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Athelstone started the topic Monthly Competition – June 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 11 months ago
I shall be 65 this month. For most of my life, that was a significant date. It was the year that you became an Old Age Pensioner. Not now. It was a Labour government that did that. Hey Ho. OK, here’s a minor trope in many a thriller, in many a genre. You’re waiting for something significant, but it doesn’t happen. 250 words min, 500 words max.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly Competition – May 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 11 months ago
Ta ever so, Gail. My little story is about real people I knew a long time ago, and a real bar, so it was easy in a way. I liked your theme and I liked Sandra’s entry too. Pity about the numbers but that’s the way things are right now.
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly Competition – May 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 11 months ago
Thanks Gail, for your kind words and well done Ath! I had such high hopes of myself with this theme, having had several ancient, (I was 8 years old) nut-brown men in a Hertfordshire village to base a tale upon but strive as I might, (and I DID) it would not come right and each time I read it I knew that I’d missed the hoped-for essence.
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Raine posted an update 4 years, 11 months ago
Just wanted to say hi & apologise for my absence. Things are busy with lead up to book release & I’m struggling to find time for other things. Which is a very nice complaint to have, so i’m not complainting. 🙂 Anyway, hi Denizens, I do still exist, hope you do too.
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And very understandable, too 🙂
I’m fine (and still exist). Haven’t heard from podge for ages though 🙁-
Same, really. I kind of exist though I’m not sure how much evidence there is for that tbh. Very much looking forward to your book
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Hi Raine, glad all is going well. Exciting! 🙂
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly Competition – May 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 11 months ago
The Urban McGonagall [one expletive]
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays. I’m a poet.
Not that many folk, to look at me, would know it.
(Part because they look but never see beyond the Council-issued uniform: pea-green.Mostly I’m invisible. Indivisible, from barrow, brush and bucket. And yes of course, when drunks stumble, trip and tumble over my…[Read more]
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Athelstone posted an update 4 years, 11 months ago
@seagreen ‘s monthly comp? Can’t be just me people? Surely… Come on! The topics a cracker.
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or even topic’s
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly Competition – May 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years ago
*warning for language and content*
Sweep Weep
Shit! That’s Gaz over there. He mustn’t see me like this. Oh my God! I don’t even know how he got into those jeans. I can see the bulge of his iPhone. He’s looking my way. Stay busy with the cart, keep my hood up, pick the big brush. He’s never going to recognise me.
Called into the Woodpecker club…[Read more]
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Squidge posted an update 5 years ago
Just had a flash piece longlisted in Retreat West’s Quarterly Comp!
(It’s judged anonymously, so thank you to those of you who read it and encouraged me to submit, but please don’t ID it! x)
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Super!
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Great stuff, Squidge.
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Fab news, Squidge. Congratulations.
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Brilliant news.
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Sandra posted an update 5 years ago
Monthly competition: April passed unnoticed, and I had @Seagreen remind me I’d set a competition (my head down, editing) so watch this space for whatever theme @Seagreen sets, and please, please make the effort both for her and to keep the flame alive!!
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly competition April 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years ago
Good heavens!! What happened to April? I completely forgot I’d set a competition, was somewhat startled to discover it was May, but I do like this – rings some bells since, apart from invisible, April seems to have been a retrospective month, for more than me.
So without further ado, I’m handing the baton for May’s competition to you -…[Read more]
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Sandra posted an update 5 years ago
Browsing on iplayer, I came across this short and sweet account of writers who count their book sales in millions: h t t p s://w w w.b b c. co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000rs9l/mills-and-boon-writing-for-love-in-northern-ireland
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Really interesting. The sales figures are astonishing; a group of authors up there with Stephen King, Stephenie Meyer etc. but a million miles from household names.
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Sandra posted an update 5 years ago
I’m hoping participants in ‘Songs of innocence and experience’ will be as interested in sharing as some are of reading origins of the stories begun back in October 2019
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Athelstone posted an update 5 years ago
Participants in Things that go Bump, my be interested in a new topic there 🙂
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“may be”
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Athelstone replied to the topic Formatting for self-publishers in the forum Coffee Shop 5 years, 1 month ago
I saw that Debi had praised it on Facebook.
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Sandra replied to the topic Formatting for self-publishers in the forum Coffee Shop 5 years, 1 month ago
🙂 Confess I haven’t checked it out
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Athelstone replied to the topic Formatting for self-publishers in the forum Coffee Shop 5 years, 1 month ago
Looks useful. Hope it’s well set out.
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Sandra started the topic Formatting for self-publishers in the forum Coffee Shop 5 years, 1 month ago
Debi Alper posted this on FB: available from Blot Publishing:
“The Indie Author’s Guide to Formatting Your Paperback” by Leigh Forbes – a guide for independent authors who want their self-published typography to look like professional typography. 🙂
Paperback and ebook coming in April 2021. -
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With luck and a fair wind I’ll post something.
Good luck and good weather 🙂
Happy birthday for this month, Ath! I’m not far behind you. It all feels quite unbelievable.
It all seems totally untrue, doesn’t it?
I’m this month too. Another June rose!!
Anything special planned? I’m pleased to say I shall have my family for a meal and a movie 🙂