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Libby replied to the topic Monthly Comp – December 2019 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 6 months ago
Untitled, 300 words
Tilty Weston opened a tin of smoked mackerel and put half on his plate. Good for your heart, was mackerel, though his trouble was a limp and a few creaky joints. A tomato was next on the plate, and the frilled leaves of a Webb’s lettuce. A fine thing, a Webb’s. A sight of summer here in the half dark, though no surprise the…[Read more]
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RichardB posted an update 6 years, 6 months ago
Aha, @daedalus, so you’re now a ‘renowned naval aviation author,’ I see. Fair play to yer, mate.
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I was surprised to see that too! I don’t know who’s been renowning me, I must say
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Don’t knock it…
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I’ll renown you any day @daedalus
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Thanks both. Renowning accepted 🙂
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Janette posted an update 6 years, 6 months ago
I realise Christmas is a hectic time of year, but I’m hoping some of you will find time to chill – and write a wee piece for the December comp. Only 11 days to go.
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JaneShuff posted an update 6 years, 6 months ago
Should I write a bit more this afternoon or should I go and watch Star Wars 7 and 8 in preparation for going to see Star Wars The Rise of Starwalker next week???
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I’m going to see it tomorrow! Enjoyed 7, but I wouldn’t bother 8. And you should be writing! 🙂
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I thought it was seriously good. Hope you enjoy.
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I leave all my critical faculties at home when I go to see anything Star Wars so I will enjoy it whatever but great to hear that it’s seriously good.
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If I didn’t still hold out some hope for Scotland, I’d be seriously planning that. My parents might get kicked out anyway, so what’s to lose?
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I’m glad you’ve got some hope left. After long years of clinging on with my fingernails to some vestiges of hope that the slide away from the essentially decent, civilised nation I grew up in might be halted, I have now lost every last trace of it. Merry Christmas.
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Commiserations, UK. It seems we’re all stuck with hideous right wing governments that our compatriots have chosen for us. In the case of the UK it really beggars belief that after 9 years of austerity – food banks, slashes to services, skyrocketing poverty – that the people who suffer the most under Tory rule have gone and done it again. I really…[Read more]
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I came across this view from an ex-pat living in New Zealand. Some strong language for Denizens who prefer to steer clear. But I couldn’t find anything to disagree with.
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I was going to post this anyway, Ath, but after following your link it has even more resonance: one of Sir Winston Churchill’s less popular pronouncements was that the best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
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I have read the article. This kind of sneering attitude is exactly why the Brexit leave vote came as a surprise to the great and the good. And it is also why the GE vote has come as a surprise. An 82 year old woman from Co Durham was reported in The Times today as saying (I can’t remember verbatim) “I can’t believe they’ve voted this way in an…[Read more]
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We are a nation of bootlickers, aren’t we?
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“There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people…religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin” – Linus, Peanuts cartoon, 1966.
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Very wise words
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Class 2 Writing Exercise Jane in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 7 months ago@katemachon. The questions come from Andrew Wille’s questionnaire but there are lots of others about. Personally, I don’t find the What is their favourite colour sort of question very helpful. I think the best ones work a bit like writing prompts, sparking ideas off or pulling ideas together. Anyway I’m glad it was interesting!
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Sandra replied to the topic Class 2 Writing Exercise Jane in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 7 months ago@janeshuff Heavens, what a hugely impressive amount of insight. I’m not sure I know that much about my main characters who have been around for four books (but it would be interesting to see what I DO know, so I’ll spend some time with this – thank you, really enlightening.
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Class 2 Writing Exercise Jane in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 7 months agoHi @katemachon. Here’s the character questionnaire I did for Dipsy. You’ll see that I ignored some of the questions – basically if nothing comes to mind, I don’t beat myself up about it. I also don’t worry about the answers being particaulrly interesting, so some of it is pretty dull. But I do find them helpful for clarifying and focussing…[Read more]
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Class 2 Writing Exercise Jane in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 7 months agoThanks Sea! Maybe the bony restless fingers aren’t right… And she is named after a Teletubbies character!
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Class 2 Writing Exercise Jane in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 7 months agoThanks @katemachon and @sandradavies. I realise that I should have given some context to this as it’s actually an excerpt from my WIP and, although this is the first time Dipsy actually appears, the reader would know her age and her relationship to the narrator. So sorry.
I will tidy up Dipsy’s character questionnaire and post it if you’d like,…[Read more]
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Athelstone posted an update 6 years, 7 months ago
Amazing but true: participants in Songs of Innocence and Experience have just under two months left to complete their short story.
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Sandra replied to the topic Class 2 Writing Exercise Jane in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 7 months agoGood stuff, Jane. I am a ‘surface reader, accept what I’m given and expect to be further enlightened as the tale goes on, but also need to be enticed in the first place. Although Dipsy doesn’t sound like someone I’d warm to/would actively avoid for her lack of off button, her situation and the narrator have my sympathy.
Describing what she was…[Read more]
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Sandra started the topic Popshot quarterly in the forum Competitions, Open calls and Writing Opportunities 6 years, 7 months ago
https://www.popshotpopshot.com/
I received a year’s subscription to this as a present, and am a bit ambivalent about the content for myself. That said, they claim to “showcase vivid writing by the literary new blood” – flash, short stories and poetry.
Just missed the deadline for the next issue (each offers a theme) but might be of interest for…[Read more]
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KazG replied to the topic Craft Seminar Class 3: Character 2 – Inner Lives in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 7 months agoThank you @woolleybeans! You’re the best x
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KazG replied to the topic Feedback on the Course in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 7 months agoOh WB I’m sorry. I’m sending you big squishy hugs too xx
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Craft Seminar Class 3: Character 2 – Inner Lives in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 7 months agoThanks WB!
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Feedback on the Course in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 7 months agoSending hugs xxxx
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Woolleybeans started the topic Craft Seminar Class 3: Character 2 – Inner Lives in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 7 months agoWelcome to Class 3 of the DIY MA.
This time, we are going with a slightly longer stretch as it’s over the Christmas period. We will have closer to 6 weeks, with Class 4 starting on 6th January. This will give us all time to catch up, regroup, and deal with life over the festive season.
We once again begin with the class reading.
In your c…[Read more]
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Woolleybeans replied to the topic Feedback on the Course in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 7 months agoSorry guys – depression took a massive swipe over the last week and held me up. Just about to get the thread set up for Class 3.
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Sandra posted an update 6 years, 7 months ago
On the subject of self-publishing, two to-be-proofed books uploaded to Blurb on Saturday afternoon were received before midday today. I did wait for a 30% discount offer; ordered six titles in all and p&p was £14.
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