Hello!
If you've been keeping up to date with my site you'll
know that my 'winning streak' (ie making at least the Highly Commended
shortlist) in Morgen's Free Monthly Micro Fiction competition has come to an
end. As one of the early adopters of the new competition I've obviously been up
against a relatively small field that is gradually increasing with the
popularity of the contest, which is good to see.
You may also have noticed I've started a thing where I post previous micro fictions as a postcard type image on various social media which include an image reflecting the story. Looking at the stats and click rates I find it a tad infuriating that people find reading a hundred words via a link or 'read more' button too much of a commitment, whereas they'll quite happily read and share hundreds of those racist joke posts that are at least five times as long! Haha. I figured it might be because they're posted as images, so I thought I'd hijack the format for my own means!
Therefore I introduced the new 'Artists' page on the
site. I don't mind drawing a little sketch now and again (my first book attempt
has illustrated chapters), but figure it a great opportunity to get some
involvement from others. As well as exposing your talents to a new audience
it'll help me out in reducing my workload, haha. Details are on the page, but
basically if you can draw better than or equal to the pictures below you're in with a
shout... Shouldn't be too difficult!
Here's the thing! There's prizes!
Morgen Bailey, who runs the aforementioned free Micro
competition, also runs online writing courses! She's kindly given me some
coupons for free entry to her 'Entering Writing Competitions' course (normally
£12 barring other promotions), which I'll be awarding the first ten people to
contribute! From then I'll be able to award favourites of the month or similar!
For more information on the course, and the others she offers, use the link
below.
A while ago I finished the first draft of my first bigger
project, codenamed NF:LITL. It's a novella I started way back in 2009. (But you
knew that because you follow me on various forms of Social Media, right? ;p)
I'm currently working on the first draft of the first
book of my Mega Fantasy Series. I still don't actually know if what I'm working
on is the first book or the first part
of the first book...
So in summary... I'll keep up with the Micros, hope you
are encouraged to contribute a sketch or two, and continue to work on bigger
projects.
Until next time, buh-bye!
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