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Cathy C. Hallhttps://cathychall.wordpress.com/I write, write, write. Then I rewrite, rewrite, rewrite. THEN I submit all those polished-up words out into the world and sell 'em. It's a plan that's worked pretty well.

Tooting My Horn Tuesday : Sentence Soiree Luck at The Verb

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I feel lucky, oh so lucky. I feel lucky, and plucky and bright!

I’m a singing, dancing fool when I win, so thanks to “West Side Story” for inspring me today. And a BIG thanks to Elizabeth Guy over at The Verb for her Sentence Soiree Party. Remember when I told you to write a brilliant sentence and send it in? You could have been the one to be plucked from the straw hat. But instead it was me!

That’s right. Cathy C. Hall won an opinion (a $300 value!) when her name was chosen out of all the daily winners. How’s that for a Fortune? Check it out here for the horn-tootin’ details. I know just the manuscript I’ll send. Technically, it’s the only manuscript I can send. But hey, that just makes the choice easy.

Kind of like the way I won that contest. I feel lucky, oh so lucky! Think I’ll go buy a lottery ticket.

Finding Something Friday…Hurry, Hurry!

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Do you write fast? ‘Cause if you hurry, there’s still time to enter up to three short stories in Wordclay’s Short Story Contest.

I found the note “Wordclay” when I opened my folder of “Current Contests and Such” and just today got around to checking it out. So now I only have ONE day to get it together. Read all the details here. Maybe you happen to have a few scathingly brilliant stories hanging around, waiting for publication. Maybe I do, too. I can always use a little Fame and Fortune.

One thing I know I don’t have hanging around is a 60,000 word manuscript. But maybe you do. I found another note, checked out the website, and read all about the “Get Your Stiletto in the Door Contest.” Don’t you LOVE that name? Makes me wish I had a scathingly brilliant manuscript to send, just so I could say I entered the “Get Your Stiletto in the Door Contest.” (See how I managed to work that in again). But if you write fast, you can still make the deadline of June 15, 2008. And if you’re like me, without a manuscript, you can still check out the score sheet and see what criteria the judges use. I learned a new thing or two, writing-wise.

I learned something else new today, too. I found that if you go outside and work in the yard on a Tuesday, you can end up with poison ivy on a Friday. Because apparently, poison ivy is one thing in no hurry at all.