[Fr] Nouveau concours, nouvelle suite de mots ¤ [En] New competition, new series of words

[Fr]	[En]
Quand l’envie d’écrire revient en force, alimenter la et embrasser vos muses. En partenariat avec le magazine Transfuge, le site WeLoveWords organise le concours. Le thème : Meurtre mystérieux à Manhattan.	When the need to write is making a powerful comeback, just fuel it and kiss your muses. In partnership with Transfuge magazine, the French website WeLoveWords is organizing a writing competition. The theme: Mysterious murder in Manhattan.
La contrainte – l’évidente originalité de la suite de mots mise  part – être d’une longueur maximale de 4 500 caractères.	The obligation – the ownership of the series of words aside – being of a 4.500 characters length maximum.
Et si par le plus grand des hasards, ma suite de mots remportait le concours, elle serait publiée chez Transfuge ! Chouette non ?  Si l’envie vous venait de lire ma suite de mots, n’hésitez pas à y jeter un œil. Bonne lecture !	And if by the slightest chance, my series of words were to win the competition, it would be published in Transfuge! Neat, huh? If you ever felt like reading this series of words, feel free to check it out. Enjoy!

Fausse note

Histoire d'un concours

[Fr] 6 suites de mots pour 1 concours ! ¤ [En] 6 series of words for 1 competition

[Fr]	[En]
Et oui, parce que quand on aime écrire et qu'un concours vous tape dans l'oeil, on ne peut que participer. Le site WeLoveWords organiqe en partenariat avec My Little Book Club un concours : imaginer "la plus petite nouvelle". La contrainte - en plus de l'originalité de la suite de mots - être d'une longueur entre 10 et 100 mots ou, à peu près, entre 60 et 600 signes espaces compris.	You got it, when one loves to write and a competition strikes one's fancy, one cannot but take part in it. The WeLoveWords French website, in partnership with My Little Book Club, organizes a competition : to write "the smallest short story". The obligation - the ownership of the series of words aside - being from a 10 to 100 words or, more or less, from a 60 to 600 characters space included length.
Pour quelque'un qui aime le court, pourquoi pas participer ? Au pire, ce que je risque, c'est de gagner une nuit dans un hôtel parisien en lien avec un grand auteur français, un abonnement de 6 mois MyLittleBox ou rien du tout. Seulement voilà, au lieu de proposer une ou deux suites de mots, j'en ai proposé six sept  Il paraît que quand on aime on ne compte pas. Je me suis peut-être un peu laissée allez sur ce coup-là... Si l'envie vous prenait de vouloir lire ces six sept suites de mots,  jetez-y un oeil  et bonne lecture !	For someone who loves the short, why not give it a shot? At worst, what I'm risking it's to win a night at a Parisian hotel directly linked to a great French writer, a 6-month subscription to MyLittleBox or nothing at all. But here the thing, instead of submitting one or two series of words, I have submitted six seven of them. They say love doesn't count the cost. I may have gone a bit over-the-top on this one... If you ever felt like reading those six seven series of words, check them out & enjoy!

18 jours

Parce que les souvenirs devraient être éternels

J'ai crû

Ras-le-bol !

Le plaisir d'écrire

Comme quoi, il suffit de pas grand chose ^^

Saint Petersburg

Tout est histoire de détente

Seule

Amertume d'une séparation

Toi et...

Fébrilité quand tu nous tiens...

L'ultime recours
Parce que parfois il n'y aplus rien d'autre à faire

(Updated: 04 November 2013)

[En] Once Upon A Time...

... there was a competition run by the University of Portsmouth.

The Creative Writing in a Foreign Language (CWFL).

My Master Thesis Advisor sent me a link. I didn't check it out at first. Don't ask me why. I looked into  it only a few days later.

Reactions:

1. first thought: "Neat! I've never thought of a writing competition in English!"
2. second thought: I realized the person sending me this link was no other than my Master Thesis Advisor; then I was like "Damn, for her to send me this, she must believe in my ability to win something."
3. a damn strong sense of pride overwhelmed me afterwards.

I'm not gonna make a repeat of my previous post. I'm just gonna give you its guideline.

November 2012, 2nd or 3rd week.

A very British English Professor of mine assigned us a creative writing exercise: compose an iambic pentameter poem.

November 2012, 25th.

The first draft of a poem. Still, it didn't feel right.

First and only trip to an English-speaking country. Just for a few hours in Canterbury (too bad I couldn't take a look inside the cathedral). Unfortunately, but hey... it's still better than none whatsoever!

Change of air.

Change of land.

Change of language.

Nothing better to cure some lack of inspiration!

I must admit, the second crossing of the Channel was kinda weird. Going back to France was like stepping into a foreign country. Weird huh ?

Nostalgia was there. The inspiration with it. The first draft of my poem turned into a ten iambic pentameter poem. 

October 2012, 1st week.

I certainly was proud of my work on this poem, but I never would have thought my very British English Professor could have been impressed to no end by it. And yet, he did! Hurrah for me!

Though, the poem still needed a few small modifications.

April 2013, 2nd.

Reception of the link.

June 2013, 6th.

Entry submission for CWFL:

I had enough. Of those, I want no more.

I'm done. No need for self-inflicted pain.

I have to shut away those treasured thoughts,

At least for now. I've got to let you go.

A lonely walk at night, it takes no more :

A scent of burning wood, of earth, of rain,

A strong and goodly mix, a soothing feeling

I revel in; a breeze in moonlight glow.

And let's pretend I'm not a sorry mess,

A soulless ghost who wanders by herself.

July 2013, 23th.

Reception of a mail with this list of winners enclosed. Winners and commendations are to be published in the University's anthology of Creative Writing in a Foreign Language, Tonguefreed.

July 2013, 25th.

Prize Award Ceremony I couldn't decently attend to, organized by the

August 2013, 1st week.

Reception at home of the prize I sadly couldn't get in person.

Ok, I'm bragging a bit, but hey... it's something big for a French poet to be recognized as an author in English too! That's a big deal!

And since I'm the only French-speaking student, French being their mother-tongue, winning something: three cheers for France!

My real name is blurred for a reason. I use it as a translator.

Here, I'm BJO, a poet who sometimes plays around with a camera.

This was the story behind this first won prize!