Some light seasonal reading
Dec. 23rd, 2025 04:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blogcutterI don't enter many contests but when I heard about the "When Hallmark Met Librarianship" contest, I was definitely intrigued and decided to cobble together a submission.
It was open to anyone in the library-ish communities (i.e. libraries, archives, etc.) and you had to come up with a romantic storyline featuring some sort of information professional, that could be the plot of a seasonal Hallmark movie. The title and outline had to be no more than 250 words.
I must admit that although I'm generally a woman of few words, I struggled with that constraint. I didn't feel able to properly develop my characters or outline a major source of conflict. Gone are the Dickensian days of writers being paid by the word - in these days of sound bites and tweets, 250 words no doubt feels like unimaginable luxury to many an aspiring author! Anyway, I had a lot of fun dreaming up my story and even more fun reading what the other entrants came up with. It would be pretty cool if Hallmark actually did make a movie out of any of those story ideas. And hey, Ottawa and points just west of us are prime locations for such movies. You see, we're the snowiest national capital so there's no need for the fake snow, unless perhaps they decide to film the thing in July.
Anyway, you can read all the entries here:
https://librarianship.ca/blog/hallmark-met-librarianship-2025/
It was open to anyone in the library-ish communities (i.e. libraries, archives, etc.) and you had to come up with a romantic storyline featuring some sort of information professional, that could be the plot of a seasonal Hallmark movie. The title and outline had to be no more than 250 words.
I must admit that although I'm generally a woman of few words, I struggled with that constraint. I didn't feel able to properly develop my characters or outline a major source of conflict. Gone are the Dickensian days of writers being paid by the word - in these days of sound bites and tweets, 250 words no doubt feels like unimaginable luxury to many an aspiring author! Anyway, I had a lot of fun dreaming up my story and even more fun reading what the other entrants came up with. It would be pretty cool if Hallmark actually did make a movie out of any of those story ideas. And hey, Ottawa and points just west of us are prime locations for such movies. You see, we're the snowiest national capital so there's no need for the fake snow, unless perhaps they decide to film the thing in July.
Anyway, you can read all the entries here:
https://librarianship.ca/blog/hallmark-met-librarianship-2025/
