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Raine posted an update in the group
CoronaMo 6 years, 1 month agoHello – Welcome to the virus-free shutdown survival space. I’m sure I’m not alone in struggling to do ANYTHING AT ALL what with the various worries, uncertainty and black hole of endless news … so let’s make this somewhere we can retreat to away from homeschooling, home-partners, stress and loo roll panic. Prompts, writing news, other stuff, mor…[Read more]
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Elle started the topic My ride so far on the rollercoaster that is publishing in the forum Blogs 6 years, 1 month ago
I thought I would share my ride so far as many others have done before, in the hope it will be helpful the same way sharing their experience has been to me in the past.
Back in 2016, my first ride was a short one. I had completed a novel which I decided to submit. I got a few very nice rejections praising the writing, but it never got further…[Read more]
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Wonderful Elle! Huge congratulations.
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Thanks Jane! x
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Brilliant news Elle. I know how hard you’ve worked with all your short stories. Lovely to see that has paid off.
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Thanks Kate!
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Wow, this his fantastic news, Elle! May the rest of the ride be smooth x
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Thanks Janette & congrats to you too x
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Raine posted an update 6 years, 1 month ago
So, you know how we did a slowmo group a while ago? Do we need a coronamo group to keep ourselves from sinking into anxious lethargy over the coming months? Same idea – tiny victories, tiny targets, tangential positives… Or is the MA course etc enough?
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I like that idea, Raine. At present I’m still at work but if the libraries close then I’ll be at a loose end. And I definitely have books to write!
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Liking the idea
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I’m all for it. Currently on lockdown in France but finding it surprisingly difficult to concentrate on anything other than phoning friends. Would love a group to get me focussed on achieving a few things. Could we ban discussion of the virus though?
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God yes please!!
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Very glad you feel the same way. I need a bubble to escape into.
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I won’t talk about anything that you lovely people won’t mention. But if I find one of my delightful companions who needs to talk about what’s afoot, then I’ll stick with then and slope off
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Ath, just to be clear, I am not trying to stop anyone talking about it at all. God knows I seem to have spent the last two weeks discussing, panicking and worrying about it. I would just love to have a tiny bit of something somewhere which was free of it. Like a coronamo group. But only if everybody else feels the same. It won’t stop me wanting t…[Read more]
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Barny posted an update 6 years, 1 month ago
I’ve just donated to help keep the Den alive – go to the Donations group to help keep this place running
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Barny replied to the topic Short story in Barren magazine in the forum Podium 6 years, 1 month ago
Really good, Daeds – and IMO we could all go out and respond publicly to your and Kaz’s FB posts with words to recognise how good this story is. Fantastic.
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John S Alty replied to the topic The $2,000,000 Guitar in the forum Blogs 6 years, 1 month ago
Great story.
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RichardB replied to the topic The $2,000,000 Guitar in the forum Blogs 6 years, 1 month ago
God, the nostalgia. It’s all coming back to me…
A couple of little snippets from that Croydon club:
I was still at school and couldn’t afford to go there every week, so on weeks when lesser-known bands were billed I didn’t bother. Apparently I wasn’t the only one. One night the promoter got up on his hind legs at the beginning of the evening…[Read more]
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Mad Iguana replied to the topic The $2,000,000 Guitar in the forum Blogs 6 years, 1 month ago
That’s a brilliant story, Richard. Absolutely love it!!
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Mad Iguana replied to the topic Short story in Barren magazine in the forum Podium 6 years, 1 month ago
Great stuff Daeds! Well done!!
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Squidge replied to the topic The $2,000,000 Guitar in the forum Blogs 6 years, 1 month ago
Blimey – and I think my son’s nuts for setting his sights on a bass that’s selling for £5K!
Mind you, he’s got one custom built bass, courtesy of Mr Squidge, and apparently he plans to build another custom ‘normal’ guitar this summer, so who knows what they’ll be worth in years to come…?
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Daedalus replied to the topic The $2,000,000 Guitar in the forum Blogs 6 years, 1 month ago
Wow. Magical stuff!
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RichardB started the topic The $2,000,000 Guitar in the forum Blogs 6 years, 1 month ago
$2,000,000? Who’d be crazy enough to pay that for a guitar? Kirk Hammett of Metallica, apparently. He did just that in 2016, so the story goes, for a fifty-seven-year-old Gibson Les Paul.
What possessed him, you may be thinking, to do such a thing?
Let’s start from the beginning.
In 1952, following the trend set by Fender, the Gibson Guitar…[Read more]
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Athelstone posted an update 6 years, 1 month ago
Cost of the Den of Writers: 2020 to 2021
Funding a Free Forum: the “Donations” group
Den of Writers is a FREE forum. That means that nobody pays for membership and if you join you are absolutely entitled to use and enjoy the place as much as anybody – in fact, you are encouraged to.
However, people have asked about contributing to the c…[Read more]
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John S Alty replied to the topic Short story in Barren magazine in the forum Podium 6 years, 1 month ago
Great story telling, Daeds, congratulations.
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KazG replied to the topic Short story in Barren magazine in the forum Podium 6 years, 1 month ago
Congratulations Daeds! So well deserved, that story was something special 🙂 xx
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Hilary replied to the topic Recent agent experience in the forum Blogs 6 years, 1 month ago
Thanks, Squidge! Don’t worry – I’m not giving up. Thanks for the vote of confidence!
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Thea replied to the topic Short story in Barren magazine in the forum Podium 6 years, 1 month ago
Congratulations, Daeds! Excellent story 🙂
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Squidge replied to the topic Recent agent experience in the forum Blogs 6 years, 1 month ago
Coming to this late…but hugs to both Hil and Janette… Agents can be beetles at times, can’t they? Fill us full of hope and then dash us down. We are stronger than they think though – we get back up and live to fight another day, and keep writing, whatever they say.
Hil, your writing is gorgeous, and you have deservedly got agent interest.…[Read more] - Load More
Works for me. Thanks for setting this up Raine.
Yep, great idea. I’m all for it, thanks Raine x