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Squidge replied to the topic Help with setting in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 8 years ago
So…I live in an East Midlands town. With a university, a canal, a market, wealthy hillside houses, poorer terraces town centre and large housing estates springing up on the outskirts. So if you need to run any specifics past anyone, let me know!
But…for a story of abduction and return, perhaps it doesn’t matter which of the settings you pick.…[Read more]
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Squidge started the topic Wolves and Apples Conference 2018 in the forum Blogs 8 years ago
Had a great day on Saturday at this event – have blogged about it under the same title on the Scribbles if you are interested…
You can always learn something new, whatever stage of your writing you’re at.
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Anna replied to the topic I've gone and done it again! in the forum Podium 8 years ago
Wonderful news, congratulations!!
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Hilary replied to the topic I've gone and done it again! in the forum Podium 8 years ago
Hurray! Well done, Janette. That’s brilliant news.
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Anna replied to the topic Help with setting in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 8 years ago
How about a cute market town? Bustling with people going about their trivial day to day activities. It will be in stark contrast to the traumas the abducted child has to process. The family has stayed in the same place the whole time, and when the child comes back she recognises and remembers things from before her abduction. Things are the same…[Read more]
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John S Alty replied to the topic I've gone and done it again! in the forum Podium 8 years ago
Well done Janette!
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John S Alty posted an update 8 years ago
I’m painting my old Sanyo microwave to match the kitchen cupboards.
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Hi Andrew, am looking forward to the Workshop in November.
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Squidge posted an update 8 years ago
Am at Wolves and Apples tomorrow… Lots of well known children’s authors speaking or leading workshops (Anne Fine, Tamsin Winter, Narinder Dhami, to name but a few) so will be interesting to see what they say. Also got a 1-2-1 with a publisher. There’s bound to be a blog in it.
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John S Alty started the topic Images in the forum Admin and Technical 8 years ago
Am I right in assuming you can only post images that are hosted elsewhere?
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Hilary replied to the topic My failure in the forum Podium 8 years ago
‘Failure’, like ‘rejection’ is such an emotive word. Whether or not you feel you’ve failed may depend on what you set out to do. Did you set out to win? Well, I suppose in terms of entering comps, we do set out to win/be placed. But I would not say it’s a failure if that doesn’t happen. Is it failure if you’re not ‘satisfied’ with your…[Read more]
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John S Alty replied to the topic My failure in the forum Podium 8 years, 1 month ago
As Ricky Nelson sang “You can’t please everybody so you gotta please yourself”
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