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Athelstone posted an update in the group
Coming Home 4 years, 9 months agoRe Choices, and especially @seagreen and @knickylaurelle who have posted choices. Sorry, I inadvertently put up an old version of the lists which omitted “animal” from choice 1.
A reminder that everybody is free to change choices until the group closes.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum
Coming Home 4 years, 9 months agoAwards to Knicky and to Seagreen (who joined even before I’d finished setting up).
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Athelstone started the topic Rules in the forum Coming Home 4 years, 9 months ago
Some Basic Story Rules and Guidelines
The challenge is to produce a short story, so 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]
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Athelstone posted an update 4 years, 9 months ago
It’s that time again. There’s a new group in town. Head on over to “Coming Home” for details of the new Short Story Challenge.
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Athelstone started the topic Voting in the forum
Coming Home 4 years, 9 months agoOn 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 7 February 2022 at 22:00 UK time, the voting stage begins. No doubt most of you will have read many of the entries…[Read more] -
Athelstone started the topic Choices in the forum
Coming Home 4 years, 9 months agoWelcome all.
<e>Home is where the heart is</e> according to Pliny the Elder and a thousand sentimental songs since his time. Pliny clearly had in mind a place where we love to be: where we were shaped. But maybe that doesn’t appeal to our writing souls. Perhaps it’s a place of dread, or contempt, or it’s so unfamiliar as to be unrec…[Read more]
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Athelstone started the topic Welcome PLEASE READ THIS FIRST in the forum
Coming Home 4 years, 9 months agoWelcome all.
Home is where the heart is according to Pliny the Elder and a thousand sentimental songs since his time. Pliny clearly had in mind a place where we love to be: where we were shaped. But maybe that doesn’t appeal to our writing souls. Perhaps it’s a place of dread, or contempt, or it’s so unfamiliar as to be unrecognised. We may n…[Read more]
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Athelstone started the topic Chit Chat in the forum
Coming Home 4 years, 9 months agoPlease post all chit chat here!
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly Competition – August 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 9 months ago
I remember …
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood …
except it wasn’t the wood that was yellow but the fallen leaves, many of which were tinged with gingerbread brown. And it wasn’t a road they covered but a track. At least, one was a track. Green grass centred and, from the narrowness of then wet mud indentations, cartwheeled. Which thought too…[Read more]
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Athelstone posted an update 4 years, 9 months ago
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly competition July 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 9 months ago
@Seagreen, the ‘lightweight’ of your entry was in the well-chosen words; that they so well-expressed the solidity, the impact of that moment was the really clever bit. Thank you for this explanation.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly competition July 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 9 months ago
Libby, thanks for a super topic and the fabulous reviews. Seagreen, a well-deserved win.
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly competition July 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 9 months ago
Brilliantly well done Seagreen, and thank you Libby for the challenge, your insightful comments and for picking my favourite as winner, though all were enjoyable variations on the theme.
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RichardB replied to the topic Beta Reading Discussion in the forum Blogs 4 years, 9 months ago
Credit where credit is due: I believe it was Libby who first used the phrase ‘instinctive writer,’ even if she was replying to me.
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Sandra replied to the topic Beta Reading Discussion in the forum Blogs 4 years, 10 months ago
@ Libby – I confess I never print off an MS even for my own novels, but I do, when I’m feeling confident that the end is nigh, order it as a paperback book from Blurb.
@ Richard – thank you for that description ‘instinctive writer’ which very accurately describes my creative approach (and as an artist too) It may sound like a talent but the…[Read more]
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Sandra replied to the topic Beta Reading Discussion in the forum Blogs 4 years, 10 months ago
WHOOPS and apologies – I missed this, through being away and then returning with much to catch up with.
I’ve many, many reasons to be immeasurably grateful for the careful reading, insight and sensible, sensitive suggestions put forward by several beta readers of my novels while being aware that I am likely a poor beta reader, partly because I…[Read more] - Load More

It’s all good for me. Doesn’t change my choice any 😊