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Can You Write a Puppet Play?

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I read that Librarian’s Aide is looking for a few good puppet plays.

Well, maybe more than a few. They have two different anthologies for which they’re seeking submissions. Librarian’s Aide wants to reach preschoolers and promote literacy (and visiting your local library!), so a puppet play seems like a very good idea to me.

I don’t know if I can write a puppet play, but I’m pretty excited about giving it a try. And I don’t know if I’ll try to make it a rhyming play, but I remembered this cool website, Write Rhymes, which might come in handy if I do.

So, if you’re good with dialogue and love books, you should get to work. Deadline for submissions is the first week of November, more or less. And thanks to the ICL newsletter for posting this goody!

Finding a Winning Story!

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I sat down to write about the winning story a few hours ago…but I wanted to change my photo in the Finders and Keepers header. That was simple enough. Then the new header looked so fine, I decided to tweak the appearance of F & K. And then I saw that Flickr thingie and thought, hey! Why not add a few photos?

Um, time passed. Mostly because I have RSS issues. Just when all was lost, I figured it out! (Yeah, I broke down and went to the Support page.) And I learned a little something something about RSS. Totally made my day. Not as much as winning a contest. But it was pretty awesome.

DSC00554So, the story. The White County Creative Writers had TONS of categories in their 2009 writing contest. Including a Children’s Fiction category (How fortuitious!) I’d written a fun science fiction story called The Problem with S.H.E. but I couldn’t find anywhere to send that story. At least, not anywhere that might consider financial remuneration for services rendered. Off the story went. And back it came with a check!

And it’s not published. So, it still belongs to me. Wheee!

Here’s my tip for the day: Consider a contest if you have a great story but no paying market for it. A contest check  in the hand is worth more than a handful of non-paying publications!