Good evening fam
Night like this will forever be etched in the template of our years.
The people of my father's house use to say," it a goat enters a house, it must pay it's homage, a sheep that enters and refused to offer it respect will end up being roped, I Opeyemi Marcus the son of Amudipe, robed after the order of the scarredlines, the sons of the magics ink, I take a kingly bow to you all.
Yesterday was awesomely awesome, we witnessed the birth of a new world literary order, to be championed by men who knows the wonders of the pen. Today promises to be better.
We unveiled last night, our social media handles yesterday, and the feedbacks has been amazing, we know we can do better, thank you all for your support
Tonight, under the leadership of our amiable leader, The Pen Panther we will introduce to the house our official website....
I know we are all itching to have a feel of this, sit down, grab a bowl of popcorn, blessed with a bottle of cold coke, take a deep breathe as I bring to the unseen podium the pen panther
OUR WEBSITE PEN PANTHER
Good evening once again, thank you Scarredpoet.
Please, can you increase the volume of the microphone. Those at the back, can you hear me?
We all know what www (world wide web) is anyway, but its functions are seemingly limitless.
It is an intangible world peopled with men and women, governed with regulatory structures, where social interactions, political decisions and economic transactions are made
An organization without an online presence is dead among the living... We've invested in this our time and resources and we are just to glad to be at the threshold of commissioning this project for public consumption.
Tonight I'm not going bore you with unnecessary details. Therefore I will just go straight to the point right now
AMAZING FACTS
- Creator: Creative Arena Admin
- Total poems written by Creative Arena members since last year: 531
- Break down of the numbers of poems and short stories entered this year
- Jan: 54
- Feb: 91
- March:63
- April: 31
- May: 84
- Total: 323
Are we following...?
Structure of the Website
It is specifically designed for literature. You can search any of your works by name of the author or title of the work.
You can upload your works on the website (another speaker will do justice to that at the right time)
You can advertise your business on the site (we will talk about that some other day)
All the links to all our social handles (like instagram or Facebook), voting, registering, etc are available on the website
Among many others
We are expected to register as members of Creative Arena on the website immediately.
Now the website
Clears throat, I need a chilled glass of water now
WEBSITE IS:
Registration Page
About Creative Arena
Our website is: www.creativearena.com.ng
All members are expected to register immediately. Some of the privileges of membership are:
- Access to our monthly prices of creativity
- Access to our annual merit award
- Access to our regular seminar
- Access to our empowering programs
- Access to our online and offline publications
- Administrative relevance
- Among others.
So pen bloodas and scripters.... As we massively stormed our instagram and Facebook page yesterday... I will encourage you to do the same by registering on the website as a CA member
Join me as I invite our beloved scarredpoet to the mic to carry on with the rest of the day
Whoops, and here we go..
It just keep getting better what more can we say... God is good... Allamdililahi
Every great story has a beginning, here is ours, we are reaching for the stars.
Gives me great delight ushering in my fellow pen comrade Eazylines for our monthly award and prizes package
MONTHLY AWARDS BY EAZYLINES
(packs his files 🗂and heads for the microphone🎤, 🤝🏽with scarredpoet and smiles😊 at the listening and anxious audience)
Good evening everyone, credence to all word weavers. I doff my 🎩 in obeisance to might of the ✒
That was a mind blowing session there @pen panther and thanks @Oluwamarc For the opportunity to address our people again
Tonight, I'd be taking us through the monthly award and prizes that has been packaged for all creative mind on board
(pauses for a while to allow those words sink into the main blood stream of the readers) and he continues...)
The Creative Award of the month is a package to access and reward the passion for writing. This is not an academic award but a way to compensate our writers and members in a way that will motivate others and boost our participation on the platform.
This award goes to any written creative work... Poems, prose work, plays, articles and any publishable write up. The judge of these works shall be the members of the public and as well the admin.
Once you register for the contest, you share the link for your people to vote for you to move to the next round.
Round One:2nd - 27th
Registration: 2nd -7th(This means by 12pm of the 7th of the month, you cannot submit work again) And by 8th, voting will start.
Voting: 8th - 27th
Voting lasts for 20days, this is to enable the author, his friends, critics and well wishers to cast a vote for the work
All votes comes to us and u can't vote twice.
Note that all works shall be tested with the plagiarism check and defaulters Shall be disqualified from the contest.
Round Two: 28th
Top 10 or Top 5 (as the case may be) Works will be announced based on highest votes.
And when you get to the this round, you wait for the admin to also rate your work and anticipate to get an award.
Now, Please note that works that have scaled through the first stage and have been announced on the 28th as one of the Top works to be awarded cannot be used again the next month for contest.
For instance, if in June, Segun dropped "My Dog" for the contest and has a high vote that gets him to be announced on 28th as one of the Top 10 works. He can't use "My Dog" to contest next month. But if his work was not announced in 28th, he can still use "My dog" to register for the contest next month but will have to start with 0 votes.
When your work has been announced on the 28th, it gets to the admin table and that's the final round.
Round Three: 29th-1st
Admins Vote: 1st -10pts
2nd -5pts
3rd - 3pts
Now this means if Segun's "My Dog" is voted has 35votes and is rated 1st position by an admin, that work gets 35+10=45votes in all.
And when all the admin has rated the work, the winner, 1st runner up and 2nd runner up will be announced on the 1st of the next month.
This means if we run the contest for June, it will end 1st of July and that will be JUNE CREATIVE AWARD (because the work was submitted, voted for and rated in June)
Now the next question is how can i contest or how will my work be voted for and rated?
This brings us to the forms that have been created for this purpose. It's a multi functional form that allows you to do three things. Please be careful when you use them and guide your followers to do as instructed. Any error in handling the form will not be rectified. Also the forms created has been designed to function as when you click the link(that shall be sent at the end of this session), you will see easy steps directing you to either
1. Register for the contest
2. Vote for an author
3. Submit your works for publishing on the website.
So when u click it and enter your name... If u input the password as 1, it will make take you to a page where you can submit your work and contest for that month.
If enter 2 as password, it will take you to a page where you will vote for an author.
However, if you now enter 3 as password, you are submitting your work for publishing on the website only not for contesting.
I hope this is clear to all
From now till on 7th. You should go to the link and submit your work for the contest.
FAQ
1You mean we can use 1 or 2 or 3 as password?
Yes depending on the choice of options you wish to subscribe to as earlier explained
2 What if we select 2 , how do we get our author's work to vote?
Once you select 2, you will be asked to enter the author's name or the work... Then u vote as 1st, 2nd or 3rd. This means that when you enter 2 as password (i.e. you want to vote) and you enter My Dog by Segun Johnson and you vote 1st.... It registers and you do same for 2nd and 3rd. Then u submit.
Now the most beautiful part of the explanation now is the link...
🍷🍷🍷💝💝💝🍷🍷
You will enter your name and 3 as ur password and you will be logged in to the page where u can publish your works on the website...
3.How will I register? Because it's asking if I'm a register member
Through the registration link
You can just chose not yet and register after you complete your voting or at any other convenient time
4.Now I'm registered. Can I change my area of specialization ?
A message will be sent to your email automatically.... Any changes can be made by responding to the mail accordingly
5. Hope choosing not registered yet won't disqualify me
Not at all
CONCLUSION BY OLATUJA OLOYEDE
Our beloved Scarredpoet is pretty engaged and he has delegated the duty to conclude today's meeting on his behalf. Before we go tonight.... A recap of our tense engagements
Our website launched
Registration starts immediately
Submission for monthly prizes starts immediately
Even after dispersal tonight, you can inform us of any encountered challenges on the site as touching the registration and the submission of entries
This we hope will go a long way in encouraging a literary culture among everyone of us
At this juncture on behalf of CA admin I appreciate you all for your various degrees of participation... It is always intriguing here...
Glory be to God for grace.... No give away prizes today right? But don't miss tomorrow....you won't say you weren't informed
Thank you for staying till now... Wishing you guys a very good evening...
_(Pack files, drops mic, leaves the stage)
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