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Raine replied to the topic Wip beginning… in the forum Critiques 8 years, 1 month ago
Dammit autocorrect! I’d not spotted the domain thing. Gah.
But thank-you for the vote of confidence. I’ve been vacillating back and forth like you wouldn’t believe!
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Daedalus replied to the topic Wip beginning… in the forum Critiques 8 years, 1 month ago
Personally I like it. The narrator-y bits make the transitions into a sort of PD slide. If you’re going to introduce a range of geographically dispersed characters in a short piece of text, this seems like a good way to do it. And I like the voice
‘This was a Sunday, the day it began was a Thursday’ – comma splice?
‘Domain’ – Demain? (French for…[Read more]
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Raine started the topic Wip beginning… in the forum Critiques 8 years, 1 month ago
I’ve tinkered with this about 600 times, and now can’t tell whether the narrator-type voice works for this. It doesn’t stay this ‘external’ beyond this first chapter, but it felt like the best way to tie all the characters and inciting moments together. But now I have doubts…Any thoughts v welcome. (1,500 words ish, but even just thoughts on the…[Read more]
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Jules replied to the topic Den monthly competition September 2018 in the forum Competitions, Open calls and Writing Opportunities 8 years, 1 month ago
Impact
The EVA suit’s read-out flashed Warning! Oxygen levels at 18% in eerie red. Jepson’s mind was foggy, irrational. All her training hadn’t prepared her for the reality of being stuffed into a damaged evacuation tube and launched into the airless void.
It had begun with impact. Many in fact, although Jepson only counted three as notew…[Read more]
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Raine started the topic Pitching opportunity for northern writers in the forum Competitions, Open calls and Writing Opportunities 8 years, 1 month ago
DHH literary agency are holding a pitching event aimed at increasing accesibility for writers outside the southeast! Yay. It’s in York, which honestly, not north. But we take what we can, I guess!
http://www.dhhliteraryagency.com/blog/pitch-dhh-york
The event is on Dec 1st, but you have to submit and then they’ll invite you to pitch. Check the…[Read more]
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Amanda Berriman (Skylark) replied to the topic New Blog from Emma Darwin in the forum Blogs 8 years, 1 month ago
Bit late to this but yes, I’ve done (am doing!) a version of this. It works best when I’m trying to finish something. I’ve got a chart with a chain of squares and the idea is to make the chain as long as possible without breaking it. There’s no daily word count to reach. As long as I write a sentence, I can colour in a square. It’s worked…[Read more]
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Amanda Berriman (Skylark) replied to the topic Festival Dreams in the forum Blogs 8 years, 1 month ago
Lovely to meet you, Anna. I hope you had a great festival! 😊😊
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Amanda Berriman (Skylark) replied to the topic Receiving an email headed 'Offer of Representation'…. in the forum Podium 8 years, 1 month ago
😊😊😊
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RichardB posted an update 8 years, 1 month ago
Three years ago I was told by a WW editor that my first novel hadn’t a hope of being published because there is no market for ghost stories, and particularly not those about haunted houses because they have been done to death. I was in the library last Saturday, and what did I find? ‘This House is Haunted’ by John Boyne (2013). And is the title…[Read more]
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I have received six arcs this year so far about exactly that, Richard. And I note many othets coming into the library where I work. They are all some permutation on the haunted house. There is definitely a market for it.
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And there’s The Silent Companions out recently and doing really well as a reading group type thing…
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Forgot to say: though I say it as shouldn’t, I find the book less convincing as a ghost story than my own, and the climax is a bit OTT. Well, I’d better carry on with trying to lick my MS into better shape.
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Not actually a Haunted House, but still ghostly, and very creepy, Susan Hill’s Dolly is the most enjoyable book I’ve read this year.
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Yes, don’t give up @richardb! I’m not sure the talk of fashions is much help being as agents are always guessing on what will be next, and the things in the shops were signed two years before. We were told about 4 years ago that post-apocalytpic was done. But there are still agents asking for it, and still new books appearing in the shops. And I’m…[Read more]
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I’m going through agents at the moment listing those with that particular request.
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2013, you say. Maybe he was the one who did it to death…
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I believe you when you say the book was less convincing than your own, Richard, I remember reading yours and really enjoying. It was spooky enough for me. Good luck with your MS and fingers crossed it will be available to buy soon.
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John S Alty replied to the topic Logging in in the forum Admin and Technical 8 years, 1 month ago
But now, three log-ins later, it works normally.
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John S Alty replied to the topic Logging in in the forum Admin and Technical 8 years, 1 month ago
Clearing browser cache has no effect.
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Changed my ‘base’ name from Lorraine Wilson to Raine, so’s it’s easier to tag me. Else it just gets confusing to try to work out how to tag…