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Libby replied to the topic A gasp escaped me! in the forum Blogs 5 years, 8 months ago
I’m impressed by your research @kazg
My mother used to read books by Monica Dickens, Charles’s great-granddaughter (just checked that one on Wikipedia 🙂 ). I enjoyed some of them too when I was a teenager. I don’t know if anyone still reads Monica Dickens.
I also enjoy your blog posts on https://www.karenginnane.com/
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Thanks for reading Libby! I hadn’t heard of Monica Dickens.
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Libby replied to the topic A Want of Discipline: Abergele, 1868 in the forum Blogs 5 years, 8 months ago
Thank you for this post, Richard. I didn’t know the Manchester-Liverpool route was the first intercity connection. My WIP features the Manchester Ship Canal in the 1930s. I believe, though I haven’t checked my notes, that the Port of Manchester docks had the largest private railway system in the country at that time.
Thank you for the…[Read more]
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Libby replied to the topic A gasp escaped me! in the forum Blogs 5 years, 9 months ago
I agree with you Jules. It’s worrying that schools will teach misleading literature.
One thought from my perspective as a writer of realist historical writer: the truth is more interesting than the invented even if it’s harder to work with. There’s a smaller point too that we can all make mistakes so might as well aim to get as much as possible…[Read more]
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That’s mean to be ‘historical fiction’.
It’s the heat. I can’t remember what I’m supposed to be.-
Or how to spell.
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Haha right there with you! And I completely agree – the truth in historical terms is often far more interesting than the Everyone Knows version. Also agree that writers have to be free to make unintentional mistakes without being pilloried for them. It’s inevitable that some small detail will be wrong but as you say, why not try to be as correct…[Read more]
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Even in fantasy – I do some research! Not in depth, granted, cos I’m not seeking to reflect accuracy, but I do have to do enough to make the processes I describe (like melting precious metals; making a catapult out of just string; rules about coats of arms for example) so if anyone reads it who also has that knowledge, I’ve given enough to make it…[Read more]
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Mad Iguana replied to the topic The $2,000,000 Guitar in the forum Blogs 5 years, 9 months ago
I saw that and thought of your post, and your memories.
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Libby replied to the topic Planning vs Winging it. in the forum
A place for Stupid Questoins 5 years, 10 months agoI outline before I start by knowing the probable ending or at any rate an ending I’m heading for – it could change though hasn’t done so far. And I know what the midpoint or turning point will be – the tightening up when the main character(s) are stuck with what’s happened and have to deal with it in a focused way. This applies to short fiction as…[Read more]
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Libby replied to the topic Monthly Competition: June 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 10 months ago
Congratulations, Squidge! I really enjoyed your story and everyone else’s too. Thank you, Jill, for the themes and the comments.
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Libby replied to the topic Where to start? in the forum
A place for Stupid Questoins 5 years, 11 months agoThis forum is a great idea, Andrew.
Re show-or-tell, I can’t add much to what’s already been said so well. The only thing I can think of is that sometimes, even with telling, you might want to write quite descriptively. Emma Darwin gives an example in the showing and telling post Jane mentions.
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Kate replied to the topic Where to start? in the forum
A place for Stupid Questoins 5 years, 11 months agoHi Andrew
I’ve got lots of that toilet paper with little black writing on it stashed all over the place too. It wasn’t until I began to interact with other writers and receive feedback that I started to learn. There’s a daunting amount of craft to get to grips with and I don’t think you ever stop learning.
As to your question, the way I look at…[Read more]
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Libby replied to the topic That old enemy, Perfectionism in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 5 years, 11 months ago
The character questionnaire. I’m with Richard. I don’t doubt they’re great if you find them useful but for me they are disheartening.
The other ‘favourite’ which sends my spirits groundwards is the implication, sometimes a very thinly-veiled instruction, that creative prose should learn from film or TV. If studying that medium helps fire…[Read more]
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Mad Iguana replied to the topic Fantasy Anthology in the forum Podium 5 years, 11 months ago
Great news Kate – well done!!
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Mad Iguana replied to the topic That old enemy, Perfectionism in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 5 years, 11 months ago
Perfectionism is a curse. But the desire for perfection is necessary, if we’re ever to get to be as good as we can be.
Every time I re-read anything I’ve ever written, I find myself changing a word here, a phrase there. A sentence can be cut completely and rewritten, and in the next rewrite, it comes back again.
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Kate replied to the topic 18 Worthy Websites for Writers in the forum Marketplace 5 years, 11 months ago
Thanks, Doug.
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Kate started the topic Fantasy Anthology in the forum Podium 5 years, 11 months ago
For anyone who likes a bit of fantasy, here’s a link to a soon to be available anthology. It also happens to contains my Steampunk story The Sky’s the Limit! 😀
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I’ve made a pre-publication order 🙂
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Thanks, Libby.
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Well done, Kate!
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Congratulations, Kate 😊
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Looks worth checking out. Thanks for sharing!
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Mad Iguana replied to the topic Sorry not sorry in the forum Blogs 5 years, 11 months ago
Beautifully written, but so infuriating!
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Thanks Mad – I know, I’m BOILING with fury!
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I gather now, from the Guardian, that it was a ‘misunderstanding’ on the part of RTZ. I feel this probably makes things worse.
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Libby replied to the topic Monthly comp – May 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 11 months ago
I’m pleased the critique was useful, Jill.
I forgot to link names, and as we haven’t heard from @squidge here’s a direct contact.
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