Ten Reasons Why You Didn't Get Your Contest Entry in on Time
Since I was contracted in January, I’m ineligible to enter the Genesis contest, but I remember those days with fear and trepidation. Here’s to all of you who submitted on time or were planning on entering but…
10. You were too busy doing your taxes.
9. Your critique partners didn’t get your entry back to you in time.
8. You spent all your time looking up grammar rules on line, making sure your “ands” had the proper comma placement.
7. You realized at the last minute your really did use THEN and THAN correctly the first time and had to go back and change them all again.
6. Your kids kept interrupting you while doing your final read through, that you had to start all over again and ended up reading through it ten more times.
5. Your critique partners got so sick of you emailing and instant messaging them every five minutes with questions, that they blacklisted you from the contest.
4. So many people had already critiqued your entry that you figured there’d be no one left who could judge it.
3. You kept changing scenes around at the last minute and realized your mystery had turned into women’s fiction. Then you had to start from scratch because women’s fiction was full!
2. You printed out your copy and mailed it only realizing too late that it was suppose to be sent by email.
And the number 1 reason why you didn’t get your entry in on time…
Everytime you read through your entry you found ANOTHER mistake, like the dangling participle in the VERY FIRST SENTENCE, so you figured why enter at all.
