The Injury Writing Challenge Results + New Challenge
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When picking the winners, we looked for entries that revealed something unique and engaging about the injured character. This was a tall order, since the writer needed to juggle the injury's description with some character development.
And the winners are:
Slice of Life by M_A_Granse
Runway Mind by Charlainej
Ring the Bell by dfmatthews
Congratulations to all of the winners! You will receive your PageToFame coupon via direct message. We hope to see more of your great writing among those first page submissions!
This is a useful challenge because a great way to develop a character is to show them withholding the truth. Everyone (except George Washington) lies occasionally, and we all do it differently. What will you show us about your character? Submit here.
Or, if you're up for a video challenge, check out Paula's latest Writer's Block Conundrum!
But before you go, check out M_A_Granse's winning entry to the Injury Scene Challenge.
Slice of Life
The cold-pressed turkey loaf slid back and forth in the archaic slicer like a hypnotist’s pendulum, sloughing the shavings below. She was too apathetic to yawn at the monotony, her robotic hand pushing with gravity alone on the meat as it slowly whittled down. Zhing, zhing, zhing. Back and forth.
Her trance was unbroken with the tug on her fingernail. Only a motor hiccup, a dusty recording in the back of her mind dismissed. Zhing, zhing, STING!
She started, whipping her bleeding hand away, wincing at the two shorn tips of her middle fingers. The loaf slid back and forth. She stared at the blood snaking down her raised arm, the one ribbon of color in her drab existence. Absently grabbing a stiff brown paper towel, she paused a moment to admire the change in routine, and wryly laughed that she would be serving more than turkey that day.
7 comments
Excellent choices...I had actually read all three of these and thought at the time..."now there's a winner!" Congrats to all!
ReplyDeleteI feel like the order should have been 3, 2, 1. If, of course, I were to keep these entries.
ReplyDeleteThanks Paula, glad you enjoyed the winners!
ReplyDeleteThanks Webook for making my writing seem like it could go places when you named 'Ring the Bell' a winner in this challenge. I can't tell you how hard my heart is beating right now while I'm typing this. If you asked me fifteen years ago if my writing would even garner any attention I would have sworn you were on something! To Will and Paula I'm so glad you enjoyed the piece and I hope you'll enjoy more when I post to Page to Fame. Thank you once again and happy reading!!!
ReplyDeleteBeyond awesome picks for this time around WEbook! I pegged dfmatthews' piece as one of my favorite quite a while ago and I am very happy that it got some recognition :) Great job.
ReplyDeleteThank you, WeBook! It was awesome to be picked. I must say, however, that I noticed a couple of differences between this posting of my entry and the original I posted in the challenge. I had italicized the zhing (and perhaps it is simply not possibly to format it this way here), but I also only used a period between the first string of zhings and "Back and forth." Here, a semi-colon somehow squeezed in as well. Any chance of a quick fix, WeBook? Thank you.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome M.A.! Sorry about the dropped italics and added semi-colon, I've zhinged it away and put the italics back in!
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