The Write Time Writing Contest

Welcome to the most unique writing contest you will ever enter—one whose subject and content is entirely up to you!

In this contest, you have 366 different topics and approaches from which to choose…

Welcome to the first annual Write Time contest.

Here's how it works: My book, The Write Time, contains 366 different writing exercises – one for each day of the year. Get the book and choose two exercises: one right up your alley, which serves your strong suit; and one that pertains to a genre, or style of writing, in which you ordinarily don't work. Write out the exercise, and stick to the word count that it specifies, but write about something that impassions you and brings out your very best. Go for complete excellence.Push yourself. Surprise yourself.

When finished, put your name, address, phone number and email atop the entries, and email them to me at bob@wordjourneys.com. Also let me know how The Write Time is working for you.

There is no entry fee. Obviously, it will help that you have a copy of The Write Time in order to choose the exercises – and to practice new, original material on a daily basis!

Your entries will be juried by two independent judges and myself. We will award a total of four cash prizes: First, second and third for the best individual entries; and a Grand Prize for the best combination of two pieces.

The prize money will be determined by the total number of entries. Here is how it will break down:
Grand Prize (Combination of Two Entries): $200
First Place, Individual Entry: $100
Second Place, Individual Entry: $75
Third Place, Individual Entry: $50

In addition to the cash prizes, all winning entries will be published on this blog, and publicized on www.wordjourneys.com and The Write Stuff, the monthly Word Journeys letter distributed monthly to literary agents, publishers, editors, media and more than 2,000 other subscribers. I will also publish the Grand Prize and First Place entries as "special guest" pieces in my next writing collection, Backroad Melodies, to be published in Fall 2010.

The contest opens TODAY. The entry deadline is April 1, 2010. Winners will be announced – and prizes awarded – on May 1.

I look forward to seeing your entries – and to hearing how The Write Time is working out for you!