@raine
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Philippa East posted an update in the group
December SloMo 7 years, 5 months agoHello Everyone, and thanks so much @raine for setting this group up.
Like Seagreen, I have editing work to do over the next month or so, so I am hoping I can make slow and gentle progress on that. I’m currently grappling The Fear / Resistance, so joining you all in this supportive place will be helpful, I hope.
My main panic is that these…[Read more]
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Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly competition – Nov 2018 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 5 months ago
Congratulations, Raine! Well-deserved 🙂
And thank you, Jonathan, for dragging me out of my writerly walled garden and dropping me who-knows-where. -
Daedalus replied to the topic Monthly competition – Nov 2018 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 5 months ago
Well done Raine, fantastic competition Jonathan, many thanks for the feedback
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Managed 500 words this morning on something completed unrelated to anything. *Sigh.
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Well… perhaps it’s related something that is currently in your future? No words are wasted, etc.
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Xander Michael replied to the topic Monthly competition – Nov 2018 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 5 months ago
Home
It had always been a struggle, Kristjan’s relationship with Safiya, but it had been worth it. They met when she was studying in Reykjavik from Malaysia and it was love at first sight. It was a difficult courtship because Safiya never appreciated anything about Iceland save for it “having made you,” as she would say.
Kristjan could only…[Read more]
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Athelstone replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 5 months ago
Well done indeed! And (seriously) I am in awe looking at your word count.
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Jules replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 5 months ago
Well done, Ath 🙂
And well done other fellow NaNoers
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Daedalus replied to the topic Monthly competition – Nov 2018 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 5 months ago
(Sorry, 500 words not inc title)
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Daedalus replied to the topic Monthly competition – Nov 2018 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 5 months ago
Stairway
In the church in my village was a staircase that went nowhere. It was not such a very rare thing. Lots of mediaeval churches in my part of the world have a little alcove near the pulpit that used to lead to the rood gallery – an actual gallery, often beautifully decorated, high above the congregation from where the priest would deliver t…[Read more]
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Athelstone replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 5 months ago
Well, that’s me done. I really thought I wouldn’t make it this time.
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KazG replied to the topic Two newses in the forum Podium 7 years, 5 months ago
Woohoo @raine! Great successes, congratulations 😃
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Philippa East replied to the topic Two newses in the forum Podium 7 years, 5 months ago
Excellent! I am so chuffed for you. Well done.
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Hilary replied to the topic Two newses in the forum Podium 7 years, 5 months ago
That’s great, Raine. I, too, remember that amazing Now and Then story, particularly the sense of setting and history. Good for you.
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Two newses in the forum Podium 7 years, 5 months ago
That is fantastic news, Raine. Not that I’m at all surprised. Thank you for sharing!
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Daedalus replied to the topic Two newses in the forum Podium 7 years, 5 months ago
Superb Raine, I love that story. Any idea when the antho will be out?
And that’s a real endorsement about the flash piece. I’m sure they wouldn’t have nominated it if they didn’t think it had a shot at winning.
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Jules replied to the topic Two newses in the forum Podium 7 years, 5 months ago
Brilliant, Raine. And very well deserved 😊
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I know exactly what you mean about The Fear, both in general and in the specific form you mention. Encouragement: a few days ago I fixed a problem in my old revived MS that I’d been shrinking from for, literally, years, si if I can do it you certainly can.
Thanks @richardB. “Shrinking from” – that’s exactly it!! I know I just need to take a deep breath, and step in. Quit worrying about the outcome and just engage with the process.
I have four clear hours tomorrow morning to work, so hopefully I will make some progress. Out of interest, Richard, what was the problem and what was your fix? (if you…[Read more]
The problem was the one I mentioned a couple of days ago: the bloated chapter full of stuff the reader already knew. I was shrinking from it because there were several threads/issues involved and it was going to be hard work keeping track of them and figuring out what I could get away with losing. I solved it by being bloody ruthless – something…[Read more]
Oh well done on the ruthlessness! And that sounds like such an important thing to have fixed. I wonder if part of our Fear can come from the sense that if we try to change tricky elements in the MS, the whole thing will fall apart….