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Alternative Writing Workshop: A48956746 - All The Time In The World
AlexAshman Started conversation Mar 23, 2009
Entry: All The Time In The World - A48956746
Author: Alex Tufty Ashman [!] - U566116
Here's my entry for 
's Stretcher.
Alex 
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Danny B Posted Mar 23, 2009
Oooh - clever 
I hope you don't get marked down for not having a 'famous event'...
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minorvogonpoet Posted Mar 23, 2009
Yes, this is very clever and will give the judges something to think about!
Not being much of a science fiction fan, the idea of meeting oneself coming back from time travelling is mind boggling! 
One crit: The sentence beginning "The police are in a better position" should continue " what is happening"
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AlexAshman Posted Mar 23, 2009
The task didn't make any mention of it being a real famous event... 
I've fixed the single errant use of past tense. 
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minorvogonpoet Posted Mar 23, 2009
I asked in passing on 'Non-Negotiable Demand for Clarification'
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Though I shelved my idea of writing about the moment the flood tide flows over the top of the Thames Barrier. Although it hasn't happened yet, it would be a famous event if it did.
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Mar 23, 2009
Good story!
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Tibley Bobley Posted Mar 25, 2009
Oh, I like this! It took my imagination on a trip, filling in the details of what might possibly have happened through the aperture.
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frenchbean Posted Mar 26, 2009
I like this The last line made me go back and read it all over again
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AlexAshman Posted Apr 2, 2009
The latest Stretcher is here: A49246059
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UnderGuide Editors Posted Jun 4, 2009
I'm hoping you're still subscribed to this thread Alex - this has been chosen for inclusion in the UnderGuide. Congratulations!
Our QA has already said his piece when judging this for The Stretcher. However, he did have some afterthoughts.
"He doesn't always work hard enough to seize his reader, but this time he does. It's important to remember here that the piece's distinctive device, the freeze-frame, was gifted, but even allowing for that, it's slick. One QA criterion is to ask 'could I have written this plot better?' Probably not in this case."
A Polisher will be along shortly Congratulations again! 
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AlexAshman Posted Jun 5, 2009
I'd just removed it from here thinking everyone had forgotten about it. Thanks!
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Alternative Writing Workshop: A48956746 - All The Time In The World
- 1: AlexAshman (Mar 23, 2009)
- 2: Danny B (Mar 23, 2009)
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- 4: AlexAshman (Mar 23, 2009)
- 5: minorvogonpoet (Mar 23, 2009)
- 6: Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor (Mar 23, 2009)
- 7: Tibley Bobley (Mar 25, 2009)
- 8: frenchbean (Mar 26, 2009)
- 9: AlexAshman (Mar 26, 2009)
- 10: AlexAshman (Apr 2, 2009)
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- 12: Danny B (Jun 5, 2009)
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