I need to catch up on posting a few contest entries. I’ve been writing contest crazy this year! Adding those to the writing commitments I’ve had for FanFiction has made this a busy year. Writing Battle had a Summer Nanofiction challenge – 250 words. I was surprised at the success I had with the Microfiction …
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NYC Midnight Round Three
I did not place in the third round. I am not completely surprised. I could see the weak parts of my third round story. To be fair, I had forty-eight hours to write it, and for some reason it was just being stubborn. I wasn’t fully happy with it, but I ran out of time. …
Writing Battle – Wonder
At the same time that the Writing Battle Spring Microfiction was going on, the Writing Battle Wonder Battle was as well. This one was a pro-judged one, so we could see the results of who won in your individual battle after each round from round one through round five. Three losses and you’re out, so …
Quiet
I received word that I got fifth place in my group in the first round of the NYC Midnight Short Story 2025 contest on 1st April and it wasn’t an April Fool’s prank. While I was excited, of course, my heart sank. Between signing up for the contest and that day, I’d made plans for …
Writing Battle Spring Microfiction
I think I’ve blogged about Writing Battle before. It’s a nice competition full of nice people and I enjoy the challenge and the setup. Despite the struggle I have writing 1000 word stories, I tried to do their 500 word microfiction challenge. One of the things I like about WB is that their peer-judged contests …
The Nobbins Creek Summer Fair Ribbon Cutting Contest
Long title, I know. I’ve occasionally entered the NYC Midnight writing contests – they hold a handful of different ones during the year. It’s more formal than Writing Battle, but it’s still a nice challenge. Participants are still broken up into groups, but each group gets the same prompts and the top five advance to …
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Heart Writing Battle
Has it been a year since I posted? I definitely need to get better with this. I just competed in the Heart Writing Battle. I competed in Writing Battle last year for the Winter Flash Fiction contest and enjoyed the peer-judged competition. I’m also in the 2025 version, but that one is still being judged, …
The Writing Battle
I found a new writing competition called The Writing Battle. It was much more affordable to enter than NYC Midnight, and also had an interesting concept the more I read about it. There’s still a set of prompts to write to and a time limit, but the similarities pretty much end there. The prompts are …
The Seamstress
Kristine gave us a really interesting prompt last year at the writing retreat. She brought a big stack of photos she had taken and handed one to each of us. We were to write something inspired by the photo. Here is the one I got: I can’t rightly remember what the photo was. I think …
Stars
We were given a few prompts during this writing exercise and I chose the one “The sight of the stars always makes me dream”. I consume a decent amount of sci-fi media (books, movies, tv) and this appealed to me. Not sure why I ended it the way I did, but I kind of like …
Wendy's Thoughts and Writing Snippets 