Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#1
This competition is open to all ages, in several classes. Why not give it a try?
[Prizes to be announced.]
"Writing a novel is a challenge. More specifically, it is something like an 80,000-word challenge.
But what if you've got an idea for a story that is a little bit shorter?
Kent County Council is launching a competition, running in May, for very short stories. In fact very, very short stories.
Anyone can enter - and the only restriction is that your story should be no longer than 100 words.
And if 100 words sounds a bit too brief, that's part of the fun..."
From...
http://www.yourdover.co.uk/news/competition_write_a_novel_in_just_100_words_1_2167795
The competition page...
http://kent.gov.uk/leisure_and_culture/reading_and_literacy/100_words_competition.aspxIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#2
Here is a little encouragement, if encouragement is needed...
"Three Rings.
As regular as clockwork he would enter the telephone box, deposit his coins and dial, and with the receiver to his ear would wait; then replace the receiver, collect his coins and walk up the hill to home.
They lay together lips to lips and skin to skin draining the final moments as the phone in the hall rang and with the return of silence broke their embrace, rose and dressed.
He put the coins in his pocket, felt the pistol and fingered the rough-sawn cut of his wedding band and walked across the road to home.
[99 words, by 'my' count.]
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#3
I'll copy and paste one of Charlie's house-door letters, stopping at 100 words.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#4
don't forget to add this alex, charlie and his cohorts were in north deal today, as if those poor people had not suffered enough.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#5
Is that the Star Trek Enterprise in the sky above?
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#6
#2, Tom you are a wordsmith
par excellence. Would that you could exercise the restraint to limit all your posts to 100 words.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#7
What's that Peter, you want yet more posts from me?
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#8
Yes, keep them coming. But my attention span ain't what it was.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Brian Dixon
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#9
comes with old age peter.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#10
No Brian, it comes with reading too many of Tom's posts.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#11
the thing i like about tom's posts is that it saves me a trip to the library to borrow a russian novel.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#12
Well...Peter is, in all probability, 'suffering' from some pre-holiday euphoria.
[Something that from now on we may call, "A touch of the Abu Dhabis"]
Ah yes, Howard...when Pushkin comes to Sholokhov, eh?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_language_writersIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#13
Not
my words, not all my ideas, but with a metaphorical tear in my eye, 60 things about turning 60...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/apr/29/sixty-things-learned-turning-60Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#14
Congratulations go to one Dover resident for getting on the short-list of the adult category...
"
Pat Buddle from Dover
Title: Saying Goodbye
Ada sat down heavily onto her old, well-worn settee. With her shaking teacup spilling a little on the threadbare carpet, she dipped her half eaten toast into her cold tea.
Today was her last chance to say goodbye to Kitty, her devoted marmalade cat. Kitty nudged Ada to ask for the crust of her toast.
Tears welled up in Ada's eyes and made their journey down her age-lined face dropping into her now, empty cup. Suddenly, she stood up, hearing footsteps at her front porch. "There you are Kitty, mum's ready for her new home.""
http://www.kent.gov.uk/leisure_and_culture/reading_and_literacy/100_words_competition.aspxIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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#15
Wow, what a corker!
Lovely stuff, Pat Buddle.
