Any budding writers out there?

[MichaelUK]

go to www.bbc.co.uk/endofstory

Here's the deal. Some famous writers have written half a book. You have to finish it off in any style you want (in under 1200 words).

Just in case anyone is interested.

[punpirate]

1. Umm, well, 1200 words is...

... about five pages. That's not a finish to half a book.

Someone having fun with amateurs, I suspect.

[MichaelUK]

2. Have a look

The authors have written about 14 pages each. 5 pages to finish off an Ed McBain piece - easily doable.

[punpirate]

3. Fourteen pages is not half a book...

... not by a long shot. That was what was posted.

And, why bother finishing some other author's work?

Ed McBain can do the job, himself, can't he?

(!)

[MichaelUK]

4. The BBC is trying to get more young kids interested

in writing. There's a general feeling that the populace doesn't read enough. So the Beeb has a competion to see who can come up with the best ending to a short story.

and I agree, 14 pages on pdf is not a book. I was just posting in case anyone was interested.

[punpirate]

5. Sorry, but the original description lost something in the...

... the translation. If you'd said that British authors were writing small parts of short stories to encourage students to finish them, that might have made more sense.

Cheers.

[Ladyhawk]

6. No, I'm a "gone-to-seed" writer. n/t