@raine
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Raine posted a new activity comment 6 years, 1 month ago
We’ve a very popular chippy in our harbour. It, and every other food place in the village had switched to take out/delivery only, which seemed doable for keeping them in business. But there were so many tourists day-tripping or holiday-house-visiting at the weekend that the chippy queue went down the street, meaning that they’ve had to take the…[Read more]
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Raine posted a new activity comment 6 years, 1 month ago
Sounds like a nice range of projects for you to move between when the mood takes you! I struggle with the multi-projecting, which is all I’ve been doing for aaaages, but I’m hoping to actually pick one project and stick for it for a while!
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Oh! How I emphasise . Lovely to have so many ideas, but must focus on one of a time if possible. On the other hand, I suspect we are both skilled multitaskers in many areas!
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I envy you both. I find it very difficult to work on more than one thing at a time.
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Raine posted a new activity comment 6 years, 1 month ago
😀 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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Raine replied to the topic My ride so far on the rollercoaster that is publishing in the forum Blogs 6 years, 1 month ago
I said on Twitter, but will say again here because this is worth double congratulations …. YAY!!! I’m so delighted for you. Not at all surprised that you’ve found yourself an agent, and cant’ wait to see where you go from here. 🙂
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Raine posted a new activity comment 6 years, 1 month ago
Ditto. What are you working on at the moment? If you need a prompt, check out the monthly competition…
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Raine posted an update in the group
CoronaMo 6 years, 1 month agoI did the decluttering exercise the other day, @janeshuff. But yes @janette, I might try the monthly prompt as a mini-challenge next week. I’ve actually just speed-written 1,300 words of a brand new wip with NO PLANNING WHATSOEVER, which is Very Not Me! I figure in the absence of an ability to concentrate, maybe I should give pantsing a go! 😀
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@Raine, I feel very guilty about this, but my meeting with the agent today has left me with quite a list of ‘to do’s’ she wants done quickly, and I’m not sure I’ll be able to make the comp.
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@Raine – sounds liberating. Long may it continue.
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Raine posted an update in the group
CoronaMo 6 years, 1 month agoSo today I wrote lesson plans for a four week writing course I will hopefully be running at Falkland Palace at some point (thanks to @seagreen). Having only taught primary school kids before, I’ll be slightly going to the other extreme audience-wise, I imagine! Likely to feature fewer zombies and superheroes perhaps! Still, it feels quite exciting. 🙂
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Yay! That sounds fun, and proper writerly work, too. I would do that course in a heartbeat 🙂
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That sounds fab, @raine! Wish I lived closer, but I’m sure it’ll be a great success. This could be a start of a new opportunity …
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What fabulous news. The Den is brimming with it at the moment! You’ll be wonder ful!
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Raine posted an update in the group
CoronaMo 6 years, 1 month agoHello – Welcome to the virus-free shutdown survival space. I’m sure I’m not alone in struggling to do ANYTHING AT ALL what with the various worries, uncertainty and black hole of endless news … so let’s make this somewhere we can retreat to away from homeschooling, home-partners, stress and loo roll panic. Prompts, writing news, other stuff, mor…[Read more]
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Works for me. Thanks for setting this up Raine.
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Yep, great idea. I’m all for it, thanks Raine x
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Very glad you feel the same way. I need a bubble to escape into.
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Raine posted an update 6 years, 1 month ago
So, you know how we did a slowmo group a while ago? Do we need a coronamo group to keep ourselves from sinking into anxious lethargy over the coming months? Same idea – tiny victories, tiny targets, tangential positives… Or is the MA course etc enough?
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I like that idea, Raine. At present I’m still at work but if the libraries close then I’ll be at a loose end. And I definitely have books to write!
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Liking the idea
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I’m all for it. Currently on lockdown in France but finding it surprisingly difficult to concentrate on anything other than phoning friends. Would love a group to get me focussed on achieving a few things. Could we ban discussion of the virus though?
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God yes please!!
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Very glad you feel the same way. I need a bubble to escape into.
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I won’t talk about anything that you lovely people won’t mention. But if I find one of my delightful companions who needs to talk about what’s afoot, then I’ll stick with then and slope off
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Ath, just to be clear, I am not trying to stop anyone talking about it at all. God knows I seem to have spent the last two weeks discussing, panicking and worrying about it. I would just love to have a tiny bit of something somewhere which was free of it. Like a coronamo group. But only if everybody else feels the same. It won’t stop me wanting t…[Read more]
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Raine replied to the topic Monthly competition – February 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 2 months ago
Well done @johnalty – much deserved. Perhaps writing two stories then being forced to choose is a sound strategy to adopt 😀 And Thankyou Libby for an intriguing challenge 🙂
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Raine replied to the topic Recent agent experience in the forum Blogs 6 years, 2 months ago
Oh blimey Hilary! What a demoralising experience! Did she mention your age ina negative ‘this is offputting’ kind of way? Because that’s outrageous if so. And you’re right – I see so many ‘I got my first book deal at x yrs old’ that I would never have expected it to be an issue. My guess/hope is that this agent is perhaps the exception rather than…[Read more]
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Raine posted a new activity comment 6 years, 2 months ago
I’ve completely failed to uncrap but posted anyway otherwise I’d forget! 😬
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Raine replied to the topic Monthly competition – February 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 2 months ago
Very little time this week, so throwing this one up before I read it again and spot all the errors!!
Enter the darkness
One hundred days, of which this is the first. We stand in snow that has crusted metallic overnight, not yet deep although that will come tomorrow, I think. It is eleven forty-five and we stand in a ragged line at the edge of…[Read more]
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Raine replied to the topic What if I'm a bad human being? in the forum Blogs 6 years, 2 months ago
I guess the line I draw with this is slightly different – it kind of depends if the work is current or not (or still within copyright, I guess). Partly because I don’t want to financially benefit anyone whose beliefs I find harmful (and that includes Roald Dahl’s estate). It feels like a condoning of their views to say ‘yeah you are hateful to x…[Read more]
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Raine replied to the topic Lost my group! in the forum
Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 3 months agoSorry – not been in for a couple of days. Is this still an issue for people (it’s not for me, but I’m the admin…)? I’ll change group to public then back to private and see if that sorts it – let me know.
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Raine replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 3 months ago
Ooh congrats @libby on a very deserving perfectly formed story! 😊 And thank you @janeshuff for a challenge that got me away from editing/fretting! X
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Raine replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 3 months ago
Nice one, @athelstone 🙂 I want this to be part of something bigger!
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Raine replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 3 months ago
Just reading through these, and much fun it is. 🙂 Thank-you all for brightening up my lunch break.
@johnalty – that sneaky wee twist made me laugh. 😀
@sandradavies – erk!! Love the ‘not fat – not quite – not yet’ line, instant image of the man!
@seagreen – wow, hard and powerful, and I am totally siding with her!
@libby – impressive world…[Read more] - Load More
This emergency really does seem to be bringing out the worst in people – and I don’t just mean stupidity. MrsB relayed to me today a news item she’d found on-line, to the effect that refuse collectors are reporting a 30% increase in food waste, some of it still in its packaging. To spell it out, this means that the bastard hoarders are not only…[Read more]