Whoohoo!

Okay, so this is some progress! Not on the Screnzy front (I'm still at 77 pages, and I haven't written at all today - I don't think I'll have a chance to, but I'm still on track to win, so it's okay, I guess)...but...

On my BFS goals! I completed one for the first time! I'm so happy! :D This is such a feeling of accomplishment...if I keep at Screnzy and write only 23 more pages of my script, that means I'll have two goals done by the end of the month. And since I haven't accomplished any of the others, that's pretty good. Well on my way to considering myself a winner of 2008 (which, I have decided, is not my favorite year...ahaha, movie reference).

Anyway, I entered a school short story contest. I submitted a short story I wrote back in December for another contest-like thing, but edited it to fit the school contest. I just didn't have enough time to write another story or go through editing something I've written recently, and the story I sent in was already edited heavily back in December. I dunno, I was pretty proud of it, even back then. I'm usually really bad at short stories, especially ones that are out of my comfort genre (any sort of fantasy). It was called "Dead Music". :)

And..as an added bonus...it was a split short story/poetry contest, right? So earlier this week, I wrote a poem late at night titled 1:57 am (I can't remember if it was actually 1:57, but I think it was earlier than that...not sure, though). I finished it the next night (a lot earlier than 1:57 am!) and read through it again today. I made a minor edit, figured "what the heck!" and slapped it on my email as well with "Dead Music". Usually I only write poetry for school assignments (basically: only if I have to - I just like prose a lot better than poetry), but I was sort of excited to enter a poetry contest.

The contest is for a school literary magazine, the same one I submitted a short story to earlier in the year (as a normal submission, not for a contest). Maybe, if they're still accepting submissions, I'll write another poem and see if I can get it printed normally. It's a lot of fun! :D Perhaps I'll dabble some more in free-verse poetry and put them on my writing blog (because I neglect it too much).

So yup. My goal for submitting a story to the magazine and entering another story in a contest is now complete! Even if I don't win, I still feel a sense of accomplishment. Now I just have to focus on homework and Screnzy for the rest of April...nehhh.