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Daedalus replied to the topic Influences in the forum Blogs 5 months, 1 week ago
I think for me Salter stands out because the spareness is also lyrical. I find many ‘less is more’ authors to be a bit dull, but his prose manages to be as poetic as it is simple
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Daedalus replied to the topic Influences in the forum Blogs 5 months, 1 week ago
Salter is very much a writer of men. I was somewhat horrified by his treatment of women in All There Is (although there’s always a detachment to his writing that means it’s never entirely clear who his sympathies lie with). I find his earlier work rather tighter.
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Daedalus replied to the topic Influences in the forum Blogs 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Sandra, interesting you say that about unconscious influence from books you read years ago. I’m generally reluctant to specify my influences because I’m certain that I don’t know who all of them are. On more than one occasion I’ve reread something I read in my youth but had only the haziest memory of. And, to my horror, encountered somethi…[Read more]
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Daedalus posted an update 5 months, 3 weeks ago
And don’t forget people, if you say anything mean about JK Rowling, you’ll get in her bad books. The detective ones.
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I will, of course, be using JGAAP on every entry. No Camilla Läckberg disputes here, thank you very much!
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Japanese Generally Accepted Accounting Principles? Blimey, I knew I had to incorporate arithmetic, but that seems a bit much
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Purely to dispel all doubt: https://evllabs.github.io/JGAAP/
And, no, I won’t really use it-
Well now I’m going to spend the next three days feeding my own work into it to see how much I sound like myself
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Daedalus replied to the topic Choices in the forum Whodunnit? 7 months ago
Arithmetic
Spanner
Comical
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Jules replied to the topic Choices in the forum Whodunnit? 7 months ago
Reading, candlestick, comical
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Daedalus started the topic HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition in the forum Competitions, Open calls and Writing Opportunities 9 months, 3 weeks ago
The 2023 HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition is now open for entries. Up to 3,500 words, set 35 or more years ago, exploring every aspect of historical fiction.
Deadline 1 July
Full details and how to enter: https://historicalwriters.org/awards/ddshwass-award-2023/
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Thanks, Daeds. I’m trying to get a story ready in time. Are you going to enter?
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I was thinking of entering one I’d already written, thought I’d missed the deadline but I haven’t, so I might go for it. How’s yours coming along?
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@daedalus
Mine is becoming a more interesting story than I’d thought it was but it needs more time so I’m not going to enter. Good luck with yours if you do enter.
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Daedalus replied to the topic Motor Racing's Blackest Day: Le Mans, 1955 in the forum Blogs 10 months, 1 week ago
Fantastic blog Richard, as ever. A difficult one for me to read, as I’ve always found reading about this incident, its sheer violence and the scale of the death toll, deeply troubling. That the sport I love, and a race I love, and a driver I have always been a fan of (Hawthorn) could have been (in whatever way) responsible for such slaughter is d…[Read more]
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Daedalus replied to the topic Story in new collection in the forum Podium 11 months ago
Thanks Richard
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Daedalus replied to the topic Story in new collection in the forum Podium 11 months, 1 week ago
Kindle out now, paperback in a couple of weeks
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Daedalus started the topic Story in new collection in the forum Podium 11 months, 1 week ago
Hi all, just to let you know I have a story in the new collection ‘Action this Day’ – a set of WW2 short stories
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Wow, congratulations, @daedalus! Looking forward to reading this 🙂
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Daedalus replied to the topic Richard's Musical Byways: Robert Johnson, the Myth and the Man in the forum Blogs 1 year, 3 months ago
Thoroughly enjoyed this, Richard. Another wonderful bit of writing that is bound to lead to a substantial musical rabbit-hole
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Daedalus replied to the topic Choices in the forum All You Need 1 year, 6 months ago
Coniston
Yes there is
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Daedalus replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum All You Need 1 year, 7 months ago
For me the town is the sticking point, as whatever I go with will necessarily narrow down what kind of story I can write a fair bit. That’s what comes of writing across a range of genres I suppose!
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Daedalus replied to the topic Monthly Competition – August 2022 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 year, 7 months ago
Burn
The day the power went off for the last time, Dad started on about the country again.
“When did this country change?” he growled. “Things never used to be like this. This is Britain, how did it get so the electric doesn’t work?”
Gemma didn’t understood when he talked like this. It was like he felt the whole island was somehow the same. G…[Read more]
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Daedalus replied to the topic The Price of Coal: Senghenydd, 1913 in the forum Blogs 1 year, 7 months ago
I was just reading up on Gresford following this and noticed one striking coincidence. The name of an MP who castigated the mine’s management during a debate in parliament following the inquiry’s mealy-mouthed conclusions:
David Grenfell…
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Jules replied to the topic Choices in the forum All You Need 1 year, 7 months ago
Town – Droop
Choice – yes there is
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