@janeshuff
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Amanda Berriman (Skylark) posted an update 6 years, 3 months ago
HELLOOOO! Sorry, I know it’s been ages. Stuff and more stuff and other stuff. Trying to remember how this all works…. Planning to be here a bit more often though 🙂
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Amanda Berriman (Skylark)'s profile was updated 6 years, 3 months ago
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 3 months ago
Wow, Sea, this is hard-hitting and not a word wasted. Superb.
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Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 3 months ago
THE FUTURE (379 words)
For what it’s worth, he never hit me, but then, he didn’t have to. He found so many other ways to hurt me. So many other ways of subjugation without resorting to physical violence.
You think I’m exaggerating, don’t you? That it couldn’t have been as bad as all that. After all, I’m well presented, aren’t I? Decent figure…[Read more]
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John S Alty replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 3 months ago
Oh, go on Jane, have a peek.You know you want to.
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 3 months ago
A not-so-idle threat
Even though she knew looking left and right as she opened the discreet dark green door was a dead giveaway for anyone watching, she couldn’t stop herself. Crowds and dazzling Christmas lights made it harder to spot a spy, but surely, after five days at Ivo’s cottage they’d’ve given up by now. Wouldn’t they? The low-level…[Read more]
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John S Alty replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 3 months ago
The Future
“The future is the time we haven’t had yet,” he said, “simple as that.”
“That may be what the future is but not what it holds,” she responded, “not what’s in store, where it might take us.” Then she got up from the picnic table outside The Black Bull and walked off.He thought about that last exchange…[Read more]
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Athelstone posted an update 6 years, 3 months ago
MAY I remind all participants in the Songs of Innocence & Experience challenge that there are only three weeks remaining in which to complete and submit an entry. Thank you.
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And only five entries so far? What’s happening to us?
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I don’t think mine’s going to happen. Sorry.
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I’ve struggled this year. Too many other things happening but I have the beginnings of an idea and will do my best to get it to the finishing line even if it’s a bit rough.
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Mine’s definitely not going to happen I’m afraid. The two months up to Christmas were very slow for writing and I had to prioritise the novel WIP.
Have drafted a monthly comp entry which I’ll post soon to assuage some of my guilt and disappointment.-
I’m going to have to hold up my hands in defeat. I’ve got two thirds of a very rough first draft and defintiely not enough time to produce anything readable although I am pleased I had a go because it has possibilities. I’ll carry on working on it in between all the other things and maybe post it some other time. I’d love to stay part of the group…[Read more]
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All members stay members – unless they actually choose to drop out – and I’d be sorry to see anybody choose to leave. We can’t always do everything we’d like too and the group challenge is for enjoyment, not pain! Sad you didn’t get there, but you mustn’t fret about it.
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Bella replied to the topic Class 3: Writing Exercise, Bella in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 3 months agoIt occurred to me two minutes after posting this that I have an actual break up letter in my other WIP. So here it is for good measure. If anyone wants to comment don’t feel obliged to comment on both. I’m just putting it here since it exists.
Dear Lucien,
I don’t know how to soften the blow so I’m just going to tell you what happened on Saturday…[Read more] -
Bella started the topic Class 3: Writing Exercise, Bella in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 3 months agoMaximilian,
I have told you a thousand times that this affair is wrong. As your teacher as well as your lover I have only your wellbeing at heart. Your whole future depends on your examination results and our continued assignations are putting everything at risk.
People are beginning to notice your less than formal behaviour towards me.…[Read more]
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Squidge posted an update 6 years, 3 months ago
If anyone’s interested – States of Independence, at De Montfort Uni in Leicester on the 21st March. Free event: talks, stalls, publishers etc, and Benjamin Zephaniah is one of the speakers! Hoping to go and have a stall so I can sell some books…
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Squidge replied to the topic Feedback on the Course in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 3 months agoIs anyone else getting bogged down with some of the examples in Burroway? I read them and just can’t make the connection to what she’s trying to portray. Beginning to think that it’s me at fault – that I haven’t got the ability to understand the more subtle nuances of the techniques. And if I did understand them, would it make me write any…[Read more]
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Squidge posted an update 6 years, 3 months ago
Can someone remind me how to read comments that have been listed but don’t appear, please? Ta very muchly.
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Do you mean missing comments on an update? 1) Click on the name of the initial poster to open their profile. 2) Select Activity from below their avatar/picture. You should be able to find the missing posts – not necessarily in a sensible order, but possible to work out what went where.
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Even if it’s me that was the poster, Ath? I’ve got the notifications, but when I click on them to read, the original post isn’t showing more than one comment…
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Even if it’s you who is the original poster. In other words, instead of logging on to the site and selecting Activity, go to the troublesome thread, select the profile of whoever started it, select Activity from their (or your) profile when it opens. Then scroll through the results below. If this doesn’t work then I’m not sure what to recommend.
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“are” the original poster. How did I formulate such a horrible sentence?
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KazG replied to the topic Craft Seminar Class 3: Character 2 – Inner Lives in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 3 months agoI haven’t started the chapter so very relieved we have an extension! Same as you @janeshuff.
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John S Alty posted an update 6 years, 3 months ago
How’s this for a weird coincidence? You may remember my story, “Lost and Found and Lost again”, involving a yoyo competition, that won a monthly comp late last year? Well, I slightly edited it, renamed it “the Yoyo” and entered it in the Reflex Fiction winter contest. It didn’t make the list, but another story did – it’s called “The Yoyo”. By…[Read more]
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It’s strange how the same themes or subjects can come up from disconnected sources, as if they are in the ether.
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Athelstone replied to the topic A Blast From the Past in the forum Blogs 6 years, 3 months ago
That used to be the way of it, doing all your own basic (and sometimes advanced) car maintenance. Sadly it was all mixed up with “manliness” which meant that if you didn’t know how to refit a complete gearbox you were somehow not quite fit for the gene pool. As I also lacked any interest in football, I was widely viewed as a bit of a no-hoper…[Read more]
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RichardB replied to the topic A Blast From the Past in the forum Blogs 6 years, 3 months ago
I have a friend (though I don’t see much of him now), of a much more practical bent than me, who for nearly twenty years kept the first new car he’d bought back in the seventies (a Vauxhall Viva – remember them?) doing all his own maintenance and servicing. He doesn’t do that anymore. You can’t service a modern car without a garage’s specialist…[Read more]
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Athelstone replied to the topic A Blast From the Past in the forum Blogs 6 years, 3 months ago
Great blog, Richard. You captured both the disaster of the car journey and the pleasure of the holiday. Perfectly done.
With modern cars, it’s easy to take things for granted and forget that comparatively recently many things about cars were surprisingly simple, if not primitive. Heating is a classic case. Today many vehicles have in-car air…[Read more]
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RichardB started the topic A Blast From the Past in the forum Blogs 6 years, 3 months ago
Well, it’s a couple of months since we had a blog, so I’m taking a leaf out of Athelstone’s book and digging up one of my old blogs from the Cloud. Apologies to any who remember it, but I think it’s one of the more entertaining of my efforts because (a) it recounts probably the nearest thing to an adventure in my generally staid life, and (b) I…[Read more]
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Woolleybeans replied to the topic Craft Seminar Class 3: Character 2 – Inner Lives in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 3 months agoYep. Of course.
I figured I’d check as it is scheduled for tomorrow, but no posts have been made on Class 3, and I wondered if that meant people had been too busy with Christmas things etc.
Is a week longer enough time?
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That’s fantastic news, Mandy x
It’s taking me a while to remember how all this works… Feels good to be back though. Proper conversations rather than Twitter arguments 😉
Same here – conversations rather than arguments win every time 🙂