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Knicks replied to the topic How to reach out to a speculative fiction editor? in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 1 year, 8 months ago
Thank you both, @richardb and @katemachon; Kate, the info on your process, experience and end results was especially illuminating. Thanks so much! ✨
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Knicks replied to the topic How to reach out to a speculative fiction editor? in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 1 year, 9 months ago
Thank you for the link, Richard! 😊✨
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Knicks started the topic How to reach out to a speculative fiction editor? in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 1 year, 9 months ago
Hey, I hope this finds you well. I recently finished edits on the manuscript of my current novella, and would like to move forward to the next step, that of soliciting the services of an editor – preferably one who specializes in editing speculative fiction – to help me tighten and polish the story.
My one hesitation comes from not knowing all…[Read more]
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Knicks replied to the topic Monthly competition July 2022 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 year, 9 months ago
<p>Congratulations @Alex!! 🥳🥳</p><p>I too am a fan of the penny-brown eyes. Well done, you 😃</p><p>Also another stunner from Ath; Top-shelf characterization in a small pinch of words. #howdoeshedoit </p><p>Sandra, this was a marvellous prompt and I fully enjoyed it! Can’t wait to see what Alex comes up with, for August :)…[Read more]
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Knicks posted a new activity comment 1 year, 9 months ago
Congrats, Richard!! It is a stunning piece 😊✨
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Knicks replied to the topic The Future of the Den (again) in the forum Blogs 1 year, 9 months ago
I like Discord for all those reasons too @raine.
It may well and best suit the members who will show up there, and couldn’t there be an influx of new writerly blood from the different tags we use on open channels?
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Knicks replied to the topic Monthly competition July 2022 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 year, 9 months ago
Sorry Sandra, I copied it in from my phone and forgot the ever-imperative word count: 500 words excluding the title.
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Knicks replied to the topic Monthly competition July 2022 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 year, 9 months ago
<p style=”text-align: center;”>THE LIBRARIAN</p>
“Come here.”Mayrie tensed at the grave, inscrutable timbre of his voice. Some would call it a salt-of-the-earth voice but she was under no illusion about the nature of the man seated before her. The slight narrowing of her eyes all but said, if it’s just the same to you Guv, I think I’d rather…[Read more]
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Knicks replied to the topic Monthly competition July 2022 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 year, 10 months ago
Gorgeous prompt is gorgeous. Chomping at the bit for this one 🥰✨
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Knicks replied to the topic Monthly Comp – June 2022 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 year, 10 months ago
Ath, it’s okay! And you can still have a go, lols. The thread not going nowhere 😊
Alright. Down to the stuff and business. With only two entries, both of which are incredibly well-penned and definitely get to the heart of their most singular matters, this was not an easy choice.
However, I’m going to give this win to @sandradavies, for leaving…[Read more]
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Knicks replied to the topic The Future of the Den (again) in the forum Blogs 1 year, 10 months ago
I agree that, as a place where we can meet to chat (ever so sporadically) and have monthly (great for writing practice) and especially annual competitions, it would be absolutely sad to see The Den dissolve due to the lack of activity. I don’t think the work anyone has put in should go to waste.
The implemented suggestions have been fun,…[Read more]
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Knicks started the topic Monthly Comp – June 2022 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 year, 11 months ago
Ohai! Okay, for June’s prompt I’d like you to consider your emotional landscape. What is the most constant and persistent feeling that rears its head on the horizon of you, lately? What calls to it? For what resolution does it come seeking?
In no more than 500 words, paint a portrait exploring this pervasive emotion. Your entry can either be…[Read more]
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Knicks replied to the topic Monthly Competition- May 2022 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 year, 11 months ago
Awww, thanks @seagreen! I enjoyed writing this piece very much, and it is a very personal one to me. Just an anticipatory imagining of a band festival I attended quite recently, and how I wanted it to go. It went even better than what I wrote 🙂 haha
I too went on a Google search over @alex‘s piece, for the exact same reason 😄😄 It’s too funny you…[Read more]
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Knicks replied to the topic Monthly Competition- May 2022 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years ago
[TW for an F-Bomb 💣]
And Your Flesh Shall Be A Wild Night and A New Road
The wild scream of the guitar ripped down his spine, surging like power in his veins. Dominion, utter and absolute electricity, was what their music held over the night.
. . . 1984.
That was the last time he saw her, and all he could recall were a few, sparse details of…[Read more]
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Knicks replied to the topic Monthly Competition- May 2022 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years ago
I’m emotionally excited over this!! haha. We’ll see what I get up to 😊✨
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Knicks replied to the topic Monthly Competition – April 2022 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years ago
Each of these had me quite tense – from the loop of endless phone calls to unnerving gun point to the high pressure of never-ending tasks you have to micromanage – and each one left me wondering why I did this. I should have asked for peaceful entries to assuage my own anxieties 😅😅, but that might not have been as riveting, lol.
They are all…[Read more]
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Knicks started the topic Monthly Competition – April 2022 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 1 month ago
Here we go. This week at work I am under enormous pressure to complete all of my reports, my register, scheme book and other administrative paperwork, as well as work on my school’s Easter Hat Parade and organize a webinar on reading for all infant parents. Enormous Pressure. The kind that makes you queasy in the chest and your armpits…[Read more]
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Knicks replied to the topic Monthly comp – March 2022 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 1 month ago
Woopity woop! 🥳🥳 Thanks, Ath! This was a real challenge for me as evidenced by my unusually late submission. I thought I wasn’t going to make it, but I was working on it the whole time, trying to get the voice right, and make sure my own meaning was clear.
Love your work as always, ladies. Seagreen, your piece was absolutely beautiful; Sandra’s…[Read more]
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Knicks replied to the topic Monthly comp – March 2022 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 1 month ago
Happiness Is An Old Slut
Y’know, there were a time – before the Great Dark – when I would chase Happiness. Relentless in my pursuit, I would pin her with a heated stare onto the walls of my life, undress her slow and vulgar, dry fingerin’ the places where she kept her best secrets. But even when I caught her, had my way with her, I knew Happine…[Read more]
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