Has this happened to anyone else?

by Felicity Teague
13th February 2014

I was about to email my competition entry this afternoon, when I realised that what I’ve written is a bit rubbish and now I’m too busy until the deadline to try something different! Best of luck to everyone. It’ll be interesting to read the winning entries :-)

Fliss

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Thanks for replies, folks :-)

I think I’m struggling because what I’ve written takes inspiration from horrible hospital history. This week has been tricky healthwise, to the extent that my story seems rubbish too.

Pause, to play violin in plaintive manner.

Rosa, I haven’t entered a writing competition since school days because it hasn’t occurred to me that I’d do well. Due to work demands, I don’t get much time to write at all. When I do, I seem to oscillate between reality and fantasy as the mood hits. Right now I’m trying to find some sort of balance, somehow…

Have a good weekend, everyone!

F.

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Felicity, I read your writing background and find you turned to poetry after a hospital accident. I'm much older than you and have been living with the result of mine since 1986. I find poetry therapeutic, more so than other forms of creative writing though I dabble in all genres. Confidence waned for me after the surgery because I was known as an organiser and I was very sporty and up-front but with a severe back problem it was hard to continue the way I was. With time on my behind my output was prodigious. I found writing humour was good for lifting my spirit and I still do it though I allow myself more scope now.

Do you enter a lot of competitions? I am a sucker for them I use up prize money on more entry fees, telling myself 'speculate to accumulate' but my funds are pretty low as a rule. It's a good thing I'm not entirely dependent on my winnings! I have heard that writers need some sort of emotional blip to enable them to write their best work. I don't want another. I have only been published in small things. I am no good at marketing. That confidence thing again.

Best wishes and keep up the good work,

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Oh yes, me too. Guess it's natural for us to feel this way.

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