July Blast Totals
I'm away today for a week
but here are the totals so far
154,667 Words
142 Pieces Written
130 Subs
046 Rejects
014 Hits
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Approaching 150,000 Words
For me this has been a disappointing Blast and my personal input terrible. (I blame the weather, I hate working in this heat)
But the gang are doing OK and should pass 150,000 words today
Here are the latest figures (always slightly under)
144,940 Words
136 Pieces
116 Subs
038 Rejects
013 Hits
100 Sets of Prompts
and today's morning prompts are
Old, Fat, Ginger Bastard
One Example of Cowardice
What We Believe
Ginny 4 Harry in the Next Tent
Nightfall
When Your Best Friend Describes Your Coming Break-Up
The Slag Heaps Are Always Blacker in the Next Valley
Toffee
Taking the Box With You
The Yellow Coffin
But the gang are doing OK and should pass 150,000 words today
Here are the latest figures (always slightly under)
144,940 Words
136 Pieces
116 Subs
038 Rejects
013 Hits
100 Sets of Prompts
and today's morning prompts are
Old, Fat, Ginger Bastard
One Example of Cowardice
What We Believe
Ginny 4 Harry in the Next Tent
Nightfall
When Your Best Friend Describes Your Coming Break-Up
The Slag Heaps Are Always Blacker in the Next Valley
Toffee
Taking the Box With You
The Yellow Coffin
Saturday, July 22, 2006
July Blast Story in PRINT!
Don't ever tell me Blasts don't work.
Scottish Print Mag Transmission" has taken one from Boot Camper TomC
Figures now
126,472 words
109 Subs
122 Items
036 Rejections
011 Hits
our 130th Hit of the year
Scottish Print Mag Transmission" has taken one from Boot Camper TomC
Figures now
126,472 words
109 Subs
122 Items
036 Rejections
011 Hits
our 130th Hit of the year
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Blast Latest
July Blast Continues and the 200 stories, 200,000 words target is still reachable (just)
107 Subs
029 Rejects
010 Hits
114 Items Written (100 Flashes)
114,992 Words
Thursday's Early-Morning Prompts
Teddy Bears' Picnic
A False Hope is Better Than None (courtesy of Bridie)
Does a Bear Shit in the Woods?
How Much Wood Would a Wood-Chopper Chop, If a WoodChopper Would Chop Wood?
She Sells Sea-Shells
Hand-in-Hand Around the Bunkers
At Least Eva Loves Me
Blankes
Beneath the Table-Top
Voulez-Vous Promenade Avec Moi?
Influenza and Other Jollifications
Dying With STYLE
Beetles, Earwigs
The Contradictions of Love and Hope
107 Subs
029 Rejects
010 Hits
114 Items Written (100 Flashes)
114,992 Words
Thursday's Early-Morning Prompts
Teddy Bears' Picnic
A False Hope is Better Than None (courtesy of Bridie)
Does a Bear Shit in the Woods?
How Much Wood Would a Wood-Chopper Chop, If a WoodChopper Would Chop Wood?
She Sells Sea-Shells
Hand-in-Hand Around the Bunkers
At Least Eva Loves Me
Blankes
Beneath the Table-Top
Voulez-Vous Promenade Avec Moi?
Influenza and Other Jollifications
Dying With STYLE
Beetles, Earwigs
The Contradictions of Love and Hope
Saturday, July 15, 2006
Closing in on a Hundred Stories
Now on 87 pieces, hoping to break 100 by the end of the weekend, but the 200 target for the month seems a long way off right now and won't be achieved unless we get a burst of energy from the whole of the group.
It doesn't help that normally I would be on 20-something pieces by now and am on a struggling six.
But that's six more than it would have been without the blast, so we keep trying.
Here are the last two sets of prompts
The Effect of a Particular Rainfall
In a China Shop
Where I Have been, My Troubles Lord
Six Inches of Innocent Flesh
Moon Olympian
Hugh Rynal Toilet Inventor
Over the Cliff, Gently
A Handful of Rose Petals, Not As Many As We Thought
The First Time, No Cliches
More Than One Brown
The Sudden Death of the East Grinstead Writing Group
Hill Street Blues
School Drama, Semi-Professional
Are You Ready For This?
Mixed Nuts, Fruit, Some of it Fresh
Amazing Grace Rap
Romance by Bagpipe
501
Egg & Spoon Race at the Drug Rehab
Sometimes I Think My Dad Doesn't Like Me
Three Weeks Late
The Last Thing in the World
Notice Board Roulette
Conference at the Water-Cooler
Bucket, Spade, Bucket & Spade
It doesn't help that normally I would be on 20-something pieces by now and am on a struggling six.
But that's six more than it would have been without the blast, so we keep trying.
Here are the last two sets of prompts
The Effect of a Particular Rainfall
In a China Shop
Where I Have been, My Troubles Lord
Six Inches of Innocent Flesh
Moon Olympian
Hugh Rynal Toilet Inventor
Over the Cliff, Gently
A Handful of Rose Petals, Not As Many As We Thought
The First Time, No Cliches
More Than One Brown
The Sudden Death of the East Grinstead Writing Group
Hill Street Blues
School Drama, Semi-Professional
Are You Ready For This?
Mixed Nuts, Fruit, Some of it Fresh
Amazing Grace Rap
Romance by Bagpipe
501
Egg & Spoon Race at the Drug Rehab
Sometimes I Think My Dad Doesn't Like Me
Three Weeks Late
The Last Thing in the World
Notice Board Roulette
Conference at the Water-Cooler
Bucket, Spade, Bucket & Spade
Friday, July 14, 2006
Update
The two latest prizes for BCers takes the 2006 Prize earnings to $4,950.
The July Blast Figures are now
009 Stories
080 Flashes
082 Subs
015 Rejects
010 Hits
and over 80,000 words (but watch this space)
The July Blast Figures are now
009 Stories
080 Flashes
082 Subs
015 Rejects
010 Hits
and over 80,000 words (but watch this space)
Another BC First Place
"Nightwriter" has just been informed she has a first place in a very decent poetry comp
Will announce here when Comp results formally announced.
That's a first and a second in one day, our 129th hit of the year
13 First Places
07 Second Places
05 Third Places
23 4ths/Finals/HR etc
48 TOTAL
Will announce here when Comp results formally announced.
That's a first and a second in one day, our 129th hit of the year
13 First Places
07 Second Places
05 Third Places
23 4ths/Finals/HR etc
48 TOTAL
Another BC Prize
Colin U announces $50 Second Place in a Flash comp, our 128th Hit of the year.
Meanwhile the Blast Continues with six writers screaming ahead, a few more doing well coming out of droughts (but too many, me included) still playing at it
We now (at the half-way point) have more than 80 stories, 80 subs, 14 rejects, 9 hits, and 80,000 words.
Today I set the target for the full blast
200 Stories/Flashes/Poems
200 Subs
200,000 words
Meanwhile the Blast Continues with six writers screaming ahead, a few more doing well coming out of droughts (but too many, me included) still playing at it
We now (at the half-way point) have more than 80 stories, 80 subs, 14 rejects, 9 hits, and 80,000 words.
Today I set the target for the full blast
200 Stories/Flashes/Poems
200 Subs
200,000 words
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Boot Camp Bubbling
New Members, lot's of activity, subs, hits, flashes galore!
Everyone seems to be doing well except yours truly.
Now 71 Flashes (plus the stories noted yesterday) so we are well on the way to 100 pieces and 100,000 words (and now 73 subs)
This Morning's Prompts
Wheat, the colour of lions, for miles
A Quiet Place, Holcomb
Greece & Rome
Behind With His Assignments
Cherry
Snowing Down South, Mrs
Three Girls Climbing the Stile
Chicken or Cheese?
Jumping off the Wall
Everyone seems to be doing well except yours truly.
Now 71 Flashes (plus the stories noted yesterday) so we are well on the way to 100 pieces and 100,000 words (and now 73 subs)
This Morning's Prompts
Wheat, the colour of lions, for miles
A Quiet Place, Holcomb
Greece & Rome
Behind With His Assignments
Cherry
Snowing Down South, Mrs
Three Girls Climbing the Stile
Chicken or Cheese?
Jumping off the Wall
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Latest Blast Stats
008 Stories
057 Flashes
003 Poems
276 Critiques
073 Submissions
009 Rejects
007 Hits
004 Writers Breaking Droughts
68,000 words
057 Flashes
003 Poems
276 Critiques
073 Submissions
009 Rejects
007 Hits
004 Writers Breaking Droughts
68,000 words
Live Blast Success!
No notice, prompts at 22:02 and stories by 23:15, but we got eight stories written, seven submitted to the group, 37 critiques, and here is the interesting bit, an average mark of 99 up 9 on the typical batch of flashes.
There is something about pressure, energy, team-spirit, the buzz that liberates writers!!
Especially pleasing was to see three stories from writers suffering a drought.
Same again tonight, but we will go for 7, 9 and 11 PM
Alex
There is something about pressure, energy, team-spirit, the buzz that liberates writers!!
Especially pleasing was to see three stories from writers suffering a drought.
Same again tonight, but we will go for 7, 9 and 11 PM
Alex
Monday, July 10, 2006
Live Blast at 10PM Tonight
Join us at BC about 21:55 for prompts and a live flash session (75 minutes MAXIMUM) to write your story.
Meanwhile two more BC Hits. Boot Camper Tom has a story going on BBC Radio Rutland and Boot Camper Cally was shortlisted in the Writelink Weekender Challenge. Hit 126 and 127 of the year.
my email (alex.keegan) has now changed and is @btinternet.com
alex
Meanwhile two more BC Hits. Boot Camper Tom has a story going on BBC Radio Rutland and Boot Camper Cally was shortlisted in the Writelink Weekender Challenge. Hit 126 and 127 of the year.
my email (alex.keegan) has now changed and is @btinternet.com
alex
Is This Good?
Answer NO.
The July Blast Continues. We have ten particpating seriously
057 Pieces (Stories, Flashes, the odd poem)
069 Submissions
008 Rejects
005 Hits
and a little over 50,000 words.
Good? Bad?
Well, ten writers, ten days, 50,000 words? 500 a day?
500 a day is what we should be writing ROUTINELY. A blast should mean we are doing twice that, three times that.
And what of thos members not active in the blast, what of spectators? What of casual readers of this blog? What are YOU writing?
At writing conferences I often run a survey of actual writing done in the last ten days. The average reported (and it is probably INFLATED) is 147 words per day.
2-3 months ago, after a brilliant first quarter, Boot Camp went into a partial slump. People weren't working, writing new material, subbing. Of course it didn't notice for quite a while as the hits were still coming so people felt good.
But the pain comes 6 weeks later, 8 weeks later, three months later, when the pipes run dry, when all those stories you didn't write, aren't out there...
Look at this, and this is a highly motivated group:
HITS
032 Jan
022 Feb
017 Mar
026 Apr
017 May
005 Jun
005 Jul
So we will need this July Blast, a big push in August, a hard-working September, another blst in October, a November blitz and a subs push in December.
It doesn't end. You have to do the work, and then work some more.
And the best bit is, with quanitty comes higher quality.
Prompts on Monday
Lunch With Johnny Depp
What Box Office Means
Zidanne and Madness
Where Did Honour Go? Is it Dead?
Second is Nowhere
Why Does Dingo Sound Dirty?
How Blue the Sea, How Blue
Sad, Middle-Aged, But Has a Blog
Cheese and Heaven
Coyotes Interrupt Us
Omelette, Omelette, Omelette
Granddad, Punks, Mods & Rockers
Miners
The July Blast Continues. We have ten particpating seriously
057 Pieces (Stories, Flashes, the odd poem)
069 Submissions
008 Rejects
005 Hits
and a little over 50,000 words.
Good? Bad?
Well, ten writers, ten days, 50,000 words? 500 a day?
500 a day is what we should be writing ROUTINELY. A blast should mean we are doing twice that, three times that.
And what of thos members not active in the blast, what of spectators? What of casual readers of this blog? What are YOU writing?
At writing conferences I often run a survey of actual writing done in the last ten days. The average reported (and it is probably INFLATED) is 147 words per day.
2-3 months ago, after a brilliant first quarter, Boot Camp went into a partial slump. People weren't working, writing new material, subbing. Of course it didn't notice for quite a while as the hits were still coming so people felt good.
But the pain comes 6 weeks later, 8 weeks later, three months later, when the pipes run dry, when all those stories you didn't write, aren't out there...
Look at this, and this is a highly motivated group:
HITS
032 Jan
022 Feb
017 Mar
026 Apr
017 May
005 Jun
005 Jul
So we will need this July Blast, a big push in August, a hard-working September, another blst in October, a November blitz and a subs push in December.
It doesn't end. You have to do the work, and then work some more.
And the best bit is, with quanitty comes higher quality.
Prompts on Monday
Lunch With Johnny Depp
What Box Office Means
Zidanne and Madness
Where Did Honour Go? Is it Dead?
Second is Nowhere
Why Does Dingo Sound Dirty?
How Blue the Sea, How Blue
Sad, Middle-Aged, But Has a Blog
Cheese and Heaven
Coyotes Interrupt Us
Omelette, Omelette, Omelette
Granddad, Punks, Mods & Rockers
Miners
Sunday, July 09, 2006
More Good News in Competition
Britbird made the shortlist for Pier Pressure and will be published soon, and we've just heard a Boot Camper is one of the top three in a nice comp with good prizes. Result TBA shortly.
That takes us to 46 prizes/places for the year, 125 hits
alx
That takes us to 46 prizes/places for the year, 125 hits
alx
Saturday, July 08, 2006
Paying the Price
Hits-Wise we are now suffering the quiet patch 3-2 months ago, but activity is back up (for everyone but me!)
We should wite our 50th story of the month today, and get past 50 subs for the month this weekend.
The moral is: Consistent work, writing every day, 7 days a week, month upon month, and getting the stuff out there will double your hits and prizes. Fallow writing periods eventually means slow subbing which leads to a time of no hits.
Too many people live off the work of 2-3-4-5-6 months ago, and, because the hits are coming in now, forget they are not working today for hits today, but for the next six months, and, more crucially, to improve themselves as writers.
Just like fitness training, it takes three times as long to GET fit as it does to lose it.
PROMPTS
64%
Dof Eat Dog
Almost 50% od Married People Are Women
How it Coagulates
The Bad Lovers Handbook
The One Per Cent
Smiles On My Van, Can
When They Try
Talk to Silver Escorts and the Sky
From the hill there was a snaking tenement
Jones Eighteen-Months
If I Had a Soul
Bullshit Blog
Sepia
We should wite our 50th story of the month today, and get past 50 subs for the month this weekend.
The moral is: Consistent work, writing every day, 7 days a week, month upon month, and getting the stuff out there will double your hits and prizes. Fallow writing periods eventually means slow subbing which leads to a time of no hits.
Too many people live off the work of 2-3-4-5-6 months ago, and, because the hits are coming in now, forget they are not working today for hits today, but for the next six months, and, more crucially, to improve themselves as writers.
Just like fitness training, it takes three times as long to GET fit as it does to lose it.
PROMPTS
64%
Dof Eat Dog
Almost 50% od Married People Are Women
How it Coagulates
The Bad Lovers Handbook
The One Per Cent
Smiles On My Van, Can
When They Try
Talk to Silver Escorts and the Sky
From the hill there was a snaking tenement
Jones Eighteen-Months
If I Had a Soul
Bullshit Blog
Sepia
Friday, July 07, 2006
and even more
42 Stories so far this month...
PROMPTS
Well It's a Shower, I guess
Falling Asleep at the Computer
A Wild Justice
Marshmallow
£50 Voucher, Hot Summer Night
The Highest Wall in the World
Coral, Everest
Miss, Miss, MISS! Ah, fergerrit...
The Trouble With Little Johnny Smith
An Apple a Day
PROMPTS
Well It's a Shower, I guess
Falling Asleep at the Computer
A Wild Justice
Marshmallow
£50 Voucher, Hot Summer Night
The Highest Wall in the World
Coral, Everest
Miss, Miss, MISS! Ah, fergerrit...
The Trouble With Little Johnny Smith
An Apple a Day
Thursday, July 06, 2006
and more
PROMPTS
Hilary is Giving a Speech
I Need My Toons Or I Lose My Mind
Cold Coffee, and Bitter
Shakespeare's iPod
Mitt
Flowers on a Shelf
The Brains Behind the Administration
It's a Fine Art
The Race Card
Gang Kid, Dead, Gang Kid, Dead.
55
Spot a Penny, Pick it Up.
Three Arms, Four Humps, Chocolate
Hilary is Giving a Speech
I Need My Toons Or I Lose My Mind
Cold Coffee, and Bitter
Shakespeare's iPod
Mitt
Flowers on a Shelf
The Brains Behind the Administration
It's a Fine Art
The Race Card
Gang Kid, Dead, Gang Kid, Dead.
55
Spot a Penny, Pick it Up.
Three Arms, Four Humps, Chocolate
July Blast Stats So Far
27,553 words
34 Pieces
53 Subs
05 Rejects
03 Hits
PROMPTS
Where Are You, Mr. Johnson?
Non-Required Reading
Tomatoes, Flamingos, Lemmings and Other Interesting Facts
Jack and the Buns
Sewer Warrior
A Small Bone in the Wrist
Puerto Something, Lots of Foreign People
C Ronaldo, I Know What the C Stands For
Recipes For Hamsters
Trying to Remember the Scottish Football Team
Pilates of the Carribean
Jim Gym
34 Pieces
53 Subs
05 Rejects
03 Hits
PROMPTS
Where Are You, Mr. Johnson?
Non-Required Reading
Tomatoes, Flamingos, Lemmings and Other Interesting Facts
Jack and the Buns
Sewer Warrior
A Small Bone in the Wrist
Puerto Something, Lots of Foreign People
C Ronaldo, I Know What the C Stands For
Recipes For Hamsters
Trying to Remember the Scottish Football Team
Pilates of the Carribean
Jim Gym
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Small Hit, Work Continues
Two Storis and 33 Flashes already in the blast, and we've past 35 submissions (3 Hits)
Latest a little one at Green Muse for Colin, our 123rd of the Year
PROMPTS
Thunderstorms
Tuna & Pasta Salad
Thank-You For Thinking of Me
Chanel
Early Morning Phone Call
Heart More Than Stone
Drowning, Drowning
Revolutionary Road
Under the Pitons
The Last Two Minutes
Fewminsim Was Started By Stupid damn Women
Latest a little one at Green Muse for Colin, our 123rd of the Year
PROMPTS
Thunderstorms
Tuna & Pasta Salad
Thank-You For Thinking of Me
Chanel
Early Morning Phone Call
Heart More Than Stone
Drowning, Drowning
Revolutionary Road
Under the Pitons
The Last Two Minutes
Fewminsim Was Started By Stupid damn Women
Monday, July 03, 2006
One More Hit, Prompts
Congrats to Dave Prescott for an acceptance at Word Riot.
The July Blast continues apace with the 24th piece now in and the membership past 20,000 words already
Here are the latest prompts
Google 67 KL8, Follow links
Phone Call, No, It's For You.
GPS Report: You Are Where You Are (More or Less)
How to Handle a Dray
A Tale of Two Cities
The Decline and Fall of the Romany Empire
What's Six Feet High, Stinks, and Sounds Like a Cracked Bell?
Canal, River, Canal
Three Chicks, One Dead Bird
I'll Come Down on Them Like a Grage Door Coming Down on a Bike
The Bells, The Bells
Breathe, Mrs Robinson, Breathe
I Must Be Late
Why Men Don't Have Babies
CHALK!
The July Blast continues apace with the 24th piece now in and the membership past 20,000 words already
Here are the latest prompts
Google 67 KL8, Follow links
Phone Call, No, It's For You.
GPS Report: You Are Where You Are (More or Less)
How to Handle a Dray
A Tale of Two Cities
The Decline and Fall of the Romany Empire
What's Six Feet High, Stinks, and Sounds Like a Cracked Bell?
Canal, River, Canal
Three Chicks, One Dead Bird
I'll Come Down on Them Like a Grage Door Coming Down on a Bike
The Bells, The Bells
Breathe, Mrs Robinson, Breathe
I Must Be Late
Why Men Don't Have Babies
CHALK!
Sunday, July 02, 2006
Well Done BRIDIE!!
Just thought I'd tell the world my little daughter (12)...
Two years ago took 45 minutes for Race For Life
Last year she managed 40 and seconds
This year she broke 32 minutes and it was frighteningly hot.
Well done Bridie (sponsorship gratefully accepted!!!!
Prompts for the July Blast
She had the kind of face would make a bishop kick in a stained-glass window
The skinny boy in dark blue shorts, the one at the end of the row, was my son.
Anne came in from work, dropped her bag, went over to the fridge, pulled out the wine and found a glass.
He knew her - well he knew OF her - for a while before he fucked her.
"Want to Dance?" the midget said.
Harry Potter Was taking a Shit When...
Over the Sand East of Goole, Rose the Red Sun
Thomas (Archer) From Caerphilly 's Agincourt
The Louses of Parliament
Wayne Loves Christiano
Blessings, Blossoms
Found in the Font
Jack in the Beanstalk 2006
What Wayne Knew
Two years ago took 45 minutes for Race For Life
Last year she managed 40 and seconds
This year she broke 32 minutes and it was frighteningly hot.
Well done Bridie (sponsorship gratefully accepted!!!!
Prompts for the July Blast
She had the kind of face would make a bishop kick in a stained-glass window
The skinny boy in dark blue shorts, the one at the end of the row, was my son.
Anne came in from work, dropped her bag, went over to the fridge, pulled out the wine and found a glass.
He knew her - well he knew OF her - for a while before he fucked her.
"Want to Dance?" the midget said.
Harry Potter Was taking a Shit When...
Over the Sand East of Goole, Rose the Red Sun
Thomas (Archer) From Caerphilly 's Agincourt
The Louses of Parliament
Wayne Loves Christiano
Blessings, Blossoms
Found in the Font
Jack in the Beanstalk 2006
What Wayne Knew
Boot Camp Stats Update
The Membership has been dangerously low for a few months (16) but we have had two returnees and 4 newbies in the last two weeks, so things look good. Ideal Membership is around 40 where 20-25 are active any day. Then BC BUZZES!
121 Total Hits for Year
072 Actual Publications to Date
43 PRIZES: Total Winnings $4,700
12 Firsts
06 Seconds
04 Thirds
21 Finals, HRs etc
Total Winnings $4,700
FIRST PLACE
01 Colin $200 First Place in Slingink's Eurofiction
02 Mike Joint-Winner in 7Q FF9
03 Dave Joint-Winner in 7Q FF9
04 Lexie Wins Adult SS of the Year (£300) in "Killie"
05 Cally Wins Dark Tales ($60)
06 BCer wins 7Q FF10
07 Hazera wins Doorknobs & Bodypaint First Place
08 Alex Wins Pencil Bantry $300
09 Lexie Wins Cotswold Prize $1,000
10 Cally wins Bank Street SS Prize $140
11 Alex wins Lichfield Prize $250
12 ColinU wins Cadenza $400
SECOND
01 Lexie $150 Second Place in "Dame Throgmorton"
02 TomC gets $100 second in JBWB
03 BCer 2nd in 7Q FF10
04 Cally Joint second in Writers Dock Comp
05 Lexie $300 second place Philip Good Memorial Prize
06 Cally in Woman's Own (Prize Value estimate $250)
THIRD
01 Lexie in 7Q FF9 Third Place
02 BCer 3rd in 7Q FF10
03 Tom's $25 3rd in Oz
04 Lexie $200 3rd in The New Writer
05 Alex $150 third place Philip Good Memorial Prize
4ths, HRs, NAMED FINALISTs
01 Alex Night Train Yates Comp, Last 12 "Floating"
02 Alex Poem in "Out of Love" Anthology
03 Laurie (Nartje) in "Out of Love" Anthology
04 Lexie, State of Being" HR at HISSAC (only winner is announced)
05 Lexie, second story finalist at HISAAC
06 Colin finalist in HISAAC
07 Colin HR in JBWB
08 Cally in Final of Belvedere
09 Lexie in Fish Anthology ($100)
10 Lexie last 140 of 1800, Fish
11 Haz named in Best of the web shortlist
12 Lexie Final of Writers Forum
13 Alex last 3 in Carve "Overseas Writer"
14 TomC HR'd in Bank Street SS Comp
15 TomC 4th in Twisted Tongue
16 Alex at Philip Good Memorial (second story placed 3rd)
17 Lexie at Philip Good Memorial (second story placed 2nd)
18 Cally HR in Lymm Festival $20
19 Colin Finalist, $40, dinner at Frome
00 Laurie recently left but was also HR'd at Bank Street (not counted)
Lexie also recieved $25 & $10 payments
Winnings in Dollars, £ = $2, Euro = $1
for simplicity of calculation
121 Total Hits for Year
072 Actual Publications to Date
43 PRIZES: Total Winnings $4,700
12 Firsts
06 Seconds
04 Thirds
21 Finals, HRs etc
Total Winnings $4,700
FIRST PLACE
01 Colin $200 First Place in Slingink's Eurofiction
02 Mike Joint-Winner in 7Q FF9
03 Dave Joint-Winner in 7Q FF9
04 Lexie Wins Adult SS of the Year (£300) in "Killie"
05 Cally Wins Dark Tales ($60)
06 BCer wins 7Q FF10
07 Hazera wins Doorknobs & Bodypaint First Place
08 Alex Wins Pencil Bantry $300
09 Lexie Wins Cotswold Prize $1,000
10 Cally wins Bank Street SS Prize $140
11 Alex wins Lichfield Prize $250
12 ColinU wins Cadenza $400
SECOND
01 Lexie $150 Second Place in "Dame Throgmorton"
02 TomC gets $100 second in JBWB
03 BCer 2nd in 7Q FF10
04 Cally Joint second in Writers Dock Comp
05 Lexie $300 second place Philip Good Memorial Prize
06 Cally in Woman's Own (Prize Value estimate $250)
THIRD
01 Lexie in 7Q FF9 Third Place
02 BCer 3rd in 7Q FF10
03 Tom's $25 3rd in Oz
04 Lexie $200 3rd in The New Writer
05 Alex $150 third place Philip Good Memorial Prize
4ths, HRs, NAMED FINALISTs
01 Alex Night Train Yates Comp, Last 12 "Floating"
02 Alex Poem in "Out of Love" Anthology
03 Laurie (Nartje) in "Out of Love" Anthology
04 Lexie, State of Being" HR at HISSAC (only winner is announced)
05 Lexie, second story finalist at HISAAC
06 Colin finalist in HISAAC
07 Colin HR in JBWB
08 Cally in Final of Belvedere
09 Lexie in Fish Anthology ($100)
10 Lexie last 140 of 1800, Fish
11 Haz named in Best of the web shortlist
12 Lexie Final of Writers Forum
13 Alex last 3 in Carve "Overseas Writer"
14 TomC HR'd in Bank Street SS Comp
15 TomC 4th in Twisted Tongue
16 Alex at Philip Good Memorial (second story placed 3rd)
17 Lexie at Philip Good Memorial (second story placed 2nd)
18 Cally HR in Lymm Festival $20
19 Colin Finalist, $40, dinner at Frome
00 Laurie recently left but was also HR'd at Bank Street (not counted)
Lexie also recieved $25 & $10 payments
Winnings in Dollars, £ = $2, Euro = $1
for simplicity of calculation
Saturday, July 01, 2006
What a Shit!
Ronaldo is a cheating, lying, sneaky, nasty, evil scumbag.
PS our last hit was out 121st of the year
Here are the latest blast prompts
One Portugese and a Man Killed
Putting the Bad Wine back in the Bottle
Achtung Spitfeur!!
Talking to Convent School Girls
Shaw Jumping
66 not 70 mm
Would You Hit a Man Wearing Glasses?
Deflation
How Green Was My Underwear
NASA Shuttle Diplomacy
Returning to Report My Death
Tack, Tacks, Tax
Underneath the Carpet Lies
Black Booty
PS our last hit was out 121st of the year
Here are the latest blast prompts
One Portugese and a Man Killed
Putting the Bad Wine back in the Bottle
Achtung Spitfeur!!
Talking to Convent School Girls
Shaw Jumping
66 not 70 mm
Would You Hit a Man Wearing Glasses?
Deflation
How Green Was My Underwear
NASA Shuttle Diplomacy
Returning to Report My Death
Tack, Tacks, Tax
Underneath the Carpet Lies
Black Booty
July Blast Heats Up! And a Hit.
Just heard that classy Ezine Eclectica will consider the best 20-30 stories from the July Blast for their October edition.
It's not too late to join up for the month!!
Meanwhile the Boot campers and a guest or two are getting to work.
011 Stories
028 Submissions
002 Rejections
001 Hits
The hit is tom C with a story at Effusion
Note subs, rejects and hits include pre-Blast stories
It's not too late to join up for the month!!
Meanwhile the Boot campers and a guest or two are getting to work.
011 Stories
028 Submissions
002 Rejections
001 Hits
The hit is tom C with a story at Effusion
Note subs, rejects and hits include pre-Blast stories
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