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Final chance to submit your cork count guess …

December 30, 2009

Just two days left to make your claim in the 2009 Bowen Cork Count. Remember, if you enter your guess (just put in the comments of the original cork count post) before year’s end, and your guess is the closest, “B” and I will gift you a $20 bottle of wine! The pic you see [...]

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So … what’s your story? #vpxiii

October 14, 2009

“So … what’s your story?” The question Jim MacDonald posed to a great many of the students was exactly how my Viable Paradise experience began. And the double-entendre pretty much summed up my time at the exclusive week-long Science Fiction writers workshop – nothing is ever perfectly clear. Yet there were a few things that [...]

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Sunday vino? See the September Cork Count

September 6, 2009

You can still make your guess in the 2009 Bowen Cork Count. Remember, if you enter your guess (just put in the comments of the original cork count post) before year’s end, and your guess is the closest, “B” and I will gift you a $20 bottle of wine! The pic you see represents our [...]

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Contribute to the cork count, win your bottle of vino

July 22, 2009

What does 122, 144, and 169 all have in common? They’re all some of the guesses for the 2009 Bowen Cork Count. As of July 6, the lovely “B” and I made an impressive six-week showing, climbing from 43 corks in mid-May to 82 corks. Though this will be the last time I give the [...]

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June has gotten off to a pretty good start

June 11, 2009

Well, in May, I put together a pretty good word count, including my two eight-word stories. I was proud. The next day I was even prouder, having received an Honorable Mention for the 2nd Quarter 2009 Writers of the Future Contest — I received my certificate in the mail this past Saturday. I don’t think [...]

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Cork count … second-quarter report

May 15, 2009

On May 1, we happened to enjoy a wine tasting with some friends — and flat Stanley. We thought it the appropriate time to conduct the next installment of Cork Count, the little game where we let you guess how many bottles of wine we’ll consume in 2009. All told, we counted 43 corks and [...]

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