A Labor of Love? We Hope So! And what better day than VALENTINE'S DAY to present Sara G. & A. Mac's Authors' Competition?

" Good luck ... " I'll need it. My brain is already putting up a fight .. it may win, you know. My fingers on the keyboard are shaking, missing keys and acting dyslexic. My eyes are crossing, I'm seeing stars, I'm about to pass out... Well, there's always tomorrow. {*.*}

good for yall, sara g. an a macarthur, for creating a much needed forum. i know that yall, and scott butki, and a few others are trying to make vineland a better (and smarter) place to be. thanks for your efforts.

luv,

ron

Boy, did I misunderstand what you guys were shooting for. Stupid me. I don't even want to tell you what I "thought" you were wanting. Too embarrassing.

It's too late for an entry now, but next time, I'll join for sure, guys.

Good luck to everyone!!!

Susan

'...the love you take...'

'...is equal to the love...'

'...you make...'

brother paul

luv,

ron

coundn't have said it better myself, brother Mac. !!!

luv,

ron

Soosalah, I'm glad that you are at least considering writing something. All I can offer you here is the fact that not all writing appeals to everyone. I'm not a huge fan of SciFi...but if someone were to write ...for instance....that .....

"the lights that appeared to the normal eye to be for security reasons, proved to me, that we are not alone...the wavering in the waters surface was more than the water undulating beneath the midnight moon, it was the effort of the "lights" to send word to the mother ship that they had made contact..."

But the idea that someone could come up with something so ..what I may consider far-fetched would be very interesting to me!

I have no idea what anyone is going to get out of the above picture. I know I happen to love it...it raises so many different emotions in me that I am sorry I cannot enter! *Laughs*

I am not "judging" anyone, I am merely reading entries about what the above picture makes you think, feel, see.....and want to write.

I think that you may have stated it correctly when you said I'm detailed to a fault, so forgive me, please.

This is a competition in the respect that everyone is working from the same picture. It is not a competition for or against each other. Soos, every day people you don't know read your writings....don't let this opportunity pass because you do not know me. Hey go read me, I'm as plain as dirt, and work hard for a living, I have a mortgage, kids, animals, bills to pay and a lawn that needs mowing, only because it's full of weeds...and that is the only part of the lawn that grows....

I don't know what else I can say.

I hope you'll take part, this is supposed to be a "fun event" but...if to you, this is not fun, than it is not an event in which you should take part, no one should be stressing over entering something. Mac and I have worked hard to try to keep this light and fun, hopefully we have been successful.

*Smiles*

~Sara

CL1, I'm glad it was all clear for you. We worked hard to make sure, or at least tried to make sure that the rules for the event were simple and clearly spelled out.

I'm sure we are going to hit a lot of bumps in the road, but this first journey out will help us for the next one, and the next one will help with the next one...and at some point in time, hopefully we will have perfected it! *grins*

Of course, it will also show us what the interest level is.

Hopefully it is enough to keep this alive for a long time, I really think it could be fun...and soo interesting for everyone!

*smiles*
~Sara

we received our first entry today! YAY!!!

A. Mac & Sara G

brother scott is a good friend, as are sara a brother mac (though i have only met, in person, scott), but i have never entered one of his challenges. my problem is, i never know when something will pop in my head (i'm still waiting for the rude blood vessel to go boom).

i never would have made a paid writer, because a dead-line would simply be...out of the question, hahaha. i cannot write, it seems, in this fashion. i usually do it on the spur (that ain't what i meant, yall, so stop it...sounds kinda...kinky, oohhh).

if i have the gist of this, we are to write something, inspired (hopefully) by the photo of the ships in the harbor, after sun-down, correct. doesn't have to have anything to do with little boats, or suns...going down...up...sideways (my favorite sinatra song...'i did it sideways'), ect. RIGHT???

i want to give this a shot. it might, and probobly will, take awhile. but if i chatch myself reasionably caffinated, and when the pain meds are working JUST right, i might be able to dash something...well, i was going to say reasonably intelligible, but that is being too optimistic !!!

luv,

ron

Ron, inspired by the photo is absolutely correct...

I look forward to your entry....I know you'll do it!

*smiles*

~Sara

hey sara, i wrote my story in my head, while i was showering and blow-drying my hair (i told ya things just POP into my head, usually at the weirdest times).

that is something that i would be interested in, how everyone goes about writing...their process, ect. that would be very intriguing, don't you think???

luv,

ron

i just sent in my...entry. was that 300 words or 3000???

luv,

ron

A. Mac and Sara--

Ok, I'm in. But....

I don't see the image referenced in the article.

i tried e-mailing it again...by the way, are we allowed to publish it in vineland, also??

luv,

ron

A Mac, 300 words or less? You're killing me pal. LOL Gosh, now I am going to have to compose my usual 1500 word composition and try and 'squeeze' it down to 300 words and have it still make sense. :=) Sorry that I am late getting to this but I have been fooling around with our VD card competition and a little photo essay project that I just dropped onto Vine Vixens. I have had a devil of a time figuring out all the 'techie' stuff just to get it to come out right. I still don't know what gives with the Vine. My lead in just vanished after I previewed it and posted it so I added a comment as a summary of what I said and then it just magically reappeared{??}. Weird!!! Anyway, I'll give it a shot.

Lord, I feel like I am back in journalism class. Let's see, who, what, where, when, sum it up in first paragraph and expand in body, ARGH!!!!

Shepherd, actually you are not late, or at least not too late!

Entries are being accepted until midnight on March 7th...so you have puh-lenty of time!

A.Mac & Sara G.

I had a great evening exploring your page Mac and it definitely inspired me into dropping you an email. Cheers!

My computer is doing weird things tonight

I tried to post a comment but it seems to disappear....

Well anyhow...I'm gona try to get a submission to the contest in. 300 words...I can usually pound out in no time...just need a subject...Hmmm.

Sara...you were on my friend's list when I was walking dead...but your not blue now???

Sending you and A Mac request now.

Can we publish the article to our own column once we have sent it in?