tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7396437919069310850.post4018598494536053695..comments2023-05-30T08:29:42.770-04:00Comments on The Erotica Readers & Writers Association Blog: Eyes on the PrizeCroco Designshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04417265522875605547noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7396437919069310850.post-75951461200528019062013-11-27T17:20:55.807-05:002013-11-27T17:20:55.807-05:00I prefer to think of it as luxuriating in obscurit...I prefer to think of it as luxuriating in obscurity (and anonymity).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7396437919069310850.post-22230616134714087342013-11-27T15:49:11.283-05:002013-11-27T15:49:11.283-05:00Thanks for your comments, all. Winning a "wri...Thanks for your comments, all. Winning a "writing contest" certainly doesn't prove anything, and it is debatable whether the famous writers of the past whose work is taught in public schools and universities would have entered and won any such thing. (I know that Edna St.Vincent Millay was launched as a poet when her poem "Renascence" won a contest.) How do we know if our work has any merit? Sales largely indicate popularity, and as you say, Lisabet, so do some contests. However, writing contests interest me. Recognition in some form seems better than languishing in obscurity.Jean Robertahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08805088081675965859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7396437919069310850.post-32618489630094922812013-11-27T15:40:57.346-05:002013-11-27T15:40:57.346-05:00:(
:(<br />Jean Robertahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08805088081675965859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7396437919069310850.post-13962051154212365152013-11-27T11:39:45.102-05:002013-11-27T11:39:45.102-05:00There's also the Bisexual Book Awards, but the...There's also the Bisexual Book Awards, but the categories may have just closed.<br /><br />I'd love to start an erotica writing contest, but unfortunately, my tastes seem far off the commercial basis.<br />Kathleen Bradeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06347913255760493335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7396437919069310850.post-52671557861686071692013-11-27T06:30:35.474-05:002013-11-27T06:30:35.474-05:00Quite a cautionary tale, Jean!
I never bother to ...Quite a cautionary tale, Jean!<br /><br />I never bother to enter contests, because I know from experience that my fiction just doesn't have the kind of crowd appeal needed to win. In the romance world, there are dozens of competitions that basically just turn out to be popularity contests. Whoever can shout the loudest gets the most votes.<br /><br />A couple of books that include my stories *have* won awards, but that's a collective effort, not an individual accolade.<br /><br />No, I don't even want to think about this stuff. Too depressing. Lisabet Saraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05162514190572269660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7396437919069310850.post-86572024047761352792013-11-26T09:03:35.218-05:002013-11-26T09:03:35.218-05:00I'm really glad you dumped the guy. He sounds ...I'm really glad you dumped the guy. He sounds exactly like my father.<br /><br />I have only ever entered two writing contests, and both times I was kind of bullied into them. One was a very minor Clean Sheets seasonal thing, and the other was the annual writing competition at my university. I did fine in both. But I didn't feel the orgasmicness you mention at all.<br /><br />I've never been a very competitive person. I wish I were. I think I could do a lot better as a writer, especially financially, if I were, but I can't find it in me.<br /><br />Someone once said it is a result of being a child from a thoroughly middle-class family. I'd buy that. No drive to win.<br /><br />I do have a tremendous drive to compete against myself, and to produce what I consider better work than before, but to be compared to other writers, and found to be 'better'... nah, does nothing for me. <br /><br />Remittance Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07902713020074243375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7396437919069310850.post-54758554675355115912013-11-26T05:00:48.624-05:002013-11-26T05:00:48.624-05:00Ah, I had an ex just like that (though it was abou...Ah, I had an ex just like that (though it was about painting, not writing)Rachel Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13048590167153841615noreply@blogger.com