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    World Cup Dreams
    World Cup Dreams
    World Cup Dreams
    Ebook90 pages55 minutes

    World Cup Dreams

    By Chris Harvey

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    World Cup Dreams is a challenge that author Chris Harvey set himself during the FIFA World Cup of Brazil in 2014. To bring together his love of writing and football he decide to write a short story or poem of between 300 and 500 words every day of the World Cup. The challenge was successfully completed and this book contains all thirty two short stories along with details of results for each day of the World Cup. The stories look at football from many different perspectives such as fans who love the game, those that hate it, managers, players and referees. It is a fun and insightful look at football from the angle of a fan, a fan who is trying to understand the beautiful game from other peoples' points of view.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChris Harvey
    Release dateJul 25, 2014
    ISBN9781311041777
    World Cup Dreams
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    Chris Harvey

    ICT Teacher from England who loves writing. Writes children's and young adult fiction. Any constructive criticism welcome.

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      World Cup Dreams - Chris Harvey

      Foreword

      Writing is a hard thing to do, particularly for those writers that need to hold down a full time job and write for the joy of it rather than wanting to be famous or make a living using words. As I write I set myself many goals which, ultimately, I fail to achieve. However, I like a challenge. A goal is something you aspire to achieve where as a challenge is something you set yourself over a short space of time. It is a quick win, or loss.

      Being a teacher, my job is hectic, I don’t get to write much but need the escapism so when events such as the World Cup come around I have an opportunity to get away from my thoughts and move towards pure entertainment. Anyone who knows me, or has even met me, knows that I love football; the passion, the tactics, the pure excitement. So I thought to myself, I want to get writing again and I need some inspiration. Why don’t I combine my love of football with my love of writing? At this time I was getting a few emails from the website Wattpad, if you don’t use it and want to write I would suggest you register now! These were from people I was following posting short stories. To me a short story is a couple of thousand words long but these were all under five hundred. An idea sprung into my head; surely it would not be hard to write a short story of around three hundred to five hundred words every day of the World Cup. Thus the challenge was born and World Cup Dreams came into being. I thought about football and the many issues from many different people, those who loved the game, those who hated it and were annoyed by the World Cup’s takeover of all media, the players, managers and referees. There was so much material, all I needed to do was put myself in someone else’s shoes. So I popped on my phone, opened the notes app and wrote down a load of titles. I was amazed how easy this was, at first I thought I would get to ten stories then struggle but a wealth of ideas were springing forth from my mind. So I was ready, all I needed was the time to write.

      I managed to put thirty minutes aside each day and found this just enough time to write and edit a story. I managed to finish a story every day of the World Cup and get it up on Wattpad, ok one was at one am the next day but I was out during the night and it had been written on the correct day. The response, whilst not amazing, was much better than previous short stories I had written. So at end of the challenge I am proud, I have done it and it means that I now know that thirty minutes writing a day can keep me going on other projects.

      I hope this journey, although not very exciting, will inspire others to write and share their work online. For now, sit back and enjoy the edited and formatted World Cup Dreams (the results tables took me ages so you better appreciate them!). Not all views are my own (I looked at football from many different angles remember) but I am proud of what is written here. Last but not least, I finished the challenge….whoo!

      Day 1 – 12/06/14

      What happened in the World Cup

      Opening Ceremony

      Group A

      Two Tickets

      My hand shakes as I stare at the two pieces of card I am holding. I hear a cough from behind; as I look up I notice the queue has moved forward. My girlfriend is now a few metres ahead, she just walked forward and did not say anything.

      I turn, sorry, I manage through a dry mouth and walk the few paces to where my girlfriend now stands.

      My hand shoots into my pocket and feels the smooth leather box. I grasp it tightly, my clammy hands making the lid greasy. In all this time I have not looked away from the two tickets.

      Will you stop staring at those things? my girlfriend asks irately.

      In a minute, I reply, not realising that it was more of a command than anything else.

      They will probably lose, she says.

      'They,' I think. Us football fans always get mocked when we say ‘we’ but those who do not support a team don't understand the passion. I have followed my team through thick and thin, through good

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