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Seagreen replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum Coming Home 4 years, 8 months ago

@sandradavies Ooh, me too! 😉

@knicky and @libby – Piety came out of nowhere and beat down any contender who dared to raise their head above the parapet. She might be a feisty one ☺️
Libby posted a new activity comment 4 years, 10 months ago

Thank you @sandradavies . I very much enjoyed your story too. A pleasure to read.

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Libby posted a new activity comment 4 years, 11 months ago

I really enjoyed both these entries. Congratulations @athelstone and @sandradavies.

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Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly Competition – May 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 11 months ago

@sandradavies You’re being too hard on yourself. I was quite impressed with your Urban McGonagall and your courage in trying something different 🙂
- Sandra replied 4 years, 11 months ago
  
  🙂
Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly competition April 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years ago

@sandradavies Didn’t work out the way I wanted, and too late to be of any use, but I thought I’d post it anyway… 🙂

EROSION

And it’s just enough to harm
It’s just enough to make its mark

Is it just me, or has that guy got a voice like a Brillo pad?
Actually…
…could you turn it down?
It’s making me maudlin.
No, seriously. Turn it down.
Or,…[Read more]
Libby replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 3 months ago

What a tantalising range of stories and good use of the prompts. The standard is so high, and having a small number of entries paradoxically doesn’t make it any easier! In all of them I particularly enjoyed the voices both in the dialogue and the narration. I know Sandra’s piece is an excerpt from a longer work and Ath’s and Kate’s could be comp…[Read more]
JaneShuff replied to the topic Indie publishing deal in the forum Podium 5 years, 5 months ago

Thank you @athelstone @janette @raine @thea @libby @sandradavies.

Verve are a small imprint of an indie press so there’ll be no books on shelves in Waterstones but they’re lovely people and the fit feels so right. The indie press route has worked very well for me and is well worth a try. They’re often more open to books that don’t quite fit into…[Read more]
- Athelstone replied 5 years, 5 months ago
  
  Aha, Jesmond. My brother lived there in the early/mid 70s. Lily Avenue. I visited a couple of times. Don’t remember much about it – but we were young.
  - JaneShuff replied 5 years, 5 months ago
    
    We moved away when I was three so I remember nothing!
Daedalus replied to the topic Monthly competition November 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 5 months ago

@sandradavies thanks, I will look that up. I’m a fan of keeping speech tags/descriptions to a minimum and I often write scenes with dialogue first and then build the other stuff around it, so this is very much up my street
Raine replied to the topic Monthly competition November 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 5 months ago

Oh YAY – congrats @athelstone. Very well deserved. And thank-you @sandradavies for such an ace prompt. It was a valuable lesson to me that i really can strip out a lot of my speech tags, actions etc and the world may not crumble!
JaneShuff posted a new activity comment 5 years, 10 months ago

Thanks @kazg. And thank @bellam and @sandradavies. I’ve had a another go just concentrating on telling what happens and ignoring the POV and it is falling into place.

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Raine replied to the topic Monthly comp – April 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years ago

Thank-you all. I just realised as I logged on to write this that we talked about making these comps run over two months rather than one? I’ll stick to one month being as that was how I set it. So. These were all a delight to read. So many memories and things that resonated with me very powerfully. Anyway, on to my thoughts.

@jllsted I am very…[Read more]
Libby posted a new activity comment 6 years ago

@sandradavies Thank you!

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- Giselle replied 6 years ago
  
  @libby I agree with Sandra, your descriptions are stunning. I’m not quite certain where to post my comment, as I didn’t want to put it on the comp thread. I’m still working my way around… 🙂
KazG posted a new activity comment 6 years, 1 month ago

Thanks @janeshuff, @sandradavies and @raine! Sorry I didn’t see this Raine, I’ve been a bit erratic on all fronts lately. Book 2 is crawling along, it needs much more attention than I seem able to give it, unfortunately! I had so much great beta feedback and I know what needs to change to make the book stronger – but getting my head in a fit state…[Read more]

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- JaneShuff replied 6 years, 1 month ago
  
  I don’t think you’re alone in suffering from scattybrainitis @kazg. Sending reinforcing hugs.
- KazG replied 6 years, 1 month ago
  
  Thank you, gratefully received @janeshuff (I MISS HUGS) x
Libby replied to the topic Monthly competition – February 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 2 months ago

I really enjoyed these stories. Each one had a compelling premise, good narrative drive and strong writing. All were serious contenders. In these circumstances picking a winning comes down, in part at least, to personal preferences.

I’ve added a few editorial points in my comments in the hope these are useful if you’re going to be developing the…[Read more]
- Libby replied 6 years, 2 months ago
  
  @raine – you are in there! Apologies for misspelling your name.
  - JaneShuff replied 6 years, 2 months ago
    
    Great competition, Libby, and thank you for your comments. Much appreciated. Congratulations John. It is a wonderful story and a worthy winner out of a group of fab stories.
JaneShuff replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 3 months ago

Thank you everyone. And sorry for the delay. We’re away for a few days from tomorrow and I had quite a few things that had to be done before we went.

A cracking bunch of entries. I hope you enjoyed writing these as much as I enjoyed reading them. As usual I was struck by the many different ways they all responded to the theme.

1) @johnalty. I…[Read more]
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]
Raine replied to the topic Class 3: Writing Exercise, Raine. in the forum Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 3 months ago

Thanks @sandradavies and @bellam both. It’s interesting – as I was writing this, I was thinking that it didn’t really tell me anything about the ‘inner lives’ of either Abigail or John. But in hindsight, perhaps it does. More about John though than Abigail, I think?

And yes, I think she needed to get out fast, and I think she did. She felt quite…[Read more]
Bella replied to the topic Class 3: Writing Exercise, Bella in the forum Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 3 months ago

@janeshuff – yes, Waltraut was trying to escape him. He wasn’t pulling the strings, she had simply tired of him.

@raine – glad you picked up on the unreliability. Waltraut ultimately got him out of her life by framing him for cheating in his exams, resulting in him getting thrown out of school and all manner of other ills. As for the second…[Read more]
JaneShuff replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 4 months ago

Oooh! Two entries already! How exciting. I am longing to read them but I guess I should leave it until the end of the month. Thank you @sandradavies and @johnalty
JaneShuff replied to the topic Class 2 Writing Exercise Jane in the forum Andrew Wille's DIY MA course 6 years, 5 months ago

Thanks @katemachon and @sandradavies. I realise that I should have given some context to this as it’s actually an excerpt from my WIP and, although this is the first time Dipsy actually appears, the reader would know her age and her relationship to the narrator. So sorry.

I will tidy up Dipsy’s character questionnaire and post it if you’d like,…[Read more]
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