At the Sharps end

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• 1. At 11:26am on 13 Jun 2008, juggles wrote:

  How many are you receiving?

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• 2. At 3:44pm on 14 Jun 2008, galacticlooloo wrote:

  I have posted off my entry. Can someone just reassure me that the email application form is the same as the online application form and I don't have to include both? They're one and the same thing, aren't they?! If not, then I've just shot myself in the foot and beg for mercy...
  

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• 3. At 4:33pm on 14 Jun 2008, notStoppard wrote:

  Dear galacticlooloo, the email/online form is as one. The online form you filled in was emailed back to you. You printed it off and sent it with your script. All is well.

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• 4. At 7:03pm on 14 Jun 2008, galacticlooloo wrote:

  Dear notStoppard - thank you sooo much for letting me know that I haven't boobed.
  
  Good luck with your script!
  
  L

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• 5. At 1:52pm on 15 Jun 2008, notStoppard wrote:

  You're welcome, Galacticlooloo. I only registered on this site - and just for the weekend only - to answer your plaintive cry, so good luck to you. (I'm not sending a script but I do know how it works!)
  
  And to everyone else - good luck. Even if members are unsuccessful, I believe these open submissions are good practice. They keep writing muscles flexed, impose deadlines, call for rigorous discipline in terms of organising time and rewriting, and ideally, help you to see that the only real competition you have is with yourself, to be a better writer. That's why I don't enter them - it takes all my energy trying to believe in me! And I often get uncomfortable seeing what happens to people when in competition mode. The comments on ageism may be seen as a little negative and concern externals, not what really matters. If your writing is good enough, if you have something to say that others connect with, if you show potential in the medium in which you're writing, then you will gain work - from someone, somewhere.
  
  So, I'm glad to have briefly dipped in to BBC writersroom for a day. Thanks for reading.

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• 6. At 10:17am on 16 Jun 2008, Piers wrote:

  Juggles: We'll know for sure once we've finished counting, and one of us will stick up a blog post as soon as we know for sure but the short answer is:
  
  Lots.

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• 7. At 10:55am on 16 Jun 2008, flyingcazcat wrote:

  I was one of those last minute finishers who posted their script on Friday. It went first class so hopefully will be with the writersroom by now.
  Will you be sending out email confirmations of those received this week (but postmarked by 14th of course!)? Appreciate you're going to have your hands full doing the 10 page sift but it would be reassuring to know that my script has arrived safely.
  
  Thanks
  

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• 8. At 12:18pm on 16 Jun 2008, juggles wrote:

  Thank Piers

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• 9. At 7:13pm on 16 Jun 2008, nothurtin wrote:

  Hi there, I am also one of the last ones to post i think, i posted first thing friday morning, after being up all night, I only saw the compitition on Monday.
  
  Hope that you can send us all an email, even if it is just to let us down and say it arrived late.
  Thanks for your time, i enjoyed working towards the deadline.
  Dawn

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• 10. At 10:36am on 17 Jun 2008, galacticlooloo wrote:

  Well, having just re-read my effort for the first time since I posted in on Saturday morning (special delivery), I can only say I wished I hadn't stayed up half the night to finish, followed by stumbling bleary-eyed to the local post office (yes, we actually have one!) to join the queue of early risers. Joy joy.
  
  Like one or two other entrants I only heard about Sharps End too close to the deadline, so tried to adapt something I'd already done in order to meet it. Mistake.
  However, at least I did see the thing through to the bitter end...
  
  Anyway, good luck all you scribes.
  
  P.S. And, yes, I do think it would be good to have the opportunity of eyeballing winning entries...
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• 11. At 11:28am on 17 Jun 2008, juggles wrote:

  I wish we could see some winning scripts, it would be a great help

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• 12. At 08:28am on 19 Jun 2008, Mystic21 wrote:

  Can you tell us when shortlisted writers will be notified they are successful?

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• 13. At 10:32am on 19 Jun 2008, Piers wrote:

  All of the writers on the shortlist should receive an email tomorrow.

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• 14. At 7:16pm on 19 Jun 2008, Mystic21 wrote:

  Thanks, Piers. I'm keeping my fingers crossed! Good luck to everybody:-)

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• 15. At 10:05am on 20 Jun 2008, nothurtin wrote:

  i still havent recieved anything so don't know if my script even got to you or not. Maybe will will here something by the end of the day. Or is there someone we can message about it.
  
  Thanks
  Dawn Chapman

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• 16. At 1:33pm on 22 Jun 2008, totleightv wrote:

  Dawn, I too sent mine late and got an e-mail 20th to say I had registered but a postal entry had not been recieved. Horror. So I contacted writersroom; I had originally registered with a mispelt e-mail address and the e-mail to say it had been recieved had gone there. I had re-registered when didn't get anything back, which was the e-mail address it appeared that hadn't sent an entry. So if there was a chance you could have, in your enthusiasm to register for Sharps, not given your correct address this could be why. Good luck.

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• 17. At 09:03am on 23 Jun 2008, buckshot2 wrote:

  Hi there - I probably haven't been successful since I didn't hear from writersroom/sharps on friday but I was wondering if the finalists have been decided. Where can I find out?
  
  Peter

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