What I Would Do if I Submitted a Short Story to a Competition

I write lots of material asides from blogs. Who knew, right?

A few weeks ago I found myself searching for writing inspiration, in the form of writing competitions. Over time I've looked at many, many such competitions, but have never entered any of them. Usually there's something to dissuade me, such as
1. The contest being USA only.
2. There being an entrance fee which I'm not willing to pay.
3. The competition only accepting a genre which I don't have any experience in.
4. There being an age limit, or
5. Age is open, which means that I'd be competing with much more experienced writers then myself.
 So when I look for writing competitions and I find "The Erotic Fiction Writer's of America's Annual Poetry Contest" which has an age requirement of 18+ and a 50 dollar entrance fee, I know it would be stupid to enter. Unfortunately, contests such as that are abundant.

In fact, I'd never seen a contest that didn't have one of those problems. Until a few weeks ago.

The competition I found is everything I could have hoped for. First of all, it's a Canadian contest with no genre or entrance fee required. Just as important, my age group is accepted. In fact, the age is 15 or under, which means that I'd be right at the top of the group. Finally, the category is a short work of fiction, which I can do. I've tried short stories a few times and quite like the feel of them.

So now, finally, I've found a writing contest that I can and will enter.

I've already had my story written for awhile now- what with the word limit being 750 words or under, the actual writing process took a remarkably short amount of time. Now, it's just the editing and revision to be done. Already that's taken tenfold the time it took to write the actual piece.

With that said, I have some editing to do!

Thanks for reading,

-Mark