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THE NAME OF THE STAR Winner


Congrats to KAYLYN WATERS, winner of THE NAME OF THE STAR by Maureen Johnson!

In other news,

I'm really going to try and not disappear on you guys now that I've started Year 12. Silly me went and took on three major works. You can probably expect some posts on short stories and beginnings and plotting and such, and some stuff on alluding to previous works or times or writers.

Hope everything is well in your worlds. 

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  1. TrishaOctober 22, 2011 at 4:19 PM

    Year 12!!! oooh, what a big year. I'm sure you'll do fabulously well!

    Congrats to Kaylyn on her win!

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