The end of next month brings excellent opportunities, including the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Fiction Contest (Nov. 15), the Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award (Nov. 17), and the Birmingham-Southern College Hackney Short Story Award (Nov. 30). See the contest calendar for other short story prizes, as well as residencies and fellowships with November deadlines.
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From Ginny Wiehardt, About.com GuideOctober 15, 2010
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Ginny, I was wondering if I could get some suggestions with a problem I run into in my writings. It always seems to come easy to me to write the action scenes in a novel, but when there is no immediate danger or excitement going on, I have a hard time writing the scene. I always draw a blank on those transitional scenes that connect the big events in the book. I can’t ever seen to make it smoothly from point A to point B. Can you give me any suggestions?
Many thanks,
Terra
This is a very good question. Let me give it some thought — and then I may use this for a blog post. I’ve struggled with this, too, and I imagine a lot of people have. And yet you never see anything on the topic. More soon . . .
Terra, I just wanted to make sure you saw the post on your question. I had some thoughts on it, and a few other writers weighed in as well. Hope it’s all helpful. (Again, it was a very good question.) Here’s the link: http://fictionwriting.about.com/b/2010/10/28/259109.htm