There is a lot of controversey over methods of payments in writing competitions.
Many of the sponsors require payment by cheque. Unfortunately cheques are being phased out and in fact my bank now charges £10 per cheque. So for an entry fee of £3 - £5 it get expensive.
The alternative is to use your credit card details. Writing your personal details on an entry form and sending them in the post is not very secure in my opinion. Dishonest people will have a field day collecting all these bits of paper and creaming all your hard earned....
Something needs to be done. A few sponsors are now allowing you to pay through Paypal which is indeed secure but not everyone has a credit card or internet to be able to do this.
The writing community needs to get their heads together and come to an amicable solution or interest in entering competitions will wane and that is something we cannot have.
Saturday 30 April 2011
Wednesday 13 April 2011
Fiction Project
At last, I've done it, it's finished.
In February this year I saw an advertisement in Writer's News for a fiction project run by the Brooklyn Art Library. The idea was to write a notebook, in your own style, on a given subject. There was a list of approximately 20 different subjects; then one I chose was If You Lived Here...
On receiving my notebook it felt daunting having to fill all those pages by hand - my hands aren't all that good due to arthritis. Anyway, it was a challenge and taking the bull by the horns and began. I wrote all about my home town of Scarborough, North Yorkshire. I drew several pictures and regaled anyone who reads the notebook with my own opinion of the town.
Now, two months down the line, it is finished. I feel a great sense of achievement. This notebook will now be returned to Brooklyn, NY where it will travel the USA in several locations, on display for all to see. I scanned a copy into my pc and anyone that wants one only has to ask.
I never realised how much time and energy it would take, nor how much of my mind it would occupy. The relief now that it is over is wonderful. The only thing is I'm already starting on my next project - a children's book called The Pumpkins. Ah well, no rest for the wicked!
In February this year I saw an advertisement in Writer's News for a fiction project run by the Brooklyn Art Library. The idea was to write a notebook, in your own style, on a given subject. There was a list of approximately 20 different subjects; then one I chose was If You Lived Here...
On receiving my notebook it felt daunting having to fill all those pages by hand - my hands aren't all that good due to arthritis. Anyway, it was a challenge and taking the bull by the horns and began. I wrote all about my home town of Scarborough, North Yorkshire. I drew several pictures and regaled anyone who reads the notebook with my own opinion of the town.
Now, two months down the line, it is finished. I feel a great sense of achievement. This notebook will now be returned to Brooklyn, NY where it will travel the USA in several locations, on display for all to see. I scanned a copy into my pc and anyone that wants one only has to ask.
I never realised how much time and energy it would take, nor how much of my mind it would occupy. The relief now that it is over is wonderful. The only thing is I'm already starting on my next project - a children's book called The Pumpkins. Ah well, no rest for the wicked!
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