Benjamin Chadwick

Just thought I’d post a link to an enjoyable semi-fictional vignette about a frustrated writer.  These are the problems all writers must face.  Writing is sort of a religious experience.  You are visited by some celestial creative muse, much like a prophet.  Then you apply this creativity into your next masterpiece, drop it in the mail, and pray.  Then you hear no response.  You start to question your sanity– and rightly so. I expect a pile of acceptance notices to arrive as I lay in my deathbed, the postman bounding up the staircase to hand-deliver the mail as the electrocardiogram flatline tolls.  The postman declares how ironic this is, and in my dying breath, I grunt, “It isn’t ironic, it’s just annoying…”

I made the first cut at StorySouth and the judges have declared– more than one of them, apparently– that The Power of Fiction is a Notable Story of 2009!  The Million Writers Notable Stories of 2009 are listed here. Ben Chadwick likes this.

This is different from the previous post, in which I was merely nominated.  I think this is worthy of a new blog post, despite my concerns about running out of precious disk space.