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May 16, 2012 Writers and the Economy For whatever reason, contest entries have been down for nearly a year, though I'm still advertising
the way I always do. Other writing organizations are experiencing the same results. The only reasonable explanation I can
find for this is the economy. After serving as registration chair for the latest conference held by the Missouri Writers'
Guild, I noticed that many writers opted out of the extras and only paid for the portion of the conference they wanted to
attend rather than doing the whole package. This is wise, I think. Writers are spending their funds more cautiously, and I
can understand this. After all, I'm a writer, too.
But
at the same time, I want writers to remember the benefits of entering contests--deadline for producing a solid piece of writing,
feedback (for those contests which offer this), a finished manuscript which can be entered into other contests or submitted
for publication, the excitement of entering a contest, building writing credentials, motivation to keep on writing, etc.
I like Hope Clark's take on contests. She suggests that writers allow for contests in their "writing budgets"
in the same way they might put money aside for taking a class or paying dues to a writers' organization. For example, enter
one contest per month, or maybe quarterly if your budget is severely limited. But don't stop entering contests! The benefits
far outweigh the price of the entry fee. Amy
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No one would take Serat and me for brothers. Serat has
the fine face of our father – so our mother used to say – but he is full of devils. I am darker, and thin faced.
We only saw our father once. I had lived five summers. Our father had been a prisoner, cutting roads through the mountains.
I don’t know whether he was freed or escaped, but he found us at the Governor’s palace in the south. My only memory
of him was calling me G’arb’oa, a diseased creature, a leper, and hitting our mother. When Serat leapt to her
defence our father broke his ribs. Then he left and never returned. ________________________
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