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Kate posted an update 6 years, 4 months ago
@giselle – loved ‘A Perfect Fit’. It felt preordained. That piece of flint waiting for you down the years.
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Libby posted an update 6 years, 5 months ago
Re swallows, from the British Trust for Ornithology’s migration blog for this week:
‘The cold weather and northerly winds from the last week will likely to have caused a bit of a bottleneck for those species migrating northwards across Europe but with a change in wind direction and an improvement in day time temperatures, 17 degrees is possible…[Read more] -
Libby replied to the topic March competition in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 5 months ago
Congratulations, Raine. Your story has made me shiver with anxiety! Well done – fabulous writing.
Thank you John for setting the competition. I’m sorry March passed me by in a blur, what with one thing and another, and I didn’t manage an entry.
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John S Alty replied to the topic March competition in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 5 months ago
So, four very different entries this month. Eenie, meanie, minie, mo.
Seagreen made me laugh, Jill made me smile, Raine worried the hell out of me and Athelstone made me melancholy.Can’t separate you, all excellent.
But I’m going to give this months prize to Raine for all that energy and power.
Well done all of you!
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John S Alty replied to the topic March competition in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 5 months ago
Last day to get your entries in!
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Libby replied to the topic Good news this time – finally! in the forum Podium 6 years, 5 months ago
Great news, Janette! So pleased for you.
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John S Alty posted an update 6 years, 5 months ago
Don’t anyone worry about the monthly competition. Janette and Jane or anyone else, please don’t feel any pressure to participate. I understand.
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😀 I guess March is proving a little distracting. But I think a mini prompt might be just the thing for week one of homeschooling!
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John S Alty replied to the topic Good news this time – finally! in the forum Podium 6 years, 5 months ago
Well done, Janette, good luck with the book!
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Kate replied to the topic Good news this time – finally! in the forum Podium 6 years, 5 months ago
Congratulations, Janette. Lovely news.
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John S Alty replied to the topic The $2,000,000 Guitar in the forum Blogs 6 years, 6 months ago
Great story.
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John S Alty replied to the topic Short story in Barren magazine in the forum Podium 6 years, 6 months ago
Great story telling, Daeds, congratulations.
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Kate replied to the topic Short story in Barren magazine in the forum Podium 6 years, 6 months ago
Brilliant Daed. Congratulations.
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John S Alty replied to the topic Very Serious Consequences: Harrow and Wealdstone, 1952 in the forum Blogs 6 years, 6 months ago
Another interesting blog, Richard, thank you.
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John S Alty replied to the topic Monthly competition – February 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 6 months ago
Thank you Raine. Yes it turned out to be a pretty cunning ploy.
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John S Alty started the topic March competition in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 6 months ago
Well, I think the subject is obvious this month – Spring. Interpret it any way you want in under 400 words. I know you’ll all be brilliant. Good luck!
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John S Alty replied to the topic Monthly competition – February 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 6 months ago
Wow, thanks Libby! Well done to the other participants. I’ll think up some devilishly difficult competition for March and post later tomorrow.
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Libby replied to the topic Monthly competition – February 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 6 months ago
I really enjoyed these stories. Each one had a compelling premise, good narrative drive and strong writing. All were serious contenders. In these circumstances picking a winning comes down, in part at least, to personal preferences.
I’ve added a few editorial points in my comments in the hope these are useful if you’re going to be developing the…[Read more]
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@raine – you are in there! Apologies for misspelling your name.
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Great competition, Libby, and thank you for your comments. Much appreciated. Congratulations John. It is a wonderful story and a worthy winner out of a group of fab stories.
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Kate replied to the topic Recent agent experience in the forum Blogs 6 years, 6 months ago
How incredibly insensitive of her, Hilary. Of course you were excited and expecting something after being asked to meet her. What on earth was the agent thinking? But, as others have said, there mat be a positive side. Perhaps give yourself time to get some distance then decide if her suggested revision are for you or not.
And Janette – another…[Read more]
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Libby replied to the topic Monthly competition – February 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 6 months ago
Dear All,
A reminder for would-be or thinking-about-it monthly comp entrants that we’re six days from the end of the month on 29th February.
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Just got a bit of uncrapping to do, @libby to mine.
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I have a lot of uncrapping to do. Hopefully I’ll get it to a postable standard in time.
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I’ve completely failed to uncrap but posted anyway otherwise I’d forget! 😬
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Libby replied to the topic What if I'm a bad human being? in the forum Blogs 6 years, 6 months ago
I just posted something which seems to have disappeared. Probably my error.
In brief, I liked this Literary Friction podcast about how we judge people by what they read.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/literary-friction-minisode-three/id1000387053?i=1000433931359
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