My Richard is very good to me, bless him. He got up at six am to make me some breakfast, then got my lunch ready. By seven am I was out the door and walking to work. I was twenty minutes early. Now I'm known for my tardiness - it's in my nature, but I've learned that if you want to impress an employer, showing up on time is how it's done ( Read more... )

Well I wound it up a few minutes ago, and the results are in:

Best Action/Adventure Story:
Author: Raksha the Demon

Fandom: Lord of the Rings

Title: Gamesmanship

Best Angst Story:

Author: StarSpray

Fandom: Lord of the Rings

Title: Across the Sea

Best Drabble:

Author: Lindahoyland

Fandom: Lord of the Rings

Title: Darkening Days

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Come on, people - VOTE!!!
I'm closing the Awards tomorrow. If you go and vote, then skip to the results, you will see how many votes each category got. I'm sad to say I haven't had a huge response to this. I know you've all been busy with exams and stuff, but please, please, if you can find ten minutes, go and vote for the stories in the Awards. ( Read more... )

Yep, 'tis nearly here. I haven't had a lot of voters for this, which is a shame. The high-calibre stories and excellent authors deserve a better response than they've had, so I'm hoping to jog people into voting and thereby improve the chances of the nominated writers getting the praise they deserve.

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Yes, it's that time again: time to launch this month's Archives of Excellence Writing challenge: Crazy Crossovers. The entrants' icons were fun to make: I've got the Carroshroom, but there's a Bullfish as well for whoever wants him. Sideshow Bob Roberts has told me he wants it. I might make another one... oh heck, we all know I will!


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The excellent writer Larner, who has a drabble in the Golden Quill Awards (she's up against the lovely LindaHoyland, whose work is absolutely brilliant), was kind enough to review every chapter of Saruman's Task for me. Looks like my attention-seeking is paying off. Mind you, as much as I thoroughly enjoy the reviews, what I really want is more ( Read more... )

Well I've launched the good ship The Golden Quill Awards, only to discover that I haven't done enough groundwork to get the number of nominations it needed to get going. I need to draw attention to it. So I need to get attention, but how? Well, I've come up with a few ideas, and here they are.1. I want to draw the attention of specific people, to ( Read more... )

Weep, O ye procrastinators! Nominations are now closed for the Golden Quill Awards.

Click here for the links to the polls for the nominated stories.

Here's the web address: http://golden-quills.9f.com/blog/599728/Polls

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Well, this morning I got a call from the JobCentre people. This morning? It's Saturday! Still, it was encouraging. I'd gone to a Back to Work talk and decided to try to get on a course, and the man told me I'd get a call in a week or so. I got it this morning. They want me to go in for a chat about getting onto a training course so I can increase ( Read more... )