There were many entries in this week’s WOOF (Writers Offering Our Finest) contest hosted weekly by PlotDog.com, and this week Zorlone took top spot in poetry with “Three Hours”, Jena Isle took 2nd with “You” and I wound up getting 3rd place with my child like rhyming poem about bugs called “Twisted Creatures”.  I also happened to place 5th spot and first  spot for Fiction entries this week.

WOOF Contest – Top Picks

Poetry

Zorlone – “Three hours” – A poem about getting stuck in traffic on a rainy night.

Jena Isle – “You” – A blog – to truly  exist – needs other  blogs to survive. You is a poem dedicated to those who believed in my blog.

Dragon Blogger – “Twisted Creatures” – Rhyming child like poem about the insects of the night.

Jennifer M Scott – “Aurora of the Damned” – A surreal poem on life.

Fiction

Dragon Blogger – “Kendrick’s Story” – A fantasy short story I wrote last week, my first one ever submitted to WOOF.

This week Zorlone takes the top slot with an excellent poem titled After Thought, I managed to eek in 2nd place with Jenn taking third.  Greg Freed finishes the top four roundup with a story about a man and his dog.

WOOF Contest – Top Picks

Poetry

Zorlone – “After Thought” – A poem of regret.

Dragon Blogger – “Sweet Songs of Youth” – Poem about childhood love and innocence.

Jennifer M Scott – “Among Lilac” – A poem of decisions.

About Writing / Creative Non-Fiction / Non-Fiction

Greg Freed – “Garden Part One” – A story about a man and his dog and a question about animal ethics.

My Random twitter poem “Late Afternoon Nightmare” managed to take the top spot and was up against fierce competition with Roy’s excellent “Unpoetic” and Zorlone’s “Blank Page” rounding out the top 3.  Zorlone and Roy both took 2 out of the 5 top spots this week.  I was really proud of Late Afternoon Nightmare, as I was given a wide array of words and one of my favorite sentences I have ever written was incorporated into this poem.

WOOF Contest – Top Picks

Poetry

Dragon Blogger – “Late Afternoon Nightmare” - A poem about trying to catch an afternoon nap which only ends in a nightmare.

Roy – “unpoetic” – Senseless lines… or are they?

Zorlone – “Blank page” – “Such a true prose, the “process” is as you describe. The blank page a canvas for thoughts and inspiration, ready to pour out from within.” Eric S.

Zorlone – “Just another bus commute” – “…That chance may never come again..but then… I’m sure somewhere down the road, you’ll finally meet your princess.” – JenaIsle

Fiction  / Prose / Memoir

Roy – “The Short Story Blogger” - A blogger… his life… his stories…

I took 2nd place in the overall WOOF contest this week and was proud of the dark poem I had written last week called “Death of Beauty”, Zorlone had a fantastic poem which came right behind in 3rd place called “Creature of the Night”. Congrats to all the other winners including Izzy for writing a great post on how to write a good title.

WOOF Contest – Top Picks

About Writing

Izzy Daniels – “Improving Your Writing Through Article Elements: How to Make a Good Title” - This is the 1st entry in my series about improving more of the elements in your post.  In this post I cover the impotance of a title and you can change it to get more readers.

Poetry

Dragon Blogger – “Death of Beauty” – A dark poem artistically rendering a woman’s murder.

Zorlone – “Creature of the Night” – “…this has excitement, darkness and a touch of sensual longing…” – jodapoet

Fiction

Webbielady – “A Poor Boy’s Memoir” – He was born poor but he had fun. See how this young son worked his way to childhood enjoyment despite his situation….

Memoir

Jennifer M Scott – “Twister” – A short remembrance of a tornado I saw when I was a kid.

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