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Terrie started the topic Monthly Competition July 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 year, 10 months ago
I thought July’s challenge could be a free choice of subject matter and genre, but to add a little twist to the task your entry must contain a reference to a cooking pot of your choice (saucepan, frying pan etc.) and the words,
Shadow
Bridge
Trinket
Word variants of the above are also ok.
Be funny, be scary, be mysterious, be whatever takes…[Read more]
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Terrie replied to the topic Monthly comp – June 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 year, 10 months ago
This was such a good challenge producing three different perspectives .
I agree with Sandra picking a winner is always difficult at the best of times and I think we all did brilliantly. So well done Ath and Sandra and thanks for passing the baton over to me, Libby.
I will be posting next months challenge shortly .
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Terrie replied to the topic Monthly comp – June 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 year, 11 months ago
Hunting The Children of Electric
You may think we’ve harnessed electricity but don’t be fooled by its compliance, it’s merely an angry beast straining at its leash, longing to be free.
If you’ve stood watching for the crackle-flash of its untamed brother, then counted and listened for the rumble, you’ll know what I mean when I say, the effec…[Read more]
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Terrie replied to the topic Monthly Competition – May 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 year, 11 months ago
A most enjoyable writing challenge for May, Ath.
Well done Libby, Sandra and Sea for creating such powerfully expressive reading.
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Terrie replied to the topic Monthly Competition – May 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years ago
Plant-Song
Nepenthes, the watcher, teaches us to listen for murmurs along the grapevine because the scent of those words is strong and always carry seeds of the truth. They whisper tales of creation that began beneath woody crowns of ancient cycad trees and of cerebral vines, trailing and probing in thickly netted curls upon the loamy earth.
The…[Read more]
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Terrie posted a new activity comment 2 years ago
Adding a bit of nonsense to the conversation –
To write a pithy sentence and not use well-worn phrases
Comes with all the thinking and headache that it raises.
So, me, I play with words and, using inconsistent skill,
I hammer, pull, and twist them and bend them to my will.
I make them mine – reformed, unique, and, sometimes packed with w…[Read more]-
Very nice too.
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Terrie started the topic How I Cope With My Box of Bugs. in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 2 years ago
I might just be burbling on to more practised and organised storytellers but thought I’d share this little part of my writing experiences.
In my teens, when I first began to tinker with the idea that I could be a writer, I simply let whatever came into my head trickle out from beneath my fingers. Sometimes it made sense sometimes it didn’t. The…[Read more]
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Terrie posted a new activity comment 2 years ago
More often than not , i find if something you write or read stops you from moving forward then it probably could benefit from revision. depending on the surrounding context of the piece i would have probably written something like … As my eyes adjusted I negotiated the dark shadows with growing ease.
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Late to this, but maybe I’ll make up for that by the pungency of my comments. Even before your careful explanation six posts back, that phrase just sounded plain wrong to me, like a bum note in music. Just because you were in a minority of one doesn’t mean the others were right. To extend the musical analogy, it’s as if you’d been in a group of…[Read more]
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@purplewitch absolutely. I don’t think it will be an issue because the writer in question is quite sharp. Anyway, if it gets to the point where a 3rd party is giving it a professional read, it isn’t going to last.
@richardb yep, that analogy is about right. In this instance I wouldn’t say the author has cloth ears (although the others might, I…[Read more]
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Adding a bit of nonsense to the conversation –
To write a pithy sentence and not use well-worn phrases
Comes with all the thinking and headache that it raises.
So, me, I play with words and, using inconsistent skill,
I hammer, pull, and twist them and bend them to my will.
I make them mine – reformed, unique, and, sometimes packed with w…[Read more]-
Very nice too.
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Terrie started the topic Where Does Your Writing Inspiration Come From? in the forum Blogs 2 years ago
I know everyone has their own muse that sparks ideas and their urge to write. The genre of writing you are most comfortable with also flavours those ideas so, for me, anything archaeological, mythical and magical always holds that allure.
And yes I have a note book in which I scribble ideas – actually I have a couple of notebooks. Alright……[Read more]
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Terrie replied to the topic Monthly Comp April 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 1 month ago
Not Date stamp Approved
I am waiting in a line of silent people.
Through the high-domed crystalline crown of windows, pale light, drifting like blossom in the air, reflects a gauzy veil of sleepy light and a comfort blanket of warm, mysterious, air coils softly with it.There is a sense of waking on a limp summer morning coated in the scent of…[Read more]
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Terrie replied to the topic Monthly competition March 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 1 month ago
Thank you Sandra, Ath, and Sea for such excellent entries.
1. Sandra, what a ‘jump right in’ really thought-provoking opening statement then backtracking to give a well-crafted back story to the piece before we actually meet Vic Duncan. I especially liked the small almost throw away sentences that gives good insight into the main cha…[Read more]
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Terrie started the topic Monthly competition March 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 2 months ago
Thanks for choosing my entry as winner for the February competition i enjoyed writing it and also reading everyone else’s offerings.
As this year is a leap year I decided a good title for this months competition would be ‘The Leap’.
The only limit is your imagination so interpret it as you like, prose or poem if that takes your fancy but…[Read more] -
Terrie started the topic Reorganization And Declutteration (have I created a new word) in the forum Blogs 2 years, 3 months ago
Barely six weeks in to another year and I am wondering what task should I tackle next?
The Christmas tree is gone the limited decorations I possess and are packed away .The few yuletide cards received are now repurposed into gift tags for the next festive season and thank you messages are all written or texted. Holey moley I’ve even written m…[Read more] -
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Terrie replied to the topic Monthly Competition – February 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 years, 3 months ago
The Emporium.
I’d been watching the place for a while and now I was ready.
The tiny shop by the empty mill was cobwebbed in layers of age and the light inside flickered with a hospitable glow. The antique-looking sign over the bottle-glass door announced it was an “Emporium Of Returned Things”.
It was out of the way and the perfect place…[Read more]
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