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… Insane lives upstairs, and I am freakin’ out. What the heck am I going to write about for NaNoWriMo? I mean have ideas, but some of them just don’t seem novel length material. Others are just too good, and I am not ready to write them just yet. I need more practice to tell those stories right. What to do. What to do.
Oh, yes. Happy Anniversary to my dear little blog. I began this blog because of NaNoWriMo back in October of 2004.
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And the winner is…. not me. But. But. Here is the real winner and the runner-ups of the 1st Annual 99 Word Horror Story Contest. Congratulations! Woohoo.
I really had fun with this contest. There was no pressure. Okay… except for that whole 99 word limit, but still, it was fun. Thanks to Matt D. for sponsoring the contest and the judges for reading through the stories.
“Same bat time… same bat channel…” next year.
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Insane… Lunatic… Demented… Nuts… Wacky… 94 more words to go.
So you might be asking what is the meaning of the topic. Well, I decided to enter my Friday Flash Fiction #8 story, “A Binding Ceremony”, in the sponsoring contest. (Thus, I submit to the crazy.) It’s not a big step. No, no… a big step would be writing a story and sending it to Writers of the Future contest or submitting it to an actual magazine or something. But, it is a step.
Speaking of crazy, my next big adventure is NaNoWriMo, which begins in… dear lawd… five days. Yikes! I don’t even have a plot. I am so dead.
Oh yeah, you might want to check out the other entries too. They are absolutely fun and scary and make me feel all kinds of inadequate. 
99 Words of Horror Contest Entries
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The future home of Story #7 in which a romantic story revolves around an alien, parasitic, first love triangle and cooties. Yes, that’s right. Cooties. Let’s call it an Intergalactic Romantic Comedy.
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Well, this week’s flash fiction story is supposed to be a romantic science fiction story. WHAT! Yes. This, and many other words I can’t use here, went through my head as well. Now, I do plan to write a story for this week’s challenge, but it will not be in by the midnight deadline.
To be honest, this one scares me more than last week’s fanfiction challenge. Why might you ask? Well, it could be that it involves romance. I just never could get into that whole genre. Or, it could be the science fiction. Not counting the pieces I’ve written for these challenges, it has been a very long time since I’ve written an actual science fiction story. I am wondering if I can even remember how. What I mean is that up until 6 weeks ago I had given up on my writing. I have drafts of posts about me giving up on writing. (I think I may have even lost a friend because of my depression on not writing.)
Now, here I am with five stories posted and one story still in draft. Yes, they are short, but they are stories. I even have an idea for the romance/science fiction story believe it or not. (Last minute inspiration.) It’s kind of a weird sensation. (I think I’ve said that before, but it’s true.)
Lest I become a broken record. (Too late.) I’ll just be back to writing now… again.
Oh, I so suck at deadlines.
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So… I think my attitude has changed about writing these past few months. I’ll let you in on a little secret. I have drafts of posts I have not published that reflected my utter dejection about my lack of writing. Frankly, I’ve missed it. I’ve missed the creating of characters. I’ve missed the fleshing out of a plot… of trying to find the voice in a story. I’ve missed the struggle of getting the ideas to come together.
It is a strange feeling to have those problems once again. It really has been a long time. I don’t even think I know anyone who would remember that once upon a time I called myself a writer. That I dreamed of getting published. When I was young, I was the type of person who sent in stories to contests like Writers of the Future. I even believed that one day I could win. Yes, I know I am far from being close to that caliber of writing and maybe I never will be. But perhaps, perhaps I can get there if I keep this up.
Now, if you will excuse me, I need to get my Flash Fiction Friday #6 together. I have to write fanfiction. Can you believe that! I’ve never written fanfiction in my life. It’s gonna be bad people. Just plain stinky. Should be fun.
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