Me, when the deadline for the NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge is approaching but you still have to write the synopsis. Still waiting for inspiration. Hoping the words will appear on the screen. Marveling at how the word “synopsis” looks funny after staring at it for five minutes. Forcing some words onto the page. Deleting them…
Today is Day 3 of 8 for the NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge, 2017! Many of us stayed up late Friday night (present company included) only to learn the servers at NYC Midnight crashed! (At midnight, the hour of assignment release, of course!) So some of us did not get our assignments until Saturday morning,…
This marked my second year of NYC Midnight writing challenges, beginning 2016 with the Short Story Challenge. The field is more than 2100 this time, in 60 heats! Each writer is assigned to a group of 35 writers with specific genre, subject matter and character that must be central to the plot. For round 1, the stories were…
Last week the winner’s were announced in the NYC Midnight 9th Annual Short Story Competition. My journey took me through the second round, but sadly my Rom-Com “Bumps In The Road” left me in the dust of my fellow heat-mates. For those unfamiliar with this particular competition, it is an escalating challenge, in that you begin…
The NYC Short Story Competition results from round 1 were posted at 0030 on Thursday, March 12. Out of the 30 writers in my heat, I placed second! WOO-HOO! This meant I moved on with four others from that heat (and another two hundred thirty-five writers total) to round 2 of competition, with a new genre,…
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