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Read the second and final part in our series - a week in the life of a budding writer - with our short story competition winners. This time it’s runner up Mahsuda Shah.
The Forum page is the place to promote your events and take part in debates on topics that can be serious or whimsical. This month we’d like your views on ‘superheros and heroines’ .
August 2007
TOPIC
Superheroes and heroines
Imagine that you had JK Rowling’s good fortune and had publishers running after you with generous cheques and the chance to create a new superhero/heroine for the next generation of children and childlike adults. Who would your character be and why?
Your responses were quite funny...and strange. Here are the ones we could print.
Supermum– cheesy I know...My mother is a super heroine. She managed to avoid a nervous breakdown despite my (now) silly schemes when I was younger. Too embarrassing to reveal here.
Jane
One Look Killer. This 16-year-old would kill you stone dead with one stare. Not really kill you, but you’d turn into stone. Got to get him angry first though. Would only work if he was shy and got angry when bullied.
Mark D
Not enough time... Heroes is great on BBC2. Lots of different men and women who are heroes but not all of them are cool or nice. I think that’s a better example than Harry Potter really. Heroes is more mixed with different nationalities. I like the save the cheerleader save the world. Maybe save the government, save the world. But who would want to be Prime Minister?
ST
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Andrea Enisuoh, Centerprise Literature Development Co-ordinator, explains what the recent funding cuts by the Arts Council England means for her project.
Have you made a New Year Resolution to take your writing further or get your poems or novel published? Let us know your writing dreams for 2008.
