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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Bumping Up the Contest!

For the sake of some fantastic new readers (thank you thank you thank you for reading!) I am bumping my microfiction contest, and calling for more submissions. On those Mondays when I don't have a new microfiction being posted on an affiliate site (like Trollop with a Laptop and Circlet) I will be combing the below comments for ideas that strike my fancy, and then dedicating a MFM piece to you, my amazing, fantastic, and delightful readers! If you haven't entered yet, and would like to, the details are below. If you have, and I haven't written yours yet, not to worry, I will eventually! And if you *have* entered and had your story written and dedicated to you, there is no reason that you couldn't submit another idea, if the fancy strikes you!  I can't wait to see what you all come up with!

Hugs and virtual love to you all,

-Mad




I was lurking around Circlet Press' lovely Livejournal today, because it's always a fun place to waste some time. They host the occasional author chat with their published authors. This week's featured author is Kal Cobalt who I hadn't previously heard of, but appears to be full of much awesomeness.

During the author chat, Kal's set up a contest, and asked for readers to submit a list of 3 things that they'd like to see in a story. The winner gets a story written with those things in it, cool eh?

This is a game that I LOVE to play as a writer, so I thought I'd see what happened if I posted the same type of offer. (apologies, and many thanks, Kal!)

So here it is: anyone who posts a comment here with three things (as specific or arbitrary as you like) that they would like to see in a story has a chance to see those ideas put to fiction in an upcoming Microfiction Monday!

6 comments:

  1. 3 things eh? Well how about rockets, cowboy hats and m&m candies? (I was going to say twizzlers but that's just too easy)

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  2. my three things: broken halogen light bulb, hole-y mitten, retainer.

    OR fork, spoon, knife - but not cutlery in any way shape or form.

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  3. Oh yay, such neat ideas!
    (though, @Skywatcher, you knew that I would so not write anythin with twizzlers in it, ever, right?)

    I think I'll let this conest run until the last currently posted idea gets written. Or something like that. I'm having so much fun thinking up ways to incorporate your things!

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  4. Three 'things'? I'm assuming that doesn't mean physical things necessarily?
    A raw onion; a copy of a book previously published by the author of the story (fictitious or not, its real existence doesn't matter); a green and purple dream.

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  5. oooohhh. How fun, the gears in my dirty little mind are grinding away on these!

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