@knickylaurelle
Active 4 months, 2 weeks ago-
JaneShuff replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 5 months ago
Yes. Great title. Hope the creative/productive jag lasts.
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Elle replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 5 months ago
@alanr — intriguing title! I like it.
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Elle replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 5 months ago
Thank you everybody! xx
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Raine replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 5 months ago
That’s great, @alanr! Hope the flow keeps going. I am in the process of hauling myself over my 25k wall. Getting there, but oof.
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Kate replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 5 months ago
Well done, Elle. 🙂
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Raine replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 5 months ago
Well done @elle. Such a sad little piece, and the bird image is perfect.
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KazG replied to the topic Setting The Place in the forum Blogs 7 years, 5 months ago
Really interesting, thanks for posting @elle. Place is crucial – for me it’s pretty much as vital as character and sometimes feels like character itself. I can’t write anything half decent without knowing what surrounds us, what the history is, how it has formed and influenced what’s going on ‘onstage’…
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KazG replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 5 months ago
Oh that story is beautiful and awful both, @elle. A well deserved win.
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KazG replied to the topic TV appearance – Quest, 'Wings of War' in the forum Podium 7 years, 5 months ago
I’ve now watched this and it is brilliant. Quality programme, as others have said, and you shine, @daedalus. I was spot on (as @richardb said) when I said I bet you were ‘engaging, knowledgeable and quietly authoritative’, before I had a chance to see it…:-) Really well done! x
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Daedalus posted an update 7 years, 5 months ago
This is just to say
I have finished
The Draft
I was working on since 2014And which you
Probably thought
I’d never finishForgive me. It was indulgent
All 178 thousand
Words of it-
I like it! How were the plums?
Oh, and your news. I like that too.-
Delicious. So sweet, and so cold. Unlike the novel which is bitter and very, very long
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that is bloody amazing @daedalus! Congratulations 🙂 What a lot of plums…
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Yippee Daeds! Hope you are going to take the day off to celebrate.🍒🍾
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Haha I wish
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This is awesomes Daeds. Both the achievement and the plums. I want that meme back, it was the best.
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Congratulations!
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RichardB posted an update 7 years, 5 months ago
Call me weird if you will, but I do love picking a passage apart and putting it back together again, better than before. So satisfying.
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That’s not weird, Richard. I didn’t think I could be the only one who preferred working with an existing draft to creating a new one
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Two different types of adventure, I think. I enjoy both but creating a new draft can be like swimming in very rough seas.
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Definitely. Editing is a craft. Writinf a first draft is an extreme sport
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I like that analogy. If it’s skiing, then I am currently uphill xcountry skiing, stuck in those parallel ruts and not sure whether they are heading in the right direction…
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Philippa East replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 5 months ago
Yay! Such a beautiful and chilling story…. well done!!
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Thea replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 5 months ago
Congratulations, Elle! A really poignant story!
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Elle replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 5 months ago
My flash “Little Bird” has been published in Reflex Fiction today https://www.reflexfiction.com/little-bird-flash-fiction-by-laure-van-rensburg/
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Elle replied to the topic Setting The Place in the forum Blogs 7 years, 5 months ago
Glad it is useful.
The workshop was great and organised by Word Factory. I highly recommend them if you’re in London.
After the workshop, some of us stayed behind to discuss what we learned and then after that they have a short story club where everybody read a designated story beforehand and then we spent an hour discussing it. The story this…[Read more]
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Thea replied to the topic TV appearance – Quest, 'Wings of War' in the forum Podium 7 years, 5 months ago
Well done, Daeds. Really impressive! I hope it leads to more programmes.
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Thea replied to the topic Setting The Place in the forum Blogs 7 years, 5 months ago
That sounds an interesting workshop, Elle.
I think that treating ‘place’ as a character in its own right can add an extra dimension to a piece of writing, so that’s a handy checklist to follow. Thanks for sharing.
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