I’ve a simple question for you this week, what age did you start writing? Not what age …

Well, the winning stories for Writing to Inspire’s recent ‘First Line’ Short Story Competition are now online. Click here to read them.

How do you feel about your work once you’ve submitted it for publication or to a competition? Are you anxious, waiting to hear back? Do you just forget about that piece of work and move on to the next? Or are you somewhere in between?

I was writing up the Writing Tips for the Bodhi Tree newsletter today and it got me thinking on the old question of how many words do we know and how many do we actually use.

First off I wanted to thank everybody who entered our Inaugural ‘First Line’ Short Story Competition. I was suitably impressed with the response, enough so that I will hold another, but more of that later.