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Raine posted an update 6 years, 4 months ago
So, you know how we did a slowmo group a while ago? Do we need a coronamo group to keep ourselves from sinking into anxious lethargy over the coming months? Same idea – tiny victories, tiny targets, tangential positives… Or is the MA course etc enough?
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Barny posted an update 6 years, 4 months ago
I’ve just donated to help keep the Den alive – go to the Donations group to help keep this place running
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Barny replied to the topic Short story in Barren magazine in the forum Podium 6 years, 4 months ago
Really good, Daeds – and IMO we could all go out and respond publicly to your and Kaz’s FB posts with words to recognise how good this story is. Fantastic.
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John S Alty replied to the topic The $2,000,000 Guitar in the forum Blogs 6 years, 4 months ago
Great story.
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RichardB replied to the topic The $2,000,000 Guitar in the forum Blogs 6 years, 4 months ago
God, the nostalgia. It’s all coming back to me…
A couple of little snippets from that Croydon club:
I was still at school and couldn’t afford to go there every week, so on weeks when lesser-known bands were billed I didn’t bother. Apparently I wasn’t the only one. One night the promoter got up on his hind legs at the beginning of the evening…[Read more]
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Mad Iguana replied to the topic The $2,000,000 Guitar in the forum Blogs 6 years, 4 months ago
That’s a brilliant story, Richard. Absolutely love it!!
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Mad Iguana replied to the topic Short story in Barren magazine in the forum Podium 6 years, 4 months ago
Great stuff Daeds! Well done!!
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Daedalus replied to the topic The $2,000,000 Guitar in the forum Blogs 6 years, 4 months ago
Wow. Magical stuff!
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RichardB started the topic The $2,000,000 Guitar in the forum Blogs 6 years, 4 months ago
$2,000,000? Who’d be crazy enough to pay that for a guitar? Kirk Hammett of Metallica, apparently. He did just that in 2016, so the story goes, for a fifty-seven-year-old Gibson Les Paul.
What possessed him, you may be thinking, to do such a thing?
Let’s start from the beginning.
In 1952, following the trend set by Fender, the Gibson Guitar…[Read more]
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Athelstone posted an update 6 years, 4 months ago
Cost of the Den of Writers: 2020 to 2021
Funding a Free Forum: the “Donations” group
Den of Writers is a FREE forum. That means that nobody pays for membership and if you join you are absolutely entitled to use and enjoy the place as much as anybody – in fact, you are encouraged to.
However, people have asked about contributing to the c…[Read more]
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John S Alty replied to the topic Short story in Barren magazine in the forum Podium 6 years, 4 months ago
Great story telling, Daeds, congratulations.
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Hilary replied to the topic Recent agent experience in the forum Blogs 6 years, 4 months ago
Thanks, Squidge! Don’t worry – I’m not giving up. Thanks for the vote of confidence!
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Janette replied to the topic Short story in Barren magazine in the forum Podium 6 years, 4 months ago
Great story, Daeds. Congratulations.
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Sandra replied to the topic Short story in Barren magazine in the forum Podium 6 years, 4 months ago
Well done Daeds, a powerful example of your writing and story-telling.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Short story in Barren magazine in the forum Podium 6 years, 4 months ago
Fantastic news. A great story. Very thoughtful and moving.
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Daedalus started the topic Short story in Barren magazine in the forum Podium 6 years, 4 months ago
Some of you might remember my story The Living from last year’s Den winter challenge. I’m pleased to say it has finally (in slightly evolved form) found a publisher in the shape of Barren magazine issue #13, now available to read online https://barrenmagazine.com/the-living/
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RichardB replied to the topic Very Serious Consequences: Harrow and Wealdstone, 1952 in the forum Blogs 6 years, 4 months ago
Complacency and casual disregard for human life ain’t the half of it, sometimes.
I mentioned above that the Railways Inspectorate had a battle in the nineteenth century to get fail-safe brakes adopted. They were up against not only reluctance to spend money – the so-called automatic vacuum brake was more complicated (and therefore more e…[Read more]
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John S Alty replied to the topic Very Serious Consequences: Harrow and Wealdstone, 1952 in the forum Blogs 6 years, 4 months ago
Another interesting blog, Richard, thank you.
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Mad Iguana replied to the topic Very Serious Consequences: Harrow and Wealdstone, 1952 in the forum Blogs 6 years, 4 months ago
Jeez that’s some incident. I did not know about this at all – thanks for telling the story so vividly, Richard!
It just shows that human nature – our inability to foresee and avert disaster until something truly catastrophic has happened – is unchanged over the years/decades/centuries. - Load More
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I like that idea, Raine. At present I’m still at work but if the libraries close then I’ll be at a loose end. And I definitely have books to write!
Liking the idea
I’m all for it. Currently on lockdown in France but finding it surprisingly difficult to concentrate on anything other than phoning friends. Would love a group to get me focussed on achieving a few things. Could we ban discussion of the virus though?
God yes please!!
Very glad you feel the same way. I need a bubble to escape into.
I won’t talk about anything that you lovely people won’t mention. But if I find one of my delightful companions who needs to talk about what’s afoot, then I’ll stick with then and slope off
Ath, just to be clear, I am not trying to stop anyone talking about it at all. God knows I seem to have spent the last two weeks discussing, panicking and worrying about it. I would just love to have a tiny bit of something somewhere which was free of it. Like a coronamo group. But only if everybody else feels the same. It won’t stop me wanting t…[Read more]