After what can only be described as a fuckawful day, starting with discovering that some cockstabbing, shiteating scrotes had stolen my bicycle leaving me in a mood that bordered on genocidal, I’ve just finished writing an entry for the Waterstone’s What’s Your Story competitionally challenging type eventuality. Although I was aware of this charidee effort on account of regularly reading Neil Gaiman’s journal, I had fallen into the age old practice that I learnt at school of Not Paying Attention so I didn’t realise that us mere mortals could also submit entries to be compared alongside great authors such as Gaiman, Atwood and Rowling. Fortunately Laura had mentioned it on her blog and the closing deadline is tonight so I got my scribble sticks and scribble pads and started scribbling.

If you’ve got a printer/scanner combo to hand, you can actually print out a postcard to do your doodle stuff on, scan it in and upload it. If you’re like me and limited to softCopy() only, you can do it online - except that you’re additionally limited to 600 characters of story. Yes, that’s right, 600 characters, including spaces and punctuation.

It occurs to me that I probably should written thing in CamelCase and forsaken the usual word-space-word pattern. Never mind.