I WON!

If you haven't visited in a while, then let me introduce myself. I'm Gary Denton, a member of the Humble Fiction Cafe' and a contributing author to our group publishing project SPLIT.

I'm also famous in the group and elsewhere for my attempts to achieve something other than SECOND PLACE in a writing competition.

Second Place (Shudder).

It's not first- I don't care what you've heard, and as the famous Ricky Bobby once remarked, "If you ain't first- you're last."

So, I'm officially adding a blog entry that may undo some of that bad karma, because I finally WON something!

I participated in National Novel Writing Month in November and I won!

That's right!

And I have the cute little web picture to show for it.

It even has a ship on it.

I like ships.

Now, some of you may know very well that several thousand authors participated in NaNoWriMo this year, and a good portion of them also won by typing the requested fifty-thousand words in thirty-one days. Yes, that is 50,000 words in one month.

50K.

Some of them didn't make it, but a lot of them did.

And I'm one.

The Humble Fiction Cafe can boast of several NaNoWriMo winners both past and present in their ranks, and I'd like to invite them to post comments to this entry just to show off. They deserve it. It is an amazingly crazy thing to do, and an even more amazingly crazy thing to actually accomplish it.

So there. I won. I came in "Finished."

...And that is better than Second any day.