Watch out for that raptor!
This picture makes my life.
Anyway, entered a writing competition at my school today. I don't enter writing competitions very often (or rather, the last time I ever entered one I was in junior high), this is mostly because a) writing competitions have ridiculous word count requirements and b) you have to pay to enter. The idea of paying someone to read my writing is awfully... silly.
So this is a writing competition run by the school, not entry fee, no word count requirement and the winner gets $400. Not bad. I entered a short story and a poem. I don't actually like my poetry, but I figured I might as well give it a go.
The number for my short story is 35 and my poem in 26... and I'm not actually sure anymore if those were the numbers I got, because I have a shitty memory. The guy before me handed in a poem and his number was 34, so this leads me to believe those are the numbers of entires so far. Today is the last day to enter, so it doesn't look like there's a whole lot of competition.
There was also a category for screenplays, but I thought I didn't have any finished screenplays. As I handed in my stories I remembered I was wrong, I have a finished one from Grade 12, but I don't really feel like handing it in. After all, I nearly killed my printer with all the copies I had to print this morning. Who needs four copies!?! The price of entry is: ink and paper.
Anyway, won't know the results until April I think, so I best be promptly forgetting about all o' this.
-LS
P.S. The lady taking the entries, the head of Professional Writing I think, was really stressed and short tempered with us, but as I left she wished me luck, which was nice - as I was the only person she wished any luck at all upon :)