@raine
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Songs of Innocence and Experience 6 years, 8 months ago@sandradavies You choose the BEST character names! 😀
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Raine posted a new activity comment 6 years, 8 months ago
Things are a bit bleurgh tbh. Hence the cave. So am extra glad of the challenge this year. 🙂
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Raine posted an update 6 years, 8 months ago
How’re things, Denizens? Hurray and thanks to @athelstone for managing to drag me out of my cave to sign up for his splendid comp. *crawls back into cave to mull choices*
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Thanks for the thanks, though I assure you there are plenty of selfich reasons to run the comp – it’s fun for starters.
Can’t speak for the Denizens, but things are fine for me. How about you?-
Things are a bit bleurgh tbh. Hence the cave. So am extra glad of the challenge this year. 🙂
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Raine posted an update 6 years, 9 months ago
I’m away to Cornwall via Bath tmrw for a tour of cousins. I have a pile of editing and the monthly comp to do while away… (don’t say to take time off and relax because I need something to distract me from my in-laws!!). Can English people confirm England is doing sunshine at the moment, please?
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Best to check forecast, @raine . Showers were predicted for the English west country – I think for tomorrow and Friday??
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I have relatives in Weston super Mare so keep the forecast for there on my phone. The forecast there is rain on Friday and Saturday and then fine weather again. Daytime temps around 20 degrees, starting to rise a bit from Sunday.
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Raine posted an update 6 years, 10 months ago
I have some child-gone-to-granny days and need to do something productive, but I have 3 wips that I could edit or one half written thing from NaNo (loooooong ago) and I DONT KNOW WHICH TO DO.
Send help. And tea. And vote:
A – replot old wip1
B – try out BIG rewrite of opening to wip2
C – read through of wip3 before beta read
D – try to…[Read more]-
E of course and then maybe B but really you should do whatever you want.
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Well, eat chocolate, obvs. You need sustenance. But while eating chocolate option C strikes me as the most time-sensitive, assuming you have a beta reader lined up. If option C is not, in fact, time-sensitive then just do whatever grabs you. While eating chocolate.
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Yup, I second Bella as that does have a sort of deadline. And ought to afford time for copious chocolate consumption.
(But you’ve omitted the monthly competition!!)-
I’d agree, if something is time sensitive, do that first. Otherwise choose whichever is most likely to be finished or substantially completed in the time you have available so you can cross it off your list/see an end in sight for it.
And eat and drink whatever helps the process along!
Good luck.
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It goes without saying, chocolate first … while listening to where your heart is at, and don’t panic about the rest.
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I’m strangely drawn to E.
Me-time, or in your case, you-time, is so important. Let’s be honest, you won’t be getting much more of it. You may think that when they’re grown and off to pastures new, you’ll have loads of opportunity. Let me just say ‘HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA’.-
Now I’m trying to remember who had the catch phrace ‘I’m strangely drawn to…’ It was definitely a me-in-the-audience thing so it could have been a comedian (Julian Clary?) or maybe a lecturer from way back.
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Raine replied to the topic Bi-Monthly Comp – May/June 2019 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 10 months ago
Well, thank-you everyone for entering. I’m so glad I set this particular challenge as it’s been so much fun getting little insights into all your works in progress and I can genuinely say I’d have carried on reading every one of them. They all pulled me right in and left me wanting more, so seriously well dones on lots of good stuff.
Because…[Read more]
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Raine posted a new activity comment 6 years, 10 months ago
YEah, mulling and marinading time! End of terms and holidays are always writing-time killers, aren’t they? I’m sure you’ve thought of it, but I always try to have something I can do on paper over the hols cos I’ve got a much better chance of grabbing ten minutes with pen than on computer (especially as it’s an old beast that takes 30 mins to power…[Read more]
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Raine replied to the topic Bath Novel Award Successes in the forum Podium 6 years, 10 months ago
I said on Twooter but for double emphasis – YAY!!! So pleased for both of you. Totally deserved and fingers are crossed for the shortlist!
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Raine posted an update 6 years, 10 months ago
A reminder for anyone wanting to post in the May/June comp … 10 days left. Post either (or both, if you like) 400 words beginning of a work in progress, or a 400word flash based in your old school after hours.
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Thanks for the reminder, Raine. I was thinking about this yesterday. That possible entry I’ve left half edited 🙂
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Just re-read them all – what a wonderfully promising selection of future novels.
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Raine replied to the topic New Book Release: Revolt (The King's Knight) in the forum Podium 6 years, 10 months ago
Horses becoming fully fledged (ha) characters is only right and proper. They make more interesting friends/sidekicks/warriors/vindictive bastards than most actual people. 🙂
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Raine posted a new activity comment 6 years, 10 months ago
Its the dog owners frantically trying to stop their dogs rolling in it/climbing inside it/eating it that is the highlight of any washed up marine mammal, in my book. 😀
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Raine replied to the topic New Book Release: Revolt (The King's Knight) in the forum Podium 6 years, 10 months ago
WOnderful, JB! THis sounds fab and you’ve been dead sneaky with the deals etc! Well done there, lovely. I do now think every book needs a What Horse list.
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Raine replied to the topic Fantasy/SF/Spec fic story list (working) in the forum Marketplace 6 years, 11 months ago
Also, entropy magazine takes eclectic stuff, and very usefully keeps a ‘where to submit’ page for all formats of writing. They update it every 3 months I think.
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Raine replied to the topic Reading Times New Roman doc on screen in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 6 years, 11 months ago
Hi Jean,
I can’t be much help with this, I’m afraid. I have roughly the same set up, but not encountered any problems with fonts. I wonder if it’s worth running all the usual system tests (full virus scan, defragmenting), or perhaps uninstalling and reinstalling word? Another option might be to upload files into Google Docs and re-save there…[Read more] -
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Raine posted a new activity comment 6 years, 11 months ago
Personally, I’d get started with book 3, but that’s possibly not the wisest, knowing you’ll have to switch away from it again. BUt it’s not like you are having to enter an entirely new world, is it? (this is the next in series, isn’t it?). So perhaps it could even be good to keep you in the right place mentally and keep you enthused for the…[Read more]
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Thanks all… I actually went on to outline book 4 after all, but pretty loosely. Rather lost my writing mojo this week due to a bout of hormones… I tend to want to sit in a corner and shut the world out when that happens. Not helped by a few things going rather wrong this week that left me feeling disappointed with life. But hey ho, we get back…[Read more]
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@Raine – don’t worry re beta reading; as and when! I’ve begun to realise that book 2’s not as oven ready as I thought it might be…
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Raine posted a new activity comment 6 years, 11 months ago
It’s an outrage! And then I have to pretend to be interested in what happened at some meeting! 😱
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Mine just stomped out because I didn’t stop typing, which didn’t have anything to do with I want to get in with my WIP while interest is still being shown. No, it was ignorance.
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I have to answer inane questions about what we need from the shops while my MC is hanging off a crumbling cliff waiting for me to find an escape…
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Zephaniah (surname Poole) is a family name – wish I’d known that before I had my children!
Zephaniah is such a great name. I kind of want it (for myself, not for this challenge!)