Wheeee!

Have you seen the 5th sort-of-annual stupendously ultimate first paragraph challenge just started?! Have you???? I'm a little bit excited about it. I may have picked out my paragraph over the weekend after it was mentioned that it might start on Monday and then stalked the blog, hiccuped with excitement when the post went up, and somehow gotten the first comment. I ADMIT TO NOTHING.

Ahem.

Okay, maybe I should tone down the crazy a little. I just get excited sometimes. This contest is brilliant fun. I've always learned so much about first paragraphs from it. Mostly that they tend to somehow be all alike as everyone accidentally taps into the hive mind and thinks up the same not-as-original-as-we-thought* idea. I should know, I've done it on more than one occasion.

Do I actually have a hope of winning? Eh, no. But I enter for the same reason I submit poems to places I don't have a prayer of getting into. It's EXCITING. And this contest is especially exciting because it's like I get to read the slush pile and cheer on my favorites! YAY!

I'm doing it again, aren't I?

I should stop typing now before it gets worse.

*Aren't my hyphens pretty? I just read an extensive post on them today and was all, oh, I need to fix that phrase by adding hyphens so it's grammatically correct! Yay, learning!