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Originally Posted by Roger Slater
my winner was among the few I thought had the least chance of winning.
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Don't tell me about it! I always send what I think is my best entry under my own name, but the number of times my pseudonyms win while I don't even get a mention is quite sickening.
If I send an "overt" pseudonym, then it's from my own email and postal address, and I make it clear that it's really me, so that they can send the cheque to someone who actually exists.
If I send it from a "borrowed" name, then I do so from a friend's email address (which he lends me) and use his home address. Usually (though not always) I'll start using borrowed names if I'm sending in more than two entries, since I think it unlikely that they would give three or more prizes to someone they knew to be the same person.
Three or more prizes? Wishful thinking, you may say - but I'm an incurable optimist, except for those moments when I'm sunk in the depths of pessimism. Roughly speaking, the former is when I'm asleep, and the latter when I'm awake.