I received the best phone call yesterday from my friend Robert Duperre. Robby D. started the phone call with wild laughter and the words, “I challenge you!” This, naturally, caught my attention. Robby D. proposes this: we’ll both finish our novels by April 1st. He has 75,000 words to rewrite and about 25,000 new words [...]
Posts Tagged ‘writing contest’
The Gauntlet, My Dears, Was Thrown. (Wild Laughter)
Posted in Writing, tagged Britney Spears, challenge, Mercedes M. Yardley, Robby Duperre, the gauntlet is thrown, Womanizer, worst song ever, writing contest on February 18, 2011 | 12 Comments »
Wombats Will Rule The Wooooooorld!
Posted in Writing, tagged International Wombat Dance-Off, Las Vegas, Mason Bundschuh, Simon C. Larter, writing contest on November 4, 2010 | 7 Comments »
See that pair of man feet in the header? That’s my friend Mason. By now, if you read this rather hysterical post that he wrote, you know that he and I entered a flash fiction contest for the Las Vegas Book Festival. We talked smack, swaggered around, and totally vowed to out-write each other. So [...]
Writing You On The Sly
Posted in Writing, tagged dance-off, newborns smell good, prompt, writing contest on September 11, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Guess what? I’m actually posting this blog while in the middle of a writing contest! That’s right; I’m writing you surreptitiously! I am one of about 20 contestants participating in the Las Vegas Book Festival Flash Fiction Contest. We were given 90 minutes to write a story based on a Super Sekrit prompt that was given to [...]
Shock Totem’s First Writing Contest!
Posted in Writing, tagged prizes, Shock Totem, writing contest on January 22, 2010 | 3 Comments »
So Shock Totem is having it’s first writing contest, and I’m in charge. Bwa ha ha ha! Here are the official rules: The Official Shock Totem Flash Contest Rules Hey cats. We’re kicking off our first Shock Totem Writing Contest. It’s going to be a monthly thing, and here are the official rules. 1. The [...]
The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse Go Head To Head
Posted in Writing, tagged challenge, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, writing contest on January 5, 2010 | 26 Comments »
See this pretty girl? Her name is Harley, but we call her War. I’m going to kick her butt, and then she’s going to wear stripper shoes and sing Rent’s “Out Tonight.” I’ll post it here on my blog. You’re welcome. Follow her on Twitter. She says delightfully salacious things and we snicker a lot. I [...]
So I Won Some Chocolate!
Posted in Writing, tagged chocolate, Eisley Jacobs, Kurt Newton, writing contest on December 17, 2009 | 14 Comments »
And I cannot tell you how excited I am! The very charming Eisley Jacobs ran a contest on her blog, and there are some really sweet and heartwarming comments on there. You can check it out here. Also, once upon a time Kurt Newton and I had a writing challenge going on, and I emerged the [...]
