@raine
Active 3 years, 3 months ago-
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 3 months ago
It’s some raging privilege, for sure! But the author (must find her name, and books) who set a PI after him, and based her villains on him – she sounds epic. Classy sly burn.
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 3 months ago
Yes, but BECAUSE he is tall, good looking (he really isn’t) and charming, he GOT TO LEAVE CUPS OF PEE IN PEOPLE’S OFFICES and GOT PROMOTED!
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Raine replied to the topic Monster Anthology opportunity in the forum Competitions, Open calls and Writing Opportunities 7 years, 3 months ago
Queer, Asexual, Intergender and Pansexual. These all sort of fall under a Non-binary umbrella but the acronym includes the separate forms.
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 3 months ago
It was a (very long) new Yorker article. I’m torn between a compulsive fascination and sheer rage.
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I’ve found it… Cover me, I’m going in
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Wow, American long-form journalism really is so very pointlessly longwinded. So far I have learned that Mallory is tall, good looking and charming.
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Yes, but BECAUSE he is tall, good looking (he really isn’t) and charming, he GOT TO LEAVE CUPS OF PEE IN PEOPLE’S OFFICES and GOT PROMOTED!
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Wow.
Still, tall and charming though, so in the world of publushing it evens out
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It’s some raging privilege, for sure! But the author (must find her name, and books) who set a PI after him, and based her villains on him – she sounds epic. Classy sly burn.
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It’s one of those Twitter things where I see loads of references to it but can’t find exactly what any of it means
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It was a (very long) new Yorker article. I’m torn between a compulsive fascination and sheer rage.
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I’ve found it… Cover me, I’m going in
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Wow, American long-form journalism really is so very pointlessly longwinded. So far I have learned that Mallory is tall, good looking and charming.
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Yes, but BECAUSE he is tall, good looking (he really isn’t) and charming, he GOT TO LEAVE CUPS OF PEE IN PEOPLE’S OFFICES and GOT PROMOTED!
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Wow.
Still, tall and charming though, so in the world of publushing it evens out
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It’s some raging privilege, for sure! But the author (must find her name, and books) who set a PI after him, and based her villains on him – she sounds epic. Classy sly burn.
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Reply to see if I can bring the old replies back
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 3 months ago
Happy New Year! I’m a fan of pigs. Having met wild boars, I have much respect (mild terror) for them, and much love for the stripyness of their babes.
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I like peccaries, with their tiny dainty feet
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Okay, a bit of porcine trivia. The meat of the wild boar is prized in some quarters in France, but the animal is a protected species (though that doesn’t stop it being sold under the counter occasionally). to get round this, pig breeders have crossed the wild boar (sanglier) with the farmyard pig (cochon). The resultant hybrid is known as a…[Read more]
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French is great. En anglais that would just be a Big
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😀 @daedalus that made me cackle!
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@raine I adore the baby humbugs. Utterly cute. They have escape ladders and platforms attached to trees in the Austrian woods to get away from angry Dad pigs, though.
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Raine posted an update 7 years, 3 months ago
Quote from Margaret Atwood – A story is a pattern broken.
Meaning that a story begins when the predictable/normal life of a character is disrupted. And a story is continued by re-breaking every new pattern that forms. I like this, it’s just another way of saying that plots rely on instability and changing/upping the stakes, but I like the image…[Read more] -
Raine replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 3 months ago
Congrats @johnalty and @elle – that’s great news and I’ll keep fingers crossed for teh next stage – when is the short list announced?
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Raine replied to the topic Entering the Citadel in the forum Blogs 7 years, 3 months ago
@philippaeast this is brilliant. You are fab, and you deserve all this success. And like Daeds says, it is so valuable to see the non-glossy version of people’s experiences, although I know it takes bravery to tell it. There are too many stories from authors who knew someone who knew an agent and tada! they were taken on, so it is heartening to…[Read more]
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 3 months ago
LOvely to be getting recommendations @squidge, shows how well you run your events. 🙂 But yes, hope they weren’t expecting you to dash over there immediately!
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 3 months ago
@daedalus It’s no wonder you are feeling a little daunted. Funny isn’t it? You’d think having the contract there at the start would be a dream, but it’s a whole different kind of pressure I guess. Sending you lots of good luck. You will do them brilliantly, I know you will. xx
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 3 months ago
Oh, such a shame you aren’t going to make it @philippaeast, I always look forward to reading your stories. But understandable, given the Monster Edit of Doom. 😀
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 3 months ago
Thank-you @philippaeast. It was a good feeling writing that new word count into my cover letter! I did it partly by stripping out a character, which meant a bit of structural shenanigans but did streamline bits of the plot. I also cut out a minor PoV. But a lot came from just line edits, which is quite scary re how much there was that I could cut.…[Read more]
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Love it! Some big, brave cuts, and then all those little trims of fat round out prose too. And I LOVE a good bit of motivational number crunching!! Well done again. What are the next steps for you, once you are happy with your edited draft?
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 3 months ago
@janette, I had to do some serious door-wrestling too. Whilst thinking ‘how hard can you yank on a door handle before you snap it off?’
And @athelstone, glad to hear the foxes are feeling spring-like, despite all evidence to the contrary! -
Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 3 months ago
You have all made me feel much better! 😂 i will cease sulking! High of 2deg here today but stubbornly un snowy.
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Raine posted an update 7 years, 3 months ago
I need a snow census. Who has snow?
I am suffering my annual I LIVE IN SCOTLAND AND DONT HAVE SNOW temper tantrum. I live on the coast, sticking out into the north sea, low level. So its a) dry and b) more salt in the air than oxygen most of the time. And c) that is profoundly unfair.-
Ditto Raine. We live on the coast and snow is a once every twenty year for half a day thing here. Glasgow had snow yesterday though but it melted during the day and I haven’t had an update today.
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We still have a heavy frost, but no snow. Might have some tomorrow morning, apparently.
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No snow. West Suffolk.
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Tiny sprinkling of snow first thing this morning in Cotswolds over a heavy frost. All gone now.
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About half an inch when I got up this morning. All melted now, BUT I can see the Brecon Beacons from my window, and they’re still covered.
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No snow (thank goodness). Essex. Had a few flakes last night but they didn’t settle.
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Got light covering of snow on the Isle of Lewis. Several snow showers but not layering up.
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You have all made me feel much better! 😂 i will cease sulking! High of 2deg here today but stubbornly un snowy.
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Not a snowflake in sight apart from myself. However, I do have foxes in the garden who are raising the temperature like billy-ho!
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I live in the highest village in England and we have a light dusting. However lots of ice – needed to put my foot to the car to open its door today.
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Just a light dusting here.
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@janette, I had to do some serious door-wrestling too. Whilst thinking ‘how hard can you yank on a door handle before you snap it off?’
And @athelstone, glad to hear the foxes are feeling spring-like, despite all evidence to the contrary! -
@johnalty, I do like to write flash fiction, however at the moment I’ve had to put my blinkers on and concentrate on my current WIP as an agent has asked for the full once I do some requested adjustments. Sorry it rules me out of current comps at least, but I’m hoping it will all be worth it.
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Wow, good luck with that.
Actually I wasn’t drumming up business for the comp, it was a bit of silliness based on the claim by Flash, in the Peak District, to be the highest village in England.-
Sorry, John, I should amend my previous statement to ‘one of the highest’, though at 1200ft above sea-level, we’re pretty damned high.
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Gah! WoW @janette, that is fantastic news!!!! Well done! I’m keeping fingers crossed that she loves it….
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Woke to a thin crunchy layer on Thursday; mostly gone by teatime. We’re ~ a dozen miles from the east coast.
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We had a flurry of snow and lots of sleet. I am almost on the beach, and lots of salt on our windows. For a day Ballard Down was covered in snow which cast an unusual light over the bay but all gone in two days. None settled in the garden.
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 3 months ago
It so does, @squidge. Celebrate those mini-successes. 🙂
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 3 months ago
Aye, that’s the likely thing. And my judging late didn’t help. Could always think about extending the comp to the end of Feb?
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It doesn’t bother me at all to have no takers. I know everyone is absorbed with RWAV. Real life intrudes as well. Priorities.
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Have started a submission. Now I’ve admitted it I’d better get on with it 🙂
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Regarding that Raine, how would Denizens feel about making it a two-monthly comp? I suppose Christmas plus Winter Challenge is going to make Nov-Dec-Jan most difficult for most people, so it might not be a problem in the normal run of things to keep it monthly
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Or even a quarterly competition. Maybe we could look at a judging panel, too. It needs new life breathing into it, somehow.
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Possibly. It might just be the time of year – there were ebbs and flows on the Cloud too, and with a smaller pool of people here we’ll always feel it more acutely when people are busy. But I’ll open a thread, and we can put those suggestions to people and get a sense of what might boost participation a bit.
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Raine posted an update in the group
December SloMo 7 years, 3 months agoJanuary update from Fife – Last week I thought that a) I’d never ever in the universe get to the end of the huge wip edits, b) not hit the word count target. And c) not get to write a short for RwaV in time. And d) just meh, really.
But since then, got to end of edits, hitting my word target, and now am mid first RwaV target with DAYS left in…[Read more]-
Wahey! I’ve been working on RWAV too, today, and it’s started to come together. Got an idea for the sting in the tail, too…
Feels good to be able to feel a bit of success in our plans, doesn’t it?
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It so does, @squidge. Celebrate those mini-successes. 🙂
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Ooo! A sting! That sounds great, especially since you were worried your plot was a little linear before. Fab!!
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Poop though, I don’t think I’m going to make the RWaV deadline. I will gracefully bow out, but GOOD LUCK to everyone xx
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Oh, such a shame you aren’t going to make it @philippaeast, I always look forward to reading your stories. But understandable, given the Monster Edit of Doom. 😀
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Well done, @raine! I’m so proud of you, as i know what a daunting task it felt. AND getting that word count down. RESULT! (How do you think you did it, BTW? There might be a useful lesson for all us us about cutting / reducing)
I know what you mean about how impossible it can seem. I honestly couldn’t see how I was supposed to achieve these edits.…[Read more]-
Thank-you @philippaeast. It was a good feeling writing that new word count into my cover letter! I did it partly by stripping out a character, which meant a bit of structural shenanigans but did streamline bits of the plot. I also cut out a minor PoV. But a lot came from just line edits, which is quite scary re how much there was that I could cut.…[Read more]
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Love it! Some big, brave cuts, and then all those little trims of fat round out prose too. And I LOVE a good bit of motivational number crunching!! Well done again. What are the next steps for you, once you are happy with your edited draft?
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