The Challenge winners will be posted here two weeks after entries close for each topic, and the Highest Ranked entries will be posted sometime later that day or the next.
I've been wanting to read and comment on every entry since I found this wonderful place. I did it this week and the entries were great and made fun reading.
Congratulations to all of the winners as well to everyone else who submitted an entry. I appreciate the blood, sweat and tears that go into these challenges.
Every comment I made, I meant from the bottom of my heart. There is always something I learn or enjoy from each entry no matter where it ends up on the final standings.
I just wanted to take this time to thank the people who give me my entertainment for the week. I can't always get to the library for good reading materials, but I can always count on my friends at FW to give me something great to read.
Congratulations again to the winners. Your stories were all great and I really enjoyed each one.
Shann, aren't you a pocket full of sunshine! What an asset you are!
I've read on FW that you often find that the piece you pour yourself into seems to fail to place while lighthearted ones we write surprise us with a ribbon.
This week I was resolved that - placement or not - I am learning discipline of deadlines, tightening my writing, etc. I've found contentment.
I can see that from God's eyes, any sooner and a ribbon might have corrupted me. :/
He's so good.
Congratulations, everyone!
As for me, 'God Woven' is another true account of God's goodness.
Last edited by FreedomWriter on Thu Mar 11, 2010 5:23 pm, edited 1 time in total.
-Rikki
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
Jeremiah 29:11
Started my very long journey May 29th 2012 toward continued education.
Destination: Doctor of Psychology.
And thank you Shann for your dedication. Honestly, I don't see how the judges can do it. I tried once, when I first started up, to read through them all. I saw so many "GOOD" writers, it made me feel bad that mine was even listed among them.
Now, even reading just the ones listed in the Hinting and Bricks, makes me feel somewhat discouraged.
....JesusPuppy (or just call me Pup)
And just for the record, I am a Male.
"I am a writer, I do NOT lie... I fictionalise." JP
JesusPuppy wrote:And thank you Shann for your dedication. Honestly, I don't see how the judges can do it. I tried once, when I first started up, to read through them all. I saw so many "GOOD" writers, it made me feel bad that mine was even listed among them.
Now, even reading just the ones listed in the Hinting and Bricks, makes me feel somewhat discouraged.
My dear Pup, we need to work on your self-esteem. You seem as almost battered as I feel and that's not good, especially when your stories are truly some of my favorites each week. This week your entry left me in awe. I was so inspired and touched by every word. You've come to mean a lot to me and to many others here.
So as my mom used to tell me so often I wanted to scream, "Keep your chin up and your eyes on the Lord."
Thank you, all, for your kind comments, but I received so much in reading everyone's work, the pleasure was all mine.
Shann wrote:Every comment I made, I meant from the bottom of my heart. There is always something I learn or enjoy from each entry no matter where it ends up on the final standings.
I just wanted to take this time to thank the people who give me my entertainment for the week. I can't always get to the library for good reading materials, but I can always count on my friends at FW to give me something great to read.
The comments you've made on my pieces have been such a blessing, and almost every time I pop into an entry to read and comment on it, you're ahead of me, already having given encouraging feedback to the person. You, and others like you, are such a blessing! (Including the judges who do all that reading "behind the scenes", unseen.) I know I speak for many, when I say your kindness and good work, and that of others like you, is MUCH appreciated!
Shann wrote:You seem as almost battered as I feel and that's not good, especially when your stories are truly some of my favorites each week
Well that can't be right. I haven't written but 3 in the past 6 months.
I know that my stories are giving to me from the Lord, and those I write, and the message given is of God. It is "MY" writing.. grammar and word usage.. that need a LOT of help. And boy do they need help.
For me, it is a long standing joke.... I can never win. True I don't edit before I submit so what you get is basically the first draft. I am working on it. So, it is not so much my self esteem, but the others better writing habit. And you have to admit there are a lot better writers at this site.
Besides, I am just in it for the fun.
....JesusPuppy (or just call me Pup)
And just for the record, I am a Male.
"I am a writer, I do NOT lie... I fictionalise." JP
Shann wrote:Every comment I made, I meant from the bottom of my heart. There is always something I learn or enjoy from each entry no matter where it ends up on the final standings.
I just wanted to take this time to thank the people who give me my entertainment for the week. I can't always get to the library for good reading materials, but I can always count on my friends at FW to give me something great to read.
The comments you've made on my pieces have been such a blessing, and almost every time I pop into an entry to read and comment on it, you're ahead of me, already having given encouraging feedback to the person. You, and others like you, are such a blessing! (Including the judges who do all that reading "behind the scenes", unseen.) I know I speak for many, when I say your kindness and good work, and that of others like you, is MUCH appreciated!
Just wanted to "ditto" this... Shann, I noticed all the entries you commented on, and also wanted to say what a blessing you are to everyone here on FW! Thank you!
Beth LaBuff
..in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son... Hebrews 1:2
JesusPuppy wrote:
Well that can't be right. I haven't written but 3 in the past 6 months.
psst pup: She's only been here that long.
Oh... well in that case.
See what you didn't understand, the weeks you didn't enter, I'd go into the archives to get a taste of PUP, so see you can be one of my favorites every week, even if you didn't enter!
"I think literature always emerges from things that have damaged someone, and there is a kind of literature where the authors don't choose their subject, but deal with one that is thrust upon them." - Herta Mueller (2009 Nobel Prize winner for literature)
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Shann wrote:Every comment I made, I meant from the bottom of my heart. There is always something I learn or enjoy from each entry no matter where it ends up on the final standings.
I just wanted to take this time to thank the people who give me my entertainment for the week. I can't always get to the library for good reading materials, but I can always count on my friends at FW to give me something great to read.
The comments you've made on my pieces have been such a blessing, and almost every time I pop into an entry to read and comment on it, you're ahead of me, already having given encouraging feedback to the person. You, and others like you, are such a blessing! (Including the judges who do all that reading "behind the scenes", unseen.) I know I speak for many, when I say your kindness and good work, and that of others like you, is MUCH appreciated!
Just wanted to "ditto" this... Shann, I noticed all the entries you commented on, and also wanted to say what a blessing you are to everyone here on FW! Thank you!
Double Ditto! Your comment on my last piece was so sweet, thanks!