Write some How To DIY Craft & Design Articles
- Status: Closed
- Prize: $600
- Entries Received: 31
- Winner: hamiltonrose
Contest Brief
The Da Vinci Workshop is looking for 10 How To articles to post to our site.
For this contest we are looking for the articles to have a focus on Caft & Design projects to include but not limited to: art & sculpture, paper & other crafts, costumes & makup (think Comic Con not Barbie), music & Instruments, yarncraft & needlecraft, photography & video, etc… that are great projects for Do it Yourselfers to complete during the summertime season.
A How To provides the reader a set of step-by-step instructions and photographs of a specific project, including a list of tools and materials that others can use to reproduce the project based on the documentation you have provided. The greater the documentation you can provide the reader in your How To, the better.
When writing for The Da Vinci Workshop please keep the following in mind: You are essentially teaching the reader. Think of your reader as an equally intelligent person, that just doesn’t necessarily know everything you know. With that in mind, try to anticipate the questions your reader might have about your How To. It may help to think back to the questions you had when you were first working on your project. Explain everything they will need to know in order to recreate what you are writing about, and do so in an easy-to-read manner, as if you were having a casual conversation with your reader. Describe the difficulties you encountered, the solutions you discovered, and suggest alternative workarounds.
Things you should and should not do if you want your articles to be considered for The Da Vinci Workshop:
You Should:
• Submit your very best work.
• Have a minimum of 200 words.
• Shoot landscape-oriented photographs that are a minimum of 1200px wide. The higher the quality the better.
• Use consistent language and be precise in your writing. Use smaller words in the place of larger words when available.
• Use correct terms for materials, components, and processes. If you are unsure what the proper name for something is, please look it up.
• Define your directions and areas carefully and consistently throughout your article. (i.e. top, bottom, right end, left edge, etc.)
You Should Not:
• Plagiarize or submit work that does not belong to you. This includes, without exception, all visual assets. Do not provide assets of which you do not have the rights (public domain, open source, and your personal intellectual property are all allowed).
• Submit content that is of a pornographic, violent, or hateful nature.
• Use this to advertise a product. Articles that show a use/application for a commercial product are fine.
• Include affiliate/referral links in your article.
We look forward to reviewing your submissions and Good Luck!
The Da Vinci Workshop
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Employer Feedback
“Great Articles in the topic I requested and on time as well!”
eschipman, United States.
Public Clarification Board
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Contest Holder - 7 years ago
Dear All, Sorry for the delay in choosing a winner. I'm currently working through some technical difficulties with the Freelancer support and will choose ASAP!
- 7 years ago
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Contest Holder - 7 years ago
Thank you all for your submissions, for those of you that posted questions the last couple days, I do apologies as I had a family emergency and wasn't able to answer before the end of the contest. I will be reviewing each submission over the next couple days and will make my decision by the end of this week. For those of you that did not make the deadline please contact me and I will look at what you have. If it's something I feel fits in with the theme of the site I will work with you or please visit my site once it is publicly available August 1st.
- 7 years ago
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leariedv
- 7 years ago
Hi eschipman, I noticed your projects posted on freelancer. I have written the 40 articles 10 a piece for you 4 projects listed on freelancer. I was hoping to catch the deadline but missed them all by a few mins. Would you be interested in these wonderful well written articles please contact me
- 7 years ago
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hamiltonrose
- 7 years ago
Good Luck everyone! I so enjoyed creating my entries! Quick question, can anyone see other contestants entries? I haven't been able to see the entries from other contestants and when I click on my entries nothing comes up, is this correct or am I missing something?
- 7 years ago
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Berdine
- 7 years ago
Is it possible to extend the contest a little longer? I'm still working on the majority of articles.
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realgraph
- 7 years ago
rate #9 please 2 amazing creations for the future!!
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realgraph
- 7 years ago
im very happy with this contest good luck for all!
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Joshart
- 7 years ago
Submitting more soon
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Berdine
- 7 years ago
Does your site have a website address? Would you be so kind as to supply it to us?
That will help me understand the quality, style and format you are looking for so that I can best complete the contest. Thank you.- 7 years ago
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Berdine
- 7 years ago
Thank you. That helps a lot. I will be submitting my Articles soon. Have a great day.
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Berdine
- 7 years ago
Hi there eschipman. I just uploaded my first article. If you can let me know what you think, then I know to spend more time on completing the others as well. Thank you and kind regards.
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fazygull
- 7 years ago
Is it only one article 200 words?
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Contest Holder - 7 years ago
Hey Fazygull, this is a contest for 10 articles with a minimum of 200 words.
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Berdine
- 7 years ago
I have noticed that you have several writing contests, each one for a different department. I would like to enter all of them, but of course to do over 60 DIY articles takes time, and if I am not selected that means no money to pay the bills. Is it possible to submit a article for each contests, Example one DIY Art article, One DIY drone article etc. So that I would submit 6. You can then have a look at my work, and let me know if you like how I do my DIY articles. I'm very creative, and does a lot of DIY projects all the time. Most of them I create from my own mind.
- 7 years ago
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Contest Holder - 7 years ago
Hey Berdine, Please submit what you believe is a good representation of your knowledge and talent and I will take it into consideration. Good Luck!
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Contest Holder - 7 years ago
Hello Participants!!! I realize that 10 separate, high quality, articles in one (1) week may have been a lofty goal. I therefore, In order to give all an opportunity to submit their best work, have extended the contest two (2) weeks. I can't wait to see the great articles and look forward to the tough decision on who to award this prize to at the end of the next two (2) weeks!!!!
- 7 years ago
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osaeno007
- 7 years ago
Thank you for extending the time. My entries will be submitted before the end of this week.
- 7 years ago
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Leigh2016
- 7 years ago
Would you also be interested in entries related to various styles of jewelry making (macrame, beading, wire weaving, decorative wire trees, etc.)?
- 7 years ago
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Contest Holder - 7 years ago
Hey Leigh2016, All of these will work. Please keep in mind that we are looking for great summertime projects so the articles should focus on making something for a good summer time activity such as the out doors or bringing the outdoors in.
- 7 years ago
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Contest Holder - 7 years ago
Hello Participants!!! Some additional clarity. As to be fair to those participants that provide there submissions prior to the existing end date, the decision to extend the contest will be decided on the last day of the current end date after review of the existing completed submissions.
- 7 years ago
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Contest Holder - 7 years ago
Hello Participants!!! I would like to provide some clarity to this contest as I've received feedback that it may not be clearly stated in the description. The contest will be awarded to the person that provides the best submission of a total of 10 individual articles that we will post to our website. Please provide feedback if you feel additional time will be needed and we will take that into account. Hope this helps clarify and happy submitting!!!
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Joshart
- 7 years ago
Definitely more time
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ReshmaRavindran
- 7 years ago
Hi Eschipman, Yes, it will be great if you could please extend the end date by 3 more days. Thanks.
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dgo575c203ad6444
- 7 years ago
This contest sounds perfect for me and my fiancee, I am a writer and she runs her own art business. Will you be using the winner of this contest for just one of the ten DIY articles? Or, are the top ten going to be published and with #1 getting the prize money?
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Contest Holder - 7 years ago
Hey susannahholz, can you provide an example of what you are referring to?
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susannahholz
- 7 years ago
Would mosaic of an item (planter/bench) be an acceptable project?
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Contest Holder - 7 years ago
Hey TheGuyver2040, I will wait until deadline before declaring a winner.
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TheGuyver2040
- 7 years ago
eschipman,
Would it be possible for you to wait until the submission deadline before declaring a winner?- 7 years ago
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IshanKhan014
- 7 years ago
work herd
- 7 years ago
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