What’s Your Story?

Yesterday, following on from links by Tom and Laura, I entered into Waterstone’s “What’s Your Story?” competition.

The rules are simple – a story that’ll fit on a postcard, with a maximum of 600 characters. Due to the time-crunch in getting it done, (Yesterday was the last day for entries) I wrote the entire thing online, as I didn’t have time to print it, do it, scan it, send it, etc. However, that actually helped in a lot of ways, made it far easier to just get on with it.

When all’s said and done, 600 characters isn’t that much anyway. Although it’s an interesting (and, from the looks of it, popular) challenge to get an entire story into that number of characters.

I’ve no idea whether it’ll get any further, but for something approaching ten minute’s work, I’m not displeased with it at all.

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The full text, if you couldn’t see it in the image is as follows.

I keep on searching for the right person.
Maybe this time you’ll be the right one
When I find the right person, they’ll take all my pain away
But when the person isn’t right, they can only take some of it
Then, when their blood dries, I move on and my pain grows again
I keep on searching for the right person
Maybe this time I’ll find them