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Janette posted an update 7 years, 11 months ago
@squidge Loved your comp entry – the colour coming into her life after all that time of yearning for it.
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Janette posted an update 7 years, 11 months ago
@seagreen Aw, what a sad tale, your story, though that new life was a nice touch. Loved it – beautifully written.
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Janette posted an update 7 years, 11 months ago
@athelstone Loved your comp entry. So much told in so few words and I so hoped he eventually found his voice for Mary.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Festival Dreams in the forum Blogs 7 years, 11 months ago
I so wish I’d been there to hear you speak, Skylark. You may be tired of hearing it but you really do deserve your success. Not just for Home, which is a fantastic book, but for the years of contributions to everybody who knows you – the encouragement and the example and damn near 100% good nature and positivity.
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Amanda Berriman (Skylark) replied to the topic Receiving an email headed 'Offer of Representation'…. in the forum Podium 7 years, 11 months ago
@kazg Yes! I’ve found several aspects of the publishing industry quite daunting and such a relief to go to my agent and say ‘Help!’ and she’s brilliant every time!
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Athelstone posted an update 7 years, 11 months ago
@jd73 Enjoyed your comp entry. It reminded me of your namesake’s Struldbruggs (it isn’t you is it, Mr. Swift?) but damned by curiosity rather than fate. And an ending even bleaker than Swift imagined.
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Amanda Berriman (Skylark) started the topic Festival Dreams in the forum Blogs 7 years, 11 months ago
What a brilliant weekend that was! A week on and the post-York anti-climax has just about faded though I still feel like I’m catching up on sleep. No change there, then!
A friend asked me this week if doing the keynote on Sunday was more or less scary than the Telly Thing. Easy to answer as I don’t think anything will ever be as scary as the…[Read more]
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Athelstone posted an update 7 years, 11 months ago
@squidge great comp entry. Really enjoyed the play on decoration as a metaphor for life.
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Athelstone posted an update 7 years, 11 months ago
@seagreen love the comp entry. Very moving take on the topic.
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Squidge replied to the topic Den monthly competition September 2018 in the forum Competitions, Open calls and Writing Opportunities 7 years, 11 months ago
All the colour disappeared from her world the day she moved in with him.
It’s minimalist, he told her. A blank canvas.
Surely, a blank canvas exists for the sole purpose of being filled, she wanted to say.
But didn’t, because it was all too new, too fresh, too…him. And more than anything else, she wanted him.
As time went on she still…[Read more]
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Squidge posted an update 7 years, 11 months ago
@janeshuff – Terrible Minds is Chuck Wendig’s blog. Often off-the-wall, pretty sweary at times, but full of useful writing stuff. http://terribleminds.com
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RichardB started the topic Richard's Literary Byways: The Dispossessed, by Ursula K Le Guin in the forum Blogs 7 years, 11 months ago
Our moon is so much larger in relation to its planet than any other moon in the solar system that some astronomers believe that our Earth-Moon pairing should instead be considered a double planet. Imagine, if you will, a true double planet, with one planet only slightly smaller than the other.
This small difference has had a profound effect on…[Read more]
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Jules replied to the topic Den of Writers – Forum Feedback part 2 in the forum Admin and Technical 7 years, 11 months ago
Yes definitely fine for everyone to post lists of blogs and/or books they found useful. I guess we can see what we get and if it starts to get clunky we can amend it to create master lists.
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Den of Writers – Forum Feedback part 2 in the forum Admin and Technical 7 years, 11 months ago
Possibly do the same for books? There’s a few I’ve found enormously helpful or inspirational.
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Den of Writers – Forum Feedback part 2 in the forum Admin and Technical 7 years, 11 months ago
Actually Jules, if you’re happy with people posting links to blogs they find useful as well as their own, like I just have, I’m fine with that rather than having a sidebar with a feed which someone will have to maintain. However a list of useful writing blogs in the lifeboat would be great.
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Jules replied to the topic Den of Writers – Forum Feedback part 2 in the forum Admin and Technical 7 years, 11 months ago
I can look at a plugin to display certain blog rss feeds on the sidebar if you like?
Failing that there’s a lot of writing blogs I’ve found useful. I was going to post a list of them in the lifeboat 🙂
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JaneShuff started the topic New Blog from Emma Darwin in the forum Blogs 7 years, 11 months ago
“No Word Count Boot Camp Or Productivity Push”: #100daysofwriting
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Den of Writers – Forum Feedback part 2 in the forum Admin and Technical 7 years, 11 months ago
I liked the list of blogs we used to have at the side. Mainly because it told me when there was a new blog from people I read. I also think the blogs are a very useful resource. But I can see it’s yet another job for someone and I’ve just discovered the blogs section of the Forum now!. Maybe I’ll just post in that each time there’s something I…[Read more]
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Squidge replied to the topic Den of Writers – Forum Feedback part 2 in the forum Admin and Technical 7 years, 11 months ago
I raised the same question earlier – Jules suggested putting it into the blogs like we used to, but do you mean the list of blogs we used to have on the side? It’d be lovely to have that, but I’d feel a bit funny about the Scribbles being quite so visible, because my blog certainly isn’t always about writing…
We’d also have to have some way of…[Read more]
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Den of Writers – Forum Feedback part 2 in the forum Admin and Technical 7 years, 11 months ago
Is it possible to have links to blogs somewhere as we did on the Cloud? Like Emma D’s and Squidge?
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