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December 2, 2009 | Life in General, contests
[tag]Empower: International Competition for Writers with Disabilities
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The Arizona Phoenix Sister Cities introduces its International Competition for Writers with Disabilities 2010. Below is a summary of the major elements of the competition:
Phoenix Sister Cities International Competition for Writers with Disabilities 2010
Eligibility
Persons 19 years of age and older with a disability residing in the State of Arizona or one of Phoenix’s nine sister cities (for a list of the sister cities see attached brochure.Type of Writing
Poems of 32 lines or less written in EnglishContest Theme
Reflections on LifeEntry Fee
$15 per entrant residing in Arizona, regardless of the number of poems he/she submitsDue Date
April 1, 2010Prizes
$500 first place; $350 second place and $150 third place as well as plaques. A certificate of participation to all entrantsPublication
Poems will be published on Phoenix Sister Cities Website and made available internationally. Poems will also be published independentlyAwards Event
Friday evening June 11, 2009 in Central Phoenix to award prizes to the winners
More details about the competition can be found here:
While the deadline for the writing competition is imminent, we will also be having an art competition in November 2010. When we have our brochure for that competition available, we will provide you with a copy.
If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Harry Wolfe at 602-279-7356.
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Posted by Celise @ 6:30 pm | Criticisms
July 31, 2009 | Book Stuff, Life in General, contests
DANYA BUSH - $50 gift card to an independent bookstore in your area.
ALEX MACFARLAND – $25 gift card to an independent bookstore in your area.
CONGRATULATIONS!!
Thanks to everyone who entered. I greatly appreciated your two cents on the matter. I’ve decided not to change Draven’s last name. I like the way it sounds and it’s pretty unique.
However, if I had changed her name, I would’ve changed it to “Addair”. Since I’m not going to change it, a character in Book Two will be given this last name.
Thanks Danya and Alex. Please contact me at celise[at]celisedowns[dot]com with the name of the indie bookstore in your area. If you need help finding one, do a search HERE.
Posted by Celise @ 5:49 pm | Criticisms
July 27, 2009 | A Royale Pain, Book One, Book Stuff, DA Series, Life in General, Movie Queue, Revision Heaven, The 4-1-1 on Me, Weekend Wrap-Up, Writing Movements, contests
YOU HAVE THREE MORE DAYS TO VOTE! Enter to win either a $50 or $25 gift card to an independent bookstore in your area. Should I change Draven’s last name? Head over to my FUN STUFF page and give your two cents. For teens only, ages 13-18. Deadline is July 31st, MST.
Saturday, I saw THE UGLY TRUTH twice in one day. It wasn’t a hardship, really, seeing Gerard Butler for a couple of hours. It’s interesting to see how well he can hide that Scottish accent of his. In 300 and ROCKNROLLA, he let it all hang out. But in this movie, P.S. I LOVE YOU and NIM’S ISLAND, he Americanized it a little bit, but the accent still slipped through. I didn’t think Mr. Maul would want to see it, but he surprised me by suggesting it.
Sunday, we went to breakfast at U.S. Egg. My co-worker and sometimes go there for lunch. It used to be called the Blue Plate Brunchery, but now they’re under new management. With a completely different menu. That’s one of the places I like to go that serves breakfast all day long. Sometimes, a burger or a sandwich just doesn’t cut it. We weren’t too impressed with the coffee, but the food we ordered was pretty good. Mr. Maul liked their protein pancakes (blueberries, cinnamon and slivers of almonds are baked into the pancake batter).
We also watched QUANTUM OF SOLACE on Blu-Ray later that night. I think he bought the regular version for me, but of course, this one looks a lot better.
Surprisingly, I have yet to finish typing up the revisions, but I had good writing movement last week: 12 new pages in The Lesson segment. Yeah, it had already been written, but when I was going back through it—and trying to find a place in the novel to put it—I realized I needed to add a little more detail. 12 new pages emerged. Yay me.
So, how was weekend?
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Posted by Celise @ 6:38 pm | 1 Criticism
July 21, 2009 | A Royale Pain, Book One, Book Stuff, DA Series, Draven Atreides, Life in General, Movie Queue, Revision Heaven, The 4-1-1 on Me, Weekend Wrap-Up, contests
YOU STILL HAVE TIME TO VOTE! Enter to win either a $50 or $25 gift card to an independent bookstore in your area (yes, I changed my mind. We need to support local bookstores more). Should I change Draven’s last name? Head over to my FUN STUFF page and give your two cents. For teens only, ages 13-18. Deadline is July 31st, MST.
Friday after work, I went to see HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE. I liked it. It amazes me how much the characters have grown. Literally and figuratively. I mean, when these kids were tapped to play Harry, Hermione and Ron, they were 10-11. We’ve watched them grow up. Rupert’s 20 yrs old and Emma will be attending Brown University. How wild is that? I’ve never read the books, but I’ve seen all the movies. Every. Single. One. Of. Them. So unlike the extensive review I read over at Horserider’s blog, I can honestly say that I never have any expectations going in when I see these movies. I don’t know what’s missing, what’s been added or how important those deletions/additions are to the story. I just like the movies, so I go see them. Plain and simple. One thing for all you HP fans to keep in mind, and it’s also something Daniel Radcliffe mentioned in an interview, is that they can’t put everything from the books into the movie. It’s just not possible. Just be glad they’re making the movies.
Saturday, I spent the better part of the morning in the heat at the The Arizona Rod & Classic Car Club Annual Backpack Giveaway. My Dad is a member of this car club and this is their second year doing this backpack giveaway for ChildHelp and Keys. It was my second time volunteering as well and this time, I was manning the Book Booth. Not by myself though, because that would’ve been a freakin’ nightmare. Each booth had something different. Backpacks, school supplies (puzzles and notebooks), children’s books, free hot dogs and drinks, raffle tickets, etc. Once kids got their backpacks, they could visit the other booths and pick up stuff.
Last year, I was giving away stuffed animals—this year it was children’s books. Kohl’s donated over 1000 books. Me and 5 other people gave away 9 different titles, one of which was Kung Fu Panda (that one was a big hit, needless to say). The one thing I discovered at this event this year was that a couple of volunteers felt “entitled.” During the course of handing out books, a volunteer from another booth (and I really wish I could remember from what company, because I would’ve called them out in this post) came over and helped herself to two books saying that “her daughter would really like these.”
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Posted by Celise @ 5:58 pm | Criticisms
July 6, 2009 | A Royale Pain, Book One, Book Stuff, Book Two, DA Series, Draven Atreides, Life in General, Movie Queue, The 4-1-1 on Me, Weekend Wrap-Up, Writing Movements, contests
It’s Monday and I’m sooooo tired. Three days off was not long enough. Mr. Maul and I went to a DSG 4th of July party. The theme was South Pacific. As in the musical. He downloaded it last Friday so we could get ideas on what to wear. Needless to say, it was really, really, really, hard to get past the first cheesy song: something about dames. LOL. And the crazy-ass Technicolor themed scenes. Sometimes it appeared as though whole one whole scene was filmed in fuschia. Or yellow-gold. Yeah. crazy. So, Mr. Maul and I ended up going for the more “military” theme and wore camo shorts and tanks. We had fun. I didn’t hear or see any fireworks, though. Mr. Maul had too much fun and I ended up driving home (I don’t drink so I’m always the designated driver) and we didn’t get home until around 3-something. We were supposed to go see PUBLIC ENEMIES over the weekend.
That didn’t happen. At all. Not even on Friday and we had that day off. Didn’t feel like doing anything on Sunday, that’s for sure, and I don’t know why we didn’t see it Friday or Saturday. If anyone saw it, please give your review. I’d be interested to hear what you thought about it.
And I did laundry. Nothing more I can say about that because, well, it’s laundry.
Writing Movements – no writing last week. I know, I’m such a bad authoress. I should be diving back into revisions for Book Two, but I have yet to incorporate those other sections I wrote into Book One. I need to do that. I’ve been procrastinating. Over the weekend, I talked to a fellow DSGer about podcasting. I’ve been on the fence about this series in regards to the publishing route I should take and this dude gave me something to think about. Speaking of the series…
You still have plenty of time to vote on whether or not I should change Draven’s last name. Go over to my FUN STUFF page and vote. There are two chances to win. The deadline is July 31st. Remember, only teens can vote
Tomorrow night, Mr. Maul and I are going to see Beyonce (aka Sasha Fierce) in concert. Section B, Row 8. Not close enough to see her pores, but close enough to see her sweat. Close enough to see a wardrobe malfunction. Close enough to see her trip and hope she doesn’t fall into our area (if that were the case, I’m sure Mr. Maul—and a bunch of other guys—would lunge to catch her). LOL. This should be interesting.
So, how was your holiday weekend?
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Posted by Celise @ 6:05 pm | Criticisms
