Those of you who have been following my sad entries in writing competitions (yes, both of you) may be startled to hear of an apparent form reversal in the most recent Fiction War event.
The final 15 were selected and somehow (conceivably via a clerical error) my name found its way onto the list.
Go figure.
Richmond Road 
wow way to go!
Congrats old man persistent effort pays off 🙂
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I was not all that enamoured with the story, to be honest. But hell …. I’ll take it!
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lol that happens to me too, the ones I put together in a rsh seem better received than the ones I sweat over 🙂
Hope we’ll still talk when you’re published and famous?
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Talking at that point may be problematic. The very best I could hope for would be something posthumous.
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lol planning on going somewhere soon?
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Um …. to Scotland, as it happens. Tomorrow. But there is a reasonable chance that I will return. Your inheritance will have to wait.
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damn, do an reel for me 🙂
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An reel???
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a scottish reel, I grew up doing Lancers and reels ….
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Ah …. well …. no … I doubt that the back is up to the task.
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less bonking and more dancing ….
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Good for you dear sir, well done and congrats…
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Thanks Michael
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Well done, and well deserved. 🙂 xx
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CongratZ! You lose some, you win some.
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Alas, it is not quite that balanced.
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Oh My God!! Congratulation 💐🙂 so happy and proud of you 😊
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That is so very kind of you to say. But it is only a tiny bump along my path of consistent failures.
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It’s allright you are getting there. I don’t even treat the word failure as a failure anymore. It’s just an empty set of alphabets without meaning.
You won here. 🙂
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Ha ha! Yes, indeed. This blog started out, in fact, as a celebration of failure. There is something quite beautiful, don’t you think, about failing again and again but still coming back for more? It is not about resilience or pride. It’s about being happy in your own skin.
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Most of us started blogging in state of absolute despair and ended up celebrating it.
It is. If you are coming back after a failure you are new and improved version of yourself. And people here are not bullies like real world so we don’t get ashamed of coming back. I am totally opposite person to the rest of the world because they dont allow creativity. It’s generally frawned upon.
Yes. It seems so. We have to embrace life as an ongoing journey. Or we will be very disappointed.
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I knew it! Congrats!
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Congratulations, good Sir! If failure is your thing, just consider things from this angle; what an ultimate failure, when you even fail to fail! 😉 xx
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I had not really thought that far into it. There is no elegance in trying to fail. …. one must do it as a purely natural thing (artistically, in other words) so if I have failed to fail the implication is that I have deliberately tried to fail and fallen short of that goal …. which is just pathetic. So I see this one off event as being just a slight blemish in an otherwise perfect record.
So it won’t happen again …. certainly not deliberately, anyway.
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Hello! Long time no see! I am challenging you to a Finish the Story part three from The Haunted Wordsmith. You can find the first two parts here: https://rugby843.blog under the title: The Haunted Wordsmith FTS. Dated today, 10-16-18. I hope you will participate.
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Of course …. but how long do I have?
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And now I’m having trouble finding it
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And are there any rules?
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