The West Virginia Writers Writing Contest deadline is fast approaching and I have been fine tuning entries to send in to it.
In addition to children's stories, this year I am thinking about submitting a poem. I recently wrote one unlike any I have ever written before. It is very unique. I am not saying anything else about it, though, since I am submitting it to the contest. Keep your fingers crossed for me that the judges will like it.
I also came up with an idea for a short story for the War category. This is a new category in the contest this year and I really didn't think I could write anything that would qualify, but I think I have. I am still working on it, (with help from a special friend) and it has a ways to go before it is ready to submit. I might have to send in a late fee with it, but I hope not.
So, I am sending in some stories in a very familiar genre for me and two writings that are very different than what I usually write. I think a person needs to try something new every now and then, how about you?
Have any of you tried writing outside your genre before?
I've seen a lot of poems on blogs lately. I've written a little one about the month of March.
If I Were a Month
Janet F. Smart
If I were a month
I would be March
With her roaring lions
And gentle lambs.
She is sassy, and
Her hills are covered
With green grass
And yellow daffodils.
Her spring winds
Sweep the earth
And wipes it clean
For hot summer days.
