Den of Writers | Clebs | Group Activity https://www.denofwriters.com/members/clebs/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Clebs is a member. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:19:15 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 729a7125ac99b1ae0dd30e4a2d477253 Knicks joined the group DONATIONS https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/24706/ Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:27:39 +0000 0 1f18c023e665119223b2e3351a6e6413 Janette posted an update in the group DONATIONS: Presuming your details haven't changed since last time, I […] https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/24541/ Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:45:06 +0000 Presuming your details haven’t changed since last time, I hope you will find my £20 donation in your bank. Hope you find the rest.

]]> 1 41cf6ddcc599fc04a8d58bc526227700 Bella joined the group A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/23455/ Sun, 13 Oct 2024 17:53:59 +0000 0 7f5c8dbcdd1a5889c0fc164020d01352 Thea joined the group A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/23454/ Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:51:34 +0000 0 5b6e6b1283b4e87d1bb2265d88ea66a5 Athelstone replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/a-different-time/forum/topic/chit-chat-6/#post-15725 Sat, 12 Oct 2024 08:04:54 +0000 Please don’t feel you have to emphasise the differentness. It was a throw-away comment about making me happy. The following remark that making me happy is not a condition of entry to the challenge was intended to say that. What should probably have put is that emphasis on difference will be great, but not emphasising it will also be…[Read more]

]]> 0 651ff7e9f5535117f5b712cb0cdcf211 Daedalus replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/a-different-time/forum/topic/chit-chat-6/#post-15724 Fri, 11 Oct 2024 15:47:39 +0000 Re absence of choices and surprises. I’m not sure really. Sometimes they’ve helped me push myself to do something dramatically different, or have at least significantly shaped what I’ve written. Other times they just made slight complications to writing the story I would have written anyway. Generally it’s the overall theme I have the biggest…[Read more]

]]> 3 bda107254f9992dc47e0981917789463 Barny joined the group A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/23430/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 18:56:02 +0000 0 619622adaa9698c2d288328a8e1e7bdc RichardB replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/a-different-time/forum/topic/chit-chat-6/#post-15710 Sun, 06 Oct 2024 09:55:22 +0000 That’s two steps out of character for me. First, I enter the monthly competition for the first time in God knows how long. Now, having a history of inspiration for the annual challenge not descending until the last minute, i’ve had an idea already. Whether I’ll succeed in making a story out of it, we’ll have to wait and see, but the germ is…[Read more]

]]> 0 40f547ca888d9ed17d838a7c7d020281 Sandra replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/a-different-time/forum/topic/chit-chat-6/#post-15709 Sun, 06 Oct 2024 07:42:41 +0000 Yeah. Thanks. Still pondering …

]]> 0 6db8be04d093290669f1c659e47fa0ee Athelstone replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/a-different-time/forum/topic/chit-chat-6/#post-15708 Sat, 05 Oct 2024 20:11:36 +0000 How many words would it be? That said, it isn’t against the rules, and this is a challenge to produce a short story in any way you see fit as long as it fits with the theme.

]]> 0 868babce2584390f516151518e3b637c Sandra replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/a-different-time/forum/topic/chit-chat-6/#post-15707 Fri, 04 Oct 2024 09:10:34 +0000 Initially, absence of choices left me teetering, unsupported. lacking a direction pointer   (as did the lack of a ‘final twist’ in previous years.) But it didn’t take long to seize on an idea (and even less time to feel that  a mistake and subsequently suffer an alternative uncertainty of direction) Still ongoing, but that’s the nature of a ch…[Read more]

]]> 0 ce73aeb19ffbffbf1bc8128bb63da363 Athelstone replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/a-different-time/forum/topic/chit-chat-6/#post-15705 Fri, 04 Oct 2024 07:53:02 +0000 I’m interested in how people feel about the different approach this year, i.e. the absence of choices and surprises. It was something suggested to me by a group member and I thought I’d give it a go.

]]> 1 a069a80e47dc4d3501be69ead1be1568 Athelstone replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/a-different-time/forum/topic/chit-chat-6/#post-15703 Thu, 03 Oct 2024 09:55:25 +0000 All sounds promising so far.

]]> 0 96675d11402028ffdeb753c5b7b56a37 Clebs joined the group A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/23419/ Wed, 02 Oct 2024 09:14:59 +0000 0 db986d9f2629e395500b7c91da1a78c1 Daedalus replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/a-different-time/forum/topic/chit-chat-6/#post-15695 Tue, 01 Oct 2024 09:14:48 +0000 Hope so!!

]]> 0 177e23d4f1739b3afa0591cf57bae85b Jules replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/a-different-time/forum/topic/chit-chat-6/#post-15692 Tue, 01 Oct 2024 07:57:27 +0000 Asper usual, I have no ideas at all yet. Knowing me, it’ll be something weird though ????

]]> 0 5e05a6efcbae8984b50c11251835ec32 Daedalus replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/a-different-time/forum/topic/chit-chat-6/#post-15688 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:33:51 +0000 I’ve an idea. Whether it’s a workable idea or not is another matter. Recently my life has taken a slight turn reminiscent of the film Stand By Me, and it’s kind of demanding to be written about. On the other hand, it doesn’t have an obvious narrative shape or all the checkbox things you’re supposed to include to make a story these days, and…[Read more]

]]> 0 d62525c777ac168d9dc66df094aeb804 Daedalus joined the group A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/23404/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 22:08:54 +0000 0 16247f35eb1efeb20c2b0ba972e24cd9 Woolleybeans joined the group A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/23403/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:35:11 +0000 0 d8adf8d70b1e61ba9e68ee233e722e95 Jules joined the group A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/23401/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:33:06 +0000 0 30aad9cb8c90b2439fb593640fd5c13a John T replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/a-different-time/forum/topic/chit-chat-6/#post-15669 Thu, 26 Sep 2024 20:32:46 +0000 You might get a riff on my current series of novels out of this. There is one character who is hardly affected by the passage of time, and it would be fun to explore her POV. Although how to write it, I haven’t a clue… yet.

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]]> 0 2e787e3bd708ef338962eac8dadee450 Athelstone started the topic Q&A in the forum A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/a-different-time/forum/topic/qa-3/ Sun, 22 Sep 2024 18:47:24 +0000 If you have to ask…

]]> 0 ae624c2d5799b6f51dc149b9e03fb275 Athelstone started the topic Voting in the forum A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/a-different-time/forum/topic/voting-7/ Sun, 22 Sep 2024 18:36:04 +0000 On the face of it, what you have to do is quite simple. However, those of you have been through this before in previous challenges will know that in fact it is extraordinarily tough.

When the writing stage of the challenge closes on 2 February 2025 at 22:00 UK time, the voting stage begins. No doubt most of you will have read many of the entries…[Read more]

]]> 0 e05dcb8f5fa1dbe0817bf61a11eff47b Athelstone started the topic Rules in the forum A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/a-different-time/forum/topic/rules-5/ Sun, 22 Sep 2024 18:20:07 +0000 Some Basic Story Rules and Guidelines

 

The challenge is to produce a short story. In the way that the term is usually understood, what is needed is a work of fiction. By all means stretch this definition as you like, to include, for example, an imaginative account of true events, but please avoid essays, reportage, political polemic,…[Read more]

]]> 0 353355cd8dc3cfd13c1ea03678519751 Athelstone started the topic Welcome PLEASE READ THIS FIRST in the forum A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/a-different-time/forum/topic/welcome-please-read-this-first-7/ Sun, 22 Sep 2024 18:11:03 +0000 Welcome all.

This year, I have borrowed from the method often used in the monthly competition. The theme of the challenge, A Different Time, is a prompt. That is to say, look at the phrase and use it in any of the multitude of possible ways that occur. You might choose to write an historical piece, or a recollection of something that happened in…[Read more]

]]> 0 304fe1831714f83ab4295895235e5372 Athelstone created the group A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/23353/ Sun, 22 Sep 2024 18:09:51 +0000 0 6560f5571476f061f1dbbf3d8176c253 John T joined the group DONATIONS https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/22518/ Wed, 07 Feb 2024 09:44:03 +0000 0 ef19c3b0ae1795252aa73c9dd42477aa Terrie joined the group DONATIONS https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/22507/ Tue, 06 Feb 2024 13:18:04 +0000 0 c02a1244c454263a2ed4977f29b65b4e Barny replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum Whodunnit? https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/whodunnit/forum/topic/chit-chat-5/#post-14260 Thu, 07 Sep 2023 19:49:38 +0000 The feeling is mutual.

]]> 0 db7c92e04b5e27e48cef346d9080ffb0 Thea replied to the topic Choices in the forum Whodunnit? https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/whodunnit/forum/topic/choices-6/#post-14259 Thu, 07 Sep 2023 13:51:08 +0000 Reading

Knife

Serious

]]> 0 3f2c531db31c1aff63ec60044ceb9e6d Thea joined the group Whodunnit? https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/21765/ Thu, 07 Sep 2023 13:06:21 +0000 0 de0832b1e7bcb41b0bf7c85f0297db97 Athelstone replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum Whodunnit? https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/whodunnit/forum/topic/chit-chat-5/#post-14258 Thu, 07 Sep 2023 06:55:03 +0000 Marvellous to see you here, Barny. 

]]> 0 52c46c1a17643d876276fede3d48c029 Barny replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum Whodunnit? https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/whodunnit/forum/topic/chit-chat-5/#post-14256 Wed, 06 Sep 2023 21:26:57 +0000 Thanks for organising this, Ath.

I really really intend to actually submit something this year.

 

]]> 0 beae2f59bb1ddcd65270003f6e28a2c5 Barny replied to the topic Choices in the forum Whodunnit? https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/whodunnit/forum/topic/choices-6/#post-14255 Wed, 06 Sep 2023 21:24:47 +0000 Writing, Pistol, Serious.

See you in the library.

]]> 0 b58c1a4728803f32c4d90ec4fb523bf5 Barny joined the group Whodunnit? https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/21760/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 21:21:21 +0000 0 e5e57f92c0fcc52a17deeeffdae2b698 Xander Michael replied to the topic Choices in the forum Whodunnit? https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/whodunnit/forum/topic/choices-6/#post-14250 Wed, 06 Sep 2023 05:35:46 +0000 Arithmetic

Pistol

Comical

]]> 0 ab5d122270b7c4186c5acefe4e2dafec Xander Michael joined the group Whodunnit? https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/21754/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 05:30:10 +0000 0 f6da60997dfc60482e74c17d68278a00 KazG replied to the topic Choices in the forum Whodunnit? https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/whodunnit/forum/topic/choices-6/#post-14231 Sat, 02 Sep 2023 22:58:33 +0000 Arithmetic

Candlestick

Comical

]]> 0 0fe702463c097ab8d58907c4d0e00ba7 KazG posted an update in the group Whodunnit?: never written a whodunnit! But I LOVED Agatha when I was a […] https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/21732/ Sat, 02 Sep 2023 22:55:51 +0000 never 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!

]]> 2 fc399346db0c128c3f47a0b0ee8ab63f KazG joined the group Whodunnit? https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/21731/ Sat, 02 Sep 2023 22:55:03 +0000 0 709518ffd7a2c7d25765ee48b2661d4b Squidge replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum Whodunnit? https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/whodunnit/forum/topic/chit-chat-5/#post-14230 Sat, 02 Sep 2023 12:26:29 +0000 I’m like John…I always join in the hope I’ll be able to write something. This year’s been a shocker for the novel, so a change of content would be most welcome!

 

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