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Winning With Ack! Mistakes

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Juniorette, pitching in with the ACK face.

Ack! Remember back when I admitted that I’d done something really stupid, writing-wise?

No, not that something stupid, or that ack!, either. I mean the one from last week, the publicizing-my-blog feature ack!

Now, another writer might get annoyed at making mistakes, over and over and over again. And if I didn’t learn something extremely helpful from every mistake I made, I would get annoyed.

Take, for example, that last mistake. I learned a little something about the importance of strong titles and hooking your blog readers with an interest-grabbing first line to your post. (You can find out the particulars over at this Muffin post.)

So I like to think I’m becoming a better writer, ack! by ack! by ack! Plus, I never seem to run out of material for blog posts.

It’s a win-win.

You Like To Win Writing Contests, Right?

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I do, too. But back in my newbie writer days, I didn’t win much. Okay, I didn’t win at all. In point of fact, I lost…money, time, and almost my confidence.

Here’s what I didn’t lose: common sense. I learned from my mistakes. And you can, too, if you check out my Muffin post today where I enumerated a couple of my more memorable mistakes (and the lessons I learned).

So zip over there and give yourself a better chance at winning writing contests. Because common sense is swell and all that, but winning is way better.