Writing Life

I Have Submitted My Fifth Vocal Piece

It’s a piece that I had to sit on for a long while… ouch.

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I have this interesting story that I think people would like to read. I’ve entered it in a contest that’s currently running on Vocal Media as judged by Christopher Paolini.

Before I give the link to this story I wrote, I have a few things to say about this matter.

First, I have an elevator pitch I need to share, both for the contest and for the story.

Contest elevator pitch:

A grown dragon finds a lost — or abandoned — toddler in the forest. Write a fiction story about what happens next.

Story elevator pitch:

Ak’Bar the Red Dragon rescues a young girl who went missing in the forest. A father-daughter-like relationship builds between them as he tries to find her birth family.

Second, I have to express that this contest entry took so long to finish and…