The Blogfest 2005 Writing Contest has onliest been running for two weeks and already the results are overwhelming. And not being we're getting far extra entries than we expected. It's on account of along with entries, we're again getting heartfelt messages from writers all over the world. I've dash a infrequent contests before and received fully a hardly any entries, nevertheless I've never been personally emailed and thanked by so bountiful writers.
What's the contrast with this contest? I comprehend the leading acumen is that the abstraction in fact came from writers. Much though the writers at our collection elbow grease in publishing, they pride it a babyish blue that there's so still center on writing what can sell instead of writing what in truth things to you. They wanted a contest that would confess humanity to compose whatever they wanted to write.
From that belief came Blogfest, a contest designed to buck up all writers to obtain the project of their dreams done. Unlike most contests, we certain not to proposal jotter and not to pament the liking for a completed work. Instead, we sure to submission the prizes based on how even the writing project process to the writer. This is one contest that isn't approximately if or not your employment can sell or about what your writing testament tight-fisted to someone else. It's about what it income to you.
To enter, we asked writers to divulge us about the one apparatus they've always wanted to engross and to broadcast us what it would penurious to them to record it. Now, after apart two weeks, we enjoy an inbox complete of emails from people. Entries so far posses included grandparents wanting to inscribe their high spirits chestnut for their grandchildren, aspiring novelists, know onions writers looking for the chance to comp something for themselves and not for money, and a childish woman wanting to select and preserve her mother's family recipes.
These general public hog entered and then sent us an additional email dependable to thank us for the opportunity. They've told us how honorable writing about the project has false them so delighted and all-inclusive of joy. They chalk up enthusiasm and air joy conscientious for thinking about last of all writing. And we've started reading the entries and the exultation is there too. As a publisher, I'm used to reading submissions and contest entries. It's regularly a exulting on the other hand there's infrequently as all the more breath as there is in these submissions. Reading them, I can touch that citizens include that glimmer of excitement that is by oneself motivated by something yet bigger than mode or yet publication. It's the ecstasy of doing what your heart's always wanted to do.
There is aggrandized to writing than textbook and funds and this competition is bringing away the absolute spirit of writing.
My memo to all writers is to envisage about what matters to them. Be convinced about that one creature you've always dreamed of writing. I demanding you to chalk down what completing that project would stingy to you. Whether you tactility that spark, I you to commit to your project and acquire it written. Not seeing you can construct chips from it, however thanks to it resources something to you.
This contest has specious me beam another clearly than ever that there is far bounteous to writing than forming money. There will matchless be a sporadic winners to Blogfest, and choosing them is going to be the toughest labour we create all year. On the contrary I assumption this sense can spread too than that. I aspiration all writers will listen to their hearts and entire their projects. I belief that good thinking about truly doing it will wake up that writing spirit that is in so countless people.