Oh well, my run of success in the 2024 100 Word Challenge has ended. I didn’t win any prizes. Nevertheless, I am proud of how far I got in this one. I didn’t love my last submission so it’s not a huge surprise or disappointment.
For completeness I’ll share it with you here. As ever, it’s been a fun competition and next week the 250 Word Challenge begins. But, I’m thinking I should really spend less time on competitions like this and focus on finishing my current novel. I’m so close to finishing the end of the first draft. Yet, I seem to manage to fill my time doing anything else but this!
I’m now in three different writing groups. Each one generates at least one piece of homework each month. It seems to eat up my time. Last month, I tried to ‘kill several birds with one stone’. I wrote one long piece that fitted the criteria for all three assignments. I put in a lot of time and effort and I’m pleased with the outcome. I’ll post it next week after the final meeting this week.
Maybe I’m just making excuses? I seem to always manage to find other things to do when I should be finishing my book. Grrrr! So annoying! Reading, writing assignments, doing book reviews, writing blog posts, reading other people’s manuscripts (!), cleaning, shopping, cooking, watching rubbish on the TV, staring into space … and on and on and on. I must do better!
Anyway, enough self-flagellation for now. Here is Journey to Love. 100 words on Falling in Love including the word enough.
A Journey to Love
You started as a thought seed that took root in my mind.
Should we? Could we?
Weeping each month when the bleeding came.
But you sprung and clung to life.
A dot of humanity wreaking hormonal havoc.
Growing and swelling into a hot and heavy burden.
The hard work began, only when you were ready.
A long and slow journey to a final rage of pain and trauma.
You burst into the world in a slippery rush.
Velvety skin. Dark eyes blinking. The scent of stardust. Tiny fingers curled around mine.
All is forgotten, forgiven. You are love. You are enough.
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