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Squidge posted a new activity comment 8 years ago
Oh, Hell’s Mouth! We didn’t go there often – saved it for really awful days, but you could lean 45 degrees into the wind and get held up. We used to find allsorts on the beach, washed up. I think that’s where it got it’s name from, cos all the shipwrecked bodies used to wash up there…
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Squidge replied to the topic Mentorship Scheme – Writing East Midlands in the forum Competitions, Open calls and Writing Opportunities 8 years ago
Don’t think I’d qualify as I’m not looking to change genre but am already published… Also can’t commit to the time at the moment 🙁
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Squidge posted a new activity comment 8 years ago
Ohmigosh – we went to the Lleyn EVERY year for holidays. I remember having shop-bought Victoria sponge on the beach on my birthday in June… Nefyn, Morfa Nefyn, Whistling Sands, Llanbedrog, Baa-Lamb Beach (our name for it, no idea what it was really called!) Abersoch and Aberdaron… Happy days.
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I had a holiday there in the eighties, on a farm somewhere near Abersoch and Hell’s Mouth (delightful name – Porth Neigwl in Welsh). I particularly remember the day we went to the pub in the nearest village. I left the wife and kids at a table in the garden and went into the bar to order. There were a good thirty people in that room and a fair bit…[Read more]
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Squidge replied to the topic Mentorship Scheme – Writing East Midlands in the forum Competitions, Open calls and Writing Opportunities 8 years ago
Are you involved in WEM, Philippa? I just received their latest email update and it all sounded a bit highbrow!
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Squidge started the topic Fairlight needs winter/new year stories… in the forum Competitions, Open calls and Writing Opportunities 8 years ago
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Squidge posted a new activity comment 8 years ago
Will do – if I can find it! Still not totally familiar with where to find stuff…
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Squidge replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 8 years ago
SloMo. Love it. Matches me perfectly.
(Although I did manage a couple of hours yesterday on the WIP – nothing new added, but dialogue’s snappier!)
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Squidge replied to the topic New title needed for 'Snatched' – help! in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 8 years ago
I like Two Cities and the Void, but wonder whether, for the novel as you’ve described it, The Void Between Two Cities works better? Which is more central to the story – the space between, or the actual cities? Looks like you’re getting closer to finding your title though.
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Squidge replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 8 years ago
Mine would definitely be a slow write. I have no idea how I’m going to get any writing done at all between now and the New Year… Not even my Room with a view! 🙁
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Squidge replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 8 years ago
PS Discipline…what’s that?
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Squidge replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 8 years ago
So does that mean we have to come clean on our daily word count? Oh Lord, I really WILL have to buck my ideas up!
Am I allowed the 1st November off? Interview day for candidates for the new vicar…and guess who’s one of the interviewers? 😉 -
Squidge replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 8 years ago
HA! Just crossed with Daeds – Daeds, shall we form a novel finishing club?!!
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Squidge replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 8 years ago
Is there a version for NaNoFiMo? (National Novel Finishing Month) I really must get moving on the WIP, but I’ve stalled with everything else going on and I cannot get motivated to write at all. Keep knitting instead…
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Squidge replied to the topic Opinion about title in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 8 years ago
I wouldn’t have said that any of them give any indication as to the target readership. I’d just assume it was an unusual character name, with possibly a hint of sci-fi, but it doesn’t give anything away about the story.
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Squidge replied to the topic New title needed for 'Snatched' – help! in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 8 years ago
The time between?
Between times?
The Time Snatcher of London Towns?
A shadow of time… (working on from Jonathan’s suggestions)
A shadow in time?I really hate titles sometimes!;)
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Squidge replied to the topic Titles in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 8 years ago
I like the ‘Here Ends…’, but what to say is ending.
…the Seven Years of Pain
…the Seven Years of Separation.
Why not something like Seven Years Apart or The seven years of separation. The End Begins Here…? Just playing now!I also wonder if some of the other themes are more relevant to the title? There are an awful lot of themes going…[Read more]
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Squidge replied to the topic The disclaimer jar – advice on attitude to one's writing in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 8 years ago
Interesting. I think sometimes, ‘It’s not quite there yet’ can sound like an apology, when it’s actually the admittance of a mature (by which I mean you know yourself and your writing) author, who realises that something created in such a short space of time needs more work. I’ve done it myself!
But of course it takes time to build that…[Read more]
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Squidge replied to the topic Help with setting in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 8 years ago
I’m in Loughborough – I wouldn’t call it quaint or pretty…like any town, there are bits like that, but not in the town centre. I suppose it depends on where most of the action happens…
Not sure where you’re based, Philippa, but happy to show you round if you want to see it!
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Squidge replied to the topic Monthly comp – October 2018 in the forum Monthly Competition 8 years ago
Nice prompt… Looking forward to getting my teeth stuck into this one.
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