Comments on: Magazines — the First Step? http://www.eablevins.net/wordpress/2007/03/29/magazines-the-first-step/ Keep up with progress in work and life. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:03:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: EA Blevins http://www.eablevins.net/wordpress/2007/03/29/magazines-the-first-step/#comment-39 EA Blevins Sat, 10 May 2008 16:08:37 +0000 http://www.eablevins.net/wordpress/2007/03/29/magazines-the-first-step/#comment-39 >_> The contest didn't pan out, by the way. I didn't expect it to, but there's always the teeniest bit of hope that a miracle might happen where they spill coffee all over the other entries and you're made winner because the judges are too embarrassed to mention the unfortunate incident. Or, you know, that your writing might not suck. Anyway, they sent me a list of the winners and runners-up and a copy of the book they put out with the winners' stories. Doesn't that seem like a slap in the face? It always has to me -- I really don't want to read the stories of people I lost to. AND I feel awkward about throwing books away, so that silly thing is going to sit on my bookshelf for a few years, mocking me, before I chuck it rather than haul it along when we move again. >_> The contest didn’t pan out, by the way. I didn’t expect it to, but there’s always the teeniest bit of hope that a miracle might happen where they spill coffee all over the other entries and you’re made winner because the judges are too embarrassed to mention the unfortunate incident.

Or, you know, that your writing might not suck.

Anyway, they sent me a list of the winners and runners-up and a copy of the book they put out with the winners’ stories.

Doesn’t that seem like a slap in the face? It always has to me — I really don’t want to read the stories of people I lost to. AND I feel awkward about throwing books away, so that silly thing is going to sit on my bookshelf for a few years, mocking me, before I chuck it rather than haul it along when we move again.

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