August Competition (2)

Here is the next writing competition.

Up to 2,000 words as a short story, which contains

1.an argument of any sort.

2. a childhood memory and

3. a phrase (or saying /quotation /word) which is particular to your family.


Or up to 50 lines as a poem,which contains

1.an argument of any sort.

2. a childhood memory and

3. a phrase (or saying /quotation/ word) which is particular to your family.

Deadline midnight GMT on 31st August 2010.
(01.00 am BST on the day immediately following the specified day and all and/or any other time zones pari passu)

Please post your entry on your own blog and add a link to this blog as the first comment and a link of your entry as a comment on this post.

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68 thoughts on “August Competition (2)”

  2. Well it is a tad confusing, Nym.

    Do you mean an argument, a childhood memory AND a phrase have to be particular to our family?

    Or just the phrase?

  11. Here you go, Pseu. Your bookette from the July, I guess it was, competition. Hope you like it:

  13. Thank you, Jaime, that’s very good of you to go to all that bother!
    Looks good in a book. Maybe I should write a few more and get them published?!

  14. Good idea.

    I think it’s fun to make these little online books. Pretty soon we’ll have a little library.

  18. Can I just say congratulations Pseu for winning, well done. I don’t contribute to these, lack of time, sad excuse I know, but well done.

  21. Pseu, good evening and well done on winning. It was a fine story which gripped me right from the start.

    This deadline thing is all a bit tricky. We are not a huge pool of talent, if talent there be at all, but many of us seem to be willing to give it a go, whatever the cut-off point. Ideas will undoubtedly be bubbling away out there and I personally believe that you will have a fair sufficiency of entries to choose from come the 28th.

    Except, why not make it the 31st, so that the next winner can choose the end of a month or the 15th of said month? Some times of the year will and should require a month’s notice, in my opinion, but nothing wrong with being given half a month either.

    Again, only my opinion. And I am working on my entry, honest!

  22. Smiles.

    I shall add the days on to make it the 31st as that is a wise and sensible thought, young man.

  31. Hi Pseu. It looks good…well done for your winning entry btw. Up to your usual standards…
    I don’t think I can allow myself this month, either here or there. Shame because it looks really good.

  34. Thanks for your encouragement Pseu. It takes me a year and a day to write anything, and I’ve got loads of stuff to do before I start work next week, so I might have to give this one a miss…thanks though 🙂

  43. OK, now I have contributions from Janus, Isobel, OZ and theroyalist.

    I make that four. Who have I missed?

  47. Nym, it’s hardly worth having a fight out with four, is it? Maybe it’s best to postpone the deadline until the hols are over – or people’s Muses re-appear?

  52. Thank you Ara.

    I hope to print off the entries and take them with me to the Wirral tomorrow night, to carefully consider and judge. So I’m not reading any until then.

  53. Oh God! She’s going to the Wirral. We’re doomed, I tell you (Scottish accent)! Doomed!!

    OZ

  55. Pseu, Enjoy the Wirral and ignore OZ. You’re probably not that much doomed at all, at all, in my authentic Jock opinion.

    Sorry that you won’t have my entry to sustain you. Just could not get it to work. But, for your information, my unique family saying was ‘White horse, first luck. Spit and say bitch!’ It’s a long story which I never quite managed to set down. Un bel dia!

  56. TSK,OZ. Tsk, tsk.

    Very intriguing, JM. Shame it didn’t work out.

    Claire, I’m going up there for an event in memory of my father-in-law: may expand more when I’m back. I will return on Friday, I think. Shame no entry from you, but I know you are very busy.

  57. Mr Mackie, Sir – With all due respect, you are from Embra as you keep telling us (interminably) 🙂 whereas I am a Scouse wolf from Liverpool. She is doomed, I’ll tell ye, and you can stitch THAT!.

    And when you regain consciousness, thanked the crowd around you and subsequently sampled the hospital food, get yourself sorted and give us the story of ‘White horse, first luck. Spit and say bitch!’ and no more faffing around.

    Two hours and counting…. tic tok….tic tok….

    OZ

  59. Right-o, I’m off to work this morning, then will print these off before the journey this afternoon, up the joyous route of M42, M6 etc to sunny Wirral,with my boys, armed with garden equipment, a small toolkit and posh clothes for Friday…I sahll enjoy the entries as my bedtime reading!

    So owning to circumstances I shall not be posting results until Friday evening at the earliest.

  61. You never know what you may be asked to fix! I’m as handy with a drill as I am with the garden loppers. 🙂

  62. Update: Wirral trip completed, but I returned later than I thought after the ceremony today and a hold up on the M40. Decision made about the results, but too cream crackered to write it up tonight. So sorry, but will attend to tomorrow.
    🙂

  65. 🙂

    Wired and tired… but not in a fit state to write up a coherent reflection of the entrants and judging.
    Thanks for your understanding.

  68. The suspense is killing Backside but he’s been learning patience by watching the Scottish war blog.

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