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Libby replied to the topic Monthly competition – September 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 6 months ago
I love your story, Seagreen. Congratulations!
Janette, Alex, Sandra – all great stories. Thanks for setting the competition, Squidge.
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Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly competition – September 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 6 months ago
Anyone else getting question marks instead of the smiley face?
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Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly competition – September 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 6 months ago
Oh, crikey! This has caught me on the hop. Such a great catch of entries!
Squidge – thanks for the prompts. I wasn’t convinced I’d be able to do them justice.
Libby, Sandra, Janette and Alex – there wasn’t a single story I wouldn’t have picked to be a winner ????
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Squidge replied to the topic Monthly competition – September 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 6 months ago
Wowser…spoilt for choice! Thank you all for taking my three little words and turning them into lots of great stories. As always, the three objects were used in very different and clever ways. So…
Sandra – there’s something about a pipe-smoking detective, isn’t there? Lovely piece, with the rat almost in the trap until the detective took his…[Read more]
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Thank you for a good challenge, Squidge. Congratulations, Sea, well deserved, though I enjoyed all of the other stories too.
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Squidge posted an update 2 years, 6 months ago
aaargh! Apologies, such a busy day at church yesterday, totally forgot I needed to judge the comp! Am on it now…
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Libby started the topic The 'I remember' writing exercise in the forum Coffee Shop 2 years, 6 months ago
For anyone who’s done this exercise, which Andrew Wille among others uses with students, this programme could be interesting. And even if you’ve never done the exercise this programme may explain what it is.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly competition – September 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 6 months ago
A great batch of entries. Sadly, my good idea didn’t finally coalesce until I was dozing off last night.
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Squidge posted an update 2 years, 6 months ago
Only a few days left to get something into the monthly comp… Looking forward to reading the entries!
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Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly competition – September 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 7 months ago
UNTITLED (300 words)
Betty Hoskins – aged 95 years – and probably a pipe smoker for the last 85 of them. She’s at the allotments, perched on a ragged, weather-beaten wicker armchair beneath an arch of bamboo rods and green netting, enveloped in a haze of what she calls her ‘medicinal’ blend.
It’s late evening, the sun is bedding down behi…[Read more]
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Janette posted an update 2 years, 7 months ago
Joined @johnt3 in giving BlueSky a go. Looking forward to finding more familiar faces there, but I haven’t much to report on yet. My book 2 (way off finishing its rewrite) needs to be closer to ready before I consider which way to get book 1 published. Black dog keeps sitting on my keyboard.
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There are an increasing number of us there, including a fair few from the Den.
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Janette, do you mean a real black dog, or black dog in the metaphorical sense?
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Metaphorical – though just as pesky and stubborn.
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I know that black dog. It’s hard to shove it out of the way, sometimes. Big cwtches from Wales x
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Thanks, John. Big Yorkshire hugs right back atcha x
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Sorry to hear it. It is remarkably adept at confounding all good intentions to write.
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Thanks, Ath. Yes, writing and reading both confounded. It feels like a midge infestation in my head when I try to take things in or concentrate further than one page. Hopefully, I’ll overpower IT sooner rather than later.
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My usual remedy for reading problems is to read children’s books. I read a lot – they’re my therapy.
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I hope life becomes easier, Janette.
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Thanks, Libby. Here’s hoping x
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@johnt3 Good idea. Some of my favourites are children’s books.
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John T posted an update 2 years, 7 months ago
The proof copy of my novel has arrived. This is getting scarily real!
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Woohoo! Exciting as well as scary, I hope.
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Yep.
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Must feel wonderful, John. It’s been a long trip!
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It certainly has. I began writing seriously in 2004, at the age of 50.
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I can see some similarities there. I started around then as well. You were a couple of years ahead of me on the age front, but it seems we picked up our pen and paper about the same time.
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Not exactly surprising, given the similarities between our writing, but interesting.
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Mind you, I’m still puffing away a good stretch back from the finish line 🙂
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I’ll be cheering you on!
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Woohoo! Can’t wait for my copy.
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Being the the most amazing beta-reader, your copy will appear before I publish it. Pre-publication copies are currently at the printers.
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Libby replied to the topic Monthly competition – September 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 7 months ago
When My Favourite Employee Really Gets Going, He Quotes Churchill
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I stop in Steve’s doorway. He looks up from his laptop. Angled at his side, his PC screen glows with the photos and primary colours of our online edition.
At the opticians recently, he told the young woman he’s a journalist on the local rag and when off duty he rea…[Read more]
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admin posted an update 2 years, 7 months ago
I Like it!
Top liker this month, Martini Rosso with 59 likes.1st Martini Rosso 59
2nd Kate 56
3rd Libby 51
4th Sandra 48
5th Seagreen 44I must try harder
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Wasn’t aware it was being counted (and am still not convinced my clicking ‘like’ isn’t a lazy response, though at times it does feel most appropriate,
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Every so often when I have a look to make sure everything’s still working, I spot the “like” statistics. It comes from the people who make the app and I suppose they want to show that it has lots of features. All just for fun though.
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Libby posted an update 2 years, 7 months ago
It’s nice to see a new group on the group page. Is Ensemble open to anyone? Will there be any more information?
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John T posted an update 2 years, 7 months ago
Any of you guys on BlueSky? I’ve found Raine and Athelstone. I’m @johnunworded.bsky.social
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I’ve requested an invitation to join. Can’t see any harm in trying it out.
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I have no invites to pass on yet, but I gather you get them after a while. It’s a fairly empty space at the moment, but I think it will fill up. People like Joanne Harris, Neil Gaiman and Chuck Wendig are on board.
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Janette replied to the topic Monthly competition – September 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 7 months ago
Strange tastes
Oh, I did miss my Bert. Watching him through the window, wheelbarrow-in-hand, shaping our garden into all sorts of strangeness: gaudy, modern art in bloom.
Me, I preferred order. Neatness. A little chintz perhaps; a Capo Di Monte on the sideboard. ‘Let go, Pammy! Unstiffen your lip,’ Bert would say while waltzing me roun…[Read more]
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Janette replied to the topic Monthly competition – August 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 7 months ago
Yes, thank you, Sandra, for a prompt which took me on a tangent I quite enjoyed!
And congratulations, Squidge. Well deserved!
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Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly competition – August 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 7 months ago
Congratulations to Squidge for winning and to the rest of us simply for being amazing ????
Also thanks to Sandra for shooing me in an unexpected direction ☺️
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Thea replied to the topic Choices in the forum
Whodunnit? 2 years, 7 months agoReading
Knife
Serious
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