I did a thing!

Late last month I entered a contest through a group called The Writer's Workout.  They started out as a Facebook page that held the NanoGames (like an Olympics for writer's.  I participated in that last year too and it was so fun!  My team took first in the team games and I took seventh in the individuals. :D )
They have a website now and they post contests every other month, I believe.

Anyways, the link to where my story is posted on their website is HERE.  I took second for my story called Idiot Box!  Have a look if you would like.  You can find them on Facebook HERE.  They have great posts all week long talking about different authors and giving writing prompts.  Basically, if you need a to get your creative juices back up and going then I would suggest these people.

Until next time!

POETRY SLAM! #13

First Poetry Slam of the new year! I wrote this one about social networking. No surprise there since a basically live there. Lol.

Status Tweets

Good morning! Guess who's up?
Time for breakfast coffee cup
Going to work, man this sucks
Gas is up two hundred bucks
Forgot the mayo, hashtag sad
This music stinks but theirs not bad
Copy, like, or share this post
Click here to see who likes you most
Game requests, come feed my cow
I'll follow back if you follow now
It's getting late, better get to bed
I'll watch this video first instead
Tomorrow's here! For goodness sake
Is anybody else awake?



I can't tell you how often I get sucked in to facebook, twitter, and youtube and find out it's hours later than I thought it was. Lol. As a matter of fact if you want to encourage my Internet addiction then you can go to my facebook page for the blog by clicking HERE. We can procrastinate together! Lol. I'll see you guys next time.

Week of the Writer: Day 6

Well, I did the Poetry Slam! :D *waits for you to be impressed and forget about the big writing and editing promises I made you...* Ok. I seriously don't know what's wrong with me. I have all this time to do stuff and yet I don't. This is making me sound like a horrible writer, neglecting all my character children... Words will be written. Seriously. SERIOUSLY. Ok, you're right to doubt me but I will cry wolf no more. You know, unless there's an actual wolf.

Anyways, have you visited my facebook yet? Pretty cool, huh? Hopefully it'll grow in number we'll get some more Scribblers over here. What would you like to see me do on there? There's a disscusion area on it so you can talk about different topics. I already set one up for Poetry Slam suggestions. Let me know if there's anything else you would like to see.

Something else I was thinking about was a youtube channel. There are a few authors that are coming close to my area and I was thinking that if I went to go see them it would be fun to do a vlog. And the Night of Writing Dangerously for NaNoWrimo that I intend to go to would be more fun to watch than to read about. So what do you think? Is that a good idea? What else do you think I could put on there? What would you like to see?

Wow, only 3 days left till Monday. Well, I knew I would have to go back at some point. Lol. See you later.

Week of the Writer: Day 5

I made a facebook page for my writing!!! :D http://on.fb.me/f3lV0k 'Like' it and pass it around if you will. I'm really excited about this and I have no idea way. Ha! If there's anything you would like to see on there let me know. Stop by and leave my a comment or something. :)

Anyways, that's really the highlight of my day. I played a good hour of Sonic but that has nothing to do with writing... Still reading The Naming. I guess I don't read as fast or maybe not as often during the day as I thought. It's a pretty thick book. I probably won't finish it this week. We also added painting into the list of things to do before we put my desk up. It's not a big desk so maybe we'll just move it when we're ready to paint but I'm not sure. I also decided that tomorrow I will be strict about getting some writing and editing done. I'll be disappointed if I don't get it done this week.

I'll see you tomorrow with another day and a Poetry Slam too! :)

Week of the Writer: Day 3

You know what? I am really proud of myself. The only thing that I didn't get around to today was my shorts. I did laundry, recruited dad to help move something around in preparation for my desk, edited a chapter, and went to Writer's Group. I even went to the gym and washed my hair. By golly, I've been, what's that word... productive. Wow, I don't see that word too often. Looks funny.

Anyways, I don't have any of my shorts to share with you but I do have a question. Remember back on my list of things to do this week when I mentioned a facebook fanpage? What do you think about that? I've been tossing the idea back and forth in my head. It would be more for me as an author rather than a blogger, though I'll put links to blog posts on there too. Let's put this into a pros and cons list.

Pros



• Access to more people (A lot of people have facebook though I know a few who don't)


• Easier to share (If I'm not wrong there's a button on groups or fanpages that you can 'suggest' it for a friend)



Cons





• Copyright issues? (Would it be easy for someone to take stuff I write off of facebook? I guess that's really anywhere.)



What do you think? The pros out weigh the cons? I think I might go for it. Let me know what you think.