This is getting silly. Not only am I getting married and celebrating Noir as the Best Roleplaying Game of 2006, I’ve also won a Swedish writing contest!
Each year since 1993 the magazine Ordfront Magasin (page in Swedish) selects a few texts from debuting poets and writers. Last year they had almost 600 submitted texts, I don’t know how many this year. The magazine has 92.000 readers, and is quite well known in Sweden.
My text is the short story Extraknäckt, possible to read for free on the web if you know enough Swedish. The judges called it “a truthful account of life in a workplace in Sweden 2007. A tragicomic story with quick dialogue that feels both absurd and true”. I’m listed as Jonas Ferry, since I’ll change to that soon enough.
Of course I’m really, really proud. It’s a great honor, and I’m very happy.
I wrote a haiku for Mark’s Writing Haiku Challenge, and couldn’t resist illustrating it.
Another haiku on the craft of writing. I’l keep it out of Mark’s contest because I think it needs the pictures.
As you can see from the top icon on the front page I “won” the (Inter)National Novel Writing Month. 50017 words in 25 days, since I started a bit late. I had 39000 words with two days left, and then found out that the NaNoWriMo counter thought I had 1700 words less than that. The otherwise excellent online word processor Writely was apparently more generous than its official counterpart.
Oh well, now I have a lot of story to edit. It has to be done by January 1st since I’m going to submit it to a competition.
I just joined National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) today, an international event despite the name. The aim is a 50 000 word novel during November, and we’re almost a month into it already. You can follow my progress live at the top of the page as I upload my word count each day. Wish me luck.
