Hi, 2012! Thought about it, and mostly what I want to do in the new year is the same thing I did in 2011. Just a lot more of it. Teres and I continued building something of a social life, listened to some great music and made a lot of new friends. More of that, [...]
Read MoreMy entry for Bon Jovi's logo contest
Bon Jovi redesigned their website. getting ready for the new album and tour, and there's a contest to choose a new logo for the members-only section. A contest, do you say…? Most of the entries so far seemed to be variants of the existing one — many of them submitted by the same few people [...]
Read MoreNaNoWriMo badges! A little early, yes
NaNoWriMo 2009 badges are out! OK, yes, granted it's still a few months till November when National Novel Writing Month attacks, but they couldn't wait and frankly I can use the nudging to get ready. I started strong in my first NaNoWriMos but my performance the last few years has been sad. Getting psyched already…
Read MoreReview: "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman, sort of
Well, it is a review, but mostly it was a contest entry for McSweeney's recent columnist contest. I didn't win so you get it as a blog entry. Here's what I submitted: Life Lessons, by C. A. Bridges My columns, should you choose to accept them, would be a variety of subjects with the common [...]
Read MoreShort story contest entry: "TransmogriVacations, Inc."
Second challenge, round one, of NYCMidnight's Creative Writing Championship. This time my group was given "Genre: Fantasy, Location: Travel Agency, Object: Lobster." Well, that seemed pretty obvious… "TransmogriVacations, Inc." by C. A. Bridges (1,000 words) “A lobster? An actual crawling around, dunk it in butter lobster?” “It’s what we have available right now in your [...]
Read MoreJoin the Literary Twestival!
The West Port Book Festival is hosting their first Literary Twestival in Edinburgh on August 14th. But you don't have to be within a thousand miles of the place to participate… Just post your short-short-short story to your Twitter account and include the hashtag #wpss (for West Port Short Story). The best will be presented [...]
Read MoreShort story contest entry: "Put Not Your Trust in Banks"
And here's my first entry into the 2009 Creative Writing Championship short story contest. Each group of writers was given a genre, a location that must be integral, an item that must be featured, 1,000 words to do it in, and 48 hours to write it. My group received "Suspense / indoor swimming pool / [...]
Read MoreI won the Tweet Me a Story contest! And I owe it all to pimping
I won the audience award! You like me! (sniff) You were shamed, guilted, and/or pressured into admitting you really like me! Thanks, everyone, for voting for me. Didn't get the judges' prize but I did get into the top ten, which means I also won entry into NYCMidnight's 2009 Creative Writing Contest, which starts this [...]
Read MoreVote for my story, help me win!
Remember NYCMidnight's "Tweet Me a Story" contest? Hundreds of writers wrote stories of 140 characters or less, using a supplied word? And then some of the writers made it to the final round, and we all got the same word? And I posted my entries here? One of them made the top 25, chosen by [...]
Read MoreMy "Tweet Me a Story" final entries
So, I made the final round of NYCMidnight's "Tweet Me a Story" contest. So, the remaining writers all got the same word last night to use in our 140-character stories. So, the word was "tear." Here's what I submitted, with titles added afterward for fun: Last Call "Aren't you skydiving?" "Yup." "You're calling from midair? [...]
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