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Daedalus posted an update 2 years, 9 months ago
And don’t forget people, if you say anything mean about JK Rowling, you’ll get in her bad books. The detective ones.
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Seagreen started the topic Monthly competition – October 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 9 months ago
I’ve just started listening to Ken Follett on BBC Maestro, and this is (sort of) taken from a task he sets at the end of the section on developing ideas.
Take a scene in a book (your own or someone else’s) where not a lot is happening. Find five ways to improve it e.g identify things that could go wrong, complicate matters or raise the sta…[Read more]
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interesting…
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Fascinating idea. Might give that a go
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Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly competition – September 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 9 months ago
Anyone else getting question marks instead of the smiley face?
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Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly competition – September 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 9 months ago
Oh, crikey! This has caught me on the hop. Such a great catch of entries!
Squidge – thanks for the prompts. I wasn’t convinced I’d be able to do them justice.
Libby, Sandra, Janette and Alex – there wasn’t a single story I wouldn’t have picked to be a winner ????
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Squidge replied to the topic Monthly competition – September 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 9 months ago
Wowser…spoilt for choice! Thank you all for taking my three little words and turning them into lots of great stories. As always, the three objects were used in very different and clever ways. So…
Sandra – there’s something about a pipe-smoking detective, isn’t there? Lovely piece, with the rat almost in the trap until the detective took his…[Read more]
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Thank you for a good challenge, Squidge. Congratulations, Sea, well deserved, though I enjoyed all of the other stories too.
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Squidge posted an update 2 years, 9 months ago
aaargh! Apologies, such a busy day at church yesterday, totally forgot I needed to judge the comp! Am on it now…
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly competition – September 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 9 months ago
A great batch of entries. Sadly, my good idea didn’t finally coalesce until I was dozing off last night.
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Squidge posted an update 2 years, 10 months ago
Only a few days left to get something into the monthly comp… Looking forward to reading the entries!
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Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly competition – September 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 10 months ago
UNTITLED (300 words)
Betty Hoskins – aged 95 years – and probably a pipe smoker for the last 85 of them. She’s at the allotments, perched on a ragged, weather-beaten wicker armchair beneath an arch of bamboo rods and green netting, enveloped in a haze of what she calls her ‘medicinal’ blend.
It’s late evening, the sun is bedding down behi…[Read more]
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Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly competition – August 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 10 months ago
Congratulations to Squidge for winning and to the rest of us simply for being amazing ????
Also thanks to Sandra for shooing me in an unexpected direction ☺️
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Barny replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum
Whodunnit? 2 years, 10 months agoThe feeling is mutual.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum
Whodunnit? 2 years, 10 months agoMarvellous to see you here, Barny.
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Barny replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum
Whodunnit? 2 years, 10 months agoThanks for organising this, Ath.
I really really intend to actually submit something this year.
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Barny replied to the topic Choices in the forum
Whodunnit? 2 years, 10 months agoWriting, Pistol, Serious.
See you in the library.
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Squidge started the topic Monthly competition – September 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 10 months ago
Your prompt this month consists of three words:
wheelbarrow, street lamp, and a pipe (smoking)
Use them however you would like, in no more than 300 words. Have fun 😉
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Squidge replied to the topic Monthly competition – August 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 10 months ago
Oh blimey! Did not expect that at all… Wow, thanks, Sandra.
Everyone else’s was fab. Feel a bit of a fraud having popped in here for the first time in ages and getting to set this month’s challenge, but I’ll do my best x
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly competition – August 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 10 months ago
Thanks for the prompt, Sandra. Enjoyed it this month. And very well done to Squidge. A worthy winner!
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KazG replied to the topic Choices in the forum
Whodunnit? 2 years, 10 months agoArithmetic
Candlestick
Comical
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KazG posted an update in the group
Whodunnit? 2 years, 10 months agonever written a whodunnit! But I LOVED Agatha when I was a young reader, so let’s see if anything useful sank in. Thank you, Ath!
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I’ve never written a whodunnit either, Kaz, apart from a silly story about a ghostwriter that probably doesn’t count! It’ll be a fun challenge, but meticulous planning and me don’t really go together.
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me neither, John! It will be interesting…
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I will, of course, be using JGAAP on every entry. No Camilla Läckberg disputes here, thank you very much!
Japanese Generally Accepted Accounting Principles? Blimey, I knew I had to incorporate arithmetic, but that seems a bit much
Purely to dispel all doubt: https://evllabs.github.io/JGAAP/
And, no, I won’t really use it
Well now I’m going to spend the next three days feeding my own work into it to see how much I sound like myself