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Athelstone posted an update 7 years, 6 months ago
Installed a CPU fan in a mini-PC, cooked a chowder and a loaf of bread, watched a film, cleaned the kitchen and washed the floor (put the vacuum cleaner round the house while I was at it), measured up for a new side gate and some fencing, lounged about quite a bit. Actually supposed to be writing. Managed < 500 words 🙁
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Kate replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 6 months ago
🙂 I think we’re all fairly cracked already, Philippa, to keep doing this writing thing to ourselves!
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Philippa East replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 6 months ago
Thanks guys!
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Philippa East replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 6 months ago
The wall or one’s head, @katemachon?!
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Kate replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 6 months ago
A great reminder that if you keep on battering your head against that wall, sometimes it cracks! Congratulations Philippa. I’ll go and enjoy the read.
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Kate posted an update 7 years, 6 months ago
Have recently come across this lovely website run by one of our more low key Denizens. If you like a good pun, and feel like a giggle/groan, it’s well worth a visit. https://www.dearcranley.co.uk/
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It made me chuckle!
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Philippa East replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 6 months ago
This story (in its various drafts) got rejected eleven (11!!!) times before it finally found a home last month with Barren Magazine.
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Philippa East replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 6 months ago
Fab work, @Elle!
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Kate replied to the topic Monthly comp: Feb 2019 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 6 months ago
SECRETS
It was closing time at the library. The best time of day as far as Charlie was concerned. At last he could spend some time alone with the books, wiping covers and aligning spines, handling the stories that could transport him to a different world. It was just a pity he had to share them with other people’s sticky fingers.Not that the r…[Read more]
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Kate replied to the topic Monthly comp: Feb 2019 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 6 months ago
Ha, lovely closing lines, Libby.
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John S Alty replied to the topic Monthly comp: Feb 2019 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 6 months ago
Nice one, Libby.
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Daedalus replied to the topic Regular Den competition – where next? in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 6 months ago
Thanks for that @clebs, great to see your enthusiasm. Some good thoughts there. I’m bogged down in various commissions with time running out fast at the moment, but will gather this all together asap
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Clebs replied to the topic Regular Den competition – where next? in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 6 months ago
Hi All
As many of you know I’m a nervous (and a very basic) writer. Having read many of your stories I appreciate the talent of you all!
Anyway I logged on for the first time in ages to dip my toe into the monthly comp. Thanks to Barny I’ve managed to find this thread – I’m not that good at navigating websites. I wonder if anyone else is havin…[Read more]
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Athelstone replied to the topic Help/brainstorming needed please – using antagonist narrator in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 6 months ago
Thanks Bella 🙂
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Philippa East replied to the topic Help/brainstorming needed please – using antagonist narrator in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 6 months ago
You have to be a member to access though.
Oh, I didn’t think it was for younger people. Read it as adult for sure. Hope it finds its form in the end, and that your other projects are going okay meantime. X
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John S Alty replied to the topic A Bad Job: Thirsk, 1892 in the forum Blogs 7 years, 6 months ago
Another hugely entertaining tale of the rails, and very informative too. Thanks Richard.
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John S Alty posted an update 7 years, 6 months ago
I sense there is very little interest in the monthly, (or two monthly or three monthly competition), so perhaps we should just bag the whole thing. Put Jonathan out of his misery. It’s becoming embarrassing.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Help/brainstorming needed please – using antagonist narrator in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 6 months ago
Is that video on JW, @philippaeast? I just can’t spot it.
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You need to give up cleaning, Ath. It’s an addiction. Once started people find themselves having to do some or all of it every day and it ruins their health, their lives and their relatonships with their loved ones. I got help a few years ago and have managed to kick the habit. But it was hard, very hard.
Let’s see if I can do 1000 words today. Although, having said that, there’s a pile of laundry to sort out…
Step away from the dirty clothes. You know you can…
Step away, Ath, step away. Acknowledge the temptation, then remind yourself you do not *need* housework. Deep breaths. I believe in you (and your soon-to-be-dusty house).
stepped away long enough to do a few hundred words. Who would have thought laundry would have such a fascination.
Dirty clothes are great. People will stop visiting or inviting you around because you smell so bad, which means there will be no distraction from writing. You can always wear a gas mask if your own smell becomes too much for you! Leave that laundry and housework alone. 🙂
Only time I got the cleaning habit was when no.2 child started school, 3 months before no.3 child arrived. Never tried it since (& no.3 child now 41)
Yes, but apart from the fact that I’m a bit fussy about keeping the kitchen clean, the only time I’m struck by the impulse to do housework is when I’m sat in front of the keyboard trying to write.
That’s alright then. Just Say No.
Yes, Sandra! I think many of us have had a narrow escape from the clutches of cleaning and can look back and think ‘There, but for the Grace of God …’
It’s a dangerous road, indeed – I have never been seriously tempted down The Cleaning Way, except perhaps like @athelstone as a procrastinatory device. Much better to maintain low standards. It’s hard work, but worth it (all that TIME!). Also, kids. Train them up. They get quite useful as they get older.
@janeshuff is that actually a true story, or tongue in cheek? I am intrigued…
Sadly not @kazg. Not even sitting in front of the computer preparing to write makes me want to go and clean.
🙂 you and me both, @janeshuff