Den of Writers | Kate | Group Activity https://www.denofwriters.com/members/katemachon/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Kate is a member. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:19:15 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 7774d3fd2e8ff48541806e360ea1cc26 Kate replied to the topic Choices in the forum September Song https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/september-song/forum/topic/choices-7/#post-16982 Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:55:16 +0000 Ice

The Last Kingdom

]]> 0 f3f843760978b8fb3f5e12e6b12672a8 Daedalus replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum September Song https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/september-song/forum/topic/chit-chat-7/#post-16974 Sat, 18 Oct 2025 17:51:30 +0000 I finally managed to read Ulysses earlier this year after numerous failed attempts over several decades (Middlemarch likewise). So I’m going to make the most of it!

]]> 9 23076fd0514642feab8abac92522ec63 Silver replied to the topic Choices in the forum September Song https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/september-song/forum/topic/choices-7/#post-16973 Sat, 18 Oct 2025 14:10:13 +0000 Snow

Emily of New Moon

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Ulysses

]]> 0 e29a28d79afd6896de3386db4feb26be Daedalus joined the group September Song https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/24866/ Sat, 18 Oct 2025 09:51:38 +0000 0 496a64055033a9affc1419b7a52a9cdd Sandra replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum September Song https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/september-song/forum/topic/chit-chat-7/#post-16970 Thu, 16 Oct 2025 07:54:01 +0000 I pulled half a dozen titles from my shelves, in the hope they’d inspire me with characters and plot. In the end the one I chose hung around longest; re-reading it reminded me why it felt so memorable.

]]> 0 2d11780970057d9660794815b21cee03 Libby replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum September Song https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/september-song/forum/topic/chit-chat-7/#post-16965 Thu, 16 Oct 2025 06:52:33 +0000 Good idea, Ath. I’m always curious to know what people, especially fellow writers, are reading.

]]> 0 649b17877d01fdc4de0845842752f115 RichardB replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum September Song https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/september-song/forum/topic/chit-chat-7/#post-16958 Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:10:12 +0000 I dunno about are reading: I haven’t read Catch-22 for years. But it is a book that sticks in the mind.

]]> 0 fbaa29fe04b8b7452fb980cc8d127d44 Athelstone replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum September Song https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/september-song/forum/topic/chit-chat-7/#post-16957 Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:07:15 +0000 My sneaky way of finding what people are reading. And yes, an extraordinary range.

]]> 0 36e05772bf81f03b2f6ca3d4aec60651 Libby replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum September Song https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/september-song/forum/topic/chit-chat-7/#post-16955 Wed, 15 Oct 2025 07:10:50 +0000 Such a brilliant range of novels in the Choices!

]]> 0 12ba7b6502a73f7009e63212395066d0 Janette replied to the topic Choices in the forum September Song https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/september-song/forum/topic/choices-7/#post-16953 Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:56:48 +0000 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

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Catch-22

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Waterland.

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Sunshine

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

]]> 5 105c582de3e50703971976d596f14a99 Jules replied to the topic Choices in the forum September Song https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/september-song/forum/topic/choices-7/#post-16941 Sun, 12 Oct 2025 17:43:39 +0000 Rain

The Morning Gift

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The Emperor’s Spy

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The Lies of Locke Lamora

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Chocolat

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The missing shade of blue

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The Princess Bride

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The Hearing Trumpet

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The Book Thief

]]> 0 4155c5e26aa2eb19056f36e4c11ae46b Seagreen joined the group September Song https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/24783/ Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:57:25 +0000 0 b3fb22a645deb9c4edaefe06d9feeeb9 Athelstone started the topic Welcome. PLEASE READ THIS FIRST in the forum September Song https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/september-song/forum/topic/welcome-please-read-this-first-8/ Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:38:16 +0000 Welcome all.

September Song, music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Maxwell Anderson, is a bittersweet evocation of life and love as one grows older. September, we hear, is when we look back at what seemed like a plentiful supply of time, and recognise how precious is the time to come. A time of contemplation and transition.

I don’t intend you to w…[Read more]

]]> 0 5af8b1c22bf133c69525be7491ff1707 Athelstone started the topic Choices in the forum September Song https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/september-song/forum/topic/choices-7/ Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:35:56 +0000 I am not going to explain what these choices mean – not now anyway. They will have an influence on your story, but I have every confidence that you will cope. You have all the skill and application necessary. I will explain them later, but that won’t be until the group becomes private.

And please don’t take these choices too seriously. Yes, there…[Read more]

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]]> 0 94063339617df345abaefa2c7616aa79 Athelstone started the topic Rules in the forum September Song https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/september-song/forum/topic/rules-6/ Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:30:27 +0000 Some Basic Story Rules and Guidelines

 

The challenge is to produce a short story. 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]

]]> 0 b116044fe87e344df06524e876e0b66f Athelstone started the topic Voting in the forum September Song https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/september-song/forum/topic/voting-8/ Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:27:56 +0000 On 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 8 February 2026 at 22:00 UK time, the voting stage begins. No doubt most of you will have read many of the entries…[Read more]

]]> 0 1fc0642112d8bfdd245d7b04415910c1 Athelstone started the topic Chit Chat in the forum September Song https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/september-song/forum/topic/chit-chat-7/ Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:26:32 +0000 What it says

]]> 2 c839aeb6b52697426f24017139ac57e6 Athelstone created the group September Song https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/24775/ Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:18:38 +0000 0 729a7125ac99b1ae0dd30e4a2d477253 Knicks joined the group DONATIONS https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/24706/ Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:27:39 +0000 0 b8628763c04638eb34d9a8ed1f0be540 Knicks joined the group Beta Reading https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/24705/ Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:26:30 +0000 0 1f18c023e665119223b2e3351a6e6413 Janette posted an update in the group DONATIONS: Presuming your details haven't changed since last time, I […] https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/24541/ Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:45:06 +0000 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.

]]> 1 41cf6ddcc599fc04a8d58bc526227700 Bella joined the group A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/23455/ Sun, 13 Oct 2024 17:53:59 +0000 0 7f5c8dbcdd1a5889c0fc164020d01352 Thea joined the group A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/23454/ Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:51:34 +0000 0 5b6e6b1283b4e87d1bb2265d88ea66a5 Athelstone replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/a-different-time/forum/topic/chit-chat-6/#post-15725 Sat, 12 Oct 2024 08:04:54 +0000 Please 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]

]]> 0 651ff7e9f5535117f5b712cb0cdcf211 Daedalus replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/a-different-time/forum/topic/chit-chat-6/#post-15724 Fri, 11 Oct 2024 15:47:39 +0000 Re 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]

]]> 3 bda107254f9992dc47e0981917789463 Barny joined the group A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/23430/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 18:56:02 +0000 0 619622adaa9698c2d288328a8e1e7bdc RichardB replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/a-different-time/forum/topic/chit-chat-6/#post-15710 Sun, 06 Oct 2024 09:55:22 +0000 That’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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