Too true! And now my inspiration involves... DINNER!

Good plan! Me too.

And maybe my parrot, because he keeps laughing.

And dinner is an open faced burger! And probably more tea.

Hmmm...I still have to find the Haiku I wanted to enter....meant to do that sooner...

I got the one you sent just now.

Yep. Just had to remember which one it was I had decided to enter the other day.
I daresay I'm all entered in the contests I had time for.
I wouldn't be able to get something for the prose ones in time probably...

UAE made me think of United Arab Emirates. >.> Though I have a feeling that that was not intentional... :'(

Hmmmm....I may just have to enter this. I'm mostly good at Prose, so might dredge through some of my older bits for some inspiration.

Are the entries going to get posted? I understand if they are not. Some people don't want other people reading their poetry.

For some reason I don't think they will be just given the layout of the first page. Doesn't seem to be a place to put them.

I looked again. You are totally correct.

Was just a guess. Quiet could always edit in a place to put them. (Another thought, no pressure in any direction)

It's all good - I just love a little poetry every once in a while. ;)

**waves papers around** I entered a writing contest! :O I actually wrote something! Yay for Lucid!

Yay for Lucid! Yay, yay, yay! *cheers*

Lucid isn't very good at writing stories so she's never entered a writing contest before. But she is good at writing essays and ad copy. I wrote an essay and I hope Quiet likes it. o3o

Lucid, I'm sure you did awesome. <3

Indeed, likely it shall be much better than any dribble I might enter.

I might do well if nobody else enters prose. >.>

*chuckles* that's about all I'm good at as well, so if I entered that's wht I'd go for.

D8 But stories are just so much more exciting than essays!
Oh well, I don't think I would have even entered if Quiet hadn't mentioned that the prose categories were feeling lonely.

I'm going to try but there are so many contest! I'm knocking them out little by little. The avatar one is finished so on to the next ones. *nod nod*

I have prose now! Oh joyous day!

Anyway, as for the posting thing, I wasn't going to post the entries because I didn't want other people to be influenced by what was already entered. I also didn't want to scare anyone off in case they thought that they wouldn't be able win against what was already entered. ;)

Anyway, that doesn't stop people from posting their own stuff here. At the end I will ask the contestants if they want their entries posted. I haven't really worked out that part yet. The winners will get posted,l shy or not! :p.

Fair enough! Good solution. *nod nod*

Faux is a white lioness of sorts?

I thought I was more a mousey ~ but lioness is good as well! <3

Mouse works too. ;). The tuft on the tail is a little off though. Gerbil, maybe?

Huzzah! More entrants! I do hope you find something. :).

And a genearal note, we are still short on prose. It's hardly a contest without at least a little competition.

If you don't want to enter, then feel free to chat. It's another chance for ribbons after all. ;)

No, it isn't, but being able to keep to word counts is a good skill. In school I've had teachers that were brutal both ways. One insisted on a minimum work count where more was better, and another had stated flatly that anything beyond a certain number of pages would not be read, any excess pages would be thrown in the trash.

That works too. :)

One of my teachers set an "Anything over 5 pages will not be read" rule for an essay. I wrote 4 and 2/3 pages and she knocked off points because it wasn't over 5 pages like the rest of the class. >.<

It doesn't. I argued with her over it for a week and begged her to grade my paper based on content, because I would argue that mine was one of the best in the class. But she wouldn't do it.

Ouch. Yeah, it was my poli-sci teacher that said that he's trash anything over six pages. I can within one line of it, and only after lowering the font size from 12 to 11. I've had to do that on more than one occasion, adn have yet to find a teacher who called me on it. Another trick I used to use was lowering the spacing from double to one and a half spacing. It usually gives you an extra few lines at the bottom.

I did have a paper where I went shooting over the page count, but I didn't get in trouble because it was due to a very large appendix.