Sometime around nine o’clock last night, I left this comment on Loretta’s weblog:
Loretta, this story has a word count of 1,671. There is currently a Writer’s Digest short story contest going on, as well as others that you should seriously consider entering, with either this piece, or the life drama of 5/5 (?).
Do it.
At Pomegranates and Paper, Loretta writes some of the loveliest little vignettes of her life I’ve ever read. I don’t always remember what she’s written, and we have often questioned ourselves in what we reveal personally in our weblogs, but the feeling of who she is stays with me, not the details. She needed a gentle push, I felt, above and beyond my simple words of praise.
We were online at the same time, I suppose, when I received an e-mail from her telling me she would check out the Writers Digest website. Then another, barely a minute later exclaiming that she had to rush—I hadn’t mentioned that the deadline was in three hours!
I read this, smiled, and sent no reply. She would be busy, I assumed. Sending spouse and children scurrying out of her way. I left her to her writing.
I wonder if she met the deadline, although it doesn’t matter. The contest I’d referred to was in the Digest magazine, and had a deadline date of December 1st.
I hope that she’ll forgive me.
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What a lovely gesture on your part Susan! How wonderful of you to provide that encouragement to another writer.
LOL – I’m sitting on my bed rolling with laughter and the family now KNOWS I’ve lost it.
I did submit three entries, pulled from my blog. I emailed them with at least two hours to spare!
Now I need to go look at the one due 12/1!
And you really are the most generous of writer/friends. I hope you submitted something also!
lovely gesture on your part.
it is great that you are such an encouraging and thoughful person.
Well sometimes some of us need a little pat on the head or kick in the behind to take a step. Wouldn’t have done that to you Loretta, if I’d have known about the contest with the 3-hour deadline–but then again, I didn’t stop you either, which turned out to be a good thing! No, I didn’t enter anything. I’m not quite ready with anything yet. But I did get a good laugh out of thinking about you hustling at the keyboard!