
Registered: June 17, 2008
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Hi guys
I read about something called Papercuts, which is a competition from ChildLine (a cause I'm passionate about) where you have to write 100 words about what matters to you for the chance to be published by Penguin.
I have written the following, about the sea - I love sailing. What do you guys think? Constructive criticism much appreciated!
(Imagine reading it in a thick, male, Scottish accent)
Across the water, they break with monstrous crashes, as if the devil itself were raging beneath. No moonlight glistens. No stars shine. Alone, at sea. My Pandora will need to throw some tricks tonight to keep my body from death. To save me from the wrath of the ocean. For it is daylight I crave, but crave also the taste of saltwater on my lips. The most potent opium, the ocean is my playground. I am no landlubber. I am Douglas McLeod. For I have the blood of a Scotsman coursing through my salty veins.
Thanks in advance!
Artemisis
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Registered: April 15, 2003
Posts: 1396
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I will now steal the above work and submit it as my own, thereby engaging in shenanigans.
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. Frederick Douglass
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Registered: February 05, 2007
Posts: 105
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Artemisis: In the future, you may not want to post something you are planning to enter in any sort of competition online.
No shenanigans.
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