Posted on October 31, 2009 by strugglingwriter
The 500 word story I wrote for Karen Lee Field’s writing contest has been posted to her blog. If you have a few minutes, why not go over there and give it a read. It’s a pretty fun story, I think. If you get a chance, why not read all seven entries and vote for [...]
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Posted on September 30, 2009 by strugglingwriter
By the time you all read this, it most likely will be October, my favorite months of the year. In celebration of the month of Halloween, I’m going to pin my little flash fiction story Frank to the top of the blog for the month.
Frank was a little story I wrote in 2006, and has [...]
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Posted on August 15, 2009 by strugglingwriter
So, yesterday I came across a flash fiction contest over at Kyle Cassidy’s live journal. The story was to be 350 words or less, include Kyle’s cat Roswell, and part in the universe of a novel titled Seaborn. In not much time, I wrote a little story and submitted it. To my surprise I was [...]
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Posted on July 22, 2009 by strugglingwriter
Have you all heard of Ficly? It’s a website where you write stories 1024 characters in length (a character being a letter, punctuation, a space, a carriage return, etc). Once you write a story people can add to your story with a prequel or sequel. Users also rate and comment on your stories.
Anyway, I used [...]
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Posted on July 10, 2009 by strugglingwriter
My contest entry is now posted at The Clarity of Night. Mine is entry #24. This one was a lot of fun to write. I hope you enjoy it. As always, I’m happy to hear what you think of it. You can leave comments here or at the contest site. You can also head over [...]
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Posted on April 21, 2009 by strugglingwriter
Remember that writing contest I entered a few weeks back but didn’t win? I didn’t think I’d be able to, but I entered again for Chapter 2 of the story. You can read the winner of chapter 1 here. Here’s my entry. It’s not great, but it’s the best I could come [...]
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Posted on April 7, 2009 by strugglingwriter
Well, I’ve had that enormous headache again yesterday, but I still managed to get some writing done. In fact, I though I’d share a bit of what I wrote with all of you. Comments would be greatly appreciated.
This was for a writing contest with a local newspaper. They started the story, [...]
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Posted on January 9, 2009 by strugglingwriter
My entry for the writing contest at The Clarity of Night contest has now been posted to the site. Mine is entry number 26. You can read it over there or you can read it right here. Any comments here or on the contest site are welcome as always. I’m really proud [...]
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Posted on December 11, 2008 by strugglingwriter
I wrote a short story for a writing contest a few months ago. I posted the few lines of the story here a while ago. I told you all I’d post the entire story here if it didn’t win the contest. Well, I’m pretty sure it did not win. This particularly story [...]
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Posted on July 14, 2008 by strugglingwriter
I finished my entry for the writing contest at The Clarity of Night today and my entry is now on the site. I’m happy with what I’ve come up with, which is all I can ask of myself. I was definitely a challenge, but I was able to mold my initial idea into [...]
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