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JaneShuff replied to the topic Monthly comp – October 2019 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 8 months ago
Excellent entries and an excellent winner! Congratulations John and thank you Ath for the competition.
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly comp – October 2019 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 8 months ago
Well done, John, and the Honourables, and thanks Ath for the prompting of a memory.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly comp – October 2019 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 8 months ago
Oops! Sorry all – got my days mixed up, but anyway, super quality this month.
Sandra – Time to play
Yes! That’s exactly the feeling: that unexpected memory. There’s a lot in these few words. Oddly enough I was thinking about the ‘play’ that’s so often missing from writing, quite recently. So easy to assume that a reverential approach will produc…[Read more] -
JaneShuff replied to the topic Feedback on the Course in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 8 months agoThanks WB!
Am looking forward to Class 2 and glad it’s working out for everybody.
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Squidge replied to the topic Feedback on the Course in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 8 months agoAll OK here – finding the time to do the writing is hard at the mo, so I need to work on that, but the timings aren’t unachievable. Just that my life needs to calm down!! When does Class 2 go up?
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Sandra replied to the topic Feedback on the Course in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 8 months agoI’m a bit of a sleeping partner in this; not fully committed, so will dip in and out, attempting to keep to time structure and maybe lax in commenting.
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Hilary replied to the topic Feedback on the Course in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 8 months agoHappy so far, but I’m aware there’s a lot more I could be doing – and will be doing…
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Hilary replied to the topic Class 1 – Writing exercise, Kaz in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 8 months agoGorgeousness: My favourite bits were ‘afternoons draped in honey’ and ‘as cleanly as she peeled old skin from a white potato.’ I have been told I overwrite too sometimes. But what does it really mean?
I liked your I remember, too. Many of us chose to capture a single incident, or linked series, in our I remembers. I’ve also done it with…[Read more]
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Philippa East replied to the topic Bumbling Round the Citadel in the forum Blogs 6 years, 8 months ago
*John, sorry!
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Philippa East replied to the topic Bumbling Round the Citadel in the forum Blogs 6 years, 8 months ago
Thank you Jon!
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Feedback on the Course in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 8 months agoGoing to jump in now because time and access to internet are going to be in short supply over the next week.
I am happy with how it’s going. I have no wish for it to be any quicker than it is.
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Squidge posted an update 6 years, 8 months ago
@janeshuff – I’ll try to find you. And yes, it all looks very different on NaNo from my first ever visit in June.
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Squidge replied to the topic Class 1: Writing exercise, Squidge in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 8 months agoTa all! The substance in question was, I believe, CBD oil; two gents were having a very animated discussion about setting up in business to supply it.
@Raine – I am a death-dreamer, too! I’ve been shot, drowned, stabbed – really weird to feel my life ebbing away in the dream.
I think the forced thing is definitely due to the fact that I try to…[Read more]
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Class 1 – Writing exercise, Kaz in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 8 months agoI adored this @KazG. Nothing else to say.
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Class 1 Writing Exercise, Jane in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 8 months agoLove you all XXXX
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Class 1: Writing Exercise, Bella. in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 8 months agoHa ha The smell of Immac. Never forgotten!
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Craft Seminar Class 1: Getting Started: Memory, Obs in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 8 months agoThis is a bit of a cursory ‘reflections’ because I forgot to make notes of my thoughts as I read the chapters and did the exercises. Plus I’m away without the books so I can have a quick look to jog my memory.
The main thing I got out of Chapter One of the Burrows book was how useful a tool freewriting/freedrafting can be for all sorts of…[Read more]
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Sandra replied to the topic Class 1: Writing Exercise, Raine. in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 8 months agoRead your dialogue soon after a trip to Mull. Wish I had the memory to write down what I hear i passing. And your ‘I remember blue tiles and the smell of drains and old food.’ sums it up; as you say above, you only need a couple of telling details.
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Sandra replied to the topic Class 1 Writing exercise, Sandra in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 8 months agoAnd this a long ago piece deliberately adopting a Neolithic voice:
Always an edge to beware, to be aware of.
First at Liddle had been slabs, as thick as three of her three-year fingers, flat patterned stone, hard and often sharp when new, both separating bed from bed and on which they lay, degree of comfort dependent on the depth and newness of…[Read more]
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Sandra started the topic Class 1 Writing exercise, Sandra in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 8 months agoI decided not to buy the books and would prefer to dip in and out on this, so herewith my contribution.
I remember a Christmas, the dining table, taller than me, piled as high again with presents (and bigger ones beneath) and the focus of five adults, all on me.
I remember my Dad laughing on a Sunday morning when stopped by a policeman for…[Read more] - Load More
