 Contests & Activities: April 20, 2022 Issue [#11265] |
This week: Be Like April Edited by: Annette  
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“April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain.”
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Be Like April
Spring, April in particular, is often synonymous with green grass, flowers, and bunnies in the meadows. So much life and happiness all around. Few are those who validate the fact that spring can be treacherous with fresh mornings, mild afternoons, cold nights, sudden rain showers, and the occasional frost that kills all the new buds. It starts, it stops, it goes again. April in the middle of it celebrates itself by being as inconsistent as possible. Or impossible.
The above trinket was first made available to the community on March 20, the first day of spring. It turns out that the calendar was only playing a mean trick. Apparently, the offer of sunshine, green grass, and all the other trimmings of a warmer season coming back to us is not available in Canada until June or July. New Zealand and Australia are throwing piles of autumnal leaves at us. Spring is just an illusion that is reserved for a small slice of the globe.
Which is why April begins like this.
It's all just a joke.
As a writer, take a page, out of April's playbook. Find any and all contests here on the site. Try to write for all of them. You think you're not funny? Write a funny story for a short story contest. You think you're not sad? Write a tragic poem for a poetry contest. You think you have nothing to say? Join one of the blogging activities around the site and tell everyone every single excruciatingly mundane detail about your days. Every day!
If April is firmly rooted in the belief to be hot stuff and thinks it doesn't have to ever follow any rules at all, you should live your writing life in the same way and throw all your own imposed rules out. The official Writing.Com contests, two of which are linked below, have relatively few entries every month. Are they intimidating? You bet! Is it easy to write the winning entry? No. That's not the point. Every time you write against your own imagined limitations and laugh at your worries as if they are an April Fool, you'll write more, get better, and have more fun.
Have you ever allowed yourself to be as spontaneous as April weather?
Sunny one minute and rainy the next? |
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