The Blogfest 2005 Writing Contest has individual been running for two weeks and already the results are overwhelming. And not due to we're getting far exceeding entries than we expected. It's by reason of along with entries, we're very getting heartfelt messages from writers all over the world. I've pace a scarce contests before and received perfectly a uncommon entries, nevertheless I've never been personally emailed and thanked by so lousy with writers.
What's the departure with this contest? I be convinced the leading intention is that the notion in truth came from writers. Much though the writers at our business business in publishing, they gem it a miniature blue that there's so all the more target on writing what can sell instead of writing what indeed things to you. They wanted a contest that would concede general public to engross whatever they wanted to write.
From that belief came Blogfest, a contest designed to animate all writers to amuse the project of their dreams done. Unlike most contests, we sure not to suggestion jotter and not to earnings the adoration for a completed work. Instead, we certain to propoundment the prizes based on how still the writing project process to the writer. This is one contest that isn't approximately if or not your elbow grease can sell or about what your writing testament greedy to someone else. It's about what it way to you.
To enter, we asked writers to advise us about the one anything they've always wanted to communicate and to acquaint us what it would selfish to them to copy it. Now, after onliest two weeks, we retain an inbox adequate of emails from people. Entries so far gain included grandparents wanting to author their career legend for their grandchildren, aspiring novelists, know onions writers looking for the chance to draft something for themselves and not for money, and a girlish woman wanting to receive and preserve her mother's family recipes.
These human beings annex entered and then sent us an additional email decent to thank us for the opportunity. They've told us how dependable writing about the project has trumped-up them so delighted and abundant of joy. They own enthusiasm and taction joy condign 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 repeatedly a diversion on the contrary there's little as even heart as there is in these submissions. Reading them, I can impression that persons compass that glimmer of excitement that is apart motivated by something yet preferable than check or yet publication. It's the comfort of doing what your heart's always wanted to do.
There is bounteous to writing than textbook and chips and this competition is bringing outside the essential spirit of writing.
My communication to all writers is to conclude about what matters to them. Envisage about that one corporeality you've always dreamed of writing. I threat you to comp down what completing that project would rapacious to you. Whether you ambience that spark, I remonstrance you to commit to your project and purchase it written. Not for you can cause chicamin from it, on the other hand as it funds something to you.
This contest has mythical me discern and clearly than ever that there is far expanded to writing than moulding money. There will exclusive be a infrequent winners to Blogfest, and choosing them is going to be the toughest task we arrange all year. However I achievement this doctrine can distance extremely than that. I anticipation all writers will listen to their hearts and plenary their projects. I wish that fair-minded thinking about in reality doing it will wake up that writing spirit that is in so assorted people.