Calling All Poets 2! More Info About MoonTownCafe.Com
February 10th 2007 23:23
Recently, I told you about four websites that accept poetry (as well as other forms of writing): AssociatedContent.com, Helium.com, Creative-Poems.com, and MoonTownCafe.com.
In an earlier post, I discussed Creative-Poems.com in greater detail--so you would have the info you need to more effectively utilize that site. Today, I'll do the same for MoonTownCafe.
MoonTownCafe is a great site, where you can post your work and receive feedback in the form of ratings (via a five-star rating system) and reviews (written by other members.) (This, of course, implies that you must join to post your poetry to the site, and this is true. However, membership is free--unless you choose premium membership. All you need to do is register to become part of the MoonTownCafe writing community.)
At MoonTownCafe, posting of your work is based on a points system, which determines how many posts you may make at any given time. All new members start out with 800 points, which are given to them at the time they join. These points are, as you might imagine, used up as poems are posted to the site.
The cost of posting one poem is 100 points for regular members or 50 points for premium (paid) members. Though points are used up when posting poems, they are also gained by reading and/or rating other members' work. This is the way your points are replenished--and you'd be surprised at how easy it is to gain back all your original points--and more!
This points system is the way MoonTownCafe encourages its members to read, rate, and review one another's work. Reading the work of another member will gain you 2 points each time if you're a basic member, or 5 points if you're a premium member. And if you rate another member's work, you'll gain 20 points (basic) or 40 (premium.) In addition, if you're the first member to rate a poem, you'll double your rating points, receiving either 20 or 40 bonus points, based on your membership type.
This system actually works quite well and is in no way cumbersome to use. Besides which, you'll have the opportunity to read a great deal of excellent work which you might normally tend to overlook!
One nice thing about this site is that you may go back and edit your poems as often as you like after posting by simply clicking on the 'edit' icon which is perpetually located above your posted works. Seeing that tiny pencil above each post is very reassuring, since there always seem to be those times when we've made a typo or a formatting error that went unnoticed prior to posting--or even, occasionally, those times when we've later thought of a change in wording that would immensely improve our poem!
Though this site offers no payment for your work, MoonTownCafe is a wonderful site where you'll have the opportunity to showcase your work to an appreciative audience of fellow poets, receive valuable feedback--as well as recognition for work well-done--and even enter periodic poetry contests.
What more could you ask of a non-paying market? Check out MoonTownCafe! I think you'll be glad you did!
Thanks for reading!
Jeanne
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