I now have a deadline for getting this novel done.

[clocketpatch]

This must be shared with the other writers on the Flist: http://terrypratchett.co.uk/news%5Ctermsandconditions.html

Here's to December!

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

8-O Clocket, I every faith in you & your wonderful, vivid and off-beat style, but at least 80,000 words you're prepared to submit to actual peoples by December 2010?!!!?

I wish you the best of luck now, because if you really do, we'll never see you in the interim... :-D I'm not sure anyone else will, either.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Yeah, best of luck! That is some serious wordage though, and a tight deadline. If I'd found about this in June when it was first announced I would have been sorely tempted myself... Maybe it'll run again next year? But yeah, best of luck, and if I hear nothing from you whatsoever between now and Xmas I will know why! ;D

[pitry.livejournal.com]

G'luck Clocket!

And I must say, as someone who's been working on an idea for something original...
"This competition is open to anyone aged 18 or over who is a resident of the UK, other countries of the British Commonwealth, and the Republic of Ireland"

Damn you, British Mandate!
:( :( :(

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I saw that when it was first announced - but I knew I couldn't meet the deadline...

Good luck with your attempt!

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

*is American* :-(

*cannot write an 80,000-word story anyway* (I've never even written a 4,000-word story!)

(Heck, the longest original fic I've ever written was, um, 1533 words. For a contest with a minimum requirement of 1500. lol!)