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December SloMo 7 years, 4 months agoVery late to this – two days gone already! – but I blame it on an overnight visit to Germany to see friends and celebrate Advent.
SloMo… I jotted a few ideas down for Room with a View, then decided I didn’t like them and another idea popped into my head this morning. Not sure it’ll work, but might play around with it this afternoon. I shan’t…[Read more]
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Squidge replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 5 months ago
Procrastination is nothing to do with commitment! It is everything to do with recognising that you need something completely different sometimes to get the authorly juices flowing again. I do it – it doesn’t mean I’m not committed at all.
I prefer to call it what it is and look at WHY I’m doing it. If it’s simply time-wasting, then I give myself…[Read more]
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Squidge posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
Our Timmy does that sometimes, too, Richard. He’s got a stare you can FEEL…and if you ignore it, he’ll give a little ‘mew’ and stretch out his paw towards my face. Glad to say when his claws come out, he usually saves that for my arm…
The teeth he saves for when he’s hungry, and he always goes for the soft bit of my upper arm.
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Squidge posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
Not without growing your arms a bit longer…
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Speaking of armrests. When I’m in the armchair reading, and puss wants to be stroked/scratched/ generally mauled about, she’ll come and sit on the armrest. If i try to ignore her she’ll stretch out her front leg and put her paw on my face. if that doesn’t work, she’ll do it with her claws out. I told you she was shameless.
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Our Timmy does that sometimes, too, Richard. He’s got a stare you can FEEL…and if you ignore it, he’ll give a little ‘mew’ and stretch out his paw towards my face. Glad to say when his claws come out, he usually saves that for my arm…
The teeth he saves for when he’s hungry, and he always goes for the soft bit of my upper arm.
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Squidge replied to the topic Some notes on Dara Marks' Transformational Arc in the forum Blogs 7 years, 6 months ago
I remember doing these sessions at York…it all seemed to make perfect sense when CMT was explaining it, but I can’t put it into practise. I don’t think I have the kind of logical and structural mind that can break a story down into these kind of segments. Which is annoying, because I know it’s all good stuff and very useful – I just can’t apply…[Read more]
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Squidge replied to the topic Red (short story – 2,600 words) in the forum Critiques 7 years, 6 months ago
Very nice… There were a couple of points only that tripped me up in the reading:
‘Tasha and she nicked the lipstick’. Didn’t sound right. I wondered about ‘She’d nicked the lipstick when she was with Tasha’, but wasn’t sure how that’d affect your word count.
‘The salty scent of sweaty skin trapped in every pore’. I read this first as the sweaty…[Read more] -
Squidge posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months 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 7 years, 6 months 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 7 years, 6 months 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 7 years, 6 months 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 7 years, 6 months ago
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Squidge posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
Will do – if I can find it! Still not totally familiar with where to find stuff…
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Squidge posted an update 7 years, 6 months ago
Just spotted this if anyone’s got anything that might suit?
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Squidge replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 6 months 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 7 years, 6 months 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 7 years, 6 months 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 7 years, 6 months ago
PS Discipline…what’s that?
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Good work on the popping. Good luck for the playing too 🙂