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Athelstone posted an update 7 months ago
Welcome to a new member Silver. Some may remember her as Catasshe back in the Wordcloud days
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As in CAS Short Story Competition? Obviously I’m going to welcome you, Silver.
That’s me Richard, nice to meet you! How’s the writing going?
Hello my old SE buddy! Lovely to see you here.
Hello Kate! How are you doing? The writing is flourishing I see!
Having fun writing and publishing. The marketing… less so. But a necessity!
Actually we have met virtually before. If you haven’t made the connection, my story came second in that competition, and we had a brief exchange of e-mails afterwards. Nice to see you here.
After two novels were greeted with deafening apathy by the trade, I decided that at my time of life I had better things to do than putting myself through the stress and disappointment of submission hell, as Emma Darwin put it, and gave up ‘serious’ writing. I still write the occasional short story though.
Hi Richard, oh yes, I wasn’t clear in my message but I did remember you from our email exchange – clicked it was you by reading the posts in the Podium section on here where you were posting about the competition. Still remember your story well – a fantastic one. I’m sorry to hear you’ve given up ‘serious’ writing. I empathize as I had a similar writing trajectory – only ever had success with short stories. But, then, my novels were pretty bad! I felt writing bad novels gave me the writing practice and made me into a good short story writer. Glad to hear you’re still writing in some form anyway. But, as you say, there’s no need to torture oneself trying to get ‘traditionally’ published – it’s overrated! At least, the traditionally published authors I know don’t seem to have much fun with it. I would run the competition again but, without Twitter being what it was, I’m not sure how I’d generate the interest in it and entries. Anyway, nice to make the connection with you on here and glad you seem in good form!
Welcome back, CAS. Great another Cloudie has found their way here.
Thank you Janette! Yes, if only all the Cloudies would come! Great this is still going though.
Hi CAS/Silver, good to hear from you again!
Hi Libby! Nice to see you on here. I hope you’re well
I’m fine, thanks. Trundling on 🙂