The times they are a changing

 Once upon a time


Years ago, when I was in the mood for writing, some people I knew asked me if I was going to enter a writing contest,
The contest rules were to write 30,000 words in a month, at the time I did consider entering as I was "in the zone." The thing which kept me from entering was the thought of having to write four pages a day; on my good days, I doubted I could keep the pace, even for two weeks.
I knew several writers who did get certificates for completing the task; it made no difference to them as they didn't get a contract for their work.
I did enter a couple of contests but found the judges biased toward their favorite writers, not only in the USA but in the UK.

Comments

  1. Alan Place30 January 2023 at 10:30

    Because the same names appear several times on the winners list. It's known as In-house-favortism, it means judges seek out known writers.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

I am offended again

Image
 The lady is NOT my type Though I am olde, and have standards, I am not a stic-in-the-mud, it does take someting nasty to offend me, and for the second time it has happened.  As with the first incident , the offense involved a young colored lady with larrge breasts, I have nothing againsr coloured ladies, I wasbot offended by this laady asking to see my penis as soon as we chatted, it was a little weird she was so forawrd when she'd only been chatting a few minutes to ask. What I found offensive, again, is she assumed having large reasts, and in her case an oversize bottom was what I like In short, she has nothing of interest for me..
Read more

Welome to my world

Image
 I am the Spider When a young lady approaches me on Facebook , and asks to move to another site, in my space , little does she realise the rules of the game are changed, they are my rules .
Read more