Who Wants to Enter a Contest?

We interrupt your regularly-scheduled blog post to bring you the following message:

Her Highness the Missus (HHTM) and I were lounging about the house on Sunday watching movies. I forget the exact circumstances, but I ended up referencing this faux diary entry from the Firefly episode Safe:

"(mock reading Simon's journal) Dear Diary...today I was pompous and my sister was crazy." (flips page) "Today, we were kidnapped by hill folk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever." -- Jayne Cobb

We started crafting fake diary entries as a result. Hers were funnier than mine, of course, and if you've ever met HHTM and experienced her rapier-like Irish wit then you understand why that's a foregone conclusion. At the end of about three or four of these, HHTM says "This would make a good contest for your blog."

Therefore, I am officially announcing the first Free the Princess Fake Diary Entry Contest!

Here's the rules:

1. Your diary entry must be three to four sentences long. 
2. You are allowed as many entries as you can come up with.
3. It doesn't have to be funny; if you can come up with a poignant entry in four sentences, then feel free to submit.
4. You can write it from the perspective of any FICTIONAL character you choose. (If you write historical fiction then you're excused from this rule -- contact me otherwise if you want to write it from the viewpoint of a historical person)
5. It must be posted in the comments of this post no later than 12 am U.S. Eastern Time on Tuesday, June 29, 2010.

The entries will be judged by none other than HHTM herself, since it was my lovely lady wife's idea in the first place. She is a hard one to impress, folks, so you'd better be in top form if you want to win this. 


Winners will be announced on Tuesday, July 6, 2010. 


Now, you might be asking yourself what it is precisely that you win. Truth be told, I've yet to figure that out, but I will confer with HHTM on what the prize pack should include. I'm thinking something along the lines of a partial manuscript critique (I'm neither published nor an agent, but everyone who's been edited by me has raved about the detail of my crits, so maybe that's a good prize to offer). 


Now, a note for all my readers in the Southeast -- I will be presenting at the Upstate Steampunk convention in Greenville, S.C. on Saturday, November 20, 2010 about my Roots of Steampunk blog series. If you're local-ish to South Carolina, and interested in hearing me blather on, go register at http://www.upstatesteampunk.com. 

EDIT: Rules 2 and 3 were added because questions were asked.