Writercation 2

Today is my day of full-time writing for this month. I've been very productive over the past month. Things were starting to lag a little this week, but working hard today has re-energized my creative efforts. Since my last Writercation, I've completed over a dozen submissions. We're working hard and moving forward!

White Lie with a Pink Bow

Check out my flash fiction story here. Writing a short story in 250 words or less was definitely a fun challenge! It's a quick read if you want to check it out!

Effective Investment

Today I found out that the two children's stories I submitted during my writercation were accepted! What encouragement! I sold them to a developing online reading curriculum company, so I guess I'm the author of 5th and 6th grade reading assignments now! So fun! If I'm lucky, I'll have the chance to send them more stories. We'll see. :)

Winner, Winner!

My story "Hark!" just tied for the Reader's Choice award in the 2012 LDS Publisher Christmas Story Contest. Thank you to everyone who participated!

In case you hazarded a guess, my other story was "Nepotism," and Brian's was "An Unlit Fire." Check them out!

Vote Now!

You can now vote in the LDS Publisher 2012 Christmas Story Contest. Anyone can vote! But you only have through 12/19/12. Check out the instructions here: http://www.ldspublisher.com/2012/12/2012-christmas-story-voting-instructions/.

No, I won't tell you which stories are mine or Brian's, so you'll just have to vote blindly and be surprised!

2012 Christmas Stories Posted!

All of the Christmas stories are posted for the LDS Publisher Christmas story contest. You can read them all here. Voting will begin next week, so this is your chance to get started with reading! Can you guess which ones are mine and which one is Brian's? Kudos to you if you can guess right!

LDS Publisher 2012 Christmas Story Contest

I submitted two stories and Brian submitted one to this year's LDS Publisher Christmas Story Contest. This is our fourth year participating, and we love it! It was pretty crazy getting final drafts finished during November, but I'm still grateful for the opportunity to finish and submit something. I'll update later when the stories are posted.

P.S. The nice thing about the contest deadline being before December even start is that now that it really is Christmastime, I keep thinking of stories to write for next year . . . :)