writely applied

It has been a busy day and for fun I had to rush and check out the Writer’s Digest forum to see which five stories were chosen as finalists in Contest Prompt #14. Sorry to say, I checked out the Writer’s Digest forum and my short story from their prompt is not posted to be voted on.

And my response…well at least I tried. I can add this to my short list of rejections. There is nothing more inspiring than a pile of rejections and I’m well on my way with my first rejection of sorts in a very long time.

Sure I have my blog(s) and other such writing bits when I gather the strength but in my land of fiction, my land of print dreams, I have made the first step.

I entered the Writer’s Digest Prompt Contest #14. They wanted 750 words and I gave them 750 words exactly. Was my story good? I may think so but of course I’m realistic. It is my first bit of fiction in a long time.

I have to give a huge thank you to Rose at Writing Today. She popped over and was very encouraging. As busy as I’ve been I thought I wouldn’t do it but then I remembered that I wasn’t the only one struggling with keeping on track with my writing. Since I read the prompt and immediately shared it with you, a story was brewing in my head. It was written in my head before I hit the pillow the other night and then I just had to throw the words down on paper.

And I did.