The results came back today on the second story submissions for this year’s NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Challenge. While I did much better with this one, I won’t be progressing to the next round this year.

Overall, it was another great year. I received a lot of useful feedback on both stories, from both the judges and some of the other competitors over on the site’s forums. It’s a great experience, having to come up with an idea, write it, and refine it, all over the course of 48 hours. It really pushes you to just write and put something out there, which is often the problem. It’s much less intimidating than NaNoWriMo (which is started again and which I am trying, but am not holding my breath, haha) but gets the creative juices flowing just the same. Part of that may be that you actually have to pay to officially participate, as opposed to NaNo, which is free, but I digress.

For those who are curious, I’ll add links to both of this year’s entries at the end of this post. Looking back I’m happy with them both, especially the second one, which scored better with the judges. Neither of them were in my wheelhouse – the first genre was action/adventure, the second historical fiction – but I think I learned a lot from completing them both.

Onward and upward, as they say. 🙂

Story 1: Better Than Nothing

Story 2: Us And Them