Halfway point! By now some of you may well be feeling despair at ever getting it done. I hear you: I too have felt this pain, and it’s why I switched to running a competition rather than entering one. (Although this year’s issues have called that choice into question as well …) Persist! Courage! You’ll …
Nine hours in …
(or at least it was when I started typing this post.) So, competition update. We’re nine hours in, and I have the first two entries already. That’s seriously impressive. All the more so because the form manager I was using for people to upload their entries to has decided that now is a good time …
It begins …
The 24-Hour Poem competition is now underway. Some good challenges, but nothing insurmountable, I think. Although I had to reassure a few people that one of the words was in fact the word written and not a much more common word that differs by one letter. (Note to self: don’t put the tricksy words first …
Don’t Panic!
Just a quick post to reassure those of you who have been emailing me to say you can’t access the competition page. The page has been taken offline so I can enter the ten words there and set everything to post automatically at midnight. It will reappear again as soon as the competition starts. (Incidentally, …
You took the words right out of my … um, book
Here we are, a mere twenty-four hours away from the competition kicking off for the second time. I’ve had the list of words ready to go for a wee while now, but have had all sorts of weird dreams about people trying various nefarious methods of sneaking an advance look – remember how last year …
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