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Sandra replied to the topic Good news on the lyric writing front in the forum Podium 5 years, 6 months ago
Excellent lyrics – and a huge achievement given the number of entries. Well done.
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Squidge replied to the topic Good news on the lyric writing front in the forum Podium 5 years, 6 months ago
Congratulations! Fab news!
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Good news on the lyric writing front in the forum Podium 5 years, 6 months ago
Wow! Congratulations! Where can we read it?
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Should be here:
https://www.songwritingcontest.co.uk/later-than-you-think.html-
Beautiful, John. I can hear it. Where do you go from here with it?
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Collaboration. Either someone wanting to produce this song, or one of my others, or wants me to write something to a specific melody. We’ll see! Elton John hasn’t called yet – must be busy.
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Libby replied to the topic Good news on the lyric writing front in the forum Podium 5 years, 6 months ago
That’s brilliant, John! Huge congratulations. What an achievement – I’m really pleased.
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Thanks, Libby
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and I’ve just bumped in!! Hooray, now for the reading 😅
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Daedalus posted an update 5 years, 6 months ago
Cutting a story down from 3800 to 2800… Got to 3200 and now every word removed feels like a fingernail
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Keep going, Daeds. And good luck!
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Thanks @libby! 209 to go
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Oh no, @daedalus, we’re not going to be haunted by all the babies murdered, are we? 😀
Seriously, good luck with that. If anyone can, you can.-
Thanks! It’s looking pretty sparse, I can tell you
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59 for me.
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And I just happen to be reading a book about writing titled “Murder Your Darlings.” 🙂
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Sounds like fate to me. Keep slaying 🙂
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I have allowed myself one darling to remain. The rest have been butchered
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I started out at 900 words over, Daedalus, but persevered and think my cut down version is stronger. Funny how that can happen. Good luck with losing those final few hundred words.
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All of you! Save those precious babes and enter them in the Monthy Comp!
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Often that is the case, but in this case the original version was fairly tight, and there was no real way to lose length other than salami slicing. Ah well
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly comp – February 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 6 months ago
“Then gently scan your brother man” (Robbie Burns)
‘Hipbones,’ she said. ‘They’ll disappear. Never to be seen again.’
That was early on. After forcing her to admit it. Persuading her it’d change nothing between us. When I’d arranged my physio appointments to coincide with her off-duty; to give us some pressure-free hours at home. When the…[Read more] -
Athelstone started the topic Monthly comp – February 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 6 months ago
Can’t believe it’s February already. To quote Don McLean, February made me shiver. Cold, love, anger, heat, fear, excitement, illness, happiness – 400 words maximum on absolutely anything that caused a shiver one February.
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Ooh, thank you, Ath – you’ve enabled me to tackle another tricky scene.
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 6 months ago
Well done Ath – and thank you Libby – JUST the sort of challenge I best respond to (not sure what part the ebony pendant will play yet, but I’m glad of its inclusion). Much enjoyed your dialogue-only piece too Kate, so much action incorporated.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 6 months ago
A small field but some fab entries and I’m very happy to be picked!
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Libby replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 6 months ago
What a tantalising range of stories and good use of the prompts. The standard is so high, and having a small number of entries paradoxically doesn’t make it any easier! In all of them I particularly enjoyed the voices both in the dialogue and the narration. I know Sandra’s piece is an excerpt from a longer work and Ath’s and Kate’s could be comp…[Read more]
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Squidge posted an update 5 years, 6 months ago
My Bump story’s up at last. Been pondering it for weeks, with no real ideas coming together, then it all came through in a rush this weekend. Phew.
(Loved reading the other stories that’ve been posted. I never start on them til I’ve posted my own…)
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Athelstone posted an update 5 years, 7 months ago
A MESSAGE FOR ALL “THINGS THAT GO BUMP” ESSAYERS. There is an update in the group’s activity stream.
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Libby replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 7 months ago
Three days to go before the monthly competition deadline! I know many Denizens are busy with the annual challenge. Still, as my grandmother used to say when spooning out seconds at the lunch table, any more for any more?
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Come on – it’s a super challenge this month! Just a few hundred words and still 2 and a teeny bit days left.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 7 months ago
Occasional rough language
Prat’s Key Wood
Prat’s Key Wood was as old as the hills. No, really.
Well, seeing as the hills are billions of years old and forged in the countless aeons before organic life, that’s a stretch. But, I mean 1) it was ancient to the max and 2) it took Jacko and a team of ten, and a bulldozer, and chainsaws, just one…[Read more]
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Athelstone posted an update 5 years, 7 months ago
Is it just me, or is the commercially produced garlic from supermarkets and greengrocers feeble old shite compared to the stuff I cooked with a few years back? I’ll swear it used to have some bite and tang to it, but these days I could stick whole bulbs in and hardly taste it. Going to try growing a few different types.
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No it’s not just you! Supermarket garlic tastes quite bland compared to the stuff I’ve cooked with while self-catering in France – though our local farm shop sometimes has decent bulbs.
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Definitely true. The garlic in the box I get from the organic farmer in the next village is ten times tastier than supermarket stuff.
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I agree. It has gone the way of so many other foods, so bland when mass produced. My France holiday (a distant memory) showed just how much.
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One of the first and most obvious changes is that after preparing a meal with garlic I’d have to scrub away at my hands for a good ten minutes and they’d still be poor company next day. These days a quick rinse is all that’s needed.
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Libby replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 7 months ago
A half-time reminder, for anyone thinking of entering this month’s Den competition, that we’re half way through January.
I hope everyone’s year is going well/reasonably well in the general Covid circumstances.
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BUMP!!! Not that I want to make tons of work for Libby, but only 2 entries so far and only 4 days + today left
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JaneShuff posted an update 5 years, 7 months ago
Posting this on the off chance someone can help. I’m planning my next book, part of which will be set in a camp for refugees and immigrants – very similar to the camp on Lesbos in Greece. I need to do some research into the conditions in the Greek camps and how they operates and also get some sense of the refugees’ different stories. I’ve found an…[Read more]
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Might be worth looking at Medecine Sans Frontier websites etc. They do a lot of work in the Med with the migrants, so there might be things via them?
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 7 months ago
‘Also known as …’
Early Thursday, DS Mike Kennedy, on her arrival.
‘Infirmary’s been on. Ursula Bothwell died three this morning. Peacefully, they said.’
‘Cause?’
‘Not known. Which means –’
‘A PM. Not peaceful.’ DS Fran Lloyd strove to hide the threat of tears. Not normally a problem; had to be more than fifty times she’d heard the nec…[Read more] - Load More
Thanks, Sandra