Kate

I love your gorgeousness!! And *stands up* I am Raine and I too am an overwriter! 😀
There are so many images you’ve got there that are stunning & the whole is profoundly evocative. I particularly like the ‘She needed another word for this sea, because sparkle or glitter or shimmer were not savage enough. They did not hurt.’ Because that is such…[Read more]

Thank-you for posting despite feeling rubbish. And seconding @kazg – I love your writing. x

Just catching up with some of these posts. I love the peas, Squidge!! Ah, conversations with small children are so much more fun from the outside!!

The dream descriptions held a nice sense of disconnect, I think, and interesting that trying to deliberately write gorgeous felt so forced. Is it a sense that searching for additional descriptions is…[Read more]

And this a long ago piece deliberately adopting a Neolithic voice:

Always an edge to beware, to be aware of.

First at Liddle had been slabs, as thick as three of her three-year fingers, flat patterned stone, hard and often sharp when new, both separating bed from bed and on which they lay, degree of comfort dependent on the depth and newness of…[Read more]

Thank you both! I succumbed to overwriting, which I’m prone too, and it was FUN. If a bit much to read 🙂

Ooh me too @seagreen! What are your thoughts on that? Rescue Remedy would be a let down (though probably best for the woman!)

Sending hugs and support Jane, and I respect the no feedback request. I understand how you’re feeling – but can I just remind you how very much I’ve enjoyed the pieces I’ve read by you in the past?

Sending ((hugs)) x

Never mind the peas, the ex-nurse in me really, really wanted to know what he/she was taking three or four times a day to take the edge off… 🙂

Absolutely fabulous! And intense. An assault on the senses. My kind of gorgeous, too 🙂

And your ‘I Remember…’ made me remember the obstacle course of childhood.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, they say, and I certainly feel that way about Le Guin’s gorgeous passages. Some were more gorgeous than others. It’s all very subjective. But I have to say that your gorgeous is also my gorgeous. I absolutely loved that piece. “a clatter of kaleidoscope birds” – sublime.

The idea of this thread was also to have conversations about the readings/unit, so go ahead and post reflections here.

My dreams have been a lot worse over the last few nights. Think if I wrote THEM down, I’d be strapped to a psychiatrist’s chair… 😉 Thanks, Kaz and Hil x

@janeshuff – I think that’s a good idea. Maybe we should have a dedicated thread, called “Craft Seminar Class x : Diary” started by whoever’s first off the blocks?

When I’ve done courses in the past on other things as well as writing, we’ve often either kept a diary or shared ‘reflections’ on each section and what we thought we learned from it. I’ve found this very helpful both to clarify my own thoughts and to see what others gained. Plus it was interesting to see what different things people got from the…[Read more]

Good dialogue harvesting @squidge, and I especially liked the peas 🙂

I thought your ‘gorgeous’ para was really arresting and clear, it didn’t feel forced or unnatural at all and it was really vivid. What a dream! Beautifully captured.

YES about the detail. So evocative.

Sorry you’re feeling that way, Jane. It’s great that we can support one another with or without feedback – glad you posted anyway.