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Daedalus replied to the topic Dipping my toe back in in the forum Blogs 6 years, 4 months ago
Oh heavens it is good to see you š
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Amanda Berriman (Skylark) replied to the topic Dipping my toe back in in the forum Blogs 6 years, 4 months ago
Hello! I have a first draft that needs some work doing. Tentatively opened it the other day after a bit of a break. Found a massive continuity error in the first two chapters! Ah well. I need to get stuck into some serious rewriting now. How about you?
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Dipping my toe back in in the forum Blogs 6 years, 4 months ago
Hi Skylark. Lovely to see you here. How are writing things with you?
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Amanda Berriman (Skylark) replied to the topic Dipping my toe back in in the forum Blogs 6 years, 4 months ago
Hooray! Lovely to see you here š Is there a short story comp running this year?
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Amanda Berriman (Skylark) started the topic Dipping my toe back in in the forum Blogs 6 years, 4 months ago
Hello you lovely Denizens!
When I “took a break” from the Den back in 2018 to focus on book related stuff I didn’t mean the break to be as long as it has been but 2019 turned into an absolute stinker. However we made it through and while I thought I’d let myself off any New Year’s Resolutions this year I did keep coming back to one that felt…[Read more]
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Amanda Berriman (Skylark) posted an update 6 years, 4 months ago
HELLOOOO! Sorry, I know it’s been ages. Stuff and more stuff and other stuff. Trying to remember how this all works…. Planning to be here a bit more often though š
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That’s fantastic news, Mandy x
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It’s taking me a while to remember how all this works… Feels good to be back though. Proper conversations rather than Twitter arguments š
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Same here – conversations rather than arguments win every time š
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Amanda Berriman (Skylark)'s profile was updated 6 years, 4 months ago
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 4 months ago
Wow, Sea, this is hard-hitting and not a word wasted. Superb.
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Class 3: Writing Exercise, Bella in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 4 months agoTwo fabulously disconcerting letters, Bella. The first one couched in the appropriately formal language of a teacher to a pupil but revealing a wholly inappropriate relationship and posing a lot of questions. The more I read it the more I began to think that Maximilian was the one pulling the strings and Waltraut was trying to escape him.
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Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 4 months ago
THE FUTURE (379 words)
For what itās worth, he never hit me, but then, he didnāt have to. He found so many other ways to hurt me. So many other ways of subjugation without resorting to physical violence.
You think Iām exaggerating, donāt you? That it couldnāt have been as bad as all that. After all, Iām well presented, arenāt I? Decent figure…[Read more]
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John S Alty replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 4 months ago
Oh, go on Jane, have a peek.You know you want to.
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 4 months ago
Oooh! Two entries already! How exciting. I am longing to read them but I guess I should leave it until the end of the month. Thank you @sandradavies and @johnalty
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 4 months ago
A not-so-idle threat
Even though she knew looking left and right as she opened the discreet dark green door was a dead giveaway for anyone watching, she couldnāt stop herself. Crowds and dazzling Christmas lights made it harder to spot a spy, but surely, after five days at Ivoās cottage theyādāve given up by now. Wouldnāt they? The low-level…[Read more]
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John S Alty replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 4 months ago
The Future
āThe future is the time we havenāt had yet,ā he said, āsimple as that.ā
āThat may be what the future is but not what it holds,ā she responded, ānot whatās in store, where it might take us.ā Then she got up from the picnic table outside The Black Bull and walked off.He thought about that last exchange…[Read more]
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Bella replied to the topic Class 3: Writing Exercise, Bella in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 4 months agoIt occurred to me two minutes after posting this that I have an actual break up letter in my other WIP. So here it is for good measure. If anyone wants to comment don’t feel obliged to comment on both. I’m just putting it here since it exists.
Dear Lucien,
I don’t know how to soften the blow so I’m just going to tell you what happened on Saturday…[Read more] -
Bella started the topic Class 3: Writing Exercise, Bella in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 4 months agoMaximilian,
I have told you a thousand times that this affair is wrong. As your teacher as well as your lover I have only your wellbeing at heart. Your whole future depends on your examination results and our continued assignations are putting everything at risk.
People are beginning to notice your less than formal behaviour towards me.…[Read more]
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Squidge posted an update 6 years, 4 months ago
If anyone’s interested – States of Independence, at De Montfort Uni in Leicester on the 21st March. Free event: talks, stalls, publishers etc, and Benjamin Zephaniah is one of the speakers! Hoping to go and have a stall so I can sell some books…
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Feedback on the Course in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 4 months agoHi @Squidge. I didnāt always think her examples showed what I thought she was talking about but as I read the chapter while travelling yesterday was going to reread some of them to have a second look. The one about the burying something in the garden springs to mind.
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Squidge replied to the topic Feedback on the Course in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 4 months agoIs anyone else getting bogged down with some of the examples in Burroway? I read them and just can’t make the connection to what she’s trying to portray. Beginning to think that it’s me at fault – that I haven’t got the ability to understand the more subtle nuances of the techniques. And if I did understand them, would it make me write any…[Read more]
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Squidge posted an update 6 years, 4 months ago
Can someone remind me how to read comments that have been listed but don’t appear, please? Ta very muchly.
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Do you mean missing comments on an update? 1) Click on the name of the initial poster to open their profile. 2) Select Activity from below their avatar/picture. You should be able to find the missing posts – not necessarily in a sensible order, but possible to work out what went where.
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Even if it’s me that was the poster, Ath? I’ve got the notifications, but when I click on them to read, the original post isn’t showing more than one comment…
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Even if it’s you who is the original poster. In other words, instead of logging on to the site and selecting Activity, go to the troublesome thread, select the profile of whoever started it, select Activity from their (or your) profile when it opens. Then scroll through the results below. If this doesn’t work then I’m not sure what to recommend.
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“are” the original poster. How did I formulate such a horrible sentence?
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