Hosting Short Story Writing Contests
In the beginning of September, I read an article about the benefits of writing 100-word short stories. In that moment I was inspired to host a short story contest in my writing group on Facebook, Accountabilibuddies. First, I had to see if anyone would be interested. I asked around. Not only were six people in the group interested, but there were writers I knew outside the group that were also interested. I had a meeting with one Accountabilibuddy, and he made me think about what was needed such as prompts, rules, and a deadline. For now we'll only have the 100-word contest and after the holidays we'll try to have the longer short story contest. If anyone wants to have the longer short story contest now, let me know. Prompts: Pets Relatives Fireworks Party Vacation For the rules, I do want you to try a genre you haven't tried before or haven't worked for in a long time. Do you think a deadline of by the end of the month is doable? I even submitted, and I thought ...