Your chance to enter the Mini-saga Competition 2008

Remember the mini-saga competition in FILE 3A organised by the Daily Telegraph? Now it is your turn to write your own very short story. By doing so, you could win a straightaway PASS in the Writing paper in March exams.

The judges of our Mini-saga Competition will be students from the other three YEAR 4 groups. They will decide who will NOT have to sit the Writing paper in March. ALL entries will appear in the class blog.

How to write a mini-saga

Your Mini-saga must be exactly 50 words long. (Hyphenated words can be counted as one word or two, at your discretion.) In addition it must carry a title of no more than 15 words, which will, ideally, set the scene and illuminate or counterpoint the text.

Most important, your story must have a beginning, a middle and an end. Something must happen, preferably something which will keep the reader thinking. Fifty dazzlingly deployed words of description or reflection will not do.

How to enter

You must e-mail your entry to patriciaeoimalaga@yahoo.es BEFORE we finish FILE 3 in class.