Nervous Waiting

Last month, I entered a short story competition, the Ward De Ruysscher Prijs, with a Dutch rewrite of a story I wrote a few months ago after a photo prompt. In two days, the results will be out. There will be a ceremony but alas. I'm on call at work and thus unable to attend.

I don't expect to win anything. Not expecting means not getting disappointed. I'd be grateful for any small triumph, like making the short list. 

I'll be entering more contests and looking for mainstream venues for my short stories and maybe even for my poems. In a few days, I hope to submit a piece to Writers of the Future, a Sci-Fi and Fantasy competition that runs worldwide. 

I'm working on a piece for the fall edition of The First Line Literary Journal. For the sixth assignment of the Writers' Workout at The Writers' Block, we've plotted out a character arc for a main character. 

Mine was an arc with a very definable transitional moment. I plan to write a full short story as well, but that one perfect moment of realisation spun itself into a fifty-word microflash piece too. And that is another piece I plan to find a venue for.

I'm not giving up on writing. I love it too much. But I'm done writing for myself and for my friends. I want my stories to find their way into the world.

Join me?

*Hugs*

Jasmine

J-Arch: Putting Myself Out There As an Artist

I friend of mine introduced me to this amazing platform called Redbubble.

It allows independent artists to upload their work and offer it for sale as a print on a selection of items.

I was immediately intrigued and made an account that same evening. I'm really happy with how it works so far. I wrote a bit of a review of the website on my Steem account.

I'm not really going to repeat myself, but I do want to show some of the possibilities it offers.

I uploaded some of my paintings, and will certainly be adding the rest of my backcatalogue as well, whenever I have some time available.

I have also started turning my poems into graphics. I did this for both my own poems and some of the poems that I really consider an amazing gift from my friend @damianjayclay, who edits slips of conversation whenever he comes across them and sends them back to us in wonderful poetic reincarnations. I quite like this process as well, as it really adds to the poem itself. So let's look at some other designs I've uploaded to my Redbubble webshop.

Anyway, it's been tons of fun and I hope you'll come and have a look around.

Hugs

Tiny