I am the enormous man who eats & eats.
I am the boy who pushed himself down the stairs.
I am the girl who compromised her beliefs.
I am so funny I laugh at my own jokes.
I am my own best friend.
I am the young man who can’t say no.

I am your melted ice.
I am the one-woman show.
I am as powerful as Medusa.
I am the mortician & you look beautiful.
I am the cat with five lives left.
I am a deflated scarecrow.

It is the Fifth of November.
Consume: Bonfire toffee & parkin,
fireworks shot into the
midnight sky,
and we hear:
“A desperate disease requires
a dangerous remedy”
in the quiet, quiet, quiet.
I am Guy Fawkes! Let the canons fly.

Title: Making Clay
Genre: Writers on Writing
Summary: "...a great man once told me that writers write. Raw material won't come to you in a flash of inspiration and no-one will make it for you."

Down the Rabbit Hole, Alice

BookSwim.com, an online book rental club renting hardcovers and paperbacks through the mail (sort of like Netflix, but with books) is giving all NaNoWriMo writers the chance to expose their work to thousands of active readers. Now announcing BookSwim’s 2009 NaNoWriMo Competition! All NaNoWriMo winners are welcome to submit excerpts of their work for a chance to have their novels published through print-on-demand technology and made available through BookSwim’s catalog!

Prizes
20 Semi-Finalists: 1 free month of BookSwim
5 Grand Prize Winners: Your book rented through BookSwim!

How to Enter

Start with a bang! Copy and paste the first 1,000 words of your novel into the body of your email program along with your name, brief (3 - 5 sentence) summary of your novel, and your preferred method of contact, then attach the first 10,000 words in an .rtf, .doc / .docx, or .pdf file. Email your submission to the ONE email address that best corresponds to the genre of your novel:

Speculative fiction (horror, fantasy, science fiction): nanospecfic@bookswim.com
Mystery / thriller: nanomystery@bookswim.com
Historical fiction: nanohistory@bookswim.com
Romance: nanoromance@bookswim.com
Contemporary / mainstream / literary: nanolit@bookswim.com

Submissions begin immediately and close December 31st. Check out this link for official contest rules.

Looking forward to reading your work-- but for now, good luck!