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Libby started the topic Monthly comp – May 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 11 months ago
For the May competition, evoke the movement of routine travel. Portray a regular or ordinary journey. Your character(s) can be anyone; the transport can by anything including walking. This task is about day-to-day life rather than big plot turns or realisations – the familiar, written anew.
If you want, do a W H Auden in Night Mail:
Pass…[Read more]
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Libby replied to the topic Monthly comp – April 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 11 months ago
Thank you @Raine and everyone, this is a lovely surprise! I enjoyed the challenge of writing some non-fiction. I loved everyone else’s entries too. A captivating variety as always, and such good writing.
I’ll go away now and think of a theme for the May competition.
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John S Alty replied to the topic Monthly comp – April 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 11 months ago
Well done, Libby, thoroughly deserved.
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Squidge replied to the topic Monthly comp – April 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 11 months ago
Well done, Libby! Loved your piece. Interesting to read the stories behind the objects from everyone.
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Libby replied to the topic Monthly comp – April 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 11 months ago
The Portrait
In the mid 1980s I bought a Victorian water-colour portrait of a young woman: anonymous, unfinished, unsigned. In the window of a London antique shop the half-profile head and shoulders were almost life size but only her face was complete. I stood on the pavement and dithered. Did I like this picture?
Part of the problem was her…[Read more]
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Kate posted an update 5 years, 11 months ago
@giselle – loved ‘A Perfect Fit’. It felt preordained. That piece of flint waiting for you down the years.
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Only a very small proportion of my payments are in cash these days and I think the last cheque I wrote was about 3 years ago. I have two pound coins in my pocket and I think that’s all the cash I’ve had for about a month. These are unusual times in that we are trying to minimise the shopping we do in person, i.e. I’m unlikely to nip out to the…[Read more]
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I had to hunt out our cheque book when confinement started as we’re having to do a lot of payments by cheque. I couldn’t even remember what colour it was.
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I’ve not written a cheque since October 2019. The one before that was written in April 2019. I haven’t handled cash since 31st March when the pharmacist called round with a prescription I had to pay for. Credit card points are building up nicely. Silver linings and all that.
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Libby posted an update 6 years ago
Re swallows, from the British Trust for Ornithology’s migration blog for this week:
‘The cold weather and northerly winds from the last week will likely to have caused a bit of a bottleneck for those species migrating northwards across Europe but with a change in wind direction and an improvement in day time temperatures, 17 degrees is possible…[Read more] -
Squidge posted an update in the group
CoronaMo 6 years agoHi all. Been having problems logging in again, but Jules has worked her magic and got me into the Den.
How are you all doing? I’m a bit like Kaz – head space not into writing much, so editing Tilda 3 is very slow going. I mean, how hard can it be to describe an underground (ie in a cavern) market? We’ve taken to cooking and baking with the kids…[Read more]
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Hi Squidge. Much the same as you, my head space is not into writing. I’m doing what I can and have forgiven myself for the fact it’s so slow. Apart from that we’re pottering on, enjoying the glorious weather from the safety of our own garden and surrounding countryside during the permitted hour a day we’re allowed out.Nature is slowly expanding to…[Read more]
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Hello, Squidge and Jane. I was interested to read how present circumstances are affecting your writing. Like you two, I am keeping busy (and maybe distracted) with the simple things of life and enjoying the slower pace, actually. Not to say there isn’t the general underlying anxiety, but trying to keep hopeful and positive despite all the…[Read more]
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Squidge replied to the topic Monthly comp – April 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years ago
Not the best poetry, but hey ho…
It has no chain, though once it might,
It’s on a shelf, mainly out of sight.
I wound it up and heard it tick
Then set the hands with a firmer click.
Triangles mark the quarter hours
and rectangles? The intervals and other hours.
It’s made by Smiths, a British firm
Not Timex, Rolex or another well known.
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Libby replied to the topic March competition in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years ago
Congratulations, Raine. Your story has made me shiver with anxiety! Well done – fabulous writing.
Thank you John for setting the competition. I’m sorry March passed me by in a blur, what with one thing and another, and I didn’t manage an entry.
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John S Alty replied to the topic March competition in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years ago
So, four very different entries this month. Eenie, meanie, minie, mo.
Seagreen made me laugh, Jill made me smile, Raine worried the hell out of me and Athelstone made me melancholy.Can’t separate you, all excellent.
But I’m going to give this months prize to Raine for all that energy and power.
Well done all of you!
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John S Alty replied to the topic March competition in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years ago
Last day to get your entries in!
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Libby replied to the topic Good news this time – finally! in the forum Podium 6 years ago
Great news, Janette! So pleased for you.
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John S Alty posted an update 6 years ago
Don’t anyone worry about the monthly competition. Janette and Jane or anyone else, please don’t feel any pressure to participate. I understand.
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😀 I guess March is proving a little distracting. But I think a mini prompt might be just the thing for week one of homeschooling!
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John S Alty replied to the topic Good news this time – finally! in the forum Podium 6 years ago
Well done, Janette, good luck with the book!
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Kate replied to the topic Good news this time – finally! in the forum Podium 6 years, 1 month ago
Congratulations, Janette. Lovely news.
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Squidge posted an update in the group
CoronaMo 6 years, 1 month agoSounds fab, Raine. x
Am feeling overwhelmed today and looking for positive things, so this is great.
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