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Raine replied to the topic New Blog from Emma Darwin in the forum Blogs 7 years, 8 months ago
Ugh, toothache is awful @alanr. Hope it eases. I know that guilty feeling for not writing, but sometimes its good to step away for a while too. Or at least that’s what I tell myself when school hols make time to write a rare commodity!
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Raine replied to the topic As an opening… in the forum Critiques 7 years, 8 months ago
Naomi ALderman is great @squidge! Not always a comfortable read, but (haha) very powerful. I loved The Power, and I’ve also just read her newest – The LIars Gospel, which you might enjoy. I think. Some might not like the angle it takes, but I thought it was beautiful in its own way.
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Squidge posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
Just wondering how many here were in the Sept (I think) 2014 Self edit course? @swoop @tenacityflux … Jody Klaire, who I don’t think has found us yet? Anyone else?
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I went twice to FoW, & was in a self edit course straight after one of them, with you & Tenacity. I’m going to have to work this out by cricket seasons I think, hold on….
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Jody was definitely on it, but I’m caught on whether it was 2013 or 2014
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I changed clubs at the end of the 2012 season. I missed my last match for my old club when they were relegated to be at my first FoW, then I missed the last match for my new club when they just escaped in 2013. I couldn’t take that any more & haven’t been since….til next year. Pretty certain my self edit was 2013
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2013? Blimey, didn’t think it was quite so long ago. There was Sir something on it too… can’t remember his cloud tag.
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Yeah, went to one FoW that I went to certainly. Had a beard but his name escapes me, although I’m pretty sure he lived a couple of valleys across from Skylark…..so that should be relatively easy to work out. He says…..
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@skylark. Ooh, there we go, technology!
There was a lady who wrote a novel that was a love story that involved spitfires? Think she was published shortly afterwards? -
@louisewalters – was it you in our group?!
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It was Hurricanes, but I’ll let you off, Neil 😉
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I did it before Mrs Sinclair came out, but after I got my agent, so I think it was in 2013 I did mine. But I think Neil was on my course – Hi Neil!- so I may be getting muddled!
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Yes it was @louisewalters in 2013, sorry I couldn’t remember, time flies. Sirtanic is who we’re thinking of, Mills?
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Wouldn’t @debi know this anyway? Or were all records cloud based?
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Yes, I wondered if records can tell us which intake we were all in?
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There are no records of anything that was on the Cloud at all. Everything went pfft. 🙁 I could tell people who was in their group but it would take me some time. I’ve just done it for one recent group. One person contacted me and said they wanted to get in touch with their group so I went back to the emails I sent out with the course pack at…[Read more]
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Oh blimey, no, too much work Debi. I reckon we can work it out if we stop and think, and search our own docs for clues!
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Sirtanic – of course! I think Neil’s right, it was 2013 for us all, cos I was working on Rurik (who is now Tilda) and think I’d published Granny Rainbow in that year so I had the confidence to revisit the novel.
Much good it did me – as I edited it again for the milioonty-umpteeth time last year. Thank goodness it’s got a contract with it now…
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Squidge replied to the topic As an opening… in the forum Critiques 7 years, 8 months ago
Haha! He’s the one! I could picture him…but not remember his name!
I looked up the author – her novel sounds brill, must look it up. I like the idea of women ruling the world 😉
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John S Alty posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
I’ve been working hard on our kitchen remodel – now finished, as far as these things are ever finished – and can get back to doing a bit more writing.
I wonder where this will appear when I post it? Finding my way around.-
I know what you mean about being finished! Fwiw this appeared on my ‘Activity’ feed
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Oh, don’t get me started on kitchen refurbs. We’ll be going to court in October over ours…
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Oh my word @squidge! That sounds horrendous! What did they do?
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Squidge replied to the topic As an opening… in the forum Critiques 7 years, 8 months ago
Thanks all!
Stella, I’ve not heard of Naomi Alderman at all – I’ll have to look her/her books up.
It’s sods law that what I’ve written makes you think of someone else’s work – originally the Power was rings, and I got slated by an agent over it being too LOTR, when the story itself is nothing like.
Ah well, they do say there are only so many…[Read more]
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Hilary replied to the topic Festival Dreams in the forum Blogs 7 years, 8 months ago
Thanks for posting this, Skylark. I, too, was very sorry to miss your speech, but glad to hear about it and glad it all went well. You continue to be an inspiration to others of us who are taking a LONG time!
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John T replied to the topic Writing Advice in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 8 months ago
One I picked up from Brian Keaney at York for intense, magical or transformational scenes (to be used sparingly). Write it as prose, rewrite it as poetry (however crappy) then rewrite it again as prose. The idea is to knock away your own familiar turns of phrase and find a different language. I’ve already tried it in the last couple of days, and…[Read more]
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Debi Alper replied to the topic Receiving an email headed 'Offer of Representation'…. in the forum Podium 7 years, 8 months ago
I can see replies here @KazG but can’t see where they are in the thread or how to continue the conversation. Pfft. I’m currently trying to get to grips with the new platform for the course before it starts tomorrow so I’m probably being dense. Just want to say I’m eagerly awaiting a link to say you have a deal (!!!) so I can add you to our Hall of Fame.
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Raine posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
Am trying to convince myself that toblerone counts as a healthy snack because almonds.
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I had the sane thought this morning about jam, because fruit. Also it was home made and I must have burned off a few calories mashing the fruit and stirring it
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That’s the same reasoning that makes me walk 15 minutes to the chip shop, Daedalus.
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The logic is incontestable
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Raine!! You’ve Toblerone? I think that is a word that should be banned from this site for setting up an atmosphere of deep envy and greed. And nasty thoughts towards those that have when I have not. .
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All calories fall out of food once you break them up. So toblerone only has calories until you snap a piece off, then poof. All gone.
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From this robust survey, it sounds incontrovertibly like toblerone is indeed healthy. Sandra I will save you a triangle for next time we meet up. Maybe.
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Almonds, Raine – healthy of course.
And honey, which is healthy because it is bee-puke, which is about as natural (and therefore healthy) as anything can be.
And there’s chocolate, which is made of milk – naturally, this is healthy because cows are healthy and these are Swiss cows so they eat Swiss grass and the Swiss are very healthy because of…[Read more]-
What Mad said 😀
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SWISS COWS! How could I forget! That adds at least 30% to the healthiness.
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Squidge replied to the topic New Blog from Emma Darwin in the forum Blogs 7 years, 9 months ago
I did a version of this… Rather than setting myself so many days up front, I just made a grid and marked off one square every time I wrote something. That way, there wasn’t so much pressure if I had to allow myself time off when life got busy or I needed a short break. I always wrote in the date so eventually I worked out that a break of any…[Read more]
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Squidge posted an update 7 years, 9 months ago
You know some of us are having to log in again on the https site? Well, might be worth mentioning it seems to have undone the thing we sorted to stop getting email notifications of everything… So if you’re getting loads of them again, might be worth going to settings to check.
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Raine replied to the topic Hello All in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 9 months ago
@alanr It’s definitely v tricky to find a balance between not selling yourself enough, and being horribly ott, isn’t it? Factual seems to work best. Actually ‘tidy’ isn’t bad! Means you havent waffled on too long or included unnecessary info which can both be fatal.
Hope the 1:1s gave you some direction for what could be changed, even the…[Read more]
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