Tuesday, November 3, 2009

An interesting thing happened on my way to becoming an author...

I was asked yesterday if I would be a judge in a writing contest. I won't reveal which one, because I wouldn't want to be inundated with gifts, luxury cruises, and Hershey's Extra Creamy Milk Chocolate Toffee and Almond Nuggets, all in an effort to persuade my vote. That would just be wrong...wouldn't it? (Not even just one measly bag of nuggets? *BIG SIGH*)


Anyway, it gave me pause. (Kind of like the mention of Hershey's Extra Creamy Milk Chocolate Toffee and Almond Nuggets just did.) And then I laughed. It reminded me of all those years ago when I had my very first ever item published in the newspaper. Because I could string a few words together in a somewhat coherent (and humorous, I hasten to add) manner and a newspaper was willing to publish it and pay me 10 bucks, suddenly I was an expert of sorts. Never mind that I didn't have another thing published for, like, forever. People just seemed to be impressed with even this one minor success.

They also seemed to think I knew the ins and outs of writing.

My son's 2nd grade teacher saw the article and asked if I would come once a week to teach Creative Writing to the class. And I was actually asked to judge an elementary school Reflections writing contest. I guess it turned out alright. No anarchy in the streets over the winners chosen.

No chocolate-covered bribery attempted either.

Darn it.



[this bit of nonsense is also appearing today at anwafounder.blogspot.com]

2 comments:

Jenn Adams said...

I was an editor at my High School newspaper, and despite publishing many of my own articles, no one has ever seemed incredibly inspired by that fact. ;o)

Re: pretending to be Anne Hathaway pretending to be Jane Austin, I think that's as good a thing to pretend as anything! I don't know if I could get into the real spirit of it typing on a laptop, though. ;o)

Good luck with your November BIAM!

Marilyn said...

I'm certainly impressed as I have never published anything. (Does a blog post count?)

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