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Seagreen replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 8 years ago
I still haven’t done the challenge you set me on Fb, so the chance of me writing 50,0000000 words in the space of a month is quite slim 🙂
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Athelstone started the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 8 years ago
Anybody doing it this year?
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly comp – October 2018 in the forum Monthly Competition 8 years ago
Also, bumpety bump
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Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly comp – October 2018 in the forum Monthly Competition 8 years ago
I know it doesn’t work in quite the same way, but *Bump*
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Squidge replied to the topic Opinion about title in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 8 years ago
I wouldn’t have said that any of them give any indication as to the target readership. I’d just assume it was an unusual character name, with possibly a hint of sci-fi, but it doesn’t give anything away about the story.
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Seagreen replied to the topic Opinion about title in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 8 years ago
It’s a toss-up between a children’s picture book and the ‘unofficial’ biography of a Hollywood A-lister.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Opinion about title in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 8 years ago
Without any other information, I’d probably guess at a YA novel.
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John S Alty posted an update 8 years ago
Listening to an old Jimmy Buffett album. Doesn’t have the same impact it did when listening to it lying on the deck of my boat with a glass of rum in my hand, swinging to the anchor in a Caribbean bay.
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Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly comp – October 2018 in the forum Monthly Competition 8 years ago
I’m living on me nerves, so I am, wondering where the next comp entry is coming from… I know there’s one out there. I can feel it, see?
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Sandra posted an update 8 years ago
Off Down Under for a few weeks – back back end of November. Lots of rooms, and a train, with lots of views. All writing longhand.
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Daedalus replied to the topic Controlling Idea / Downsizing in the forum Coffee Shop 8 years ago
Sometimes definitely control! E.g. ‘Suffering a tyrant may be bad but tyrannicide leads to civil war, which is worse’ – see Plutarch via Shakespeare via this morning’s ‘In Our Time’ 😉
As Orwell wrote ‘Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past’ – and to my mind, the past = the historical narrative =…[Read more]
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Tony Lyttle replied to the topic New title needed for 'Snatched' – help! in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 8 years ago
In the Nick of Time
Lost in Time
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John S Alty replied to the topic Titles in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 8 years ago
Tangled Web (A, The, What a, Weaving a,)
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John S Alty replied to the topic New title needed for 'Snatched' – help! in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 8 years ago
Time is sometimes described as a fourth dimension, so:
Fourth Dimension
The Fourth Dimension
Into the, From the, Out of the, Attack of the. (last one was a joke). -
Squidge replied to the topic New title needed for 'Snatched' – help! in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 8 years ago
The time between?
Between times?
The Time Snatcher of London Towns?
A shadow of time… (working on from Jonathan’s suggestions)
A shadow in time?I really hate titles sometimes!;)
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RichardB replied to the topic Titles in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 8 years ago
A Cuckoo in the Nest?
Hmm. Possibly a bit of a cliché, but the image seems apt.
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Daedalus replied to the topic New title needed for 'Snatched' – help! in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 8 years ago
In the Shadow of the City
The City in Time’s Shadow
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Seagreen replied to the topic New title needed for 'Snatched' – help! in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 8 years ago
Thinking out loud here…
Daughter (Children?) of Shadows
Daughter of the Shadowland(s)
The Time Stealer’s …… (Adversary/Daughter/Enemy)
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Daedalus replied to the topic Controlling Idea / Downsizing in the forum Coffee Shop 8 years ago
I like that way of putting it. Helpful.
I haven’t seen ‘Downsizing’ but it sounds like a film that is a bit overloaded with ideas and ends up getting lost among them.
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