My goal this year is to final in at least one competition, and I am taking this New Years Resolution very seriously! So far for 2007, I have sent three full manuscripts off for the fabulous Clendon Award, two entries have hot-footed it over to Australia for their Harlequin M & B Opening Chapter contest, as well as two for the First Kiss competition. And after many late nights, I have three entries ready to be sent tomorrow for the RW Australia Valerie Parv Award. Pretty good going considering it's only March!
But my theory is that even if I don't final in any of them, feedback is the best reward of all. At least I will know the best and worst parts about each story, before I send any partials off to editors. But now I am chomping at the bit to send a cover letter and three chapters off for at least one m/s, and I'm at least 6 weeks away still before any of the finalists are announced.
The life of a writer huh? Someone asked me the other day if I think I will always write, as if it was something I chose to do to waste time, like a not very exciting hobby. Although they didn't warrant a reply, I mustered the energy and told them very bluntly: I wouldn't be a very nice person if my head was constantly full of characters waiting to burst out, only to never be listened to. And besides, I didn't choose to write, I am a writer. Which is why I will always write, even if I never, ever end up with a book on the shelf for sale.
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