My First Contest Win!
I have entered different types of writing contests during the last two- three years. With the exception of receiving a ‘door prize’ from the Oprah site, this is my first success.
In May, Blog.com announced a contest in the hopes of finding its new promotional slogan, a winning tagline. Over two hundred taglines were received. Out of this, ten entries were selected as winners. Out of the ten, one was mine, ‘your world, our eyes’.
As a prize, a very generous one I think, was five free years of a Platinum Blog.com account. A prize that I have promised myself not to waste. A prize that I couldn’t have afforded no matter how much it would help my writing career.
I told a Friend today about the win. She said, “I guess you’re more talented than we all thought!” If she would read what I write instead of sitting it aside with the promise to read it later, She would know. I know she never reads books or anything except the phone bill, but I guess I wanted to hear someone else say it was good, or that it needed work.
I asked her why she said that. I shouldn’t have been surprised. I guess when you hear lots of people talk about sky high ideas that never get off the ground, a pessimistic attitude develops toward such fantasies.
I guess I’ll try to keep my writing geared at the world that likes to read. After all, one success deserves another! And another! And another!
