Recycling a Winner! - Sarah Nicholson
Bury St Edmunds has just held the very first fringe literary festival - the Foreword Festival - which took place on 7th and 8th October. Do click on the link to find out more, it was a marvellous weekend. As part of the inaugural event they held a flash fiction competition, winning stories would be read out at various locations in the town by professional actors. Never one to pass up an opportunity, especially when it is local, I decided I really MUST enter. But what do you do when a deadline is looming? You are running out of time and can't get the creative juices flowing. With the sound of a ticking clock getting louder and louder in my ear I decided to recycle a previous idea and scrolled through my old blogs searching for a suitable story I could tweak. I used to follow a lot of sites that regularly posted writing prompts, the trouble was most of my stories were under 150 words and this one had to be 500, certainly no less than 450. Eventually I found one that was 3...