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!
If you wanna, you can check out my blog too. I love writing as much as you seem to. I'd like to do sthg with that hobby... Who knows :-)
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I hit a stone wall with my writing, and decided to self-publish a book. I knew it wouldn't sell much, but got a great deal of satisfaction out of seeing that I could actually do it.
More than once I've thought about contacting people to possibly publish a book of short stories, but not sure I'd want to go through all the time and money it takes.
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