I’m baaaack! I’ve been away from my blog for almost a year now – and it hardly seems like 12 months has nearly passed.
Something cool did happen in the last year in regards to my writing. I was short-listed for the Geist Magazine Can’t Lit Without It CanLit Short Story Contest.
Fiction is the art form of human yearning, no matter how long or short that work of fiction is.
Robert Olen Butler, from Short Short Theory, Narrative Magazine
I can still remember waiting for the bus in a drafty and frigid TTC station when the email popped up. Sometimes that little “ping” from my phone is the last thing I want to hear – but other times it’s the only thing I want to hear.
Hi Christine, Hope this finds you well. Regarding the Geist Can’t Lit Without It CanLit Short Story Contest: your entry, “Beautiful Losers 2.0,” was named Honourable Mention! Thanks so much for entering, our editorial team really liked your work.
It was really thrilling to read I was short-listed but more thrilling was that the editorial team really liked my work! That really lifted my heart.
Everyone who submitted had to generate a story using the CanLit Premise Generator.
I kept generating premises until something took hold of my imagination.
Not a lie – but I knew that story was pretty good. It felt like it just came to my mind fully formed and I was simply typing as quickly as I could to keep up with it.
What’s also cool is that the competition was for Flash Fiction – stories less than 500 words.
TO BE BRIEF, it is a short short story and not a prose poem because it has at its center a character who yearns.
Robert Olen Butler, from Short Short Theory, Narrative Magazine
I highly recommend checking out a story premise generator if you’re feeling stuck and want some inspiration or direction for your writing. It was the first time I had ever used one and it was galvanizing.
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