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Daedalus replied to the topic Multiple Den Success in the forum Podium 7 years, 1 month ago
Yes, it was partly extraordinary luck, partly John’s skilful setting of the tone and throwing up some ideas before things got started and linking text after the selection, and partly in the selection and ordering of stories. (As I was going to write the opener, I got to see all the stories. It’s true to say there were a few that while being dec…[Read more]
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Jules replied to the topic New historical fiction novella in the forum Podium 7 years, 1 month ago
Yay! I’m so glad you posted this, Daed. Highly recommend it to everyone who likes hist fic especially WWII. It’s an excellent novella. Can’t wait for the next one 😁
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Jules replied to the topic Multiple Den Success in the forum Podium 7 years, 1 month ago
I think the linking text definitely helped @squidge. As did the editors having a clear idea of what they were looking for and how to make it all fit together. And I think the opening and closing stories gave the anthology shape too. But we weren’t actually given that much of a premise other than ‘demon invasion of Victorian Britain’ which expanded…[Read more]
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Daedalus started the topic New historical fiction novella in the forum Podium 7 years, 1 month ago
I hate to post here twice in quick succession, but it turns out publishing has something of waiting for a bus about it. You may recall I posted a little while ago about having signed a deal for three historical novellas with Sharpe publishing. I thought the Den might like to know that the first of these, ‘Harpoon’, is now out…[Read more]
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Daedalus replied to the topic FAQ: How to use the Lifeboat in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 1 month ago
Sorry to hear that @jeand – I can’t say I have a clue why it’s doing that but with luck one of the more tech savvy Denizens will be able to offer a solution
Btw if you want to create a new topic with this question, try going to the main ‘Lifeboat’ page https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/forum/den-of-writers/the-writers-lifeboat/ and scrolling to…[Read more]
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Jules replied to the topic Multiple Den Success in the forum Podium 7 years, 1 month ago
Glad you’re enjoying it @Squidge I love the interlinking text – it really adds sometjing to the collection. I love the shared world aspect of the anthology too.
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Jules replied to the topic Multiple Den Success in the forum Podium 7 years, 1 month ago
This was such a great project to be a part of (not least because I was basically asked to write war of the worlds fan fic 😉 ) Matt is being humble by the way. He’s written the opening novellette The Battle of the Alma, which sets the scene and tone for the entire anthology. It’s an excellent piece of fiction with stellar world building. (I keep…[Read more]
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Daedalus replied to the topic Multiple Den Success in the forum Podium 7 years, 1 month ago
Thanks Squidge, Sea and Kaz! Just to say a bit more about this, Hell’s Empire is a linked anthology based around the premise of a demonic invasion of Victorian Britain at the end of the 19th century. I’d suggest ‘War of the Worlds’ but with demons in place of the aliens’ as an elevator pitch, but that wouldn’t really do it justice, as there’s a…[Read more]
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Daedalus started the topic Multiple Den Success in the forum Podium 7 years, 1 month ago
Hi all. First of all apologies for the absence, but things have been rather busy with writing and the puppy. I want to take time to mention this, though, as it’s a publication featuring no fewer than four Denizens – @woolleybeans, @jillybean, @madiguana and your servant.
Hell’s Empire – Tales of the Incursion
A unique anthology of two thr…[Read more]
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Athelstone posted an update 7 years, 1 month ago
Have thoroughly enjoyed reading the monthly competition entries so far. Glad I’m not judging.
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Me too – an astonishingly varied and well-worked collection.
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Am just about to spend a week travelling round the UK visiting family (hello internet@sea) and am looking forward to reading them all!
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I’ve not looked, but I can’t wait!
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Go on, have a peek; you know you want to.
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Gerry Fenge replied to the topic Prose-Ode to Waterstones Café, York Minster and a Couple of Streets in the forum Blogs 7 years, 1 month ago
Why thank you kindly, good Kate. What lovely things to say! (There – I even gave it an exclamation mark…)
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Gerry Fenge started the topic Prose-Ode to Waterstones Café, York Minster and a Couple of Streets in the forum Blogs 7 years, 1 month ago
I’m sitting upstairs in Waterstones café and trying to switch myself on – slot into gear, slide into alignment – but the dear old brain is too full of mush.
I’ve already chatted with the cheery folk behind the counter, bantered about their tattoos, bought an overly virtuous falafel-and-hummus wrap, swept crumbs from a table, sat down with my…[Read more]
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Jules replied to the topic MIR folktale festival short story comp. in the forum Competitions, Open calls and Writing Opportunities 7 years, 1 month ago
Thanks, Raine. Looks good 😊
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Gerry Fenge replied to the topic Unediting in the forum Blogs 7 years, 1 month ago
Anyone else do the trim-the-syllables for tightness – and then restore-the-syllables for flow?
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Gerry Fenge replied to the topic Writers & Artists short story comp in the forum Podium 7 years, 1 month ago
Is it available anywhere to read?
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Gerry Fenge started the topic On Submerging and Re-emerging in the forum Blogs 7 years, 1 month ago
Here’s how it might go. You attend a Festival of Writing and – clever you – wangle three One-to-Ones, from which the comments are: (a) not so good, (b) a bit better, and (c) not bad at all. So, semi-encouraged, you decide to blast through the redrafting process to completion. Focus-focus-focus. You disappear from social media until finally, hey h…[Read more]
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Gerry Fenge posted an update 7 years, 1 month ago
Hello everyone, I’ve been more absent than present here so don’t feel I have the right to say much as yet – except, gosh, look how many people I (digitally) know, great to see the faces and aliases again.
I was wondering what people think to the new Jericho Townhouse. I’d hoped it would be like the old Word Cloud, but it lacks the same sort o…[Read more]
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I’m inclined to agree with you, Gerry. The Jericho layout doesn’t help, but also, to a large extent, we have necessarily become more wary of committing time and energy to sites which may disappear without warning.
Also, I suspect quite a lot of us are getting on with writing.-
I’m finding it very difficult to use. Have joined a group and posted something but now can’t locate it or the original comment it was a response to. This isn’t a plea for help, just a statement. I’ll battle on for a while. Am keeping a word.docx copy of any critiques I give in case I have to post them again.
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I can locate the group but not my post.
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Hi Gerry! How are things?
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Things are fab-groovy, super-duper, thank you. I hope and trust the fab-grooviness etc is equally well experienced by you and indeed all Denizens.
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Definitely clunky, and the front page timeline doesn’t have the same feel. I received a notification that someone had written something on my timeline, but can I figure out where that timeline is!
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It wasn’t me, Kate. I hadn’t even thought about timelines 🙂 🙂 Yesterday I thought I’d ‘liked’ myself by mistake, but heaven only knows …
Some of this is my own lack of skill.-
I’m not sure liking yourself should be a mistake. 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Lovely to see you Gerry. I’ve not joined Jericho, like @athelstone says, I’m leery of investing time in a platform that may or may not remain open to me. This Den has its own clunky foibles, but I think I’ll stick to mooching around in here as and when I am efficient enough to get online with time to spare!
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Gerry, if being absent was a disqualification I’d be booted out by now. To my mind, the new Townhouse has the problem of overcoming the old Townhouse. There’s an attempt to push a “wow this is awsome” mood and this, combined with the staff being very evident, is a bit unwelcoming. Awsomeness(?) comes with the people who contribute and there are…[Read more]
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Great to hear from people – quite like the old days – how nice. Sandra’s comment ‘I suspect quite a lot of us are getting on with writing’ inspires me to consider writing a blog (on submerging and re-emerging – a sort of rhythm that I suspect a lot of us follow).
It’s been sad to lose the Cloud’s timeline – it was a real plus of SocialGo, and w…[Read more]
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Write the blog @gerryfenge.
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This place exists because a bunch of us saw the Cloud thinning out and dispersing and decided we’d better have somewhere to drift off to.
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John S Alty posted an update 7 years, 1 month ago
Just back from Mallorca with lots of new writing ideas. Well, one.
I see we have a few more spammists – they’re getting smarter, using names and not anagrams!-
The registered @names are anagrams (sort of)
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Glad to hear Mallorca has spawned some ideas. 🙂 you were sailing, I think I saw on twitter? Lovely island for that, I’d imagine?
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Hi Raine,
No, stayed on dry land this time, but it is a special place.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Regular Den competition – where next? in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 2 months ago
What would be ideal is an option to indent and insert replies following an entry so that they were clustered after the entry to which they refer. I haven’t seen enough of WordPress or BBpress etc. to be certain, but I think that reply threading only introduces indentation to nest replies, in the same way that replies are handled for “updates”. All…[Read more]
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