Merry Sisters of Fate contest

The Merry Sisters of Fate (Tessa Gratton, Maggie Stiefvater, and Brenna Yovanoff) have done it again - A Contest of "Epic" Proportions. The prizes?

1) A signed copy of Linger

2) A signed ARC of The Replacement

3) A signed copy of the audiobook of Linger

4) A Merry Fates tote bag

How to win said items? WRITE a response to the visual prompt, The Princess and the Pea by Edmund Dulac.

My entry is below the link (even if you don't plan on entering the contest, you have GOT to follow them). Seriously, click the link below and enter a world you will wish you created, but will be grateful to be a part of.

http://community.livejournal.com/merry_fates/95549.html

ENTRY: (short - but here goes...)

The youngest daughter of the home received many suitors that spring.

Following tradition, new bedding was added to her chamber with each proposal of marriage. News spread across the land of the highly sought-after maiden who slept atop a tower of linen. As they heard the tale, eager men traveled far distances to try to win the lady's hand.

Night after night, visitors called upon the home. And night after night, the maiden fell asleep on an ever-growing mountain of crushed dreams.

Years passed, yet her popularity didn't wane. The bedding grew to epic proportions. Musicians wrote ballads about her, playwrights created tragic masterpieces for the stage, men longed to win the ultimate prize, while young girls worldwide fantasized about being her.

Ultimately one bright summer morning, the most popular woman in the world died alone.

I have Writer's Crumbs...

What is my problem? I have had writer's block before, but now I am suffering from a pile of little ideas, like cookie crumbs, a growing number of possibilities...I feel like my brain is under attack by ideas, possible character names, varied endings...maybe I'm insane.

A part of me knows I need to type it all out - all of it - so when I am whining about writer's block, I can piece together all of the material that has been cluttering my brain over the past few days. I have scraps of paper in my house, in my car, and in my purse with ideas or notes for expanding my short stories into a series of novels.

Best of Both Worlds is a tentative title for the series - each book within the series has a different set of main characters, except for one character: She is the narrator for "one world" in each of the books. She eventually becomes the main character focus of the last book in the series - instead of being "on the sidelines" so to speak.

The premise is unique, but the endings vary (some are "happy" while others will rip your heart out). I guess in a nutshell these books allow a character to have the "smart" choice and the soul mate...at least for a while.

Guess I better stop fiddling and start working...

Shallow Day -TWILIGHT (what have you done to my wife?)