The 2006 Best Little Christmas Story Contest
AuthorStore is hosting this event and will award $250 in prizes to the winners. I've been meaning to mention it sooner since entries are due by midnight EST on December 15th, but, well, you know. The story needs to only be 250 words, so there's still time for you to write an entry.
Although I'm not much of a writer, I have composed a Christmas tragedy which needs to be edited—a lot—in order to make it a super short story. I never made it beyond seven words for a 50,000-word NaNoWriMo novel. However, I had no problem going far, far beyond 250ish words for this contest. Mary, Mary, quite contrary, indeed.
Elizabeth Baines on Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Maxine of Petrona linked to this article from Norman Geras's site. Says Maxine, "Not only is it insightful about Wuthering Heights as a novel, but it contrasts the experience of reading it when young with reading it when older." She also makes a connection to our recent discussion of the novel and my blathering, at length, on how my perceptions of its characters have changed through the years. An interesting find.
Founding members Bryan Appleyard (a.k.a. Supreme Failure) and Frank Wilson (a.k.a. Vice Failure) make me chuckle. Alas, I am sure I wouldn't qualify. You probably have to have been considered an intellectual at some point before being able to fail at it. And we all know my intelligence has been under some scrutiny of late.
