F is for Fun

Earlier today I began thinking about which 'f' word I wanted to choose.

Fabulous, I thought, and I was fuelled into a furiously frisky frenzy. So many flipping fantastic words flying around inside my noddle.

After frittering away fifty minutes frequenting my dictionary, I became frightened this activity would simply leave me a fraught, frustrated and fruitless figure.  I felt I had come to a full stop and considered fetching my friend, Helen Baggott, who is the judge for the free-entry Full Stop competition
http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/2013-full-stop-short-story-competition---helen-baggott.html

Then I remembered it was Friday.  Helen would be at the fish and chip shop where she chats up the fella with the frier in his fingers.

It was then I realised fear was holding me back from making a decision.

I chose freedom by forcing myself to face up to it. 

I'd had fun in making a selection but once the final countdown had begun, that was it.

Finito.


What would you usually be doing on a Friday if you weren't busy with the A-Z challenge?

A-Z Blogging Challenge (posted at 01.25 am on Monday 4th April)

I've decided to join in with the A-Z Blogging Challenge.  Here is my first post for letter A.

Accessible to All - one aim of the competitions I organise is to make them accessible to all, as far as is possible to do.  This means the competitions are usually open to entrants inside and outside the UK, and to all ages.  There will be times when this is not suitable or appropriate but generally that is the aim.

The fees to the competitions will be kept as reasonable as possible in relation to the prize, and in some cases will be free-entry. This is with a view to keep the competitions accessible to all.

Have you ever experienced a barrier when entering competitions? 

Welcome to Writing Workshops and Competitions

Hello, my name is Debbie Wilkinson and welcome to my blog.

One reason I chose to create this blog is in order to provide information about the competitions I organise.  I also intend to share details about activities I become involved in, mostly in relation to the competitions although I can't rule out there may be a rogue posting or two discussing  matters about writing with no connection to the competitions I organise.   That's not to say I am admitting to be a rogue and neither am I suggesting I will knowingly allow a rogue to access my blog to make a post. 

Also, as I cannot programme the blog on the competition website to accept followers, namely
http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/  another reason I have created this site is to ensure I am able to communicate with all you lovely bloggers out there.  Over some considerable time I've read many an interesting and useful blog and I've finally decided I'd like to join the blogging community.

If you like to enter writing competitions you'll be pleased to know the aims of Erewash Writers' Competitions is to encourage and reward writing through means of competitions with free-entry and others which ask for a reasonable entry fee.

Thanks for reading my first blog post.