If you come across any hints or tips that you feel may be helpful to new members, feel free to post them here or in the forum.

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Eg.1.

Remember that all Arena posts (excluding Arena Challenges) will remain on the site for a total of 10 days from posting. After this time they will disappear from the Arena pages, so if your submission has received any helpful comments/reviews, it may be an idea to copy and paste them into a word document for future reference.

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Remember that you are only supposed to post one submission to your Arena of choice at a time and as we now have five Arenas to choose from, make sure you have selected the right Arena from the drop down menu.

By restricting the submissions in this way, it allows everyone a fair turn for being read and reviewed.

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I know from experience, (being new to creative writing when I joined this site) that after you have thought long and hard about letting others read your work and then finally decided to 'Go for it', there is nothing like the feeling when a review indicates that someone likes your work. It can be quite exciting and all you want to do is post more as soon as possible. Be patient, give the piece that you have submitted as much exposure as possible.

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Always try to do your share of reviews and leave comments of a constructive nature. This will encourage, reciprocal vists etc. to your submissions.

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For full details on submitting to the Arena  click on the 'Arena' link in the blue banner at the top of the page, then select 'About Arena'