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Mother of Chaos
NYC Midnight Regular Joined: 18 Jul 2019 Location: Dubuque, IA Status: Offline Points: 326 |
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Also from Iowa - Dubuque! And unlike that other guy here, I think most people around here are ‘Iowa Nice’, just sayin.
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mhelgens
NYC Midnight Addict Joined: 16 Jul 2017 Location: Iowa Status: Offline Points: 988 |
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That is the sweetest. Unfortunately, I don't think this story is my shining star. I had a really busy weekend and an uninspiring prompt. I hope you do well in the competition. Love that you're here repping our home state :)
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Read my R1 Story: LINK= https://forums.nycmidnight.com/topic51959_post550543.html#550543
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mhelgens
NYC Midnight Addict Joined: 16 Jul 2017 Location: Iowa Status: Offline Points: 988 |
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Hey-- Dubuque is (kinda sorta) my neck of the woods. I'm from Monticello originally :) --and totally agree. It's a happy place in my opinion.
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Read my R1 Story: LINK= https://forums.nycmidnight.com/topic51959_post550543.html#550543
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SEHBicycle
NYC Midnight Addict Joined: 26 Jan 2015 Location: Westerville, OH Status: Offline Points: 813 |
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Congratulations on that acceptance to the school. That's huge! Wishing you much fun and success there, and also in this contest and in meeting other writers and building a network of friends. |
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NKurt
NYC Midnight Groupie Joined: 13 Jul 2019 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 176 |
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A little late to the part (nineteen pages to be precise) but better late than never.
I'm a primary school teacher from Queensland, Australia and a dad of three kids (3, 4 and 6). Like many of you, I loved writing as a kid. As a teenager, I ran a short story/webcomic blog that is now appropriately cringe-worthy. Last year, to foster a love of reading for my Grade 5/6 students, I started writing a short story that included the whole class as characters. This ballooned out into a 30,000-word novella that the school ended up putting through a vanity press so that I could give a copy to each member of the class as an end-of-year gift. From there, I'd caught the bug. Since then, I've written an 80k novel that I workshopped through the great community at Scribophile.com and participated in multiple short story competitions through the AWC Flash Fiction contest. Just recently, I sold my first short story to an indie writing magazine. So far, I'm loving the NYCM forums and have been wowed by the talent and imagination here. I'm quickly getting the sense that I'll be a regular in this competition for years to come! :)
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FFCH2: The Very Berry Psychopath (14 points)
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lisafox10800
NYC Midnight Black Belt Joined: 18 Jul 2016 Location: NJ Status: Offline Points: 9440 |
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Welcome, heatmate! :) Be careful, this place is addictive.
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lisafoxiswriting.com
My short story collection, Core Truths, is now available wherever books are sold. |
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Talia
NYC Midnight Addict Joined: 18 Jul 2018 Location: Revelstoke, BC, Status: Offline Points: 1372 |
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This is fun to read through everyone's introductions. Thanks for posting it.
My career is in mental health, and I feel so lucky that my day job is something that I love and that I'm good at. Normally when I write anything, it is within the field of holistic psychotherapy and self help. I decided to do this FF last minute for two reasons. The first is that I did it once before and I had a lot of fun doing it. It was fun to write, but I found it even more fun to read what people came up with from their prompts. It is safe to say that I am fascinated by the creative mind and where it goes with only a few prompts. The second reason, and the more compelling reason for me is that my sister and her daughter just moved out at the beginning of July. We've all been together for most of my niece's life (she's 6), and so I've been doing a lot of things to help distract me and keep my spirits up while they're off in another city creating their new normal too. I didn't plan to have a 5 year old protagonist in my story, and it's only now that I'm recognizing that it likely happened because my niece is on my mind. I live in rural Canada, and I live a fairly stereotypical Canadian life. I can go hiking out my door, we regularly get snow up to the roof in the winter, and we even have a local company that'll take you dog sledding should you be so inclined. Plus I do love plaid. And denim. And denim on denim. What lights my internal flame is feeling loved and giving love. I suppose that's my secret third reason for doing this again. Reading through the forums, it's like being in an online love fest. Just the kind of thing that helps a gal out when she's going through a life transition.
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What My World Spins Around |
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cat_astrophe
NYC Midnight Groupie Joined: 05 Jun 2019 Location: NYC Status: Offline Points: 139 |
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Hiya!
This is my first time ever entering and I'm so looking forward to meeting some people (from the comfort of my own laptop, hello fellow introverts)! I'm a twenty-something Chicago native still confused about how in the world I ended up in New York, but I work for a small publishing/interactive media company by day and also moonlight as a children's bookseller. I've been writing as a hobby for as long as I can remember and have recently decided that I want to make more of a commitment to it because it just brings me so much joy, so I felt like this was a good way to jumpstart said commitment/hold myself accountable. I don't have many writerly friends in my real life and would absolutely love to make some here and continue reading and sharing feedback with anyone interested!! This seems like a wonderful community and I'm so excited to get involved
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MFC1: The Man on the Moon
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steph9289
NYC Midnight Black Belt Joined: 23 Jan 2016 Location: Brooklyn, NY Status: Offline Points: 8966 |
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A fellow New Yorker transplant!! Howdy! I am originally from Maine and now live in Brooklyn. :) |
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cat_astrophe
NYC Midnight Groupie Joined: 05 Jun 2019 Location: NYC Status: Offline Points: 139 |
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Oh hey!! I'm actually in Brooklyn too! Hope you're surviving in this heat
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MFC1: The Man on the Moon
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