Write A Novel In A Week and a bit : Winner!

And the winner was...

We have a winner! Congrats to Tom Sears whose novel is reprinted below. And could everyone who voted for him chuck me a quid and I'll pop down the off licence tonight. His prize is your hands. ;)

Thanks to everyone else who entered. Don't forget November is NaNoWriMo - it should be a walkover after this.

Though his dialect remained crude, Tim understood from the chief’s broad grin that today was ‘important day’. His initiation as tribesman?

Up in the tree hut, he thumbed his journal: memories of how he’d taught them to use handkerchiefs and play bridge. They’d been reticent; but now they wanted to thank him!

A happy chorus rose from below. Tim donned his headdress and started climbing down. The whooping crowd caught him on their shoulders and carried him like a king. If National Geographic could see him now!

Then the tribespeople rubbed sweet marinade on Tim’s thighs. And roasted the motherfucker.