Entering Contest

I talked about that writing contest on Nathan Bransford's blog yesterday. I think I'll enter it. Not for any prize or even a chance of winning, which I put at near zero. But for the fun of it.

I mean if you can't write for fun, then maybe you shouldn't be writing. I've had a lot of fun doing a lot of things during my life. From all kinds of different sports to art, painting and drawing, sculpture, playing music, composing songs, sheesh, the list goes on.

And I can truly say I never earned any significant amount of money doing any of it. So now it's writing. Maybe I'll earn some money at that, but who really knows at this point. Time is going by so slowly since I signed that contract with Cogito, that it will probably be an eternity before I see my debut novel, THE VASE, in print.

That's OK. In the meantime, I'll just keep having fun writing. So I took the afternoon off from my WIP, and wrote an entirely new scene for the contest. The contest guidelines limit the piece to a mere 350 words. But I think that's just about right.

I know I was thinking about cutting and pasting an excerpt from one of my stories, but I decided against it and wrote something that is completely unlike anything I've written before. It had to be humorous. And so here's hoping I did a good job.

Perhaps tomorrow's post will be that sample. I'll see how it reads and if I still like it, I'll enter it into the contest and put it on my blog.