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

1. Any computer programming language by considering one piece of area for example: Machine learning.
2. Future of space exploration example : Virgin Galactic, Space Z, Blue Origins and Many more..!!
3. Lord Ganesha stories - any piece you can cover in details.
4. How new Afghanistan political roots looks like.
5. In stock market, which stocks will see huge returns with proper technical analysis.
6. Write any article on any law in detail.
7. Write any article on any new start up with complete business plan.
8. If you are not comfortable in above categories, you can select article in your expertise field.
9. You can select any topic from the above and if you feel necessary, you can change the title.

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REGISTRATION IS FREE

Terms:

1. Article shall be original as we use plagiarism technology for review. 
2. Article can be in Hindi or English, primarily. Any other language is also welcome with either Hindi or English translation for understanding. 
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 800-1000 words with “Times New Roman” Font in ‘14’ Font Size. Even if, articles are crossing 1000 words, we will accept.
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.

Last date and Results:

The Last date of uploading an article will be 30th September, 2021. Results of the Competition will be announced by 15th of October, 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.  Please note, don't use stock images as they are kept for sale. 
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 September-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. URL can be same as your title without any special character i.e. +, =, -, ', :, etc.. 
12. 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.
13. After selecting images, click on the terms and conditions box and then click on 'Save' button.
14. Once you submit the article, it will come for moderation to the Reflections Team.
15. Eligible articles will be published on our website.
16. Results will be declared on our website and a suitable mail will also be forwarded to all the participants notifying the same.
17. For any query in relation to uploading an article, kindly write to contact@reflections.live or on the whatsapp link given on 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 certificates will also be issued to the winners as well as participants.
8. Eligible Articles will be published on our website under the by-line of the Author. (Eligible Articles means the Articles meeting the standards 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.

(a) https://reflections.live/articles/25/significance-of-yoga-on-this-international-yoga-day-1256-kq6llxus.html - here URL is ‘Significance of yoga on this International Yoga Day’.

(b) https://reflections.live/articles/58/yellow-fungus-case-in-india-1197-kp57etuc.html - here URL is ‘yellow fungus case in india’.

For Hindi articles also, the URL shall be in English only.

For other FAQs, kindly refer to our website.

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