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Kate replied to the topic Where to start? in the forum
A place for Stupid Questoins 5 years, 11 months agoHi Andrew
I’ve got lots of that toilet paper with little black writing on it stashed all over the place too. It wasn’t until I began to interact with other writers and receive feedback that I started to learn. There’s a daunting amount of craft to get to grips with and I don’t think you ever stop learning.
As to your question, the way I look at…[Read more]
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Squidge replied to the topic That old enemy, Perfectionism in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 5 years, 12 months ago
Doug – if your writing strikes you as ‘amateurish’, it’s probably a good thing; it means that, in the time since you originally wrote the novel you have grown and developed as a writer and are already – subconsciously – aware of it.
It’s very hard to do, but have you considered completely rewriting the story from scratch? It’s something I did…[Read more]
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Libby replied to the topic That old enemy, Perfectionism in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 5 years, 12 months ago
The character questionnaire. I’m with Richard. I don’t doubt they’re great if you find them useful but for me they are disheartening.
The other ‘favourite’ which sends my spirits groundwards is the implication, sometimes a very thinly-veiled instruction, that creative prose should learn from film or TV. If studying that medium helps fire…[Read more]
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Squidge replied to the topic That old enemy, Perfectionism in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 5 years, 12 months ago
Mad has touched on what I posted (and lost!) yesterday.
Sometimes, I think we confuse perfectionism with finding our own, unique writer’s voice. We try so hard to make it sound ‘right’ that we forget we’re trying to express something of who we are, who our characters are, within the world we’ve created. Of course we want to make our stories the…[Read more]
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Squidge replied to the topic That old enemy, Perfectionism in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 5 years, 12 months ago
Aaaargh! Just wrote a reply and it’s thrown me off and lost it all! Will post again tomorrow…
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Squidge replied to the topic Tilda and the Mines of Pergatt in the forum Podium 6 years ago
Thank you x
Ath, I should have some paperbacks soon, after a leetle glitch with the cover (take a decko in RASSA for what happened!)
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Kate replied to the topic 18 Worthy Websites for Writers in the forum Marketplace 6 years ago
Thanks, Doug.
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Kate started the topic Fantasy Anthology in the forum Podium 6 years ago
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 Limit! 😀
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I’ve made a pre-publication order 🙂
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Thanks, Libby.
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Well done, Kate!
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Congratulations, Kate 😊
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Looks worth checking out. Thanks for sharing!
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Squidge posted an update in the group
CoronaMo 6 years agoBack on Tilda 3 after some hair-raising stuff with Tilda 2 edits and typesets. Got a longlisting in a comp, and Tilda 2 has been published. Things are more settled, thank goodness. Perhaps I’m just in a better headspace?
How’s everyone else?
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Squidge posted an update 6 years ago
Found out I’ve been longlisted for the Leicester Writes Short Story Prize (again – made it in 2017, too). 😀
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Congratulations! Can we read the stories anywhere?
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Ditto, it’d be cool to see them.
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The longlisted stories will all be published later in the year – October I think. But if you want a flavour of previous years selections, the anthologies can be purchased here: http://dahlia-books.kong365.com/en-gb/collections/our-books?page=1
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Congratulations Squidge. Lovely news.
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That’s great news, Squidge. Well done and, I’m sure, well deserved!
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Great news, Squidge. Congratulations!
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Squidge started the topic Tilda and the Mines of Pergatt in the forum Podium 6 years ago
Just to tell you that the second of the Chronicles of Issraya series has been published! Yay!
Tilda and the Mines of Pergatt is available from Amazon or the Bedazzled Ink Book Peddler, and I’m delighted to see that the ebook of both Tilda 1 and Tilda 2 have had their prices cut dramatically. (Which is a good thing as I’m not certain when…[Read more]
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Congratulations, Squidge. Do you have any posts or tweets you would like amplified? Must check in with Tilda and find out what happens next!
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Thanks, Jules – there are a couple of posts up on the Scribbles https://squidgesscribbles.blogspot.com/ , one of which has a little video about why I chose a mining setting for this story. I’m not a Twitterer but any posts there by anyone else would be appreciated. I’ll try to set up a Q&A once folk have started to read the book – probably do that…[Read more]
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Congratulations. Must be lovely to see your baby out in the world.
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Squidge posted an update 6 years ago
How’s everyone doing as things start to ease? Had some tricky deadlines to meet (note to self- read the blasted edit properly first time, and don’t leave it to the typeset to make some plot changes) so haven’t been around.
Sock production has reduced now the weather’s improved, but gardening has increased. Not that I’m a gardener, really. More…[Read more]
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I second that approach to gardening, Squidge. It’s been a weird couple of months but I have got a lot of writing done. Loved the cover for the second Tilda book btw!
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Thank you! I’m really interested to see what Bink give Tilda for the other books…there are bones in 3, dragons in 4 and I’m still working out number 5! 😉 All I do know is that the colour of the books will reflect the region where the action happens – so we’ve had red and green, still got yellow, purple and blue to come.
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Squidge replied to the topic Monthly comp – May 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years ago
Sorry – have had a deadline on the novel, so completely forgot about the May comp! Well done Jill!
And thanks for the comments, Libby. You read a lot more into my little walk than I realised or intended… 😉
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It’s interesting when a piece of writing develops a life of its own. And encouraging too I hope 🙂
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Libby replied to the topic Monthly comp – May 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years ago
I’m pleased the critique was useful, Jill.
I forgot to link names, and as we haven’t heard from @squidge here’s a direct contact.
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Libby replied to the topic Monthly comp – May 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years ago
All these entries are wonderful! Goodness, it has been hard to choose a winner. I love the way they all capture the detail of immediate surroundings at the same time as linking to a wider world, and how each one answers the competition’s brief in such interesting ways. All these pieces show acute sensibilities and curiosity, and I really enjoyed…[Read more]
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Squidge replied to the topic Monthly comp – May 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years ago
A circuitous route – the same-old, same-old – but not so taken for granted as once it was.
Hot grey asphalt, its dull top layer peeled back by sun and tyres, glistening wet and black under, suggestive of a just-laid stickiness.
Pavements littered with the faded shadows of chalked rainbow messages to un-caped crusaders or old-fashioned hopscotch…[Read more]
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Libby replied to the topic Monthly comp – May 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years ago
Ten days left for anyone thinking about entering the May monthly Den competition 🙂
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