Activity – Janette – Den of Writers

Janette posted an update 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Well done, Terrie – a great choice! I have a busy November coming up but will try and fit in some time to take part in the monthly comp.
Janette replied to the topic Choices in the forum September Song 7 months ago

I might live to regret this, but I am changing my choices (it was a flip of a coin in the first place).

My choices now are:

Sunshine.

The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessey
Janette posted a new activity comment 7 months ago

Welcome back, CAS. Great another Cloudie has found their way here.

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- Silver replied 7 months ago
  
  Thank you Janette! Yes, if only all the Cloudies would come! Great this is still going though.
Janette replied to the topic Monthly competition October 2025 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 months ago

As the Veil Grows Thin

Hey, Vee, I’m still at your side my dear. My old bones are aching in this hospital chair but, aye, I’m still watching over you.

They say you might hear me but – I don’t know. See, I can’t get used to how still you are. Never would’ve been afore, hey? Specially when we first met, when we danced like demons and made lo…[Read more]
Janette replied to the topic Choices in the forum September Song 7 months, 1 week ago

Rain

Chocolat
Janette joined the group September Song 7 months, 1 week ago

September Song

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Janette posted an update 7 months, 3 weeks ago

So sorry, Jill. I hoped to be of a mindset to join in September’s comp, only this month has thrown up too many mind-scrambling obstacles to facilitate concentration. Seems you already have some excellent stories already and I don’t envy your task.
Janette replied to the topic Monthly competition August 2025 in the forum Monthly Competition 9 months ago

The Woman Whose Nose Pointed North

I had already met my mother-in-law, years earlier, not that I could have known. We had moved onto a still-being-built estate, the house across from ours taken by a large family. So many children were a draw for a five-year-old girl and her brother.

The children, I remember, seemed friendly. Not so the…[Read more]
Janette replied to the topic Monthly Comp – July 2025 in the forum Monthly Competition 9 months, 2 weeks ago

Thank you, Sea, for the challenge and for the kind words. Congratulations, Sandra, your words clearly came from the heart and made you a worthy winner.
Janette posted a new activity comment 9 months, 3 weeks ago

It was lovely to catch up with you, John. I’m also making more effort to visit here, and I must say, the monthly comps have been a great exercise in tightening prose and the challenge of new writing.

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Janette posted an update in the group DONATIONS 10 months ago

Presuming your details haven’t changed since last time, I hope you will find my £20 donation in your bank. Hope you find the rest.
- Athelstone replied 9 months, 4 weeks ago
  
  Thanks so much Janette!
Janette replied to the topic Monthly Comp – July 2025 in the forum Monthly Competition 10 months ago

The Last Sense

Curse my tears, dissolving my bold exterior to expose the raw feeling beneath. How dare they come at a time when I needed to show courage? To offer a united support when Mum’s strength had finally crumbled?

And see how the foundations of mine gave way, leaving the sturdier ones to put on the brave faces; carry the weak link of…[Read more]
Janette posted an update 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Thank you, Ath, for an excellent prompt and for the kind feedback. I loved everyone’s stories, and congratulations to Seagreen – a worthy winner.
Janette posted a new activity comment 10 months, 3 weeks ago

Jill, I admire your courage and agree positivity is the strongest medicine in most things. It has carried me through many challenges in life, though as you said, you also have to remember you are human. Keep on keeping on, and I send over positive vibes.

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- Jill replied 10 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Thank you, Janette. Lovely to speak with you again and hear that positivity has carried you through many life challenges. Another philosophy I have come across, to paraphrase, is that a crisis can be turned into an opportunity. Maybe a more difff
  
  Thank you, janette for your kind words and positive vibes. Lovely to connect once more and hear…[Read more]
Janette posted a new activity comment 10 months, 3 weeks ago

Hello, Jill. It’s great to hear you are writing again, and I wish you well with your treatment. I agree, we have a lot to be thankful for in Den, that it is a place we can find each other after the closure of Cloud, and carry on with our writing challenges.

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- Jill replied 10 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Thank you, Janette. I never really stopped writing something or other for long! For instance, after four or five years of writing a weekly story and sharing it on FaceTime with younger grandson in America, I did have to admit that ideas had dried up! So we went over old ones, but then have found other literary ways of sharing the gift of…[Read more]
Janette replied to the topic Monthly Competition June 2025 in the forum Monthly Competition 11 months, 1 week ago

The First Steps and the Last

‘Come on, Mum, two more steps and you’re there. I’ve got you …’

Why was she raising her voice? I wasn’t deaf.

My mind wasn’t the disabled part of me. And what was the rush?

Hold your tongue, old lass. It’s all said through care, not to mention a familiar tone of worry that she might slip or let go.

It took me…[Read more]
Janette replied to the topic Monthly Competition May 2025 in the forum Monthly Competition 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Ps, yes, thank you all for your brilliant entries, I meant to say- sorry if this didn’t come across in my summary.
Janette replied to the topic Monthly Competition May 2025 in the forum Monthly Competition 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Five great stories this month, making my decision oh-so difficult and changeable.

Sandra – Lyrical Determination (thin on legend)
Smartly-penned descriptives throughout, giving vivid imagery of Fran lying prose on the attic bed, having decided to give her virginity to Ivo (having been inspired by the words of John Martyn). Love that she bathes…[Read more]
Janette posted an update 11 months, 3 weeks ago

Time passes so quickly. Would you believe there are only six days left to enter the May competition? Already four stunning entries but, go on, please make my job to pick out a winner even more difficult – I like a challenge. Give me an essence of May.
- Libby replied 11 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  I started a story but life has been busy. Let’s see if I can a) finish it and b) it’s not too embarrassingly draft-like to share.
Janette started the topic Monthly Competition May 2025 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 year ago

Today’s walk gave me the inspiration I needed, while I hummed away to May Day songs. I’d like you to write a story with a May (Day) theme.

It could be goings-on at a festival or fair while Maypole and Morris Dancers dance in the May. Or a nod to the Green Man (Jack-in-the-Green) defeating the Holly King of winter. Perhaps be inspired by the lines…[Read more]
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