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Kate replied to the topic Choices in the forum Whodunnit? 6 months, 4 weeks ago
Arithmetic
Spanner
Comical
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Kate replied to the topic Monthly comp – May 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 10 months ago
Thank you all for a fabulous batch of stories.
Seagreen – you had me on the edge of my seat wondering what was in that letter.
Sandra – such a lovely heart warming tale.
Athelstone – I love that kind hearted Brenda got the reassurance she needed.
Alex – oh! Such a tale of mystery and deceit. Thus feels like the basis for a longer story.
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Kate replied to the topic Monthly comp – May 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 10 months, 1 week ago
Any takers for the monthly competition? A week to go.
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Kate started the topic Monthly comp – May 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 11 months ago
You arrive home to find an unmarked envelope on your door mat. Who is it from? What does it contain?
Let me know in less than 500 words.
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Kate replied to the topic Monthly Comp – March 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 11 months ago
Thanks, Alex. It was fun to give Pixie and Gabe an outing! I’ll have a think about a theme for the coming month.
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Kate replied to the topic Story in new collection in the forum Podium 11 months ago
Congratulations Daedalus!
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Kate replied to the topic Monthly Comp – March 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 11 months, 3 weeks ago
A STRANGE ENCOUNTER
Len slammed on the brakes of his electricity work truck and squeezed his eyes closed. This couldn’t have happened. It had to be his imagination. Too much beer last night and too much coffee this morning.
He peeked open his eyes and gave a screech more usual for his five-year-old daughter.
Pressed against the windscreen was a…[Read more]
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Kate replied to the topic Choices in the forum All You Need 1 year, 7 months ago
Ravenwood
No there is not
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Kate replied to the topic CAS longlist in the forum Podium 1 year, 7 months ago
Is that yours in second place, Richard!! Huge congratulations.
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Kate replied to the topic How to reach out to a speculative fiction editor? in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 1 year, 7 months ago
Hi Knicks – what sort of editorial review are you looking for. There is the pretty standard book doctor report, a deeper developmental edit that I’ve heard of offered by Jericho, or mentoring.
I’ve recently gone down the mentoring path, because I wanted the opportunity for some personal back and forth with an editor, rather than just a book…[Read more]
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Kate replied to the topic CAS longlist in the forum Podium 1 year, 7 months ago
I’m on the shortlist too. Nice to have such excellent company. Congratulations.
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Kate replied to the topic I've seen fiction written in present tense described as potentially static in the forum Blogs 1 year, 8 months ago
I find the idea of present tense feeling static quite odd. Because you are in the moment, I think it’s hard to pause in a way that is possible in past tense. So I’d say the opposite of static.
Like Sandra, sometimes I’ll find a book jars a little initially in present tense, but I’ll quickly cease to notice as I adapt to the books style.
I read a…[Read more]
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Kate replied to the topic Not Such a Literary Byway: The Ten Thousand Doors of January, by Alix E. Harrow in the forum Blogs 1 year, 8 months ago
I think our reading tastes have developed in a similar way, Richard. I read fantasy as a teen (though never a LOTR fan) but as I got older and every book back I read seemed to involve a magic sword or a ring and sorting the good from the bad became impossible, I moved away from the genre.
I do enjoy (and often write) our reality with a…[Read more]
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Kate replied to the topic The Future of the Den (again) in the forum Blogs 1 year, 8 months ago
I really enjoy the annual short story challenge, and I try to participate in the odd monthly competition. My SE group has also used the Den as a lifeboat. So I’d hate to see it go and lose contact with some talented people.
I think one of the differences from the more active Word Cloud, is there was a constant flow of fresh blood funnelled via…[Read more]
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Kate replied to the topic It sounds wrong. But is that enough? in the forum Blogs 1 year, 11 months ago
I can’t offer any grammatical analysis, but it does certainly sound wrong. Almost creepily so. I did have to have a giggle at Libby’s analysis of the hair as ‘a nasty piece of work’.
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Kate replied to the topic Monthly comp – March 2022 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years ago
Teddy was lost.
Teddy’s owner, Joe, was inconsolable. His face red and blotchy, his screams ringing through the house. How could Joe and Teddy survive apart.
Teddy himself was having a nice time. He’d been left on the bus, propped up next to the window where he could see the world go by. Life with Joe was nice, but sometimes a bit boring. Teddy…[Read more]
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Kate replied to the topic Monthly Competition – January 2022 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 1 month ago
Well done Raine and thank you Knicks. I’d forgotten how much fun it is writing these short skits.
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