Monday: 27th October 2008

For most of the last week I’ve been continuing with my short story and sending it off to competitions. I have decided that http://www.writerscircle.biz is not actually as good as I thought it was. The way they structure their competition, means that short poems, often of poor quality are always more likely to win than a short story, which people can’t read quite so quickly. Unfortunately free competitions were hard to come by and so in the end I decided I had enough faith to submit my story to competitions with a small entry fee. Finding the right competitions was challenging, but also something I really enjoyed doing. I can’t quite put my finger on why, perhaps because it felt a bit like procrastination, and I’ve always been a big fan of procrastination. Anyway, in the end I chose competitions where the deadline was the end of November, so not too far away, and the entry fee didn’t exceed three ponds. I submitted it to three competitions. The Dream Competition, The Scribble Competition and The Cooldog Competition. There was definitely something exciting about posting the stories off and I shall look forward to hearing back from them, hopefully with winning news. In the mean time I feel able to draw a line under competitions and move onto the next part of the module.