It's June and the summer is here!

Hello Friends!

 We've survived the long cold winter and are moving into the fun of summer! Let's enjoy the warm weather fun and find inspiration in everything we do!
Tell us your stories of lazy days, summer vacations and let's not forget those summer romances!

 Why not keep a journal of all of the wonderful things we do this summer and write write write and by September you may have a whole lot of wonderful words to put into a short story or a novel!
It's now time to clean up the work and submit your stuff!  You know you've got it in you ..., so GO FOR IT!

  Over the past 8 months I've cleaned up some of my writings so I could practice what I preach and submit!
  I entered a Human Interest article in a competition at a writer's conference. My story finished in 2nd place!
  I'd also submitted a short story with the theme of "Memories" into an online contest which tied for 1st place.  YES!

  I'd completed my YA novel and submitted it for consideration to a small publishing company for consideration. I will do another post about that later.
 
  I've also submitted my completed romance manuscript into the Big Create Space contest. I made the first cuts and I was thrilled. I didn't make the second cut but I am encouraged to have made it into the top 2000 out of 10000 entries. Hopefully I will do it again next year and make it farther and hey ..., who knows ..., I may possibly WIN!      YOU CAN'T WIN IF YOU DON'T SUBMIT!

So let's all put our work out there and Keep Writing and Submitting!

And as always, KEEP SMILING!  : )

Build Creative Writing Ideas - Thousand Prompts Contest Entry

                                                            

(Original Post removed and replaced with this cool photo I took.)

For more information on this contest hosted by Bryan Cohen click on the links
www.build-creative-writing-ideas.com/writing-contest.html
www.build-creative-writing-ideas.com/free-creative-writing-prompts-memory.html

How are your submissions going?

Okay everyone, we are already half way through the month of June and worse news, we're halfway through  2011! I can't believe it! Time is flying by and summer fun will be keeping us outdoors and away from our keyboards. I'm sending out a pep talk to everyone to keep on writing and submitting! Submit, Submit, Submit! Let's Get Published!
  On Monday, I submitted a short story to the Senior Executive Editor of Red Room who has sent it out for consideration. As soon as I hear ..., whether good or bad, I'll let you all know. But I do want to say, whatever happens it felt AWESOME to send it out!  Now it's back to the EDITING process for my novel. It was good to take a break from the novel editing process to work on the short story. I needed a short break. I feel that my mind is in a better place now. I'm looking at the work with a fresh eye. Yesterday and today the corrections seemed to jump off the page. I highly recommend taking a break if you find yourself nodding off during revisions. (Not that I'm saying I did ....smiling....)
If you haven't been there before, check out www.redroom.com   Another great website for writers!
Keep Writing!  : )