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Dear Reader,

We introduce ourselves as ‘People’s Reflections’, a Platform made for people where one can express his/ her views, opinions and thoughts on any subject. The only condition is the write-up shall be original and not published already on any platform/ website.

Competitions are the best way to motivate talented people to present their thoughts and encourage their talent before a large audience. 

Click Here to see the results of "September-2021 Writing Competition".

We are happy to announce once again a ‘Writing Competition’ for the month of November-2021 and invite budding writers, journalists, students and authors to express their views.

As you are aware, we have been organising Writing Competitions on versatile topics for the last few months. This time, we have thought of providing freedom to our authors/ participants to write on any topic, in the story form, be it original or fictional.

In other words, the present Competition’s theme is story/ novel writing.

  1. You can write any story which is original or fictional.
  2. You can select a story which will give a strong and valuable message to the youth and society.
  3. Mythological stories will be appreciated.
  4. You can write stories of unsung Heroes of India (Freedom Fighter) who saved us and our country.
  5. We will appreciate stories of people serving in defence of India i.e. Navy, Army, Air force, and Police force.
  6. Stories of people who helped society in various wars, pandemics, and natural calamities.
  7. Stories of strong political personalities who always fought for the nation and set an exceptional example for the society and new generation.
  8. Stories of social workers who devoted their lives for the upliftment of poor and underprivileged people of the society.
  9. We will also accept the real stories of crime and how the mysteries are solved by the Officers in charge.
  10. The length of the story should be a minimum of 1000 words and maximum it can be unlimited.

This is an attempt to give a freedom to our authors from the standard pattern of Writing Competition. Hope, the writers/ authors will appreciate and enjoy writing something different.

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Terms:

  1. Article shall be original as we use plagiarism technology for review.
  2. Article can be primarily in Hindi or English or any other language.
  3. The eligible Articles will be published on our website reflections.live under the Author’s by-line/ name.
  4. Provide your article in a simple word format along with the images you wish to use in .jpeg or .png format with good resolution on contact@reflections.live.
  5. The Article shall range between minimum 1000-maximum words with “Times New Roman” Font in ‘12’ Font Size.
  6. The Article shall mandatorily have Title (5-10 words) and Subtitle (15-25 words). To view few examples, you can visit our website reflections.live and view some Articles.
  7. The participants shall upload articles on our website i.e. reflections.live by creating login credentials. How to upload an article is explained below.
  8. The Last date of uploading an article will be 30th November, 2021. Results of the Competition will be announced by 15th of December, 2021.

How to Upload Article:

  1. Visit reflections.live.
  2. Sign-in on the website through Facebook, Gmail or creating login credentials.
  3. Create your detailed profile along with a suitable image of the author by visiting three lines on left hand side on home page and click on 'My Profile'. In profile, kindly provide about your educational/ career brief, expertise as well as achievements so far.
  4. After creating a profile, click on three lines on the left-hand side and then click on ‘Write Article’ option.
  5. In ‘Write Article Editor’, Title (5-10 words) and Subtitle (15-25 words) are mandatory.
  6. In the main body of the Article, you can add an image by clicking on ‘+’ mark. You can add multiple images also in your article. Kindly note that the uploaded image shall be cropped in such a way that it shall fit in the image box provided for upload irrespective of whether the image is horizontal or vertical.
  7. Your article shall be supported by suitable images. You can pick images from www.unsplash.com, www.pexels.com or www.pixabay.com as these three websites are free for images. If you are pulling images from any other website, the ‘source’, ‘image reference’ shall be mentioned below images without fail.
  8. If you are adopting images from any website, provide URL details of the said images and website details without fail on our email - contact@reflections.live. We need to ensure this from the copyright perspective.
  9. After clicking on ‘Save’ button at the bottom, you will be directed to the next page, where, in the ‘Optional Title’ box, you have to write ‘Competition November-2021’ without fail.
  10. You need to add meta key works, meta descriptions, URL without fail in the corresponding boxes. To understand what Meta Description is, and Meta Keywords and URL, kindly check our FAQs on reflections.live.
  11. After the URL, select one of the images appearing in the images box. This image will appear with your article on the homepage of our website, once article is published. You can visit the home page of our website and view some examples.
  12. After selecting images, click on the terms and conditions box and then click on 'Save' button.
  13. Once you submit the article, it will come for moderation to the Reflections Team.
  14. Eligible articles will be published on our website after declaring results of the competition.
  15. Results will be declared on our website and a suitable mail will also be forwarded to all the participants.
  16. For any query in relation to uploading an article, kindly write to contact@reflections.live or on the whatsapp link given on our website.
  17. For any article other than English language, the URL shall be in English only.
  18. For other FAQs, kindly refer to our website.

Prizes:

  1. First three winners will be declared.
  2. Apart from the first three winners, five winners will be declared under ‘Exceptional Writing Skills’.
  3. First Prize: INR 5,000/-.
  4. Second Prize: INR 3,500/-.
  5. Third Prize: INR 2,500/-.
  6. Exceptional Writing Skills: 1,500/- each.
  7. Personalised E-certificates will be issued to all the participants including winners.
  8. Eligible Articles will be published on our website under the by-line of the Author. (Eligible Articles means the Articles meeting the standard of our websites and copyright issues.).

FAQs:

Q.: What are ‘Meta Keywords’?

A.: Meta keywords attributes to the important keywords present in your article and viewers may possibly adopt those keywords to search articles in search engines of Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. Please note while selecting Meta Keywords, special characters shall not be used i.e.”, #, $, %, -, +, [, ], \, /, :, ;, etc.

Q.: What is ‘Meta Description’?

A.: A ‘meta description’ also called ‘Tag’ which summarizes the contents of your page in brief for the benefit of users/ readers and search engines of Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. Please note while selecting Meta Keywords, special characters shall not be used i.e. ”, #, $, %, -, +, [, ], \, /, :, ;, etc.

Q.: What is ‘URL’ and is it mandatory?

A.: URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. A URL is the address given to you content page on the Web. In theory, each valid URL points to a unique resource. Please note while creating URL, special characters shall not be used i.e. ”, #, $, %, -, +, [, ], \, /, :, ;, etc. Following are some examples of urls on our website.

  • https://reflections.live/articles/25/significance-of-yoga-on-this-international-yoga-day-1256-kq6llxus.html - here the URL is ‘Significance of yoga on this International Yoga Day’.
  •  https://reflections.live/articles/58/yellow-fungus-case-in-india-1197-kp57etuc.html - here the URL is ‘yellow fungus case in india’.

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