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Janette posted an update in the group
DONATIONS 8 months, 4 weeks agoPresuming your details haven’t changed since last time, I hope you will find my £20 donation in your bank. Hope you find the rest.
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Thanks so much Janette!
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Athelstone replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum
A Different Time 1 year, 6 months agoPlease don’t feel you have to emphasise the differentness. It was a throw-away comment about making me happy. The following remark that making me happy is not a condition of entry to the challenge was intended to say that. What should probably have put is that emphasis on difference will be great, but not emphasising it will also be…[Read more]
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Daedalus replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum
A Different Time 1 year, 6 months agoRe absence of choices and surprises. I’m not sure really. Sometimes they’ve helped me push myself to do something dramatically different, or have at least significantly shaped what I’ve written. Other times they just made slight complications to writing the story I would have written anyway. Generally it’s the overall theme I have the biggest…[Read more]
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Gosh, I had to read that last sentence twice! I’m astounded that only one of your excellent challenge stories has been accepted. Really sorry to hear that.
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Thanks Thea. In part I’m sure it’s my own fault for not being persistent enough. That said, I can’t help worrying that there’s something indefinably dated or just offputting in my writing. I should add that since I wrote the above, another story based on one of the Den challenge pieces was accepted for an anthology, but for various reasons that…[Read more]
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Congratulations on having another story accepted. You say the anthology might be “up in the air”, so I really hope it all goes through alright.
I honestly don’t think there’s anything “dated” or “off-putting” in your stories. I’ve read several in the challenges over the years and they have all been excellent. I’m sure that if you look back at the…[Read more]
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RichardB replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum
A Different Time 1 year, 6 months agoThat’s two steps out of character for me. First, I enter the monthly competition for the first time in God knows how long. Now, having a history of inspiration for the annual challenge not descending until the last minute, i’ve had an idea already. Whether I’ll succeed in making a story out of it, we’ll have to wait and see, but the germ is…[Read more]
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Sandra replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum
A Different Time 1 year, 6 months agoYeah. Thanks. Still pondering …
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Athelstone replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum
A Different Time 1 year, 6 months agoHow many words would it be? That said, it isn’t against the rules, and this is a challenge to produce a short story in any way you see fit as long as it fits with the theme.
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Sandra replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum
A Different Time 1 year, 6 months agoInitially, absence of choices left me teetering, unsupported. lacking a direction pointer (as did the lack of a ‘final twist’ in previous years.) But it didn’t take long to seize on an idea (and even less time to feel that a mistake and subsequently suffer an alternative uncertainty of direction) Still ongoing, but that’s the nature of a ch…[Read more]
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Athelstone replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum
A Different Time 1 year, 6 months agoI’m interested in how people feel about the different approach this year, i.e. the absence of choices and surprises. It was something suggested to me by a group member and I thought I’d give it a go.
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I have always loved the choices and surprises – they’ve taken me out of my comfort zone and challenged me in ways I didn’t expect. It was always fun in the run up to the reveal and, ultimately, to see who made what of the same (or similar) choices. Last year, however, I didn’t enter the comp because one of the elements completely threw me (can’t…[Read more]
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Athelstone replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum
A Different Time 1 year, 6 months agoAll sounds promising so far.
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Daedalus replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum
A Different Time 1 year, 6 months agoHope so!!
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Jules replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum
A Different Time 1 year, 6 months agoAsper usual, I have no ideas at all yet. Knowing me, it’ll be something weird though ????
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Daedalus replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum
A Different Time 1 year, 6 months agoI’ve an idea. Whether it’s a workable idea or not is another matter. Recently my life has taken a slight turn reminiscent of the film Stand By Me, and it’s kind of demanding to be written about. On the other hand, it doesn’t have an obvious narrative shape or all the checkbox things you’re supposed to include to make a story these days, and…[Read more]
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