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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly Comp April 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 week, 3 days ago
Sea, thank you for the useful challenge, especially because it helped me formulate my character as well as sparking such a brilliant range of responses; I wouldn’t’ve liked to choose a winner.
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Sandra posted a new activity comment 2 weeks, 2 days ago
No good asking me about grammar, so I can’t give a reason for it but while I had no hiccup over “My eyes accustomed to the darkness” I mentally inserted ‘themselves’ after accustomed.
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Sandra replied to the topic Where Does Your Writing Inspiration Come From? in the forum Blogs 2 weeks, 4 days ago
“Transfer of information” is where I stumble. I’ve several notebooks but rarely there when I need them, so a handy piece of paper does the trick. I then blutack it to the shelf above my monitor from which, within days usually, it drop, onto the paper chaos that is my working space. then promptly disappears. Bigger problem is organising those n…[Read more]
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly Comp April 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 month ago
Mishaping to fit
Only as he pushed open the door into Haugesund’s Folkepuben, his mind occupied not only with what he needed to establish with Lars Sigmundssen but also a slightly fearful curiosity as to how Lars would react to his having slept with Maja, Lars’ current woman, was Rick Thorssen reminded, by the roar of convivial con…[Read more]
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly competition March 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 month, 1 week ago
Thank you for this challenge Terrie, and your kind comments; I was glad of the opportunity to make best use of it. Well done Sea – and never doubt those who have read you KNOW full well you are indeed a talented and sparkling writer, and thank you Ath for evoking. albeit dimly, the challenges of childhood.
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly competition March 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Cheeky leap into an attempt of an opener for ‘Snap is not a children’s game’Â
Vic Duncan. Did Lucy but know it, the first of three Duncan men she’d sleep with before she died, possibly dangerous, but an especially satisfying addition to her habitual  maintenance of a quartet of alphabetically consecutively-named lovers.
It began in the final yea…[Read more]
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly Competition – February 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 months, 1 week ago
Congratulations Terrie – a tale that got richer with every re-reading, as did those of Alex at Ath. And thank you Pinkbelt for the challenge.
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly Competition – February 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Retrieving memories
When on the Word Cloud, in 2014, Alan P proposed the challenge ‘We’re not in Kansas anymore’, I was in need of an explanation as to why Luke Darbyshere ( DI and main character in my ‘Love triangles with murder series) regularly sabotaged relationships at the point when they looked like becoming meaningful. His upbring…[Read more]
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Sandra replied to the topic Reorganization And Declutteration (have I created a new word) in the forum Blogs 3 months ago
Have to confess I avoid much of that for Steve, by ordering and collecting the books I want and handing them over for him to ‘hide’ (recognising he is doubly challenged by my having a birthday five days before Christmas.)
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Sandra changed their profile picture 3 months ago
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Sandra replied to the topic Reorganization And Declutteration (have I created a new word) in the forum Blogs 3 months ago
@ Terrie – I second Ath’s recommendation for hard drives: the one my thoughtful elder son bought for me, having listened to my moans, scrambled its contents when my laptop blew several gaskets.
@Athelstone – “gift lists for next year” not illegal, they masquerade as Amazon wish lists, ready to be re-written for handing to my local bookshop.
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly Competition – January 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 3 months, 1 week ago
Thanks, Athers, for a competition theme that gave me much head-scratching before I found a direction, and for chuckling, since I didn’t intend to sound self-pitying. Also I thoroughly applaud your giving Pinkbelt the opportunity to challenge us in February.
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly Competition – January 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 3 months, 1 week ago
Hi Pinks. Good to hear from you. Hope you stick around a bit longer, cease lurking and share a few words.
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly Competition – January 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 3 months, 2 weeks ago
‘Mirror, Mirror …
When I say my bathroom mirror is old you shouldn’t imagine some gilt-framed, spidery-silvered antique, for it is a bevelled-edged two-foot square of glass, bought in ~1969 and screwed at each corner onto the wall above the sink and opposite a window twelve inches larger in each direction.
In daylight, my image backlit…[Read more]
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Sandra replied to the topic Influences in the forum Blogs 6 months, 3 weeks ago
I’m now almost halfway through Salter’s ‘Collected Stories’ and can understand how the short, sharp sentences make an impact, but I find most of his characters, male and female, seem a bit self-obsessed, and, for me, there is over-much description (as is often the case with American literature.) At least they are readable! Some time since I read…[Read more]
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Sandra replied to the topic Influences in the forum Blogs 6 months, 4 weeks ago
@ Daeds and Libby,
re James Salter, 2/3 years ago II read and was impressed by a short story featured in a newspaper. Eagerly borrowed ‘A sport and a pastime’ from the library and found it heavy-going. Couple of months ago I bought his ‘Collected Stories, but have yet to begin it, but hope to do so with an eye to his style..
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Sandra posted an update 7 months, 1 week ago
Version #4, snappier start, 6 characters, 682 words but not a clue what is going to be “done” to start anyone wondering “who?” I’ll be in Australia for four weeks – thank goodness the deadline is February.
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly competition – October 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 months, 1 week ago
I’m not at all sure I’ve fully adhered to the brief, but this scraping of possibilities from my current wip is the best I can do, before I leave the country 😉
Scene:
Need for a wee had Lucy check the time. Half ten. She’d been lying in her bed for more than two hours. Not moved since she’d taken refuge. Since hearing the click of the stre…[Read more]
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly competition – October 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 months, 1 week ago
Oh, EXCELLENT idea Sea – 0nly problem now, which do I choose??
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly competition – September 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 months, 1 week ago
Yes, I’ve got ??? : -)
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