Okay, ya'all. I submitted an essay to a huge contest for a haunted attraction in Ohio and the judges were all big people in the horror industry. Thousands of people entered. The prizes are wicked amazing. Well, I was curious if they had done any judging and looked on the site and found I was one of the 13 finalists! Holy Crap! It was a steampunk-themed turn-of-the-century dude named Edgar Krawly and you had to invent a reason he was stealing brains. Well, I used my psychometry idea since that's something I know a lot about. No one notified me I was a semifinalist, but then I don't live at my old address, so maybe I missed it. Anyways, I had to take my 500-word entry and make it 1000 and then resend it in for the finals. The winner wins a shitload of amazing stuff, but the 13 finalists win these. I am totally shocked. I honestly didn't work on a 1000-word version of the essay because I didn't think I'd ever make it that far. Wow! So, had to share that since it's a big horror prize and we all love horror prizes. I will share the essay with ya'all when the contest is over.
Okay, ya'all. I submitted an essay to a huge contest for a haunted attraction in Ohio and the judges were all big people in the horror industry. Thousands of people entered. The prizes are wicked amazing. Well, I was curious if they had done any judging and looked on the site and found I was one of the 13 finalists! Holy Crap! It was a steampunk-themed turn-of-the-century dude named Edgar Krawly and you had to invent a reason he was stealing brains. Well, I used my psychometry idea since that's something I know a lot about. No one notified me I was a semifinalist, but then I don't live at my old address, so maybe I missed it. Anyways, I had to take my 500-word entry and make it 1000 and then resend it in for the finals. The winner wins a shitload of amazing stuff, but the 13 finalists win these. I am totally shocked. I honestly didn't work on a 1000-word version of the essay because I didn't think I'd ever make it that far. Wow! So, had to share that since it's a big horror prize and we all love horror prizes. I will share the essay with ya'all when the contest is over.
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Congrats on being pick for the writing! Keep us posted that's fantastic! Ok watching Dale was a prize in itself! Congrats to the winners. :) I almost blew coffee out my nose from laughing that would have been scary!
ReplyDeleteYAY!!!!!!! SO HAPPPY FOR YOU MS. WRITER!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHope you win!
ReplyDeleteThank ya'all. I didn't even prepare the 1000 word version for the finalists because I didn't think I'd be one of 13 out of thousands. Wow! Last night I found out and sat down and souped up the essay to get it to 850. Hope they don't mind. I think they might have tried to contact me at my old address so I have no idea when the essay final was done. Oh well. One of 13 is pretty sweet! I knocked something off my bucket list. I entered it because I always wanted to have my hand in a haunted attraction's inception. Well, if I end up winning by some miracle, I would actually do that.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dale for picking my name before passing out. I will have to give you a hug when I see you on Saturday. Thumbs up to Barry's clown name "Skittles". Great name for the creepy clown and a yummy treat as well.
ReplyDeleteCongrats!! That's so awesome!! :)
ReplyDeleteThat's badass!! Congrats!
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