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Bella posted a new activity comment 1 year, 8 months ago
I had a very strong (and somewhat unexpected) emotional reaction to the death. She has always loomed large in my life as my father is an ardent royalist. I’d expected to feel a bit sad, as I did when Prince Philip died, but I burst into tears when I heard the news. We were in Scotland and very nearly passed the cortege from Balmoral to Edinburgh…[Read more]
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Bella replied to the topic How to reach out to a speculative fiction editor? in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 1 year, 8 months ago
Admittedly the last edit I had done was via someone I have known for a while. But still, you are commissioning a job so it is up to you to tell them/ask them what you think is necessary.
I’d write along the lines of
Hey, Editor. Sort out this pile of horror for me, there’s a good fellow.
OK, OK. More along the lines of
Dear Editor
I got your…[Read more]
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Bella replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum All You Need 1 year, 8 months ago
I’m just hoping the choice isn’t whether or not our town contains a Pump Room or a racecourse. Because that will be fun to unpick… 😀
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Bella replied to the topic Choices in the forum All You Need 1 year, 8 months ago
Cheltenham
No, there isn’t.
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Bella replied to the topic CAS longlist in the forum Podium 1 year, 9 months ago
Wow!
Very well done.
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Bella replied to the topic Wildlife in the Kitchen in the forum Blogs 1 year, 10 months ago
<p>I’ve never seen one that big in the UK but we spent a few summers holidaying in Finland when I was a child. Coming back from the lake one day my sister and I found a huge green and gold (or maybe brown and gold, I can’t remember exactly) dragonfly lying motionless on the path. We prodded it (gently) but it didn’t move so we concluded it was…[Read more]
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Bella replied to the topic The Future of the Den (again) in the forum Blogs 1 year, 10 months ago
My participation is very sporadic, although I do actually pop in here most days and read what’s been written. I’m glad it can continue, at least for now. I would miss it if it went.
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Bella posted a new activity comment 1 year, 11 months ago
My friend was a scout leader at the time but not involved with the finances. He reckons he knows someone who will know and is asking. Will pass on any further info I get.
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Bella posted a new activity comment 1 year, 11 months ago
I know somebody who might know if you are still trying to find an answer. Would you like me to ask?
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I wouldn’t want you to go to any trouble, but if it’s easy to ask then I’d be grateful. My MC is recounting a time when his foster-mother gave him subs to go to scout meetings, but he stole the money. This would be around 1991. I’d like to be able to say what he used it for.
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I did ask MrsB, who used to be a Beaver Scout Leader, and she said there was no set amount handed down from above (that is, the Scouting Association) but that each group decided how much to charge, so you’ve got some latitude. Unfortunately, she couldn’t remember how much her own group used to charge thirty years ago.
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Thanks Richard. Yes, thinking back to my brief spell as a scout, a couple of years in the mid-60s, I vaguely recall differing amounts depending on what activities were planned. I did suspect that it might vary from troup to troup, particularly as some are linked to schools and other organisations.
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My friend was a scout leader at the time but not involved with the finances. He reckons he knows someone who will know and is asking. Will pass on any further info I get.
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Thanks Bella
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Bella posted a new activity comment 1 year, 11 months ago
I remember Catasshe! She was great to have around.
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Bella posted a new activity comment 2 years, 1 month ago
Yes, I didn’t get nearly as much as I thought I would out of the one I went to. It was fabulous meeting up with everyone but everything else was a bit – just, OK, really. Of course, had the agents swooned over my work at the 1-2-1 sessions and offered immediate representation, as they were supposed to, my view may have been different. But the best…[Read more]
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Bella posted a new activity comment 2 years, 1 month ago
Bloody hell. He was three years younger than my husband. Makes you think. RIP, Paul. Hugs, Ath.
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Bella replied to the topic The Future of the Den – Part 2 in the forum Blogs 2 years, 5 months ago
I’ve popped over and had a look. It all seems great and the looks is fine as far as I’m concerned.
How one goes about getting more punters is a bit of a head-scratcher.
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Bella posted a new activity comment 2 years, 6 months ago
Sorry to hear you caught it. Did it break through jabs? Hope you recover quickly and fully x
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Bella replied to the topic The world, her dog, memories-dot, dot, dot. in the forum Blogs 2 years, 6 months ago
Interesting. I’ve used writing as a way to process the emotions linked to some pretty unpleasant episodes in my past. I know that a lot of therapists advise one to write a letter (never meaning to send, a la Nights in White Satin). I’ve tried that, though the letter format doesn’t work for me, whereas more of a blog style recounting does.
I’ve…[Read more]
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Bella replied to the topic Beta Reading Discussion in the forum Blogs 2 years, 9 months ago
I also don’t beta read to any sort of checklist. I will always check first with the author what they particularly want feedback on – if they feel something might not be working, but aren’t sure, or whatever. Then I will make sure to address those issues, as well as make other comments as I think necessary.
I have quite a sharp eye from the…[Read more]
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Bella replied to the topic The Future of the Den in the forum Blogs 2 years, 10 months ago
Also – apologies of lack of participation. The Covid situation has totally mucked up my mojo. I’ve not written a word, stopped playing my (relatively new) sax, hardly even read a thing blah blah blah. It is what it is. I have developed an obsession with weightlifting, so haven’t been entirely idle! But I’m starting to feel the odd twinges of…[Read more]
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