially, with over 2,440 Subscribers! Your delegations have also increased, standing at just under 11K HP. Not only does this add to our voting power, but we also use @hivediscomod to ensure that curation rewards are properly distributed to delegators.
So, from us to you:
And with special thanks to our admin and tech guru @mondoshawan who sets this sort of thing up for us.
If you would also like to delegate, there's a nifty table to help you at the end of this post. Alternatively, you can do it from your wallet.
To enter -
How to enter your post for the Memoir Monday Contest -
- Posts must be in English and obviously centre on the week’s theme or topic.
- Prose must be a minimum of 350 words. If it’s a photo or graphic essay, the photos must be your original work and preferably with some sort of back-story to the images.
- The blog must be posted in/from our community
- The account must be a subscribed Silver Blogger
- Use memoirmonday - as your first tag.
- Share the link to your entry in the comments of this post.
Consider following the #memoirmonday tag so that you can easily find, upvote, and comment on other contributions.
Reminders:
The updated community description is a guide to content we welcome in the Silver Bloggers' Community. Folk who post content that doesn't jive, will be encouraged to find an alternative and more comfortable space in which to play.
Deadlines and prizes
The contest closes at midnight GMT (also known as UTC) on Monday 26 Sunday 26 January 2024 and the winners will be announced later the following week.
The winner gets
- A whopping 30 HBD generously sponsored by @ericvancewalton
The runners-up win, too
- 10 HBD each generously sponsored by @ericvancewalton
- Thanks to our LeoThreads account, @silverlions.leo, the runners-up will each receive 10 LEO tokens.
Honourable Mentions
Thanks to our founder Silver-Blonde Lizzie, there will be 50 Hive to be shared among our honourable mentions.
All prizes will be sent directly to the winners' wallets.
Last words...no pressure
If you don't do well being pressured - by topics or deadlines, that's ok.
They are intended to nudge and inspire. So even if you don't get your post done by the cut-off time, we will still consider it for curation (no prizes, though).
Speaking of curation, if you're inspired by other things, we look forward to reading your posts. We manually curate and recommend good content for support from OCD.
Also, let me remind you that our community is working in collaboration with LeoThreads with our special curation account, @silverlions.leo. So every time our Silver Bloggers community members create a thread and use the #silverbloggers tag in their thread, they can expect a visit from our @silverlions.leo account. And we look forward to seeing your threads.
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Also -
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Hi @ericvancewalton
This topic is for next week and at the same time it is a contest?
Can you answer it now or do you have to wait until next week?
I ask because it says it is for the week of January 20 to 26 and in the rules of the contest posting says it expires on the 20th at midnight.
Excuse my doubts, but I would like to participate.
Greetings and best regards
Apologies @tonyes, we've corrected the date, it is 26 January!
Thank you for alerting us to this confusion of dates in our post. The contest lasts until Sunday January 26th.
Thank you for the clarification and prompt response. Happy journey. Cheers and best regards.
This is going to be a whole lot of fun ...
What about @edith-4angelseu and @asiaymalay are you two ladies going to get your writing hats on!
You can bet on that TG!!! 😁
Excellent and glad to hear it :)
😬😌😌
If writing #memoirmonday in the @silverbloggers community is fun, that they have teamed up to bring out a contest, I think it's great, the perfect tune!!!! Hopefully there will be lots of contestants and great entries, as always. As for me, I'm already going to sharpen my pencil to start writing. Greetings and may God distribute luck among all ;)
Looking forward to reading your response @nancybriti1. Awesome to be doing this with @ericvancewalton and #memoirmonday <3
I'm so psyched for this! Thanks for the post and the idea to collaborate. Next week will be a whole lot of fun.
Thank you for this, I love the prompt and I know you and I think quite alike on certain matters, this prompt being one. It will be fun seeing who says what!
You're welcome! Some of these prompts teach me a lot and this was one of them. It will be fun to read what the community comes up with. I hope you're having a good weekend!
We're super excited about this collaboration, looking forward to the responses!
Hello, dear silverbloggers
I am so excited about such a fantastic collaboration with @ericvancewalton and his Memoir Monday initiatives. So, I'm already joining among the participants. Here is my entry:
https://peakd.com/hive-106316/@janaveda/memoir-monday-46-or-what-makes-me-sad-eng-spa
Although the theme is about sadness, I wish you a lot of fun in it, learning, and that your writings will be testimonies for the younger ones.
Greetings.
Wonderfully exciting to see Silver Bloggers thriving with contests in community.
Looking forward to reading the responses, thank you Joan <3
Hi friends, here is my entry:
https://hive.blog/hive-106316/@isabelpena/memoirs-of-my-mother-memoir-monday-45 My writing has a Spanish translation, but this publication was made before the publication of the writing contest came out, which I think is great that they created it. I hope to be able to participate in all these new topics from now on. Thanks @ericvancewalton for the support and thanks to the @silverbloggers community for this idea.
Please refer to the correct Memoir Monday LINK as provided. Note as per Eric's blog, it runs from 1/20 - 1/26.
We look forward to reading your response.
Hi @isabelpena, we enjoyed reading your post, but this is not the topic for our contest😉 P.S. At least you now have another #memoirmonday to look back on🤗
Thank you very much for the clarification dear @lizelle, the truth is I was very confused with the publication. I will be waiting next week to participate with the corresponding topic. Thank you again, very attentive.
We look forward to reading your response @isabelpena 😉
Following already🤝, this community is kind of home.
Hi @sanjeevm, you're part of the family already <3
Greetings friends I just finished finding this community, I read some publications ... I think it's great the proposed dynamic of Mondays and that lasts a week so I will do the 13 to 19 that good that there are still days and I will tell other friends, friends who join ....
Looking forward to your response @zhanavic69, glad you discovered us!
alright.. alright.. I'll make sure to join soon but let me finish reading all the last #memoirmonday first 😆 goodness, so many wonderful in the world and Id like to know them from their sons and daughters memories. I need to think about the current edition because I always in the mood of having fun you know.
thanks for running the contest !!
Looking forward to your response @cicisaja 🤗
This is beautiful!!!
https://ecency.com/hive-106316/@edith-4angelseu/what-makes-me-sad-hmmm
https://peakd.com/hive-106316/@zhanavic69/memoir-monday-45-memories-of-a-great-mom
Please refer to the correct Memoir Monday LINK as provided. Note as per Eric's blog, it runs from 1/20 - 1/26.
We look forward to reading your response.
Hi @zhanavic69, we enjoyed reading your post, but this is not the topic for our contest😉 P.S. At least you now have another #memoirmonday to look back on🤗
🫣Oops, what a pain in the ass heh heh, thanks, I had a doubt about the confusion as it said there from 13 to 19 I said I have a chance, and that I also wanted to talk about my mother and that they knew her.
As I said I found the community and I'm still seeing and understanding how is the dynamics, but little by little I'm understanding.
Thank you for your attention and your guidance.
No problem at all, you have plenty of time now to write about that topic and enter🤗
Hello my beautiful greetings again, what happened is that the contest whose link I passed was the 13 to 19 and was still on time was that I got tangled where to leave the links heh heh ....🫣
Silver Bloggers is hosting a once-off contest for this week's Memoir Monday, 'What makes you sad?' You have to drop that link here in our post if you enter.
As you say, you were on time with last week's Memoir Monday🤗Hi @zhanavic69, Eric's weekly Memoir Mondays are just writing prompts, not a contest, so there's no need to leave a link in his post.
Good evening, my participation in #memoirmonday through #SilverBologgers. May it be to your liking.
https://peakd.com/hive-106316/@mercmarg/memoir-monday-46-what-makes-you-sad
Hi. This is my entry:
https://peakd.com/hive-106316/@isabelpena/memoir-monday-46-120-126-what-makes-me-sad
Dropping the link here of my ineligible 'entry' - SAD - Memoir Monday 46
Looking forward to all your entries!
It is a subject on which we all have a say. Here I share with you my publication. Thank you very much for the contest dear friends.
https://peakd.com/hive-106316/@irvinc/what-makes-me-sad-or-memoir-monday-week-46
https://ecency.com/hive-106316/@delight54/memoir-monday-46-what-makes
Hehehe, here is my entry guys😌😁.https://peakd.com/hive-106316/@asiaymalay/what-makes-me-sad-memoir-monday-46
https://peakd.com/hive-106316/@damarysvibra/memoir-monday-46-sadness-stay-away-tristeza-alejate
Greetings, this is my participation to the contest proposed by the community supporting @ericvancewalton's proposal.
Thanks to the community #silverbloggers for welcoming us in this beautiful work and as always to @ericvancewalton because it is an enriching activity. 😊
I'm late for the contest, I know.
https://peakd.com/hive-106316/@owasco/memoir-monday-my-mother-and-my-sadnesses
A pleasant greeting here is my entry to the contest 😉
https://peakd.com/hive-106316/@yolimarag/esping-what-saddens-me-memory-monday-46--6tp
Hello my entry
https://hive.blog/hive-106316/@nayita238/memoir-monday-46-what-makes-you-sad
https://hive.blog/hive-106316/@vicent21/memoir-monday-46-what-makes-you-sad
https://hive.blog/hive-106316/@zhanavic69/memoir-monday-46-what-makes-you-sad
Hello, how are you?
This is what makes me sad...
https://peakd.com/hive-106316/@ungranulises/sad
Hello, dear silverbloggers
https://peakd.com/hive-106316/@carolinacardoza/i-dont-want-the-earth-to-ever-die