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Kate started the topic Short story in the forum Podium 5 years, 6 months ago
If anyone would like to read my HWA longlisted short story, it is now available in Sundial magazine at the below link. A Viking romp that I hope you will enjoy.
https://sites.google.com/view/sundial-magazine/short-stories/when-the-gods-laugh
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John S Alty replied to the topic Monthly comp – February 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 6 months ago
Well done, Janette!
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Libby replied to the topic Monthly comp – February 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 6 months ago
Congratulations, @janette . Two shivers for the price of one. A very enjoyable story.
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Thank you, Libby x
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Kate replied to the topic Comments from an Editor in the forum Blogs 5 years, 6 months ago
I write in first person a lot and the overuse of I was something that was pointed out to me early on. The writing can end up feeling like a list of stage directions. I have found that the gymnastics you have to go through to avoid overuse does what Libby mentions and moves you closer into the character’s head as well as adding voice. As Richard…[Read more]
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Yep, contraction comment. WTF.
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Libby replied to the topic Comments from an Editor in the forum Blogs 5 years, 6 months ago
Oh, it has worked!
I’ll go back to my quill and parchment.
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Libby replied to the topic Comments from an Editor in the forum Blogs 5 years, 6 months ago
Thanks, Richard. I tried to copy the link first of all and couldn’t make it work. Thank you for a working link to Emma Darwin.
BTW have you seen this on the BBC news website today?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55937512
Blast, link not working. BBC news website, go to the Wales tab. “Station reopening at Bow Street brings first trains for…[Read more]
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Libby replied to the topic Comments from an Editor in the forum Blogs 5 years, 6 months ago
As Richard says, this is seems more about style, and a rigid editor, than about the rich possibilities of first-person narrators.
I’m the first to agree that repetition of ‘I’ can be a problem, just as repetition of any word can trip up the reader. And the over-repeated ‘I’ can be hard to get rid of, as I know from my own efforts.
It can also…[Read more]
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Kate replied to the topic Good news on the lyric writing front in the forum Podium 5 years, 7 months ago
Wow, John. That’s amazing. Such a huge competition. You must be on cloud 9. Congratulations!
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Thanks, Kate
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Libby replied to the topic Good news on the lyric writing front in the forum Podium 5 years, 7 months ago
That’s brilliant, John! Huge congratulations. What an achievement – I’m really pleased.
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Thanks, Libby
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John S Alty started the topic Good news on the lyric writing front in the forum Podium 5 years, 7 months ago
John Schofield (my real name) has won the Lyrics Only category in the UK Songwriting Contest 2020 with his song “It’s Later Than You Think.”
The UK Songwriting Contest directors and judges include top award-winning producers and songwriters who have worked closely with many of the world´s major artists. There were almost 10,000 song entries from 8…[Read more]-
Oh, big WOW John – not that I didn’t doubt you, but against 10,000??! Will anyone be taking the lyrics up going ahead, for recording? Are we allowed to see them? This is brilliant news for such a cold, icy-blast sort of day. Many congratulations.
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Congratulations, John! What a fantastic achievement 🙂
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Thanks, Thea
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Thanks, Janette.
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Kate replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 7 months ago
Congratulations, Ath, and thanks for running the comp, Libby.
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Libby replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 7 months ago
What a tantalising range of stories and good use of the prompts. The standard is so high, and having a small number of entries paradoxically doesn’t make it any easier! In all of them I particularly enjoyed the voices both in the dialogue and the narration. I know Sandra’s piece is an excerpt from a longer work and Ath’s and Kate’s could be comp…[Read more]
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Kate replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 7 months ago
DIRECTIONS
‘What do I need this for?’
‘It’s a new cinema, I don’t know the way.’
‘Well, get out your phone and ask it to direct you, like any normal person.’
‘You know what happened last time I tried that. I ended up driving in circles for half an hour until my phone found a connection. A map on the other hand, can’t go wrong.’
‘Fine. Let…[Read more]
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Libby replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 7 months ago
Three days to go before the monthly competition deadline! I know many Denizens are busy with the annual challenge. Still, as my grandmother used to say when spooning out seconds at the lunch table, any more for any more?
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Come on – it’s a super challenge this month! Just a few hundred words and still 2 and a teeny bit days left.
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Libby replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 7 months ago
A half-time reminder, for anyone thinking of entering this month’s Den competition, that we’re half way through January.
I hope everyone’s year is going well/reasonably well in the general Covid circumstances.
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BUMP!!! Not that I want to make tons of work for Libby, but only 2 entries so far and only 4 days + today left
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Libby started the topic Copyright question re Den entries in the forum Competitions, Open calls and Writing Opportunities 5 years, 8 months ago
My resolution this year is to enter a couple of short-story competitions beyond the Den. To boldly go …
Please can anyone advise on a couple of things. Most competitions won’t accept entries previously published anywhere online except on password-protected sites, but what if I wanted to develop a story idea from something I’ve previously posted…[Read more]
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I’ve developed bits from monthly comps into full stories – and even short stories and submitted them. Never had an issue because the end results which are submitted are often very different to how they started. So I don’t consider the end result to be what has already been published, if you see what I mean?
And re getting publisher’s permission -…[Read more]-
Thank you, @squidge. That’s very helpful.
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Hiya @libby Yeah, I’ve published several things from monthly comps before. Whatever we post on here, we retain all copyright, so there is no need to call a piece from here ‘previously published’ as such. As long as its been noticeably revised then I’ve never worried too much about submitting it as as an unpublished piece. Can you go back and…[Read more]
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Thanks, @raine
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Libby replied to the topic Monthly comp: December 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 8 months ago
Thank you, Seagreen, Sandra, Janette and John.
And happy new year to all Denizens.
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John S Alty replied to the topic Monthly comp: December 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 8 months ago
Well done Libby. Excellent entries from all.
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Libby started the topic Monthly competition – January 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 8 months ago
Happy new year, everyone.
We haven’t had a list of choices for a quite a while in the monthly competitions.
For the January competition please write a story to include two of the following:
– a road atlas
– something made of wood
– aontrariness
– a light switch; this can be literal or metaphoricalBetween 250 and 450 words.
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That’s meant to be ‘contrariness’. I’ve edited the post on the monthly comp thread but out here in the Den window, changes don’t appear! (A little bit of Den contrariness? 🙂 )
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Libby replied to the topic Monthly comp: December 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 8 months ago
That’s a lovely surprise, and for the new year too! Thank you, Ath.
Thank you also to everyone who entered. A very compelling selection of stories, as always, and a wide range of styles. I’ll have a think about what to set for the January competition.
Happy new year, if we’re allowed to say that after 2020 🙂
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Congratulations, @katemachon . Sundial has done a super job with the layout and presentation. What a fabulous picture.
Well done.
Thanks, Libby. I’m impressed with their attention to detail.
A Viking romp remembered and very much enjoyed again, and the picture beautifully matched.
Thanks,Sandra.
Great storytelling Kate, and I didn’t know you lived in Jersey!
Thanks, Jane. Not a Jersey girl, but been here 30 years. Are you a Channel Islander? Not a Guernsey girl, I hope. 😀
No. I am in France just down the coast in Brittany but keep on planning to visit with a friend who lives in Normandy
We used to like hopping across to St Malo.