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Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly Competition – May 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 10 months ago
Before I set this comp, I suspect the gentleman who sweeps our streets must have passed by my window. He’s an absolute star. Has a smile and a chat for everyone, knows the names of all the local dogs and has helped push my car out of the snow at five in the morning.
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Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly Competition – May 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 10 months ago
Sorry!!
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Raine posted an update 4 years, 11 months ago
Just wanted to say hi & apologise for my absence. Things are busy with lead up to book release & I’m struggling to find time for other things. Which is a very nice complaint to have, so i’m not complainting. 🙂 Anyway, hi Denizens, I do still exist, hope you do too.
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And very understandable, too 🙂
I’m fine (and still exist). Haven’t heard from podge for ages though 🙁-
Same, really. I kind of exist though I’m not sure how much evidence there is for that tbh. Very much looking forward to your book
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Hi Raine, glad all is going well. Exciting! 🙂
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly Competition – May 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 11 months ago
The Urban McGonagall [one expletive]
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays. I’m a poet.
Not that many folk, to look at me, would know it.
(Part because they look but never see beyond the Council-issued uniform: pea-green.Mostly I’m invisible. Indivisible, from barrow, brush and bucket. And yes of course, when drunks stumble, trip and tumble over my…[Read more]
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Athelstone posted an update 4 years, 11 months ago
@seagreen ‘s monthly comp? Can’t be just me people? Surely… Come on! The topics a cracker.
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or even topic’s
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly Competition – May 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 11 months ago
*warning for language and content*
Sweep Weep
Shit! That’s Gaz over there. He mustn’t see me like this. Oh my God! I don’t even know how he got into those jeans. I can see the bulge of his iPhone. He’s looking my way. Stay busy with the cart, keep my hood up, pick the big brush. He’s never going to recognise me.
Called into the Woodpecker club…[Read more]
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Squidge posted an update 4 years, 11 months ago
Just had a flash piece longlisted in Retreat West’s Quarterly Comp!
(It’s judged anonymously, so thank you to those of you who read it and encouraged me to submit, but please don’t ID it! x)
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Super!
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Great stuff, Squidge.
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Fab news, Squidge. Congratulations.
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Brilliant news.
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Seagreen started the topic Monthly Competition – May 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 11 months ago
May the Force be with you… 🙂
You are the person who sweeps the streets. In 350 words (or thereabouts), I’d like you paint me a picture of your setting, your character and your situation.
Have at it!
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@seagreen: idea and opening line arrived soon as I read this, but the rest of it is taking time to emerge. Will get there eventually, I promise.
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I never doubted you!
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Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly competition April 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 11 months ago
Um… not sure that’s what I intended when I posted but, since it’s you, I’ll run with it 🙂
I’ll get my thinking cap on and come back to this.
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Sandra posted an update 4 years, 11 months ago
Monthly competition: April passed unnoticed, and I had @Seagreen remind me I’d set a competition (my head down, editing) so watch this space for whatever theme @Seagreen sets, and please, please make the effort both for her and to keep the flame alive!!
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly competition April 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 11 months ago
Good heavens!! What happened to April? I completely forgot I’d set a competition, was somewhat startled to discover it was May, but I do like this – rings some bells since, apart from invisible, April seems to have been a retrospective month, for more than me.
So without further ado, I’m handing the baton for May’s competition to you -…[Read more]
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Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly competition April 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 11 months ago
@sandradavies Didn’t work out the way I wanted, and too late to be of any use, but I thought I’d post it anyway… 🙂
EROSION
And it’s just enough to harm
It’s just enough to make its markIs it just me, or has that guy got a voice like a Brillo pad?
Actually…
…could you turn it down?
It’s making me maudlin.
No, seriously. Turn it down.
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Sandra posted an update 5 years ago
Browsing on iplayer, I came across this short and sweet account of writers who count their book sales in millions: h t t p s://w w w.b b c. co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000rs9l/mills-and-boon-writing-for-love-in-northern-ireland
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Really interesting. The sales figures are astonishing; a group of authors up there with Stephen King, Stephenie Meyer etc. but a million miles from household names.
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Sandra posted an update 5 years ago
I’m hoping participants in ‘Songs of innocence and experience’ will be as interested in sharing as some are of reading origins of the stories begun back in October 2019
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Athelstone posted an update 5 years ago
Participants in Things that go Bump, my be interested in a new topic there 🙂
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“may be”
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Athelstone replied to the topic Formatting for self-publishers in the forum Coffee Shop 5 years ago
I saw that Debi had praised it on Facebook.
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Sandra replied to the topic Formatting for self-publishers in the forum Coffee Shop 5 years ago
🙂 Confess I haven’t checked it out
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Athelstone replied to the topic Formatting for self-publishers in the forum Coffee Shop 5 years ago
Looks useful. Hope it’s well set out.
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Sandra started the topic Formatting for self-publishers in the forum Coffee Shop 5 years ago
Debi Alper posted this on FB: available from Blot Publishing:
“The Indie Author’s Guide to Formatting Your Paperback” by Leigh Forbes – a guide for independent authors who want their self-published typography to look like professional typography. 🙂
Paperback and ebook coming in April 2021. - Load More
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I really enjoyed both these entries. Congratulations @athelstone and @sandradavies.