@athelstone
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Athelstone posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
Coffee if you have it, please. Monday OK so far. Trying to edit. Present rate about one line per hour.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Richard's Literary Byways: Robert Aickman's Bad Dreams in the forum Blogs 7 years, 5 months ago
Sounds like my kind of writer and you’ve definitely sold him to me.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Publishing Deal in the forum Podium 7 years, 5 months ago
Well done, Philippa – just brilliant news.
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Athelstone posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
Not a culprit at all. The name on the profile gave nothing away and I was the first to accept because I thought it was somebody I’d met recently and told about the site (I only knew her first name). Anyway, Jules has sorted “her” out now.
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Athelstone posted an update 7 years, 5 months ago
I’m trying, guys. PLEASE be careful who you make friends with
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No intention of doing any such thing in this case, Athers.
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Quite right too 🙂
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I wonder if it’d be an idea to insist on a profile for joiners? Can be faked, of course, but is a bit more of a nuisance to compile plus enables a bit more of an informed choice as to whether or not to befriend.
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The problem is not insisting on a profile. The problem is the necessary custom code to make it visible. It’s being looked into at any rate.
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Ah … thanks, Jules.
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Sorry! I was one of the trusting culprits who made friends. It just seemed unkind to refuse. I’ve learned my lesson now.
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Not a culprit at all. The name on the profile gave nothing away and I was the first to accept because I thought it was somebody I’d met recently and told about the site (I only knew her first name). Anyway, Jules has sorted “her” out now.
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Oo er. ‘She’ must be sore!
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Sore bot?
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Athelstone posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
Not a snowflake in sight apart from myself. However, I do have foxes in the garden who are raising the temperature like billy-ho!
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Athelstone replied to the topic Speed Kills: Salisbury, 1906 in the forum Blogs 7 years, 6 months ago
Richard, your narrative quality is spot on again. Brilliant read.
Daeds, when I was knee-high to the proverbial grasshopper, we had a mix of streamliners and more conventional looking engines pulling the expresses that rolled into Newbury from London Victoria. I always hoped it would be a streamlined engine that would carry me off to exotic…[Read more]
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Athelstone posted an update 7 years, 6 months ago
A reminder to my friends on the Room With a View forum that there are only 18 more days to complete initial endeavours by 22:00 on 25 January. More time than the government has to conclude and present its EU withdrawal agreement on 21 January but I leave you to decide which is the harder task.
Apologies to members not in the Room With a View…[Read more]
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Athelstone posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
Ah, that was the ‘fairground murder’ story if I remember. I liked that a lot. Membership requested.
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Yes! And actually most of what I’ve done has arisen from what I remember of your comments. I expect it needs more…
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Athelstone posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
And a Very Merry Christmas to you too, John. And to you, Kate.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Getting An Agent Blog in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 6 months ago
Fascinating then and fascinating now! I think one thing that you express so well here is the sheer workload of writing a successful book. OK, not everybody is going to make the huge changes that you did, but the fact remains that ‘tinkering’ is almost never enough. Great blog.
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Athelstone posted an update 7 years, 7 months ago
Coast walk this morning with a steady 40 mph wind off the sea blowing hail horizontally. Not nice round stuff either: jagged lumps with sharp bits that stung like hell. Got hit in the eye and it felt like a punch. Couldn’t see properly for 10 minutes, but cobwebs all blown away and once my fingers had thawed out managed to scribble some ideas down.
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Win.
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Absolutely 🙂 or possibly ;(
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Athelstone posted a new activity comment 7 years, 7 months ago
There should be an eye icon with a “show all n comments” link after the initial post, but some kind of bug is stopping it appearing reliably. No ideas I’m afraid.
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Is it a browser thing? I see the ‘show all comments’ thing.
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I’m seeing it now. I suspect it’s intermittent, especially on my browser
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Revenge of the vowel-challenged, perhaps.
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Busy. Pilates, meeting with the new vicar, mending an altar cloth, cooking dinner. Tonight…finishing off the Fifth Elephant and maybe some knitting. 😉
Work, work, work… of the non-writing kind.
I decided to do beta edit replotting, but have RUN OUT OF POST IT NOTES! Disaster. :-O