Write Your Best Short Story Competition Entry
Only 10 weeks left to enter the Exeter Writers Short Story Competition, so if you haven’t already, it's time to start thinking about your entry. To help, I am going to provide you with some tips to get started. The 21-day Writing Challenge First, I suggest you embark on a 21-day writing challenge. Here is what I want you to do: three times a day, write quickly without thinking, in long, run-on sentences. When you catch yourself thinking, stop, and set your writing aside. Choose not to struggle with or be led by thoughts. Write freely and without resistance. The way to do this is to avoid thinking. When you think, judgment and the expectations of others cause blocks. Instead, try to reclaim the spontaneous storytelling of childhood. Expression should be free-flowing. Let go of tension, take a deep breath and let a sentence come out. Practice writing run-on sentences without punctuation using connectors such as and, then, but, however . When you find yourself thinking,