COMPETITIONS AND CHALLENGES

SISTERS IN CRIME SCARLET STILETTO SHORT STORY AWARDS
I'm very proud to have been shortlisted for my very first entry to these awards and came away from the Awards night dinner with a 'special commendation' award.  I'll definitely be entering this competition next year.  It was too much fun to miss out.

NANOWRIMO
I love that word of course it means National Novel Writing Month and from a previous post you'll know that I took up the challenge again this year.  I succeeded in reaching 50,000+ words with eight hours still to go.  I'm not sure I'll register again next year, the month of November seems to disappear very quickly, especially when you're grabbing every spare minute to write.  Perhaps it will be a biannual challenge?  I'm pleased to have at least three quarters of a novel, it will need HUGE editing before I can take it to it's conclusion and I think I'll wait a few months before I open up the file and take another look.  Again, it was a fun program to be involved with.  Think about taking the challenge next year.  Even if you don't think you have a story waiting to be told, you could be surprised what emerges as the days progress.  After all this is 'writing fiction for fun'.