Part of my 2015 writing contract with myself is to “put myself out there” more. In January, I have sought out\u00a0online writing contests to\u00a0connect with new writing communities. In one such\u00a0contest, “Three Line Thursday,” writers must respond to a photo prompt\u00a0with only three lines of text in the comments.<\/p>\n
Three lines?!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Challenge accepted!<\/strong><\/p>\n Last week, I was thrilled to learn that my submission (replete with typo…argggghh!) won third place. The prompt was a photo of a slightly twisted, leafless branch in winter\/beginning of spring. To see the photo prompt and all the submissions, check out the Week 13 prompt<\/a>.\u00a0The\u00a0winners (along with the judge’s comments) are included in the Results post<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here’s my entry (note, as this is my blog, I fixed the typo to share here):<\/p>\n I race from the medical receptionist\u2019s cloying perfume to gulp in the icy parking<\/p>\n lot air. I study the precise landscaping, my ears burning. The now-dead branches<\/p>\n will soon birth new life, but my belly will only breed jealousy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I hope you will consider spreading the word about #3lineThursday on Twitter and with your writer friends. It’s an extraordinary challenge that forces participants to choose precise wording to evoke a response from the readers, and isn’t that what writing is all about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Part of my 2015 writing contract with myself is to “put myself out there” more. In January, I have sought out\u00a0online writing contests to\u00a0connect with new writing communities. In one such\u00a0contest, “Three Line Thursday,” writers must respond to a photo prompt\u00a0with only three lines of text in the comments. Three lines?!\u00a0 Challenge accepted! Last week, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[12,13],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-3linethursday","tag-contest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WVQN-H","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cjaiferry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cjaiferry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cjaiferry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cjaiferry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cjaiferry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cjaiferry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/www.cjaiferry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cjaiferry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cjaiferry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cjaiferry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}