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A Novel Approach

So after much prevarication, years of wondering if I’m good enough, several writing courses, dozens of different writers groups and much encouragement from a few well informed friends, I finally started pushing ahead with one of my books in earnest about a month ago. Note – I don’t like calling it ‘Novel Writing’ even though […]

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ABC Prose Pentathalon – 6th Place Final Result

6th Place Finish Overall My final entry – Number  21 – “What Women Really Don’t Want” – which you can read here garnered 1 gold and a few silver and bronze nominations but not enough to shoot me up the table.  However I am pleased with the final result and can take pride in knowing that […]

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ABC Heat 4 Results

The end is in sight.  The Heat 4 Results have just been published and you can view them here. The overall medals table you can view here and as you’ll notice…I’m still in 4th place overall.  My Heat 4 story came in 6th place which I am pleased with although I admit I think I could have […]

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ABC Heat 3 Results

Heat 3 Results are in.  I placed 7th out of 28 in this round which means I’m up 2 places overall from last week and lying 4th out of the original 34 entrants overall.  I would gloat, but that’s not very modest and I don’t want to come off looking like a pretentious…person.  In any […]

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ABC Heat 2 Results

So the Heat 2 round of voting is over and the results are live.  Sex sells it seems as my entry this week scored much higher then last week placing 4th out of 30. Not too shabby. You can read all the entries here and see the full results for the heat here. Overall I’m currently placing 6th in the table […]

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