{"id":541,"date":"2014-09-05T14:50:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T14:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/?p=541"},"modified":"2014-09-05T14:50:26","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T14:50:26","slug":"competition-news-technology-triumphs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/09\/05\/competition-news-technology-triumphs\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition News & Technology Triumphs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Delighted to learn I came second in the Writers Bureau short story competition with The Delivery Man<\/em>. \u00a0You can read it and the other winning stories here.<\/a>\u00a0Congratulations to\u00a0Glenda Cooper, who came first, and also to V Mackenzie and\u00a0Kim Fleet placed third and fourth respectively.<\/p>\n

I had recently failed miserably at an exercise in demonstrating ‘voice’ when I started writing this story. \u00a0So I set out to try and get the ‘voice’ right and keep it going for the whole piece. I was thrilled to receive this feedback via twitter:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/shirl1001\/status\/507473319764164608<\/p>\n

Thank you, Shirley.<\/p>\n

Please note, people, I now have a ‘follow me on twitter button’ here on the blog, and I have miraculously managed to ’embed’ the above tweet into this post. Achievements abound.<\/p>\n

Still, enough about me.<\/p>\n

I received this email from my mum this week. \u00a0Entitled ANTS, this is it, in its entirety:<\/p>\n

“Take a look at<\/p>\n

Diatomaceous Earth<\/h1>\n

for getting rid of ants…… and other annoyances! (like constipation!<\/p>\n

xxxx”<\/p>\n

Made me smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Delighted to learn I came second in the Writers Bureau short story competition with The Delivery Man. \u00a0You can read it and the other winning stories here.\u00a0Congratulations to\u00a0Glenda Cooper, who came first, and also to V Mackenzie and\u00a0Kim Fleet placed third and fourth respectively. I had recently failed miserably at an exercise in demonstrating ‘voice’ … Continue reading “Competition News & Technology Triumphs”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,12,46,52,54,57],"tags":[61,75,117,123,125,129],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}