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.
19/06/2008 at 10:36 am Permalink
Glad it was the bike not the motorbike that got nicked – although it’s still a pain in the chuff.
And good luck on the competition. Probably for the best that you didn’t use CamelCase, though.
19/06/2008 at 10:49 am Permalink
Motorbike is currently off the road awaiting a new engine build so all in all, I am not having much luck with transport.
19/06/2008 at 11:22 am Permalink
Hey! Glad you did one too – I like it!
19/06/2008 at 12:53 pm Permalink
Ah, OK – sorry for attacking sore points!
19/06/2008 at 1:00 pm Permalink
Apologies? What for? I’m glad it wasn’t the motorbike too. It being off the road wasn’t an issue until yesterday morning. Bastards.
Laura – glad you liked it.
When do we get to read yours?
19/06/2008 at 4:56 pm Permalink
Anyway, moving away from methods of transport, thanks for the heads-up on this one – I hadn’t heard about it at all. Guess I really should shop in bookshops at some point.
I’ve entered one too, and you can read it tomorrow on d4d™ I’ve added a trackback link to this, so once it’s published you should see the link here too. I’m nice like that.