I am still sitting here trying to write the best I can for the University of Hertfordshire 3,500 word Story Competition. I have been working on this since late November and I have used up nearly a whole notebook with plans and story variations. The hardest thing I am having to deal with is the word count. Every time I get into Word I am nowhere near finished the story when it peaks about 3,000. But I am enjoying the challenge. I am used to writing novel length pieces or articles for the local press I am involved with… this is something I am having to learn to do- condense everything into 3,500 words and make it every bit as powerful as I would something that was six or seven times that. Anyway, the theme is VISION. They just gave you that to work on so its up to you what definition of Vision you choose to go with and work upon.

1st prize £1,000 2nd prize £500 3rd prize £300 4th prize £200

£1,000 £500 £300 £200 The winner will also be able to apply for the UH Writing Award three-year scholarship to the University of Hertfordshire, study commencing in 2007. You can go visit the competition page here. It is a brilliant opportunity- that being the scholarship. It would be my dream to bag that. I doubt I will but I am going to have a bloody good pop. Deadline is 15th January so I better get cracking. I’ll publish what I have wrote soon.

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I am still sitting here trying to write the best I can for the University of Hertfordshire 3,500 word Story Competition. I have been working on this since late November and I have used up nearly a whole notebook with plans and story variations. The hardest thing I am having to deal with is the word count. Every time I get into Word I am nowhere near finished the story when it peaks about 3,000. But I am enjoying the challenge. I am used to writing novel length pieces or articles for the local press I am involved with… this is something I am having to learn to do- condense everything into 3,500 words and make it every bit as powerful as I would something that was six or seven times that. Anyway, the theme is VISION. They just gave you that to work on so its up to you what definition of Vision you choose to go with and work upon.

1st prize £1,000 2nd prize £500 3rd prize £300 4th prize £200

The winner will also be able to apply for the UH Writing Award three-year scholarship to the University of Hertfordshire, study commencing in 2007.    

This entry was posted on Friday, December 29th, 2006 at 1:04 am and is filed under Writing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.