In speaking of which, I'm pleasantly surprised at the diversity of the short stories authors this year. I think it bodes well that we can get a variety of authors in there organically and not have to psudo-demand (also see: moan and gripe) about one person running the board to gather competition.
Back when I started writing years ago, one of my long term goals was to try and see if I could not break the Gold dynasty. In hindsight, yes, that's quite a whopper of a goal, and bombastic and kind of an odd thing to do so, especially since now a days I just do it for the sake of enjoyment. It's a far cheaper hobby than videogames.
But long term goals are an important stepping stone, even if they do seem oddly short sighted.
In speaking of which, I'm pleasantly surprised at the diversity of the short stories authors this year. I think it bodes well that we can get a variety of authors in there organically and not have to psudo-demand (also see: moan and gripe) about one person running the board to gather competition.
Back when I started writing years ago, one of my long term goals was to try and see if I could not break the Gold dynasty. In hindsight, yes, that's quite a whopper of a goal, and bombastic and kind of an odd thing to do so, especially since now a days I just do it for the sake of enjoyment. It's a far cheaper hobby than videogames.
But long term goals are an important stepping stone, even if they do seem oddly short sighted.
I suppose that doesn't mean that someone other than Mary will win with her nominated story, per say. But if she does, at least I can have confidence that I can call these things over a year in advance now .