What's Your Writing Wish? Alchemy Inspiration Scholarship Contest

Big news: I'm giving away 5 scholarship spots in Alchemy Inspiration: Start Writing!

Let's call it the "What's Your Writing Wish? Alchemy Inspiration Scholarship Contest." (I know, what a mouthful! I have a thing for unwieldy titles.)

Class dates: Sept. 17 - Oct. 12

Contest deadline: 11:59pm (U.S. Eastern time) Sept. 13

Here are the quick details on how to enter. You can enter up to three times*. [Contest ends at 11:59pm (U.S. Eastern time) on Thursday, September 13.]

1. What's your writing wish? Leave your answer in the comments below for one entry into the scholarship contest. (Any length of comment is allowed, from one word to a mini-manifesto. Use whatever words you need to express your wish.) (Important: Make sure you enter the anti-spam CAPTCHA code that shows up after you enter your comment. You have to enter that code and click "Confirm Post" for your comment to show up.)
2. For one extra entry you can tweet about this contest on Twitter. (Include this link: http://bit.ly/Pc22Wg. And include the hashtag #writingwish so I can find your tweet and count your entry.) {See below for a few suggested tweets in case you'd like to use one.}
3. For one extra entry you can spread the word on Facebook. Visit my FB page here, "like" the status update about this contest -and- share that status update. ("Sharing" is the only way I'll be able to track and count your entry. Update: I think I was mistaken that I can track all "shares," so please "like" the status update and share it. I'll count all "likes" (on the status update) as entries. Sorry for the confusion!)

Suggested Tweets:

• I'm a wish-to-be-writer. Are you? There's a contest for us. Win a spot in the Alchemy writing e-course: http://bit.ly/Pc22Wg. #writingwish
• Enter the What's Your #WritingWish? Alchemy Inspiration Scholarship to win a spot in this writing e-course. http://bit.ly/Pc22Wg
• Win a spot in @thewordcellar's course. Enter the What's Your #WritingWish? Alchemy Inspiration Scholarship contest: http://bit.ly/Pc22Wg

Deadline: Enter up to three times (using the methods above) by 11:59pm on Thursday, Sept. 13.

Recipient announcement: I'll announce the winners Friday (9/14) morning.

Selection method: I will choose the five scholarship recipients randomly. Each comment, tweet, and Facebook "share" will be counted and assigned a number, and then I'll use the random number generator at random.org to choose five numbers. (I thought about choosing the "best" writing wishes or the ones that moved me the most, but that's not at all what Alchemy Inspiration is about. I hate the idea of ranking dreams and wishes! So that's why it's a free-for-all-randomness-choosing-kind-of-thing.)

Class starts next Monday, September 17 (and runs for four weeks, until October 12). All the details are over here. 

I'm really looking forward to working with a group of you to help you move past fear and general stuckness and start putting words together. This is a fun, no-pressure course. Okay, so all of my courses are meant to be fun and low pressure, but this one in particular is all about the permission to seek inspiration. In fact, it's about making your own inspiration and taking itty-bitty steps toward your writing wishes. I mean it when I say that Alchemy Inspiration is meant for writers and wish-to-be-writers. No expedience is required, dearies.

Good grief, I must be feeling extra jolly: Did I just call you "dearies"?

Forgive my smarminess. I just really want you to feel my excitement about this session of the course. I've been reading the "get to know you" surveys from the current registrants, and their enthusiasm is contagious.

This is going to be such a great group of writers and wish-to-be-writers.

I'm really looking forward to this session, and I want you to join us.

As I've said, this may be the last time I run this course online, so please join me if you've been thinking about it.  If you definitely want a spot in the course, hop on over here and sign-up!

If you want to play along and enter the scholarship contest, have at it!

*About the entry methods, a confession: I don't always love it when people run contests like this and ask you to Twitter or Facebook (yes, I just used it as a verb) for extra entries. But I'm doing it with this one because I need your help in telling people about the What's Your Writing Wish? Alchemy Inspiration Scholarship Contest. It only runs for three days, and class starts in just one week, so I need the collective power of this community to spread the word quickly. 

Okay, your writing wishes....go!

Comments

[Rebecca Everett]

My wish would be to finally write the book my friend and I have been talking about. With our kids finally older I feel like it is time to make our dream come true. Thanks so much for the opportunity. Rebecca rjeverett@comcast.net

[Grace]

I want to see me from the inside out.....

[Rebecca Everett]

I liked and shared. Thanks so much!!! Rebecca

[Plumrose Lane]

I wish to write the ideas in my head ~ the ones that, by the time I sit to write them down, have flown away.
Thanks!
Sharon

[Cathy]

Thanks for the chance to enter! I wish I could just write, be unstuck and create worlds that sing and characters that grab your soul. :)

[Shelly]

I wish to get rid of the fear that holds me back I have had an idea for over a year. Just need to get in gear and DO IT. need a little push!!

[Brianna]

This course would provide a much needed boost to get me writing.
I desire to write to take a little more of the world in; and put a little more of myself out into the world.
Thank you for your consideration on this #writing wish opportunity! I would love to be a part of your program.

[laura md]

I'm leaving another comment because it appears that the one I left this morning didn't take. My writing wish is to finally finish a project that I started a long time ago and to write without fear. I have been a fb follower for some time and I also shared on my wall.

[kate]

I find myself feeling like, to crib from Ani, a writer with nothing to write about. Except I know that's not true. And I would love to get over that.

[Robin]

My wish is to be able to weave my stories and thoughts into a beautiful web.

[Susan]

My wish to write is to clear my over active mind of all the negative self-talk and give myself permission to just get on with it! Thank you for the opportunity.

[Alexis]

My dream is to publish a novel.

[Twila]

I wish to write so that I can process through some of the pain in my life over the past few years. I lost both my parents in that time to cancer within a span of one year. I have much churning in my head and heart. I have loved to write my whole life but have never made time to do it. I need a challenge and encouragement to do it!

[Karen]

My writing wish is to.....write! I do need some inspiration and direction!

[Sam]

My wish is to find the balance of time to write - I thought I could really focus on writing after my son started school, but I'm also focusing on being healthy and incorporating exercise every day. How can I do both, when it seems like the day just flies away with itself?

[Martha]

I so enjoy reading a variety of novels and appreciate people that are able to write stories that touch readers hearts. I wish I knew how to write a story but have absolutely no knowledge about the craft of writing novels. My wish is to be able to learn how to write a story. Thank you.

[Judi]

I hope to call myself a writer during my life after 50. What an exciting second career it is going to be. Now I have to just hone my writing skills.

[LaToya]

My writing wish......To breath. To tell - the - truth.

[Rae]

My writing wish is to believe in myself. To write even though I am afraid. To make a writing life for myself...

[Holly]

My writing wish is to take these thoughts that frequently run through my head and share them with others by communicating clearly with my writing. it seems like every time I try to capture these thoughts they st9p flowing and my writing suddenly becomes very stiff.

[Paula]

I want my words to sing and dance across the page, to tell my story, and to create a need in people to nod their heads and say, "Oh. Yes. I know exactly what she means."

[Judy]

I love to write and once I'm inspired and get in the flow, it's like magic. But I don't do it consistently. My writing wish is to develop the habit of writing daily, inspired or not.

[Jaime]

To find my voice and not be afraid to speak with it...I wish to be in!

[Felecia Wong]

My writing wish is to put words for thoughts in my head and share them.

[Virginia]

I'm not seeing my first response either.
My writing wish is to find just the right ending to my WIP.
Then I'll be able to say I have a first draft... :)