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Libby replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 3 months ago
Three days to go before the monthly competition deadline! I know many Denizens are busy with the annual challenge. Still, as my grandmother used to say when spooning out seconds at the lunch table, any more for any more?
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 3 months ago
Occasional rough language
Prat’s Key Wood
Prat’s Key Wood was as old as the hills. No, really.
Well, seeing as the hills are billions of years old and forged in the countless aeons before organic life, that’s a stretch. But, I mean 1) it was ancient to the max and 2) it took Jacko and a team of ten, and a bulldozer, and chainsaws, just one…[Read more]
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Raine posted an update 5 years, 3 months ago
Well I’ve posted my Bump comp! Yay me. Was beginning to think I might not make it, but rush-jobness notwithstanding, at least it’s done now & I can read the others. 🙂
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For a rush job, it really is not too shabby.
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Finished mine too, but still reading/editing it.
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Also – yay you 🙂
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Athelstone posted an update 5 years, 3 months ago
Is it just me, or is the commercially produced garlic from supermarkets and greengrocers feeble old shite compared to the stuff I cooked with a few years back? I’ll swear it used to have some bite and tang to it, but these days I could stick whole bulbs in and hardly taste it. Going to try growing a few different types.
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No it’s not just you! Supermarket garlic tastes quite bland compared to the stuff I’ve cooked with while self-catering in France – though our local farm shop sometimes has decent bulbs.
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Definitely true. The garlic in the box I get from the organic farmer in the next village is ten times tastier than supermarket stuff.
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I agree. It has gone the way of so many other foods, so bland when mass produced. My France holiday (a distant memory) showed just how much.
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One of the first and most obvious changes is that after preparing a meal with garlic I’d have to scrub away at my hands for a good ten minutes and they’d still be poor company next day. These days a quick rinse is all that’s needed.
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Libby replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 3 months ago
A half-time reminder, for anyone thinking of entering this month’s Den competition, that we’re half way through January.
I hope everyone’s year is going well/reasonably well in the general Covid circumstances.
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BUMP!!! Not that I want to make tons of work for Libby, but only 2 entries so far and only 4 days + today left
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JaneShuff posted an update 5 years, 3 months ago
Posting this on the off chance someone can help. I’m planning my next book, part of which will be set in a camp for refugees and immigrants – very similar to the camp on Lesbos in Greece. I need to do some research into the conditions in the Greek camps and how they operates and also get some sense of the refugees’ different stories. I’ve found an…[Read more]
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Might be worth looking at Medecine Sans Frontier websites etc. They do a lot of work in the Med with the migrants, so there might be things via them?
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 3 months ago
‘Also known as …’
Early Thursday, DS Mike Kennedy, on her arrival.
‘Infirmary’s been on. Ursula Bothwell died three this morning. Peacefully, they said.’
‘Cause?’
‘Not known. Which means –’
‘A PM. Not peaceful.’ DS Fran Lloyd strove to hide the threat of tears. Not normally a problem; had to be more than fifty times she’d heard the nec…[Read more] -
Doug started the topic Movie-watching and Intimidating Authors in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 5 years, 3 months ago
In recent years, I’ve gotten to like watching movies at home. I mean, watching something almost every night. Blame the Internet. There’s Hoopla and Overdrive for borrowing from libraries, and Amazon & iTunes for renting online. It’s not like the old days when I stopped by Blockbuster or Kensington Video on Saturdays for something to watch that…[Read more]
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Doug started the topic Writing Prompts in the forum Blogs 5 years, 3 months ago
I started listening to the audiobook of 1001 Sci-Fi Writing Prompts yesterday. The first part deals with aliens: first contact, and abductions.
A prompt of my own came to mind: Aliens select one human to persuade them that our species is worth allowing to live, and shouldn’t be wiped out. The human they choose happens to be a total misanthrope.
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Libby started the topic Copyright question re Den entries in the forum Competitions, Open calls and Writing Opportunities 5 years, 4 months ago
My resolution this year is to enter a couple of short-story competitions beyond the Den. To boldly go …
Please can anyone advise on a couple of things. Most competitions won’t accept entries previously published anywhere online except on password-protected sites, but what if I wanted to develop a story idea from something I’ve previously posted…[Read more]
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I’ve developed bits from monthly comps into full stories – and even short stories and submitted them. Never had an issue because the end results which are submitted are often very different to how they started. So I don’t consider the end result to be what has already been published, if you see what I mean?
And re getting publisher’s permission -…[Read more]-
Thank you, @squidge. That’s very helpful.
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Hiya @libby Yeah, I’ve published several things from monthly comps before. Whatever we post on here, we retain all copyright, so there is no need to call a piece from here ‘previously published’ as such. As long as its been noticeably revised then I’ve never worried too much about submitting it as as an unpublished piece. Can you go back and…[Read more]
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Thanks, @raine
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Libby replied to the topic Monthly comp: December 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 4 months ago
Thank you, Seagreen, Sandra, Janette and John.
And happy new year to all Denizens.
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John S Alty replied to the topic Monthly comp: December 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 4 months ago
Well done Libby. Excellent entries from all.
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Sandra posted an update 5 years, 4 months ago
For a more accurate picture of Den participation, is it possible to have, in the RH column, Members listed by ‘Active’ rather than ‘Newest?’
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Libby started the topic Monthly competition – January 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 4 months ago
Happy new year, everyone.
We haven’t had a list of choices for a quite a while in the monthly competitions.
For the January competition please write a story to include two of the following:
– a road atlas
– something made of wood
– aontrariness
– a light switch; this can be literal or metaphoricalBetween 250 and 450 words.
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That’s meant to be ‘contrariness’. I’ve edited the post on the monthly comp thread but out here in the Den window, changes don’t appear! (A little bit of Den contrariness? 🙂 )
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JaneShuff posted an update 5 years, 4 months ago
Congratulations to all for the great bunch of entries! And A Happy New Year!!
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Janette replied to the topic Monthly comp: December 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 4 months ago
Thank you for the comp and the positive comments, Ath. And well done Libby – nice work.
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Libby replied to the topic Monthly comp: December 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 4 months ago
That’s a lovely surprise, and for the new year too! Thank you, Ath.
Thank you also to everyone who entered. A very compelling selection of stories, as always, and a wide range of styles. I’ll have a think about what to set for the January competition.
Happy new year, if we’re allowed to say that after 2020 🙂
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly comp: December 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 4 months ago
Thank you Ath, both for comments and for setting the comp in the first place. As you probably guessed, I used it as a shameful attempt to find a way into a yet-to-be-written novel and was immensely glad of the opportunity to do so, though knew from the start I’d barely skated your original intent. And well done Libby – I look forward to finding…[Read more]
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Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly comp: December 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 4 months ago
Sorry, Ath. I confess that when I finally got round to pulling something together for the December comp (last night, about two hours before the deadline), I had it in my head that the theme was ‘opening’ so that’s what I wrote 😁
As it turns out, writing it reminded of something I’d lost sight of, so thank you.Congratulations, Libby, and tha…[Read more]
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