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Libby replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum
Coming Home 4 years, 10 months agoThanks, Ath. A brilliant challenge to get our teeth into.
The first winner is Knicky for being so fast off the mark 🙂
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Knicky L. Abbott replied to the topic Choices in the forum
Coming Home 4 years, 10 months agoTrain
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Athelstone started the topic Rules in the forum Coming Home 4 years, 10 months ago
Some Basic Story Rules and Guidelines
The challenge is to produce a short story, so in the way that the term is usually understood, what is needed is a work of fiction. By all means stretch this definition as you like, to include, for example, an imaginative account of true events, but please avoid essays, reportage, political polemic,…[Read more]
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Athelstone posted an update 4 years, 10 months ago
It’s that time again. There’s a new group in town. Head on over to “Coming Home” for details of the new Short Story Challenge.
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Athelstone started the topic Voting in the forum
Coming Home 4 years, 10 months agoOn the face of it, what you have to do is quite simple. However, those of you have been through this before in previous challenges will know that in fact it is extraordinarily tough.
When the writing stage of the challenge closes on 7 February 2022 at 22:00 UK time, the voting stage begins. No doubt most of you will have read many of the entries…[Read more] -
Athelstone started the topic Choices in the forum
Coming Home 4 years, 10 months agoWelcome all.
<e>Home is where the heart is</e> according to Pliny the Elder and a thousand sentimental songs since his time. Pliny clearly had in mind a place where we love to be: where we were shaped. But maybe that doesn’t appeal to our writing souls. Perhaps it’s a place of dread, or contempt, or it’s so unfamiliar as to be unrec…[Read more]
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Athelstone started the topic Welcome PLEASE READ THIS FIRST in the forum
Coming Home 4 years, 10 months agoWelcome all.
Home is where the heart is according to Pliny the Elder and a thousand sentimental songs since his time. Pliny clearly had in mind a place where we love to be: where we were shaped. But maybe that doesn’t appeal to our writing souls. Perhaps it’s a place of dread, or contempt, or it’s so unfamiliar as to be unrecognised. We may n…[Read more]
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Athelstone started the topic Chit Chat in the forum
Coming Home 4 years, 10 months agoPlease post all chit chat here!
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Knicks replied to the topic Monthly Competition – August 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 10 months ago
*content warning for a bit of gore down at the end*
All Woods
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood. One led to autumn, calm and chilly, its last bronzed leaf picked by a wind still echoing with residual birdsong. The other to darkness, cloaked in mist, where naked trees loomed overhead like a canopy of murderers, intentions ill. The signpost…[Read more]
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly Competition – August 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 10 months ago
I remember …
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood …
except it wasn’t the wood that was yellow but the fallen leaves, many of which were tinged with gingerbread brown. And it wasn’t a road they covered but a track. At least, one was a track. Green grass centred and, from the narrowness of then wet mud indentations, cartwheeled. Which thought too…[Read more]
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Athelstone posted an update 4 years, 10 months ago
Unable to login to the Den? You can see the Den but “activity” won’t load: the Den tells you it’s getting your updates but they never arrive? It may be that you are using the free version of Bitdefender which has a problem following the last upgrade. Try another anti-virus solution either permanently, or until Bitdefender is fixed.
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Libby replied to the topic The Future of the Den in the forum Blogs 4 years, 10 months ago
I don’t know if anyone has already suggested this but n option to show when someone’s read a post, akin to the ‘like’ option the Jericho Writers’ Townhouse community, would be useful if it’s possible to implement. Often I don’t have time to reply to someone there and then, or a reply may not be necessary, but it would be good to indicate I’ve seen…[Read more]
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Yes, that’s a good idea @libby; I would give that a ‘like’ if I could 🙂
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Libby replied to the topic Monthly competition July 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 10 months ago
Ah yes, I wondered about the various roles of garnet @seagreen after I’d started looking it up. I’d no idea. It’s very interesting. Geology in general, not just the applied stuff, always feels like a significant gap in my knowledge.
Those rigs have a fascination even for a landlubber like me. The meeting of elements perhaps. At sea but fixed -…[Read more]
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Libby replied to the topic Monthly competition July 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 10 months ago
That’s interesting @knickylaurelle – makes me enjoy the piece even more. I think it’s hard to write well about one’s own experiences – at least I find it so!
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