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Daedalus replied to the topic Hull Paragon: The Million-to-One Chance in the forum Blogs 7 years, 8 months ago
This is fascinating.
My grandfather, on my mother’s side, worked on the railways but I know virtually nothing of what he did, to my embarrassment. I gather he was responsible for maintenance of a section of track, and when he started, had something to do with using horses to shunt rolling stock into and out of sidings, this being before that…[Read more]
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Daedalus replied to the topic Hull Paragon: The Million-to-One Chance in the forum Blogs 7 years, 9 months ago
Another fascinating blog Richard. And unlike so many of them, where there were obvious risks being taken or safety features omitted, with this one it’s so unlikely as to surely have been unforseeable. Do you think the signalmen were reassured by all the built-in the safety features that nothing like that could have happened, freeing them to run t…[Read more]
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Daedalus posted a new activity comment 7 years, 9 months ago
I know the feeling – you have my sympathy. All the advice I can offer is to go for whichever option will help you keep moving forward. If the nagging in your head is so insistent you can’t go on, then go back and fix. If the thought of fixing the first 30k is too onerous and you want to head on to the conclusion, then do that. Although there’s…[Read more]
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Oh Bella. I do feel for you. FWIW that often happens to me. I get a good way into something and then have a blinding flash of inspiration as to a better way to write it. Good luck with whatever you decide to do.
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Maybe fix the opening 3-4 chapters (10k or so), so you know you can do it, and then skip ahead and plough on the with the rest? Either way, hope you install soon x
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*un-stall
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Oh, the dreaded 30K running-into-a-brick-wall-at-full-speed. Happens to me all the time – about 1/3 of the way through, or about 25 / 30K words in. FWIW, the last two times, I went back and edited from the start as I couldn’t face the idea of getting to the end of the draft and then having to go back and fix the start. It also meant that once…[Read more]
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Daedalus replied to the topic My Publishing Nightmare – the story of a book deal gone bad (Part 1) in the forum Blogs 7 years, 9 months ago
That’s definitely one of the problems Bella – people, self included, really want these things to go well and can easily blind themselves to the problems. There’s that siren voice of ‘yes, but you’ll be published…’ – as if that means anything by itself
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Daedalus replied to the topic My Publishing Nightmare – the story of a book deal gone bad (Part 1) in the forum Blogs 7 years, 9 months ago
Thanks @philippaeast – you’re most welcome. I feel very silly having made all these avoidable errors, but I wouldn’t want anyone else to fall into the same trap. Mostly I don’t want people to get stuck with publishers who act in bad faith.
Would you mind retweeting the link the next time you’re on Twitter? Just to get the highest circulation…[Read more]
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Daedalus replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 9 months ago
And you’re doing brilliantly at it John 😉
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Daedalus replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 9 months ago
Congrats and good luck both – John, don’t do yourself down, you have a talent with the short story
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Daedalus posted a new activity comment 7 years, 9 months ago
It’s a bug that means the ‘show all replies’ button sometimes fails to appear, unfortunately. Has been annoyingly persistent
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Daedalus replied to the topic My Publishing Nightmare – the story of a book deal gone bad (Part 1) in the forum Blogs 7 years, 9 months ago
I’ve just published Part 2
My Publishing Nightmare – the story of a book deal gone bad (Part 2)
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Daedalus posted a new activity comment 7 years, 9 months ago
Reply to see if I can bring the old replies back
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Daedalus posted a new activity comment 7 years, 9 months ago
Wow.
Still, tall and charming though, so in the world of publushing it evens out
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Daedalus posted a new activity comment 7 years, 9 months ago
Wow, American long-form journalism really is so very pointlessly longwinded. So far I have learned that Mallory is tall, good looking and charming.
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Yes, but BECAUSE he is tall, good looking (he really isn’t) and charming, he GOT TO LEAVE CUPS OF PEE IN PEOPLE’S OFFICES and GOT PROMOTED!
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Wow.
Still, tall and charming though, so in the world of publushing it evens out
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It’s some raging privilege, for sure! But the author (must find her name, and books) who set a PI after him, and based her villains on him – she sounds epic. Classy sly burn.
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Wow, American long-form journalism really is so very pointlessly longwinded. So far I have learned that Mallory is tall, good looking and charming.
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Yes, but BECAUSE he is tall, good looking (he really isn’t) and charming, he GOT TO LEAVE CUPS OF PEE IN PEOPLE’S OFFICES and GOT PROMOTED!
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Wow.
Still, tall and charming though, so in the world of publushing it evens out
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It’s some raging privilege, for sure! But the author (must find her name, and books) who set a PI after him, and based her villains on him – she sounds epic. Classy sly burn.
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Daedalus posted a new activity comment 7 years, 9 months ago
French is great. En anglais that would just be a Big
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Daedalus posted a new activity comment 7 years, 9 months ago
It’s one of those Twitter things where I see loads of references to it but can’t find exactly what any of it means
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It was a (very long) new Yorker article. I’m torn between a compulsive fascination and sheer rage.
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I’ve found it… Cover me, I’m going in
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Wow, American long-form journalism really is so very pointlessly longwinded. So far I have learned that Mallory is tall, good looking and charming.
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Yes, but BECAUSE he is tall, good looking (he really isn’t) and charming, he GOT TO LEAVE CUPS OF PEE IN PEOPLE’S OFFICES and GOT PROMOTED!
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Wow.
Still, tall and charming though, so in the world of publushing it evens out
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It’s some raging privilege, for sure! But the author (must find her name, and books) who set a PI after him, and based her villains on him – she sounds epic. Classy sly burn.
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Daedalus posted a new activity comment 7 years, 9 months ago
I like peccaries, with their tiny dainty feet
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Okay, a bit of porcine trivia. The meat of the wild boar is prized in some quarters in France, but the animal is a protected species (though that doesn’t stop it being sold under the counter occasionally). to get round this, pig breeders have crossed the wild boar (sanglier) with the farmyard pig (cochon). The resultant hybrid is known as a…[Read more]
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French is great. En anglais that would just be a Big
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😀 @daedalus that made me cackle!
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Daedalus posted a new activity comment 7 years, 9 months ago
And I thought things couldn’t get more apposite after the year of the cock
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Happy New Year! I’m a fan of pigs. Having met wild boars, I have much respect (mild terror) for them, and much love for the stripyness of their babes.
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I like peccaries, with their tiny dainty feet
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Okay, a bit of porcine trivia. The meat of the wild boar is prized in some quarters in France, but the animal is a protected species (though that doesn’t stop it being sold under the counter occasionally). to get round this, pig breeders have crossed the wild boar (sanglier) with the farmyard pig (cochon). The resultant hybrid is known as a…[Read more]
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French is great. En anglais that would just be a Big
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😀 @daedalus that made me cackle!
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@raine I adore the baby humbugs. Utterly cute. They have escape ladders and platforms attached to trees in the Austrian woods to get away from angry Dad pigs, though.
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I wonder where the other replies went?
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It’s a bug that means the ‘show all replies’ button sometimes fails to appear, unfortunately. Has been annoyingly persistent
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@bellam those platforms are a genius idea! Could have done with them in Poland – although it was the very protective mummies who made me more nervous tbh, especially when gorgeous humbugs decided to check out my boots!!
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Daedalus replied to the topic January 2019 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 9 months ago
Brilliant – thanks John and well done Jonathan, a tour-de-force of purple prose
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Daedalus replied to the topic Entering the Citadel in the forum Blogs 7 years, 9 months ago
I think you’re right to be absolutely honest and not gloss over the difficulties and how emotionally taxing success can be. As writers we need to hear it and be under no illusions (and I think it would be nice if readers were a bit more aware of that too – a fellow writer and illustrator tells me his daughter’s friends refuse to accept that’s what…[Read more]
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