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Chetta is the nom de plume of Deborah Guenther Beachboard a poet writing since 1992. Her poetry has been published in Modern Haiku, Sijo West, Amaze: The Cinquain Journal, Short Stuff, Twilight Ending and numerous other online and in print journals. Chetta makes her home in the Adna Valley in southwest Washington in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.

After all is done

I want

to have lived in

such a way that "Oh, damn!"

are not the final words to cross

my lips.

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Short form poetry x 3 Contest update: I am frustrated

Blog Posted:1/7/2024 6:16:00 PM

PS did respond to me about the winners of my poetry contest not showing. Apparently PS misunderstood the problem and has not corrected it, nor have they responded to further inquiries. Again, my apologies to the poets who submitted work to this contest. At this point I do no know if the problem will be resolved.

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Hilo
Poet

Date: 1/15/2024 6:10:00 PM

Hi, my son and grandson are 22 and in their 4th year at MIT on the East Coast. They looked at My Contest, and they said in regards of NO not working as told to Craig--a surprise to me too, they said to turn comp off 30 seconds, then NO should work, if not then press YES then NO, if nothing happens I'm clueless. I did tell the boys that TPS revamped the system, they said that'll affect the old and wouldn't be surprised if TPS is outsourcing for assistance--IF NO LOCKS IN, THEN GO THROUGH THE STEPS AFTER UPDATE THEN GO FROM THE START 10 UPDATE ROUND 1 NOTHING MOVE ON ROUND 2 UPPERMOST 10 UPDATE TO WINNERS LINEUP 1 THRU 10 THEN FINALIZE--hoping it works, Aloha, William

Hilo Poet
Date: 1/16/2024 6:16:00 AM

I'm glad that did, tho' it was a bit of a wait so they paid to have it fix--Woody's Titanic also suffered the same fate, but luckily system was a double fixer upper, CHEERS, Chetta, Aloha, William

Chetta Achara
Date: 1/16/2024 6:04:00 AM

Happily PS fixed the problem and I was able to finalize the contest, but thank you.,

Hilo
Poet

Date: 1/13/2024 7:06:00 PM

Now this is THE END -- a notice to the winners will be shown AND THAT'S IT -- there is NO need to go back to FINALIZE and click it as a YES, the notice to the winners is your green light UNLESS -- SYSTEM GLITCH??? -- WINNERS LIST DIDN'T APPEAR!!! FORCE THE SYSTEM FINALIZE AND YES IT!!!

Hilo
Poet

Date: 1/13/2024 7:05:00 PM

NOTE: Finalize/Clear/Save--All these should be clickable since FINALIZED was made as a NO

Hilo
Poet

Date: 1/13/2024 7:01:00 PM

Winner's Circle - Choose the Poem's Order of Finish 1ST(CLICK IF NEEDED)Clear Placements & Start Over 2ND(AFTER YOU PLACE THEM--THEN CLICK)Save Changes 3RD(CLICK--VOILA!!!)Finalize and Close Contest

Hilo
Poet

Date: 1/13/2024 6:59:00 PM

GO TO: Round 2 - Best Entries 1ST(YOUR TOP 10 SHOULD BE THE UPPERMOST LISTED ^) 2ND(SINCE FINALIZE IS A NO Update SHOULD BE CLICKABLE!!!) 3RD(CLICK UPDATE THEN GO TO WINNERS ROUND)

Hilo
Poet

Date: 1/13/2024 6:55:00 PM

GO TO: Round 1 - All Unread Entries Go to Round 2 >> (SHOULD BE BLANK--NOTHING TO DO HERE)

Hilo
Poet

Date: 1/13/2024 6:53:00 PM

GO TO: All Contest Entries You've chosen 10 poems as the Winners out of the 35 poems on this page. Update (NEEDS TO BE 10) (35 OR WHATEVER # YOURS IS) (SINCE FINALIZE IS A NO--Update SHOULD BE CLICKABLE!!!)

Hilo
Poet

Date: 1/13/2024 6:47:00 PM

Lock Contest: No Yes, no more entries allowed! CLICK NO!!! Finalize Contest: No Yes CLICK NO!!! THEN LASTLY CLICK UPDATE!!!

Hilo Poet
Date: 1/13/2024 7:35:00 PM

PLAY WITH THE KEYS, IF IT'S LOCKED IN NO, CLICK IT TO YES, THEN BACK TO NO--THE DESIRED KEY--WAKE IT UP

Hilo Poet
Date: 1/13/2024 6:57:00 PM

I FORGOT: TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER FOR 30 SECONDS--THEN TURN IT ON AGAIN

Constance
La France

Date: 1/11/2024 5:49:00 PM

Chetta, a suggestion, if you can start a new contest, repeat your contest, ask people who entered to re-enter their poems and judge it again, just a thought, Constance

Eve
Roper

Date: 1/9/2024 6:04:00 PM

This might sound stupid, but it won't hurt to try. Shut down your computer and unplug it, wait a while and plug it back up and boot your computer back up, try it over again.

Chetta Achara
Date: 1/9/2024 6:31:00 PM

I will try that.

Andrea
Dietrich

Date: 1/9/2024 10:31:00 AM

I had an unsolvable problem recently for which no help from Soup would rectify it. it involved a glitch that made it impossible for me to enter a contest. It has to be even more maddening if it's your contest that has the glitch. sorry for you.

Chetta Achara
Date: 1/9/2024 3:24:00 PM

Thank you.

Constance
La France

Date: 1/8/2024 6:10:00 PM

Chetta, it has happened to me also, you have to re-open the contest, make sure you unlock it, do as Craig said, step by step, check each poem that you have placed it where you want, look at all poems make sure all are selected as a winner or not, if you miss even one the contest will not close properly, best of luck, Constance

Chetta Achara
Date: 1/8/2024 10:27:00 PM

It will not let me unlock it. I've tried everything that has been suggested. I'm ready to pull my hair out!

Craig
Cornish

Date: 1/8/2024 11:41:00 AM

YES YOU CAN! Go to your member page and click on your contest - then click on NO for is contest locked - then click on NO for contest finalized, then click on save - then make sure all the rankings are as you want - then click on SAVE - then click on Finalize and you're done--Heck, I just did it with a contest I finished a month ago - do it that way and it works WRITE IT DOWN - hugs

Craig Cornish
Date: 1/9/2024 10:04:00 AM

Darn - weird!? Sorry for you!

Chetta Achara
Date: 1/8/2024 10:26:00 PM

It will not let me unlock it. I've tried everything you said.

Craig Cornish
Date: 1/8/2024 11:42:00 AM

Of course, you must go to the winners page first

Ink
Empress

Date: 1/7/2024 8:52:00 PM

Dear Chetta, yes i agree with eve, that worked for me before. Have to redo it. Unlock and again save and finalize. Hope it works out

Eve
Roper

Date: 1/7/2024 8:37:00 PM

try going back into the contest and unlock it and make sure you have filled all the entries steps. then go back and finalize it again, that might work.

Chetta Achara
Date: 1/7/2024 9:01:00 PM

I have tried and I do not see an option to do that, but I will try again.

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