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Competition

The write stuff

10 May 2014

9:00 AM

10 May 2014

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 2846 you were invited to invent the six rules for writing of a well-known author of your choice.

Honourable mentions go to Hugh King, whose Revd W.A. Spooner urges writers to ‘be sure to merge all pisstakes’, and to J. Seery, who reckons Hemingway’s sixth rule would be: ‘It is you or the reader.

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