{"id":15471,"date":"2016-07-26T01:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T08:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=15471"},"modified":"2016-07-20T12:57:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T19:57:38","slug":"submit-writing-contest-andor-judge-raina-schell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/26\/submit-writing-contest-andor-judge-raina-schell\/","title":{"rendered":"Submit to a Writing Contest and\/or be a Judge by Raina Schell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-15472\" title=\"E-Mail.\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/contest-writing-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"E-Mail.\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/contest-writing-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/contest-writing-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/contest-writing-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s welcome back monthly columnist <a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?s=Raina+Schell\" target=\"_blank\">Raina Schell<\/a> as she shares with us \u201cSubmit to a Writing Contest and\/or be a Judge!\u201d Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><strong>When I was brand spanking new to novel writing I entered a local writing contest.<\/strong> Looking back I realize I entered for the wrong reasons. I wanted to win. I wanted a pat on the back. I thought that everyone who read my entry would Oooo and Ahhh. After all, it was a scene I had worked on for years and I thought it was really good. What constituted \u201creally good\u201d for me and now are two different things.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-15473\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/contest-writing-woman-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"contest - writing woman\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/contest-writing-woman-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/contest-writing-woman-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/contest-writing-woman-1024x667.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>In the beginning I thought that extensive vocabulary translated to \u201cgood writing\u201d. Not so. When I got the critiques back from that first contest I was crushed. Five of the judges were kind and helpful, enjoying my work. One judge was incredibly mean. She was patronizing and went out of her way to belittle my writing. In retrospect I could have chalked it up to jealousy or a mean spirit but what happened instead is that, for awhile, I gave up. I completely stopped writing for six months and vowed never to enter another contest again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I was also quite humbled.<\/strong> I had signed up to be a judge and the entries I got were all fantastic, pushing me off my high horse to land flat on my butt in the dirt. By judging and reading other people\u2019s work one can see what works and what doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to today. The first contest I entered was with my first novel. Hopefully I\u2019ve grown as a writer. I don\u2019t know what made me enter another contest last month but I did with an excerpt from my fourth novel. I had given my work to quite a few writers to critique and everyone who read it, liked it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-15474\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/contest1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Trophy.\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/contest1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/contest1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/contest1-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>There were many suggested changes but overall the consensus was favorable.<\/strong> So when the opportunity for another contest arose I jumped. Last week I got the email saying I finaled in this contest. I was not expecting that. What I turned in was a very rough, unedited first draft. But what I learned from finaling is: my work is good enough, people like it, I am not wasting my time and the most important lesson of all \u2013 no matter what naysayers may say, stick with it. Does the acceptance\/adoration of others play a part in continuing to create? I would be lying if I said no. But that\u2019s not why any of us do it. We do it because we can\u2019t not do it.\u00a0 So no matter what, write on.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-15475\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/contest-try-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Writing concept.\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/contest-try-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/contest-try-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/contest-try-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/contest-try-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/contest-try-320x320.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our work will only get better with time.\u00a0 You can\u2019t pick up a tennis racket and immediately be a pro tennis player. Everything, including writing is building on what we learn. Don\u2019t forget to learn from other professionals too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>There\u2019s a great contest coming up for unpublished authors!<\/strong> The SF Chapter of RWA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/sfarwa.net\/contests.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Heart to Heart<\/a>. Join and\/or be a judge! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rwa.org\/p\/cm\/ld\/fid=517\" target=\"_blank\">Here\u2019s a list of 2016 Romance Writer\u2019s Contests.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<h2>ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainaschell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.rainaschell.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11407\" title=\"Raina Schell\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/3310587-200x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/3310587-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/3310587.jpg 204w\" alt=\"Raina Schell\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainaschell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raina Schell<\/a> is a vagabond. She lives where the tide takes her. The only constant in her life is her trusty laptop. She doesn\u2019t live in a tidy little house. Her dreams aren\u2019t surrounded by a white picket fence. She has no family but spends her free time with a black and white bunny rabbit named Fred.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"www.RainaSchell.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rainaschell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.RainaSchell.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Like Raina on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RainaSchellWriter\" target=\"_blank\">Like Raina on Facebook<br \/>\n<\/a><a title=\"Follow Raina on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RainaSchell\" target=\"_blank\">Follow Raina on Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was brand spanking new to novel writing I entered a local writing contest. Looking back I realize I entered for the wrong reasons. I wanted to win. I wanted a pat on the back. I thought that everyone who read my entry would Oooo and Ahhh. After all, it was a scene I had worked on for years and I thought it was really good. What constituted \u201creally good\u201d for me and now are two different things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[49,107,2724,2917,2848,132,2185,932,45,347,17,11,2523],"class_list":["post-15471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing-tips","tag-author","tag-contest","tag-critique","tag-judge","tag-monthly-columnist","tag-novel","tag-raina-schell","tag-wfz","tag-writer","tag-writers-fun-zone","tag-writers","tag-writing","tag-writing-tips"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Submit to a Writing Contest and\/or be a Judge by Raina Schell &#183; Writer&#039;s Fun Zone<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/26\/submit-writing-contest-andor-judge-raina-schell\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Submit to a Writing Contest and\/or be a Judge by Raina Schell &#183; Writer&#039;s Fun Zone\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When I was brand spanking new to novel writing I entered a local writing contest. 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