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The slip up

Let’s face it, no one is perfect. We’re all a load of losers. We lose all the time. We’ve all had monumental failures at work, epic relationship dives, toe curling, embarrassing misunderstandings. Failure is bad. Very bad. Right? Wrong! This month, as embarrassing as it may be and as reluctant they may be, your writing group are going to revisit their past failings and use them to their advantage in their writing.

One writer (names have been withheld to protect the

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