EmmaD

Well, looking at my last post, the Cloud seems to have only lasted a few days. I have a full list of all the members who joined the group, and a record of all the choices made before the Cloud fell over. What I didn’t have time to do was to collect contact addresses so that the competition could be resurrected at another venue. Time for a think.

Hi Elle, thanks for posting this, I really enjoyed reading it. There were some lovely lines. I liked ‘The ends of his sentences never curved into questions’. I loved the structure and the slow reveal through the different episodes. As Jane said, I’d never have known it wasn’t written by a native English speaker. Part of my ‘day job’ is editing boo…[Read more]

Hiya Elle, Well done for diving in on the critique posting! This is a sad and believable portrayal of depression, quite uncomfortable to read – which it needs to be. I spotted a few wordings that I felt jarred a little, so I’ll give you them…

‘The caller’s name required a sharp inhale before answering.’ I’m not sure about the required, it s…[Read more]

Yeah, the kickstarters seem to get more coverage than the submission call for this and the other one I posted about. THat’s prob deliberate – the funding being the more limiting factor. But they’ve both hit their targets so are def going ahead.

THank-you Debi! Shortstops had not come across my radar. Or it had, but my radar is on the blink. 🙂

It’s a nice little motivation/acheivement boost to send short things out, I find. Particularly in the midst of endless edits, or horrible waiting-for-responses.

I’m a wee bit late, but can I squeeze in for the group hug?
There may be a gin or two downed this weekend. 🙁

Hugging the group in a very manly, yet tender, way.

I was on quite late on Tuesday evening, checking my spreadsheets of who had joined “A Room with a View” and what the choices were (Bugger!). Been down since early morning (07:00) today (yesterday since I didn’t click the submit button in time)

Here for the group hug too 🙂

Best of luck, Pinkie. Roiting for you.

And what a great thread 🙂

It’s not looking good :-/

I’ve just checked and the same for me. This might be it 🙁