Opportunity is knocking at my door...who am I to turn it down? My school is having a writing contest, with the categories of documented research paper, creative writing/short story (6pg max) and poetry/lyrics. Two out of three...doesn't get much better than that! I may also actually dig out and polish an old paper I did...or write a whole new one. Who knows! I'm thinking maybe a paper on the dangers of contraception...it would definitely be setting me apart from any other entries in this very liberal school. However, hard facts are wonderful things...and there are lots of them out there.
Anyway, I have to write a new story for the one category, since apparently as I've looked through what I've written...the shortest story I've written is ten pages long. I do have a couple that are shorter, but they're...well, not that great. One's something that I did for the heck of it for a contest and definitely plays to the little kid, and the other one was written for kindergarten, first, and second graders. Yeah, not something I'm going to enter into a college writing contest. It's not like I have no ideas, though. ;)
The only one that I actually have ready and just need to edit would be that third category. I have so many poems and lyrics written that if I printed all of them and put them in a pile, it'd be at least half an inch thick...probably thicker if I hunted down all my old ones. I have it narrowed down to five possibilities...not sure which one I'll edit yet. Final version will definitely be posted here!
As for the story...any ideas for a nice, short storyline? I have six double-spaced pages to write in, and no short-story ideas (right now, anyway). Any thoughts are greatly appreciated!
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