There are Prizes!

I just signed up, and have been working on my essay/contest entry. So far it totally sucks, and probably will when finished, but it'll be written which means I'll be writing so that's all good.

Come and join the fun ya'll.

I'm in and I've got my sparkly little graphic to boost me along

I sent one in.

AmyDoodle said:

Haven't I heard that you're doing some impending fatherhood pieces?

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Indeed

Thanks for the heads-up about the contest.

hehehe, now we have a contest! I think I see at least five humor writers on the sign-ups, let's go gettum!

2007 pledge

I will sign with a really good agent; get a (fiction) book contract, sell my non fiction memoirs book project and be earning enough $$$$$ to live in the style to which I want to be accustomed and once upon a time, did.

Ack. The humor forum has ruined me for any other kind of writing.

I'm trying to think through this Father's Day essay/article, and I keep coming up with smart-alecky stuff. Which might be fine for a win here, where AWers are voting (and we all know how their tastes tend to run), but when and if I try to submit to a consumer mag for real money, something tells me they won't appreciate it as much.

Oh well.

ltd.

limitedtimeauthor said:

Ack. The humor forum has ruined me for any other kind of writing.

I'm trying to think through this Father's Day essay/article, and I keep coming up with smart-alecky stuff. Which might be fine for a win here, where AWers are voting (and we all know how their tastes tend to run), but when and if I try to submit to a consumer mag for real money, something tells me they won't appreciate it as much.

Oh well.

ltd.

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Aw, there's got to be a market for a funny smart-alecky father's day piece. I know my kids had to look long and hard for those kind of cards for their dad. Those were the ones more appropriate, our family doesn't do mushy, sentimental. Surely we can find a home for your funny piece after you win (well, place) here.

I'm putting my husband through the ringer for this, smart-alecky is my specialty

ritinrider said:

...after you win (well, place) here.

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LOL.

Just looking at the list of entrants, I've already lowered my expectations about how I'll do in the contest. Now I'm just thinking that I'll have something to pitch to magazines.

By the time I submit, I might be reduced to just being happy I finished.

(This is like NaNo for article writing!)

ltd.

limitedtimeauthor said:

LOL.

Just looking at the list of entrants, I've already lowered my expectations about how I'll do in the contest. Now I'm just thinking that I'll have something to pitch to magazines.

By the time I submit, I might be reduced to just being happy I finished.

(This is like NaNo for article writing!)

ltd.

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Itd., I didn't mean to imply you wouldn't win. I was sort of giving myself a pep talk. I truly don't expect to win, but this is an easier way to get back into writing and, more important, submitting. Once I submit here, I can fix my piece, it will need fixing, and possibly submit it. Or if it's really bad, at least I will have submitted something and hopefully it will start me submitting other things.

You have a good chance of winning you know.

Oh, I thought it was just good-natured teasing, and felt that it segued into the topic of my own angst. LOL.

I'm only competitive if I know I'm going to win!

But with all these good writers here, I'm just going to keep my head down, submit something, and unless it wins, never admit that I wrote it! Kidding...

ltd.

heheh, aim high, ltd...

Whoo hoo, Riddler! Way to go, you funny man, you!