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I nearly kicked the telly last night, watching ITV news. The North West had a competition for children to write a Christmas story, and the winner's was made into a cartoon; brilliant. Then we met the judge!
It was that well known, talented, children's writer....Frank Lampard, he who admitted in an interview "wrote a few words" of his books. Another bloody insult to REAL writers
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It's all about getting children writing - that's what matters after all.
If the competition wasn't judged fairly, or cheated the entrants out of their rights or failed to deliver the prize, that would be a problem.
You seem to have it in for poor old Frank. I think Mrs Bear runs an on-line agony column if you need support.
Do you feel this particular competition was judged unfairly?
I don't like Frank Lampard either, by the way, he deserted West Ham years ago and I've never forgiven him, but I digress.
I think it's good to see someone using their power as a role model for something so worthwhile.
*Pleased he managed to write that without any 'to be frank' or 'frankly' puns*
Besides, I'm sure there are at least several Premiership footballers who could handle something as advanced as reading a short story written by a child.
Just ignore the things you cannot change and enjoy your own writing.
Then I realised that most of them use ghost-writers even on their own self-indulgent autobiographies so I suppose there is some consolation in that at least some writer somewhere is earning a crust from this.
We live in a society that celebrates the celebrity, most people would rather read about what Katy Price-Jordan and Ant&Dec-Kardashian had for breakfast than about anything important and meaningful. We are spoon fed this rubbish 24/7 by the modern media and that's the problem the news feed is now 24/7 - they need to fill the space and it's easier to fill it with celebrity 'stories' than anything else.
Unfortunately we now have the pages of our newspapers crammed with the pictures and antics of a load of talentless wannabbees - most of whom appear on some reality TV show and suddenly think they are actors and stars.
So despite my rant I've kind of made my peace with it - they get published because - a publisher knows if they can get Karen or Billy from TOWIE to put their name to some trash they will sell stacks of them in WH Smith & Waterstones etc - it's a sad state of affairs which makes it even harder for anyone now trying to forge a bona-fide writing career.
Maybe I should audition for something meaningless and crap that might just get my name well-known enough to shift some books - if you can't beat them....