1 | Cathy C. Hall Writes

As you may recall when I wrote about my mission to acquire Cheryl Klein’s SECOND SIGHT, I am not one to give up easily. And so once again, I shall be rolling up my sleeves, flexing the brain, and looking for an unusual newspaper headline for my Highlights Fiction Contest story.

Yep, it’s that time of year again when hope springs eternal and visions of dollars dance in my head as I write up a scathingly brilliant kiddie story of 750 words or less (475 words if I think up something brilliant for the younger readers of Highlights). Although, I’m a little flummoxed at the moment by this part:

CATEGORY:

A funny story inspired by an unusual newspaper headline.

I mean, I can do funny, and I read all kinds of newspapers. But I may have to do some digging to come up with an unusual newspaper headline to write this story and send by January 31.

Not that I’m deterred. On the contrary. ‘Cause you know what? I finally won SECOND SIGHT. And Highlights Fiction Contest? You’re next.

If you’ve zipped over from the Hall of Fame, you already know I’ve consolidated my two blogs into one big, crazy writing blog here at Finders & Keepers. And if you’ve just happened by, now you know, too. Isn’t it swell that we’re all on the same page?

I’ve wrestled with this merging for awhile now, and I have to tell you, I’m feeling good. I’ve got lots of little details to work out (and I’m not as adept at using WordPress as I am at Blogger), but still, I’m feeling good. It was time to make this change, and I’m downright giddy thinking about the extra time I’m going to have now, with only one blog to manage.

And yeah, there’s this tiny little voice that’s trying to squeak out something about me still wasting time playing online games and zipping around to a gazillion posts on Twitter and watching Youtube videos, but I’m not listening.

It’s a new year, it’s a new day, it’s a (sorta) new blog…and I’m feeling good.