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John S Alty replied to the topic Publishing deal!! in the forum Podium 6 years, 9 months ago
Well done, congratulations!
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Seagreen replied to the topic Publishing deal!! in the forum Podium 6 years, 9 months ago
Woohoo! Go you!!
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Daedalus replied to the topic Monthly comp – July 2019 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 9 months ago
Bringing a gun into a house changes it. You can’t help it, of course. The trick is not letting on to everyone else that you’ve changed it. Keeping everything looking exactly the same, so all the neighbours, passersby, any visitors have no idea what you’ve done.
It’s a specific kind of visitor we have in mind. The kind that bulldozes in mob-han…[Read more]
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly comp – July 2019 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 9 months ago
Bringing a gun into a house changes it. I move from hallway to sitting room. Little Kev is trying to hide behind a chair. Bang! I shoot him through it. This isn’t the house where Kev lives anymore. His mum stands on the stairs, screaming. Screams of shock and denial I suppose. Bang! Screamy house one minute, quiet house the next. I step over her b…[Read more]
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly comp – July 2019 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 9 months ago
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John S Alty replied to the topic Monthly comp – July 2019 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 9 months ago
Bringing a gun into the house changes it; that’s the truth. It’s not as if it was much of a gun, just an old Spanish automatic called a Ruby. Piece of junk, but cheap on the street. I never knew my dad to be scared of anything but he was scared now. Really scared.
Before, when he hit my mother, we cowered in a corner of the kitchen, my sis…[Read more]
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Sandra posted an update 6 years, 9 months ago
July’s competition – I’ve given you the first eight words; you only need add 200 more. @libby has set the standard, but I’ve no doubt there’s more than 200 variations to be had. Deadline 31st.
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Superb line prompt, Sandra. I hope to have a go.
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Raine posted an update 6 years, 9 months ago
I have some child-gone-to-granny days and need to do something productive, but I have 3 wips that I could edit or one half written thing from NaNo (loooooong ago) and I DONT KNOW WHICH TO DO.
Send help. And tea. And vote:
A – replot old wip1
B – try out BIG rewrite of opening to wip2
C – read through of wip3 before beta read
D – try to…[Read more]-
E of course and then maybe B but really you should do whatever you want.
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Well, eat chocolate, obvs. You need sustenance. But while eating chocolate option C strikes me as the most time-sensitive, assuming you have a beta reader lined up. If option C is not, in fact, time-sensitive then just do whatever grabs you. While eating chocolate.
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Yup, I second Bella as that does have a sort of deadline. And ought to afford time for copious chocolate consumption.
(But you’ve omitted the monthly competition!!)-
I’d agree, if something is time sensitive, do that first. Otherwise choose whichever is most likely to be finished or substantially completed in the time you have available so you can cross it off your list/see an end in sight for it.
And eat and drink whatever helps the process along!
Good luck.
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It goes without saying, chocolate first … while listening to where your heart is at, and don’t panic about the rest.
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I’m strangely drawn to E.
Me-time, or in your case, you-time, is so important. Let’s be honest, you won’t be getting much more of it. You may think that when they’re grown and off to pastures new, you’ll have loads of opportunity. Let me just say ‘HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA’.-
Now I’m trying to remember who had the catch phrace ‘I’m strangely drawn to…’ It was definitely a me-in-the-audience thing so it could have been a comedian (Julian Clary?) or maybe a lecturer from way back.
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Daedalus posted an update 6 years, 9 months ago
My WW2 novella ‘Harpoon’ is 99p on Kindle for a few days if anyone fancies giving it a go https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07SLM49R4
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Thanks for the heads up, Daeds. It’s now waiting for me on my Kindle!
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I’m looking forward to reading this, Daeds!
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OOh … off to find it now…
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Thanks all! Hope you enjoy it
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Help with a Title, please. in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 6 years, 9 months ago
ZAnd it’s a vote for ‘improbable’ from me too.
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Squidge replied to the topic Monthly comp – July 2019 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 10 months ago
Nice. Might have a go as I’m in between edits…
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GippsGirl replied to the topic Help with a Title, please. in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 6 years, 10 months ago
“A Lyttle Goes a Long Way”
The Improbable Life of an Ulster Storyteller
gets my vote.Improbable tale feeds into the stereotype of Irish blarney. That title tells the reader before they’ve turned the cover that what follows is not to be believed, so why bother buying the book?
Improbable life suggests a life fully lived, a life of intrigue and…[Read more]
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Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly comp – July 2019 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 10 months ago
Ooh! Interesting!
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Sandra started the topic Monthly comp – July 2019 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 10 months ago
‘Bringing a gun into a house
changes it.’The opening words lines of a poem entitled ‘The Gun’, written in 2001 by Vicki Feaver, whose work I discovered last year.
I’d like you to enlarge upon this by adding no more than 200 words.
And because I’m not convinced that two months makes participation any more likely, I’m setting a deadline of…[Read more]
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RichardB replied to the topic Bi-Monthly Comp – May/June 2019 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 10 months ago
Great idea for the competition – specially as I had an entry all ready to go and didn’t need to do any actual work…
Congrats, Sandra. I’m only glad I didn’t have to do the judging.
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GippsGirl replied to the topic Help with a Title, please. in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 6 years, 10 months ago
I, too, think a subtitle (strapline?) works, though I’m rather partial to Kaz’s suggestion of ‘improbable’ which suggests an especially rollicking good story from an Ulster Storyteller.
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Jonathan replied to the topic Bi-Monthly Comp – May/June 2019 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 10 months ago
Nice work Sandra – congratulations 🙂 Stunning entries all round – might have to rewrite my WIP opening again!
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Seagreen replied to the topic Bi-Monthly Comp – May/June 2019 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 10 months ago
Thanks, Raine, and well done, Sandra 🙂
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Squidge replied to the topic Help with a Title, please. in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 6 years, 10 months ago
Works for me! And with the subtitle, too…
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Squidge replied to the topic Bi-Monthly Comp – May/June 2019 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 10 months ago
Agree with you Raine, 100%! Loved Sandra’s start (among others!!) Well done, Sandra x
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