Challenge
BTA/Anglo Platinum Short Story Competition 2008
Ok so the due date is actually 30 June but if we make our deadline earlier, it gives us a month after that to iron out the bumps, take each other’s comments into account, get our asses down to the post-office and so on…
Please refer to Dusty's Blog for all competition rules and details.
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okay.
I think everyone's seen this now...
Well, I'm fuckin' in.
In. Like those sardines. No, that's a kak example.
In like my nuts were inside my body on my first serious surfing outing.
Small wetsuits.
In.
Ah ha
Ramona. *Cackle*
Silly boy.
As for 4500 words. I just bust my balls writing two articles for work; one was 2000, the other 1,700. And I'm wrote out. Kaput. Done. No more writing for a bit. Eina.
Ja Dolce
Noticed you were AWOL today. Thought you'd taken a bit of extra time at the farm or summat.
Ob.vee.us.ly.not.
Ja Dusts
balls to the wall. Not. Comfortable.
But yay. I can multitask at home now. and the internet is so slothlike, I can make dinner between comments.
Eish.
I must be addicted.
Have you got the post-closing night blues?
YAY! Dolce can BUI!
albeit s-l-o-w-l-y.
More like post-closing-night-relief. Can reply to three-week old emails which say things like: "Can I drop stuff off at your house tomorrow?"
BUI
Just a pity I had no "i" in the house with which to blog under....
sheesh....so loooong
no topic :(
too difficult.
and....I'll bet it has to harp on multi-cultural shit...crossing
the colour boundary and all of that...or be steeped in poverty and township violence...be painted shades of ocre and stinkwood...and be proudly (tragically) South African...right?
*yawn*
Yup Arb
got it in one!
So, is yours going to be about the domestic worker who was abused with a spatula?
emjay
You mean 'letters' don't you? Sure you do. Between 4500 and 5000 letters.
No problemo. Phew.
nope dex
words...
i must say i did think about you when i saw the count!
you can do it big boy, i know you can...
Words
I have just 'done' at a book for the firm, 60 pages (A5 size) 19,998 words of medical writing and it took about four months to write in collaboration with a couple of others. Ten hours to spell-check and remove all those silly extra spaces that have crept in when I was not looking. It is away at the compositors now so all I have to do is the indexes and spell check again and it can go to the printers.
So no more writing for me for a while.
Of course Dex
and it includes spaces and punctuation.
Not to worry, you and a few others here will nail it.
Good luck to all your guys.
Ha ha ha. Rather you than me
5000 words
Holy carumba, that's a lot of words.
'strue Franks
About the same length as mj's 'Third Door'. What's the longest piece you've written before?
Dusty
I have gotten half way through a novel which is about 20 000 words, but the longer it got the shittier it got. I've done that a few times I'm afraid.
Jislaaik Franks
What makes you lose momentum? Interruptions? 20 000 is a hell of a lot of words to 'waste'
admindude
please put this in pride of place for a day or two?
*smooch*