The First Ever Flash Fiction Contest at LiteraryMary!Remember that?
The theme for our contest was:
LossAs with every contest there is one winner.
Ironically there are also those who may experience loss.
For those who participated, nothing can compare to the experience of writing,
submitting your best, and resolution gained with certain knowledge as to the outcome.
A begining, a middle, and an end.
And that's what writers do. They write.
The entries were judged by those who write. Writers are tough judges, because
writers
also read. A lot. And so their standards are rather high.
Reading can be fun. Writing isn't always so, and it's made tougher by
sending your children out to play in the real world with big people who want
the best and will eat your children if they don't like them.
But it's all just words. They are not really children. And when your children come home with a fifty dollar prize....
...or not, and you can look upon the work you've done and see who you are, where you may
improve, or smile at a job well done, wiping the blood from the wounds your
children got from the battles they've endured with editors, critics, and
publishers.
Congratulations to Patrick Nathan, our astronacht, for writing a piece of flash
fiction more people liked than any other submitted piece.
There's really nothing more to say.
Thanks to one and to all.
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