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Squidge replied to the topic My failure in the forum Podium 7 years, 7 months ago
Oh goodness, yes – we are our own worst critics!!
On the cloud, we often talked about ‘failure’ and ‘success’ and how differently people perceived the definitions of them. So I completely understand that you view not being placed as failure – it was one of a whole range of responses we used to get.
Me – I enter very few comps because I hated…[Read more]
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Squidge replied to the topic My failure in the forum Podium 7 years, 7 months ago
Definitely not failure if you’ve tried some comps – you had to write the bloomin’ entry first! And from experience, competitions can be a matter of luck as well as great writing – does the judge like your particular genre? Your style? I know from peer-judging comps on the cloud, my own preference for reading material comes through in the kind of…[Read more]
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John S Alty replied to the topic Den monthly competition September 2018 in the forum Competitions, Open calls and Writing Opportunities 7 years, 7 months ago
A New Dawn
A blood red sun rose through the smoke from a thousand cooking fires, smoke that hung like mist over distant Alexandra township. A typical African morning on the highveld, but this was not a typical day. Daniel and his mother stepped from the bus onto the dusty road and followed the other passengers. Daniel wished his father could be…[Read more]
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John S Alty replied to the topic Getting an Agent. in the forum Blogs 7 years, 7 months ago
An author’s work is automatically copyrighted as soon as it’s produced. Registering copyright is not necessary. All registration does is make legal pursuit of a plagiarist a little easier.
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Squidge posted an update 7 years, 7 months ago
@raine – found it. The kitchen saga…
Basically, we have a worktop that is not level (actually goes the ‘wrong’ way so water runs away from the sink) with the point where the join is on that worktop opened up. We have self opening drawers because they were not put in level. Or floor was re-screed for times before it was good enough to lay vinyl…[Read more]-
And apologies – just read this through and it seems my u is not working very well on the keyboard! Pshhh. Authors. You’d think they’d check their spellings, wouldn’t you? (And of course the blasted u has worked perfectly all through this post…)
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๐ I have a w that doesn’t work on my laptop keyboard, and a slightly sticky shift button on my external keyboard! I blame the complete lack of dusting.
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I blame the fellas eating at the keyboard – the crumbs get stuck underneath, especially on the lap top ๐
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Squidge posted an update 7 years, 7 months ago
@raine – what on earth had I posted that sounded so horrendous?! Not been on for a few days, so it’s all disappeared off the wall…
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John S Alty replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 7 months ago
Remember “Memories” in the critique section? Now it’s “Felicity’s First” at Across The Margin: http://acrossthemargin.com/felicitys-first/
And Sorrow Point is on my website:
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John S Alty replied to the topic Flash Fiction Win – posted in the right place now, I hope ๐ in the forum Podium 7 years, 7 months ago
Belated congratulations, Janette, super job.
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Not something I imagined would happen when we were chewing over it a few months back
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I thought we agreed we wouldn’t allow hitting
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Oh Gosh, you’re 100% right. I remember now. Also, no biting, gouging or spoon scooping action. That last one almost got through if I recall, but was thrown out on a recount after somebody was shown to have voted for it 17 times. Canโt remember who that was now.
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Spoons!
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