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Category Archives: 30/30/30 Challenge Updates

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Competition Entry Unveiled – Always Fixed on You

July 18, 2012by ordinarylifelessordinary 11 Comments

The following poem was written for a horror poetry competition I entered as part of my recent 30 day writing challenge.  Honestly I don’t even know if it counts as […]

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WINNING ~

July 2, 2012by ordinarylifelessordinary 6 Comments

  Is it crossing the line, in record time breaking the tape with arms outstretched in victorious salute or the journey to the end the hours stood on side lines […]

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Competition Entry Unveiled… From the top of The Shard

July 1, 2012by ordinarylifelessordinary 11 Comments

The following poem was submitted for The Frogmore Press Poetry Prize 2012, the results of which were announced earlier today. I took inspiration from the picture below which was taken […]

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Writing for competitions

June 5, 2012by ordinarylifelessordinary 4 Comments

My recently completed writing challenge to create 30 pieces of writing over 30 days for entry into 30 writing competitions has taught me many things, but as the deadlines pass […]

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A Hard Time To Cut The Cloth – competition entry

June 5, 2012by ordinarylifelessordinary 32 Comments

                      A HARD TIME TO CUT THE CLOTH Cutting cloth, but not enough Watch the pay freeze, Childhood squeezed Morsels […]

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The Journey – Orange Prize/Grazia First Chapter Competition Entry

May 21, 2012by ordinarylifelessordinary 9 Comments

The following is a recent competition entry submitted for the Orange/Grazia Magazine First Chapter Writing Competition which closed earlier this month.  The first paragraph of the story (shown here in bold itallics) […]

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Excerpt from The Blackest of Nights…

May 16, 2012by ordinarylifelessordinary 5 Comments

The following is a short excerpt from another of my 30/30/30 writing challenge competition entries for those who might be curious…. ‘The Blackest of Nights’ Too often my nights are […]

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30/30/30 competition entry unveiled…

May 14, 2012by ordinarylifelessordinary 16 Comments

This piece is one of my 30/30/30 writing challenge competition entries.I submitted it for the Daphne Du Maurier Festival Short Story Writing Competition. The theme was ‘Rendezvous’ and was open […]

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Day Thirty!!

April 17, 2012by ordinarylifelessordinary 5 Comments

So here we are, today is the day of my swan song! This is the bit where I ride off as the sun sets on my challenge (astride a white […]

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Day Twenty Nine

April 16, 2012by ordinarylifelessordinary 2 Comments

Yesterday ended up being my second crime writing day since my writing challenge began! Not sure why I opted for another crime writing competition, but if I were to hazard […]

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