Contest | Cathy C. Hall Writes

Because I need to work on my YA manuscript today, I had editing, Chapter 7, and plot directions and themes on my mind. This Writer’s Digest article on The Do’s and Don’ts of Combining Genres was exactly what I needed to clear up some genre-blending questions I have. So, if you’re working on a book-length manuscript, you might find it illuminating.

Because I love to win, I bookmarked this essay contest from Affordable Insurance. So far, I’ve come up with, oh, let me think a minute… Um, nope. Still zero ideas for this essay. But I know y’all love essays, too, and perhaps you’ve got a scathingly brilliant insurance topic. So, good luck with this contest!

And because I can’t exactly hug all my wonderful blog readers, I thought I’d pass along Free Hugs in Sondrio, Italy. I love Cohen’s Hallelujah, and I always smile when I watch this video on Youtube. So, here’s my free hug to you.

I just love Finding Something Friday, don’t you?

July started with a bang! (Um, sorry. I know that was bad.)

I opened up my inbox to find an email from Smories saying that my smory, “Ondine Oxenburg is Definitely Different” is live! Here’s what that means…

Smories.com is a UK website where kids tell stories. Not just any stories, of course. They’re recorded telling the stories that are sent in by writers like, well, me. Right now, Smories is having a competition where the smory with the most clicks wins. But the second, third, fourth and fifth most-clicked stories win, too.

I don’t usually do competitions of this nature. But watching those little Brit kids reading stories sucked me in. I’m a bit of an Anglophile, you see.

So now, “Ondine Oxenburg is Definitely Different” is one of the finalists, and a very cute Brit kid is reading my smory. And wouldn’t you just know it? I’m kinda sucked into that competiton now. ‘Cause I’m a bit of a contestphile, too.

Click all month long! ‘Cause it’d be swell if July ended with a bang, too! (Blimey!)