Today is the first day in a three day stretch off work. Delightful. I slept in until 9 (gasp), struggled with words until 12:30, watered plants, played some piano, and concocted grand dinner schemes involving the barbecue and some fresh rhubarb from the store. (Rhubarb goes in a pie. Not on bbq. Sorry for confusion.)
It usually takes me a day to get back into writing mode, so I'm not going to be too harsh on myself for only having spit out about 500 words.
Oh, and it would appear that I've been chosen as a finalist in this week's 5 Minute Fiction Contest!
The 5 Minute Fiction Contest is a weekly initiative hosted by the lovely Leah Peterson, who tweets @LeahPeterson and writes at www.LeahPeterson.com. This week's contest centred around the theme of "ice", which dovetailed with my life quite well, as only yesterday my dad was telling me about glacial ice and .
Five finalists were chosen, and as you can see they've all taken the theme of "ice" in varying directions. I'm in good company, and tickled pink (or maybe blue, as the case may be, har har) to be there.
But the best part about it had to be the Twitter message that I received from another one of the contest participants. Hi there, she said. I read your entry to the #5MinuteFiction contest and was completely blown away. I thought it was the best one. Hope you win! And then, a few minutes later, she sent this: To be honest I have never been quite this moved by a few paragraphs before. Yes, I am aware that I'm fangirling. #ashamed.
Which just, well, warms the cockles of my heart. This is way better than winning any kind of contest! So today, Day 2 in my 365 days of rejoicing, I'm going to rejoice over the gift of these words. Here's to Islinda, also known as @darkonfire, who brightened my day with her messages.
Oh, and you should definitely check out the contest, and vote for your fave. I won't say vote for me, because my fellow finalists are pretty darn good, but any votes you would like to shoot my way would be very much appreciated. The winner will be announced tomorrow morning at 9am!
It usually takes me a day to get back into writing mode, so I'm not going to be too harsh on myself for only having spit out about 500 words.
Oh, and it would appear that I've been chosen as a finalist in this week's 5 Minute Fiction Contest!
The 5 Minute Fiction Contest is a weekly initiative hosted by the lovely Leah Peterson, who tweets @LeahPeterson and writes at www.LeahPeterson.com. This week's contest centred around the theme of "ice", which dovetailed with my life quite well, as only yesterday my dad was telling me about glacial ice and .
Five finalists were chosen, and as you can see they've all taken the theme of "ice" in varying directions. I'm in good company, and tickled pink (or maybe blue, as the case may be, har har) to be there.
But the best part about it had to be the Twitter message that I received from another one of the contest participants. Hi there, she said. I read your entry to the #5MinuteFiction contest and was completely blown away. I thought it was the best one. Hope you win! And then, a few minutes later, she sent this: To be honest I have never been quite this moved by a few paragraphs before. Yes, I am aware that I'm fangirling. #ashamed.
Which just, well, warms the cockles of my heart. This is way better than winning any kind of contest! So today, Day 2 in my 365 days of rejoicing, I'm going to rejoice over the gift of these words. Here's to Islinda, also known as @darkonfire, who brightened my day with her messages.
Oh, and you should definitely check out the contest, and vote for your fave. I won't say vote for me, because my fellow finalists are pretty darn good, but any votes you would like to shoot my way would be very much appreciated. The winner will be announced tomorrow morning at 9am!
