introducing the "Drunk at First Sight" Blogfest!

A few of my fellow bloggers and I have got a proposition for you. Recognizing that St. Patrick's Day is coming up fast, that Valentine's Day is not yet cold in its grave, and that we all like to drink beer, Jon Paul and a couple other shady characters have masterminded the "Drunk at First Sight" Blogfest.

Now, I've never had the exact dictionary definition of the word "blogfest" explained to me, but from what I gather, it's where a bunch of bloggers all pick a topic, write up a post, and then everybody reads each other's posts and comment on them and have a great big literary discussion or somesuch. It's great fun, from what I hear. I've never participated in one before, and I'm jazzed for this one. (It's a shame I missed the Fight Scene Blogfest a while back...I would've had a great entry for that one!)

Here's how it works:

1) Cruise on over to Where Sky Meets Ground and sign up. Enter your name and your blog URL.

2) Write a new scene or short story, or dust off an old one, about a love/relationship situation that also includes one or more of the following elements:

—St. Patty's Day as important event or setting
—Use of Ireland or anything Irish as a setting or prop
—An alcohol related event (party, hangover, cocktails, AA meeting, etc.)

3) Just prior to March 17th (the big day itself), post said story to your blog.

4) On St. Patty's Day, cruise around the other participants' pages, drink in hand, and check out everybody's amazing fiction.

That's about it! We've got a litany of splendid bloggers helping out with this:

• Emily from The Chronicles of Emily Cross
• Bone from Cruising Altitude
• Scott from A Writer's Blog

We've got a lot of people signed up already. So what are you waiting for? Belly on up to the bar and write some fiction!