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Raine posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
Been doing research for new wip today. Photos of the Llyn peninsula, stats on welsh cob ponies AND OS MAPS YAY FOR OS MAPS
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RichardB replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 8 months ago
SloMo – definitely sounds like my kind of thing. I’d be up for it. Might encourage me to get a bit more editing done on the notorious ghost story.
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Philippa East replied to the topic Mentorship Scheme – Writing East Midlands in the forum Competitions, Open calls and Writing Opportunities 7 years, 8 months ago
Hi Squidge,
No, I’m not super-involved, but the mentorship scheme was a huge and brilliant project for me. It’s definitely worth applying. I don’t find WEM especially highbrow! Generally very friendly, supportive and enthusiastic about writers and writing.
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Squidge replied to the topic Mentorship Scheme – Writing East Midlands in the forum Competitions, Open calls and Writing Opportunities 7 years, 8 months ago
Are you involved in WEM, Philippa? I just received their latest email update and it all sounded a bit highbrow!
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Squidge started the topic Fairlight needs winter/new year stories… in the forum Competitions, Open calls and Writing Opportunities 7 years, 8 months ago
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Philippa East started the topic Mentorship Scheme – Writing East Midlands in the forum Competitions, Open calls and Writing Opportunities 7 years, 8 months ago
Hi guys,
I was awarded a place on this mentorship scheme a couple of years ago, and it was absolutely brilliant.
If you are a writer in the East Midlands area then definitely consider applying.
Here’s the link for all the details. http://www.writingeastmidlands.co.uk/services/mentoring/
Deadline 11th November
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Philippa East replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 8 months ago
Love the sound of that, @raine, including setting up a group.
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Raine replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 8 months ago
So SloMoNoWriMo (!!) looks a go-er! Perhaps a group (no need to be private, I’d have thought) where we can each post our daily intentions/plans/progress, so we can mutually cheer each other on (in slow motion). Whether the plan be just some words, or edit a chapter, or plan a short, or whatever. Or even have a break day (yay for break days filled…[Read more]
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Squidge posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
Just spotted this if anyone’s got anything that might suit?
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Nice one. Worth posting in the opportunities thread?
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Will do – if I can find it! Still not totally familiar with where to find stuff…
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Squidge replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 8 months ago
SloMo. Love it. Matches me perfectly.
(Although I did manage a couple of hours yesterday on the WIP – nothing new added, but dialogue’s snappier!)
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Squidge replied to the topic New title needed for 'Snatched' – help! in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 8 months ago
I like Two Cities and the Void, but wonder whether, for the novel as you’ve described it, The Void Between Two Cities works better? Which is more central to the story – the space between, or the actual cities? Looks like you’re getting closer to finding your title though.
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Jules replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 8 months ago
Also up for SloMo. Sounds fun 😊
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Woolleybeans replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 8 months ago
Totally up for SlowMo.
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Daedalus posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
I have to say I’m a little disappointed. The Den gets its first spammer and they didn’t even post a wacky blog about plastics or grass. Dull. Must try harder
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For a writers’ site they could have tried a bit more to understand the reader’s perspective 🙂
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I kniw, right? If there’s one thing we’re not going to respond well to, it’s a lack of imagination
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Seagreen replied to the topic New title needed for 'Snatched' – help! in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 8 months ago
I’m quite partial to Two Cities and the Void
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Philippa East replied to the topic New title needed for 'Snatched' – help! in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 8 months ago
Go with the one you and your agent both like. 🙂
FWIW I like it too.
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Jules replied to the topic New title needed for 'Snatched' – help! in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 8 months ago
Love London and her Shadow.
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Daedalus replied to the topic New title needed for 'Snatched' – help! in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 8 months ago
Most of them are good, but I particularly like ‘Two Cities and the Void’ and ‘London and her Shadow’
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KazG replied to the topic New title needed for 'Snatched' – help! in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 8 months ago
ps @raine I do know what you mean about the female appendage sort of titles, too. thought I have a liking for “The (x person) of (somewhere interesting)” even thought they’ve been a bit done lately
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I did wonder, many moons ago, when I was thinking where to set a WIP, whether a forum for writers to exchange places might be helpful. I live by the sea in Finistere for example so if anyone ever wanted to set a novel in that sort of environment, I would be happy to send photos and information and when, like now, I am thinking of setting something…[Read more]
Can’t help in this instance. You can’t get a lot further from where I live and still be in Wales, isn’t it?
Ohmigosh – we went to the Lleyn EVERY year for holidays. I remember having shop-bought Victoria sponge on the beach on my birthday in June… Nefyn, Morfa Nefyn, Whistling Sands, Llanbedrog, Baa-Lamb Beach (our name for it, no idea what it was really called!) Abersoch and Aberdaron… Happy days.
I had a holiday there in the eighties, on a farm somewhere near Abersoch and Hell’s Mouth (delightful name – Porth Neigwl in Welsh). I particularly remember the day we went to the pub in the nearest village. I left the wife and kids at a table in the garden and went into the bar to order. There were a good thirty people in that room and a fair bit…[Read more]
I loved reading The Price of Water in Finistere, and had the pleasure of visiting there many years ago. You’re lucky to live in such a wild and beautiful place, Jane.
Oh, Hell’s Mouth! We didn’t go there often – saved it for really awful days, but you could lean 45 degrees into the wind and get held up. We used to find allsorts on the beach, washed up. I think that’s where it got it’s name from, cos all the shipwrecked bodies used to wash up there…
Just looked The Price of Water up on amazon, @anna. Sounds interesting. I’ll have to put it on my TBR pile.
Jane I am in and out of the Calder valley area of W.Yorks and thoroughly recommend it as a novel setting – get your Bronte/Ted Hughes/Gallows Pole on, sort of thing. Happy to provide pics, though I am very much a “smartphone photograhper”. As I write fantasy it doesn’t feature per se but it is certainly an inspiring spot.
Oh, good luck with that one, Raine – I love doing research, but alas can’t help you on this occasion.
I love the idea of a group to share locations though, @janeshuff. I’m basing my wip on West Yorkshire (where I live), namely the 60s era, but am more than willing to share info on my part of town.
Ooh thank you Jonathan and Janette. I’ll message you with my email address. I’m at the very early stage at the moment.
@janeshuff, that sort of forum would be great wouldn’t it? Perhaps worth setting one up sometime.
@squidge & @richardb, it’s a gorgeous place, isn’t it? I had a couple of trips there to stay at a residential welsh language school in the most stunning, stark, kind of depressing setting. I love all those abandoned mines/quarrys/houses. Softer than…[Read more]
It sounds lovely. Good luck with it.