Den of Writers | Doug | Activity https://www.denofwriters.com/members/dougk/activity/ Activity feed for Doug. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:19:15 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 798d6b88b4896cc87dd17c7087e8e182 Doug started the topic Comments from an Editor in the forum Blogs https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/comments-from-an-editor/ Sat, 13 Feb 2021 19:39:10 +0000 This morning I got a rejection slip–bummer–but it included a couple of helpful items I’d somehow never seen before. I’ll cut & paste them here:

>Your paper is written in the first person. The problem with a person new to writing doing so in first person revolves around the overuse of the pronoun β€œI.” The goal to writing in first person is to…[Read more]

]]> 0 7301809d28585988933dfe6600d76714 Doug replied to the topic Good news on the lyric writing front in the forum Podium https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/good-news-on-the-lyric-writing-front/#post-9726 Sat, 13 Feb 2021 19:29:17 +0000 Congrats! Belated, but sincere. That is no small accomplishment.

]]> 1 e4f3553fd9fda1069473f77cfc41bf82 Doug posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/16472/#acomment-16484 Sat, 06 Feb 2021 11:59:23 +0000 And I just happen to be reading a book about writing titled “Murder Your Darlings.” πŸ™‚

In reply to - Daedalus posted an update Cutting a story down from 3800 to 2800… Got to 3200 and now every word removed feels like a fingernail ]]> d2a4c26170a0b11bc723d7c57d8ae557 Doug started the topic Movie-watching and Intimidating Authors in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/movie-watching-and-intimidating-authors/ Sat, 09 Jan 2021 17:07:05 +0000 In recent years, I’ve gotten to like watching movies at home. I mean, watching something almost every night. Blame the Internet. There’s Hoopla and Overdrive for borrowing from libraries, and Amazon & iTunes for renting online. It’s not like the old days when I stopped by Blockbuster or Kensington Video on Saturdays for something to watch that…[Read more]

]]> 0 0ee741784fc10c2573f53faaa8471a2f Doug started the topic Writing Prompts in the forum Blogs https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/writing-prompts/ Sat, 09 Jan 2021 13:00:20 +0000 I started listening to the audiobook of 1001 Sci-Fi Writing Prompts yesterday. The first part deals with aliens: first contact, and abductions.

A prompt of my own came to mind: Aliens select one human to persuade them that our species is worth allowing to live, and shouldn’t be wiped out. The human they choose happens to be a total misanthrope.

]]> 0 32d6c286b572b2b97af89f0c4c5b94b9 Doug replied to the topic Traditional or Self-Publishing? in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/traditional-or-self-publishing/#post-9327 Sun, 20 Dec 2020 14:12:36 +0000 Thanks, everyone. And Karen, well done on getting with an agent and Penguin Random House. For my part, I’ve rejoined Duotrope and will start the hunt for an independent small press. The challenge will be to find an honest one–from a rather extensive cautionary article from SFWA, it would seem like for every honest one, there are a dozen sharks…[Read more]

]]> 0 5469422c41e5b162fd1a8c8947a15fc4 Doug replied to the topic Cover reveal! in the forum Podium https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/cover-reveal-2/#post-9326 Sun, 20 Dec 2020 13:54:34 +0000 Looks wonderful! I like the silhouettes in the foreground, and the misty tree branches. You’re lucky πŸ™‚

]]> 0 241cd1243601c75b78e5c9d50d8cc89b Doug posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/15987/#acomment-15996 Tue, 15 Dec 2020 00:08:28 +0000 Thanks for the feedback. I’ve subscribed to Adam Croft’s podcast and it sure looks interesting. I listened to one episode today. He has a sponsor called Ingram Spark, and for curiosity’s sake I checked them out. It looks like maybe a vanity publisher…? But anyway, thanks for giving me info to consider as far as which path to take.

In reply to - Doug started the topic Traditional or Self-Publishing? in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat Hi all, Hope everyone’s holiday season is going well. Right now I have two novels. I put one up on Amazon a few years […] ]]> b672dcc78f3a6f6efda3eedc31068f23 Doug started the topic Traditional or Self-Publishing? in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/traditional-or-self-publishing/ Sun, 13 Dec 2020 13:36:16 +0000 Hi all,

Hope everyone’s holiday season is going well.

Right now I have two novels. I put one up on Amazon a few years ago, but when I re-read it a while later, I withdrew it in horror. And this was a book I’d had critiqued. Since then I’ve torn it apart and put it back together.

The other novel I’ve just about completed, and is patiently…[Read more]

]]> 2 c863cee068566e658743202d1f061f58 Doug replied to the topic How do you deal with the ever-distracting Internet??? in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/how-do-you-deal-with-the-ever-distracting-internet/#post-9256 Wed, 09 Dec 2020 15:30:59 +0000 Maybe I should also mention, that the timer I use is an online timer like a bomb with a fuse. You set the time, and the fuse slowly burns down while the clock ticks. When it runs out there’s a big “KABOOM!” I’ve been tempted to set the time, turn my speakers up on high, then try to write so many words before the thing goes off.

Maybe someone…[Read more]

]]> 0 a2fd691515e454772206984c1c1a249f Doug replied to the topic How do you deal with the ever-distracting Internet??? in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/how-do-you-deal-with-the-ever-distracting-internet/#post-9255 Wed, 09 Dec 2020 15:15:22 +0000 Thanks. I’ve found what helps for me, when it’s really getting *bad*, is to set a timer. For the next 15 minutes I look at nothing but the story! Writing or revising. Then I can goof off a bit if I want. Not too long. Then I set the timer again.

Doing this, I’m finding it helps get me into the mode where I’m safety into the story.

]]> 0 484d6a76c0882a772e2bbd2605ea037b Doug started the topic How do you deal with the ever-distracting Internet??? in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/how-do-you-deal-with-the-ever-distracting-internet/ Sun, 06 Dec 2020 13:21:22 +0000 I’ve read William Gibson quoted as saying, it’s the biggest time-waster ever devised by man! I hate to think of how much time I’ve wasted with it, from 1996 until now. Ah well.

So far I’ve discovered the strategies of two authors.

Margaret Atwood: She has two computers, one connected to that ever-ensnaring Web, the other not connected. We…[Read more]

]]> 0 2a34ffc88c8be86c1392ab0ce6674d7d Doug replied to the topic Monthly competition November 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/monthly-competition-november-2020/#post-9187 Tue, 01 Dec 2020 09:23:54 +0000 Congrats, Athelstone! Treat yourself to something nice. Raising a cup of writing fuel (coffee). πŸ™‚

~Doug

]]> 0 3df992e43ce24de93fba080ff1674362 Doug replied to the topic Monthly competition November 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/monthly-competition-november-2020/#post-9181 Fri, 27 Nov 2020 12:03:03 +0000 Thanks for the replies. Crazy season? Well, who can deny it? As I type this it’s 6:50am in the eastern US, and folks are no doubt lining up outside the big-box stores, readying for the stampede.

And now, here’s my entry.

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“I dreamt about you last night.”

“Excuse me, Ebenezer?”

“Yes, Jacob. I was possessed of a very strange dream, and it…[Read more]

]]> 0 e8ac2c5e05c8ac0ecc1c2d9940d4f0d3 Doug replied to the topic Monthly competition November 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/monthly-competition-november-2020/#post-9180 Thu, 26 Nov 2020 21:10:15 +0000 I’ll post mine tomorrow. Couldn’t post it before then, for seasonal reasons.

A question for our members in Britain and other countries: Do you have a certain name for the start of Christmas season? I don’t know how it came to be “Black Friday” in the US, shopping frenzy or no. When I was a kid, that term was unheard of; it sounds like a horror…[Read more]

]]> 4 dba16edaa9abb23f6ee3718aff11342b Doug replied to the topic Positive thoughts in the forum CoronaMo https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/coronamo/forum/topic/positive-thoughts/#post-9076 Sat, 31 Oct 2020 14:00:24 +0000 Something new I’d like to share. I listen to audiobooks and podcasts every day at my job, and every so often it occurs to me there’s some classic or another I somehow never read. So, why not spin it on audio while I type? So far I’ve listened to The Gulag Archipelago, Dracula, Steinbeck’s The Moon is Down, and Shakespearean plays.

And I’ve known…[Read more]

]]> 0 b785b52ceaf089efac3517fbdb2c9897 Doug started the topic spur of the moment Halloween flash yarn in the forum Coffee Shop https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/spur-of-the-moment-halloween-flash-yarn/ Sat, 31 Oct 2020 13:24:02 +0000 This is an idea I got just now, and thought I’d dash off here. Usually I don’t care much for movies where Christmas collides with Halloween: holiday cheer and Halloween horror don’t mix, I believe. But this idea hit me nonethless.

Santa Claus becomes:

***SANTA ZOMB***

St. Nick shook himself back to consciousness. Sitting up in the snow, he…[Read more]

]]> 0 73dd77a12b93a7d101ef64f607291aba Doug started the topic Robotomania in the forum Coffee Shop https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/robotomania/ Thu, 22 Oct 2020 09:14:45 +0000 Yesterday I got a heads-up from an audiobook about Hanson Robotics. Those things have really come along, and not only that, they seem to have built one as Philip K. Dick!

I wanted to insert a pic of it here, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to do that. So I’ll include a link instead. If you Google it, there are also YouTube videos of people…[Read more]

]]> 0 13234e426f936cb6788fedc3d7616bce Doug started the topic Keep at it, Keep at it! in the forum Blogs https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/keep-at-it-keep-at-it/ Mon, 19 Oct 2020 21:20:07 +0000 Hi all,

I turn 59 next month, getting up to the age where you’re growing conscious of your own mortality. When I was a teen, why I could do anything! I took it for granted I was gonna live forever! When I gave in to my writing life-calling at 27, I still had my whole life ahead of me. But not so now.

The trouble is, I’ve wasted a lot of time…[Read more]

]]> 1 54aeca7d22e69eb4d2034edb7634d4b1 Doug replied to the topic Positive thoughts in the forum CoronaMo https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/coronamo/forum/topic/positive-thoughts/#post-9000 Mon, 19 Oct 2020 20:59:03 +0000 BTW Jules, I’m finally listening to that audio of Hamlet! And yes, it lives up to its legend.

I wonder what literature would be like today, had there been no William Shakespeare? I’ve read that he inspired Hermann Melville to keep going with Moby Dick.

]]> 1 6676cbccacac8118a0870edd90fe34ee Doug replied to the topic Monthly comp - October 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/monthly-comp-october-2020/#post-8969 Sun, 11 Oct 2020 21:26:21 +0000 “Written in the Scars” 101 words

Some people left a scar, it was a vertical one, slashing straight down. Not on the skin, where anyone sees it; this is inside, where it leaves its mark on your mind.

Then, others cut another scar, a horizontal line across the top of the first, and another right below it following the same track. An F.

So it…[Read more]

]]> 0 6258447261897413beef0cde02903ea5 Doug started the topic Moved out of the house of "Trampling" in the forum Coffee Shop https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/moved-out-of-the-house-of-trampling/ Sun, 13 Sep 2020 11:52:54 +0000 Hi all,

Well, I’ve gone and slacked, and haven’t checked in here for a month–sorry about that. At least I’m checking in now from a new address. For the last 5 and 1/2 years I lived on the third floor of an old building with old hardwood floors, that creak if you so much as look at them. When you’re in the habit of getting up at 4 or 5 in the…[Read more]

]]> 2 33ef02b78ce7623a64846effdfeeae32 Doug posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/15323/#acomment-15327 Sun, 13 Sep 2020 11:30:31 +0000 Personally, I’d leave it out. So many people now must be writing pandemic stories, that the mention of it alone might put readers on guard. Also, optimistically speaking, by the time your novel comes out, life may have returned to normal and your story would be dated.

In reply to - JaneShuff posted an update Just wondering how you are all dealing with the Covid pandemic within your writing. I’m in the planning stages of a new novel and can’t decide. Do I set my novel pre-pandemic? Which feels […] ]]> 942637ee84755293fd6c901da7759b2d Doug replied to the topic Positive thoughts in the forum CoronaMo https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/coronamo/forum/topic/positive-thoughts/#post-8691 Sat, 15 Aug 2020 10:32:51 +0000 Yesterday I listened to the Dissecting Dragons podcast about writing for relaxation, enjoying the process of creating and not worrying so much about the outcome.

It reminded me of something shared once by Barry B. Longyear, a writer who skyrocketed to fame in the 80’s, and it almost killed him. Fortunately he survived to tell the tale. He wrote…[Read more]

]]> 2 76e7c5efd92d43c0a03e5e274f53d57f Doug replied to the topic Positive thoughts in the forum CoronaMo https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/coronamo/forum/topic/positive-thoughts/#post-8690 Sat, 15 Aug 2020 10:07:23 +0000 Hi Raine, thanks for asking. The story will appear in a Thirteen O’Clock Press anthology called “Chains,” about dealing with captivity, prisons and the like. Submissions are open until it’s full.

]]> 0 95468014a753e87fdd34aa6a5aa18dfd Doug replied to the topic A gasp escaped me! in the forum Blogs https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/a-gasp-escaped-me/#post-8653 Sat, 08 Aug 2020 11:07:03 +0000 Stephen King, who’s described himself as a lazy researcher, has related the letters he’s gotten from people who caught him in research errors. The tone of the letters, he said, was invariably gleeful. I wonder if Boyne has gotten those too? “Hee-hee, you got this wrong, and that wrong!”

]]> 0 35877e4adf7a1e7a2d5c91736984a41f Doug started the topic 5 Tips to Help You Write Imperfectly in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/5-tips-to-help-you-write-imperfectly/ Tue, 28 Jul 2020 10:18:39 +0000 This article really helped me, what with self-doubt, not liking my own writing, etc. Some of the advice made me smile & nod. I think it’s worth sharing.

Writing Imperfectly

Cheers
~Doug

]]> 0 022a44203eba8c5c7ac5144884c2e086 Doug replied to the topic The $2,000,000 Guitar in the forum Blogs https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/the-2000000-guitar/#post-8594 Sun, 26 Jul 2020 21:53:10 +0000 Such a great story! As a guitarist who at one time owned a Les Paul, I found it fascinating. I’d also like to add that, for one of the greatest all-time guitar leads–the Beatles’ “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”–Eric Clapton knocked it out in one take, with a red Les Paul he called Lucille. Wonderful stuff.

]]> 0 1e0800fff961604a41c36507fc931886 Doug posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/14945/#acomment-14956 Sun, 26 Jul 2020 21:46:47 +0000 Got it done! I got all the way to the end, and backed it up on Gmail. Seemed to take forever to get through that draft. I feel like celebrating now! Thanks for your support.

In reply to - Doug replied to the topic That old enemy, Perfectionism in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat An update. I’ve continued the revisions, but slowly, slowly. I’m now a hundred pages from the end, and I’ve decided enough […] ]]> 01a2de1f804f3f094f134062ffcde027 Doug replied to the topic That old enemy, Perfectionism in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/that-old-enemy-perfectionism/#post-8585 Sat, 25 Jul 2020 01:05:17 +0000 An update. I’ve continued the revisions, but slowly, slowly. I’m now a hundred pages from the end, and I’ve decided enough of the nonsense, I’m getting all through it <i>this weekend</i> come hell or high water. Feel free to hold me to it.

Will check back in Sunday night, one way or the other.

]]> 6 724695d5f5dedbd0e1cfc7fce3a81607 Doug replied to the topic Positive thoughts in the forum CoronaMo https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/coronamo/forum/topic/positive-thoughts/#post-8584 Sat, 25 Jul 2020 00:43:58 +0000 I’ve been fortunate that I could keep going to my job as usual (I work for the state of Rhode Island). Though there are all kinds of safeguards, and Army & Air Force personnel about.

An acceptance last week for a new short story, reminds me that life goes on.

And a wise old saying reminds me that “This, too, shall pass.”

]]> 0 67a99c818f1ade6ecfb1a280b6bae739 Doug joined the group CoronaMo https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/14943/ Sat, 25 Jul 2020 00:41:33 +0000 0 e61d29ec178421195ffd2cadd78d4645 Doug posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/14941/#acomment-14942 Sat, 25 Jul 2020 00:39:15 +0000 Such things as this are good for my own disillusioned heart to know as well. I can never be reminded too many times, people aren’t all bad. Thanks for sharing.

In reply to - RichardB posted an update Something to celebrate on a grey, miserable day – at least it is where I live. Some of you may remember me posting not long ago about the explosion that destroyed (and I mean d […] ]]> f04a37b4bd9c40eba7146a3f5478516d Doug replied to the topic Planning vs Winging it. in the forum A place for Stupid Questoins https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/a-place-for-stupid-questoins/forum/topic/planning-vs-winging-it/#post-8536 Fri, 10 Jul 2020 21:38:09 +0000 I start with the basic premise and the characters, and let the plot unfold as I go. I once learned at a writers’ conference that it makes a lot more sense to outline the whole thing in advance, and I agree with that, but it’s never worked that way for me. I can’t nail the thing down, it wants to take off in another direction once I’m writing it.…[Read more]

]]> 0 44a061291f1d29d4ec6cc163d7298f8c Doug joined the group A place for Stupid Questions https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/14830/ Fri, 10 Jul 2020 21:33:49 +0000 0 15ac4967cdd9ddca7041702bd0f0c598 Doug posted an update: Listened to a podcast about Tennessee Williams. When he was […] https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/14812/ Wed, 08 Jul 2020 10:55:04 +0000 Listened to a podcast about Tennessee Williams. When he was young, he worked monotonous days in a shoe factory, hating it. He combated this by resolving to write a story a week.

His mother later said: “Tom would go to his room with black coffee and cigarettes and I would hear the typewriter clicking away at night in the silent house. Some…[Read more]

]]> 0 c270ba34eaa945b6acf1421ebf056895 Doug posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/14568/#acomment-14698 Mon, 22 Jun 2020 22:22:45 +0000 Hi all,

Since I listen to a lot of audiobooks, I thought, why not give _The Sun Also Rises_ another chance, this time on audio? So I tried it last week.

Well I finished it this time, all right. And it left me dazzled. Stunned, even–he truly was a master. I like to think I’ve matured as a reader and a writer since years ago, and maybe I have a…[Read more]

In reply to - Doug posted an update Conveying a lot in a few words… I’m looking back over Hemingway’s short stories. More than anyone else I’ve read, he was such a master at using sparse language to create vivid pictures. I […] ]]> 3c73944867844fde0d0df6e2308880d1 Doug posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/14690/#acomment-14697 Mon, 22 Jun 2020 22:05:19 +0000 Thomas Wolfe. Oh, yes, Thomas Wolfe.

In reply to - Sandra posted an update “pleonasm”. As discussed by Allan Guthrie. I mentioned it on another site and a lot of people found it interesting/useful when it came to tightening writing/reducing word count. Google it – […] ]]> 3ff5a1fd443ef1046218dba82de4c210 Doug replied to the topic That old enemy, Perfectionism in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/that-old-enemy-perfectionism/#post-8435 Tue, 16 Jun 2020 22:04:20 +0000 Rewriting it has been on the back of my mind. I’ve felt this way about some of my short yarns before, and rewrote them into stories that were published and I’m now proud of. I didn’t think of it as rewriting, more like “extensive revisions,” maybe because that doesn’t sound so daunting as rewriting. That’s probably what I’ll end up doing with the…[Read more]

]]> 0 0eaa3ef6f47cd7ea3c4aaeb280ecba2d Doug started the topic How Writers Can Benefit from a Sense of Purpose and Routine in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/how-writers-can-benefit-from-a-sense-of-purpose-and-routine/ Mon, 15 Jun 2020 22:16:45 +0000 Here’s another weblog from C.S. Lakin’s website. This one has to do with the scary current times…

Regards,
~Doug

How Writers Can Benefit from a Sense of Purpose and Routine

]]> 0 875ac98c2c59d225a1cd40035a9f4b23 Doug replied to the topic That old enemy, Perfectionism in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/that-old-enemy-perfectionism/#post-8419 Mon, 15 Jun 2020 22:12:29 +0000 Thanks for all your replies! They are refreshing, helpful, and sharpen my perspective on things. They also bring things to mind that I’ve read in the past, like Ray Bradbury’s dashing off the whole first draft with the creative side of his brain, shutting off the editor side until the draft’s finished and cooled off.

Dean Koontz, who describes…[Read more]

]]> 0 c251eeece16d0c7c6a3fd601c749e408 Doug started the topic That old enemy, Perfectionism in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/that-old-enemy-perfectionism/ Fri, 12 Jun 2020 09:54:12 +0000 Hi all,

Going through my alternate history Civil War novel and revising it, I’m finding myself zeroing in on sentences, fixating over how they’re phrased, and most of the time thinking this is too dry, too simply or clunkily phrased, this won’t do, etc. etc. And so I find it hard to get work done, wanting to stay away, although I did make good…[Read more]

]]> 0 e6b2c88283339bd7a5f3ba8771f2e3c3 Doug posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/14576/#acomment-14597 Tue, 09 Jun 2020 21:41:53 +0000 Looks worth checking out. Thanks for sharing!

In reply to - Kate started the topic Fantasy Anthology in the forum Podium For anyone who likes a bit of fantasy, here’s a link to a soon to be available anthology. It also happens to contains my Steampunk story The Sky’s the […] ]]> c41b3f371634a78e30fd946ace7ddb22 Doug started the topic 18 Worthy Websites for Writers in the forum Marketplace https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/18-worthy-websites-for-writers/ Tue, 09 Jun 2020 09:05:21 +0000 I’m not sure if this is the right place for this, but I wanted to share a weblog I received about some resources for helping us become successful. From C.S. Lakin’s LivWriteThrive:

<i>Apart from your desire to be an author and determination on this thorny path, what makes a successful writer? According to veterans of the industry, it’s lots of r…[Read more]

]]> 0 f9fa1cde538644deb6794efb1a42a80b Doug posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/14568/#acomment-14582 Tue, 09 Jun 2020 08:39:16 +0000 LOL dialogue certainly worked for Master Tolkien in Lord of the Rings, too. It was many years ago, maybe it’s time I gave Hemingway’s novel another chance. Maybe listening on audio?

In reply to - Doug posted an update Conveying a lot in a few words… I’m looking back over Hemingway’s short stories. More than anyone else I’ve read, he was such a master at using sparse language to create vivid pictures. I […] ]]> 5542167ba64859d5072fbba8be5f777a Doug posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/14568/#acomment-14579 Mon, 08 Jun 2020 20:11:20 +0000 I once tried reading _The Sun Also Rises,_ but couldn’t keep my attention on it. It just seemed like people endlessly talking…his short stories, though, are so engaging.

In reply to - Doug posted an update Conveying a lot in a few words… I’m looking back over Hemingway’s short stories. More than anyone else I’ve read, he was such a master at using sparse language to create vivid pictures. I […] ]]> 760279f6df74606a8348a966873d6e17 Doug posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/14568/#acomment-14573 Sun, 07 Jun 2020 23:27:05 +0000 I read that, too, and came away dazzled. Strangely, that was the only one of his novels I read. I’ve read most of his short stories, and have them on my Kindle.

In reply to - Doug posted an update Conveying a lot in a few words… I’m looking back over Hemingway’s short stories. More than anyone else I’ve read, he was such a master at using sparse language to create vivid pictures. I […] ]]> 7bfff56bb341bd84faf21b8861cd24f3 Doug posted an update: Conveying a lot in a few words... I'm looking back over […] https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/14568/ Sun, 07 Jun 2020 15:33:34 +0000 Conveying a lot in a few words…

I’m looking back over Hemingway’s short stories. More than anyone else I’ve read, he was such a master at using sparse language to create vivid pictures. I think my favorite story by him is “Big Two-Hearted River” parts 1 and 2. Like, watching trout:

>Nick looked down into the clear, brown water, colored…[Read more]

]]> 14 6585e14c53b34a739ae8e0d6a1f2e529 Doug posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/14560/#acomment-14564 Sat, 06 Jun 2020 11:27:09 +0000 Way to go!

In reply to - Sandra posted an update Congratulations to @Philippa, who’s ‘Little white lies’ has been long-listed for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger award. ]]> 01f523784104e645e354f4b8d5d68f72 Doug posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/14544/#acomment-14547 Thu, 04 Jun 2020 22:08:54 +0000 Ditto, it’d be cool to see them.

In reply to - Squidge posted an update Found out I’ve been longlisted for the Leicester Writes Short Story Prize (again – made it in 2017, too). πŸ˜€ ]]>