Writer's Block: You're a Winner!

[lilithisbitter]

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The first time I won a contest was for the Elementary School Halloween Poster contest. I won 1st place for my haunted school theme. I got a ribbon and a gift certificate for a restaurant near us. It was neat... out of all of the pictures everyone at school did for the posters and I, a little first grader (I'm not kidding about the little part, I was a nice little stick of a girl with white blond hair with a reddish patch at the top and huge green eyes.) won it. I was so proud. But then the dumbass janitor threw my prize-winning poster away before I could claim it. I was so made. It seems all of the brilliant art stuff I put on display in my elementary school days wound up getting destroyed. It makes me sad.

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[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

I won a poetry contest in a bar trivia night in 2000. They gave everybody the type of poem and the subject matter at the last minute and that time it was supposed to be a haiku about the (then current) olmypics in Australia. I was pretty damn shocked mine won because it was actually very anti-olympics in content. I won a T shirt, a bunch of pencils, a big bag of Chex mix and some free drinks. I still have the T shirt.

[lilithisbitter.livejournal.com]

That's because creative folk excel at making up things on the fly. Then we blow folks away when we take our sweet time.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

I usually have to think about and mentally tinker with and edit my creative writing (esp. my fanfic) for quite some time before it's ready.

[lilithisbitter.livejournal.com]

I love putting in little references for people to find and feel proud they spotted them. Like subtly hinting at an actor's filming past.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

In "Iatroeco-oxyglossophilia", the first House fic I ever wrote, one of the hospital patients was reading a Jeeves book. Not very subtle but fun.