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John S Alty posted an update 7 years, 7 months ago
Market day in town so I’m off to see what treasures I can find at the book stall.
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Seagreen replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 7 months ago
Ace! Our very own SloMoWriMo. Looking forward to it 🙂
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Raine posted an update 7 years, 7 months ago
Been doing research for new wip today. Photos of the Llyn peninsula, stats on welsh cob ponies AND OS MAPS YAY FOR OS MAPS
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I did wonder, many moons ago, when I was thinking where to set a WIP, whether a forum for writers to exchange places might be helpful. I live by the sea in Finistere for example so if anyone ever wanted to set a novel in that sort of environment, I would be happy to send photos and information and when, like now, I am thinking of setting something…[Read more]
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Can’t help in this instance. You can’t get a lot further from where I live and still be in Wales, isn’t it?
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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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I loved reading The Price of Water in Finistere, and had the pleasure of visiting there many years ago. You’re lucky to live in such a wild and beautiful place, Jane.
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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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Just looked The Price of Water up on amazon, @anna. Sounds interesting. I’ll have to put it on my TBR pile.
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Jane I am in and out of the Calder valley area of W.Yorks and thoroughly recommend it as a novel setting – get your Bronte/Ted Hughes/Gallows Pole on, sort of thing. Happy to provide pics, though I am very much a “smartphone photograhper”. As I write fantasy it doesn’t feature per se but it is certainly an inspiring spot.
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Oh, good luck with that one, Raine – I love doing research, but alas can’t help you on this occasion.
I love the idea of a group to share locations though, @janeshuff. I’m basing my wip on West Yorkshire (where I live), namely the 60s era, but am more than willing to share info on my part of town.-
Ooh thank you Jonathan and Janette. I’ll message you with my email address. I’m at the very early stage at the moment.
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@janeshuff, that sort of forum would be great wouldn’t it? Perhaps worth setting one up sometime.
@squidge & @richardb, it’s a gorgeous place, isn’t it? I had a couple of trips there to stay at a residential welsh language school in the most stunning, stark, kind of depressing setting. I love all those abandoned mines/quarrys/houses. Softer than…[Read more]-
It sounds lovely. Good luck with it.
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Raine replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 7 months ago
So SloMoNoWriMo (!!) looks a go-er! Perhaps a group (no need to be private, I’d have thought) where we can each post our daily intentions/plans/progress, so we can mutually cheer each other on (in slow motion). Whether the plan be just some words, or edit a chapter, or plan a short, or whatever. Or even have a break day (yay for break days filled…[Read more]
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Seagreen replied to the topic New title needed for 'Snatched' – help! in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 7 months ago
I’m quite partial to Two Cities and the Void
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Seagreen replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 7 months ago
That’s 2 of us, Daeds. When were you thinking? And how would it work? I’m quite prepared to set up a support group of some kind if that will help.
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Raine replied to the topic New title needed for 'Snatched' – help! in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 7 months ago
Ooh I love a good title debate.
Tbh, I’m not a fan of ‘The {x persons}’s {female relative}. BEcause a) there’s been a gazillion of them, and b) it reduces the woman/girl to an addendum to their male relative. Also, I think ‘The Time-stealers Daughter’ is too close to The Time Traveller’s Wife for me. I know that’s adult, and a bit dated now, but…[Read more]
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Raine replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 7 months ago
😀 @seagreen. Perhaps December could be a Den SloMoWriMo, because December and writing do not appear to ever co-exist anyway!
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John S Alty replied to the topic Monthly comp – October 2018 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 7 months ago
The Banjo
The phone rings in the lost property office at Euston Station in London.
“Lost Property, Smith speaking, how may we help?”
He takes a sip from his tea, listens.
“Yes, sir, anything left on a train on this line ends up here. Assuming it’s turned in, like. What have you lost?
“So, a banjo is it sir? Well let me have a look, won’t be…[Read more] -
John S Alty replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 7 months ago
Well done, good job as usual, L!
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Seagreen replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 7 months ago
Not tempted by the NaNoWriMo, but if the Den does a SLoMoWriMo, I’m in!
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Seagreen replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 7 months ago
Congratulations, L. Another fine story 🙂
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Raine replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 7 months ago
😀 @jd73 Although 1,666 isn’t much less daunting!
So I am signing up, but making myself no promises. We’ll see. I need to do some serious planning before it kicks off. I think I’m raine_clouds on there.
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Raine replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 7 months ago
Tempted. I don’t think I’d hit the target what with, yanno, issues. BUt I do have a new wip that I need to get a move on and actually start, and it would be good to have an excuse not to edit for a while!
Never done it before – do you post your actual text or do you just input your word count each day?
Just done the maths – assuming no writing…[Read more]
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Seagreen replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 7 months ago
I still haven’t done the challenge you set me on Fb, so the chance of me writing 50,0000000 words in the space of a month is quite slim 🙂
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Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly comp – October 2018 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 7 months ago
I know it doesn’t work in quite the same way, but *Bump*
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Seagreen replied to the topic Opinion about title in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 7 months ago
It’s a toss-up between a children’s picture book and the ‘unofficial’ biography of a Hollywood A-lister.
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John S Alty posted an update 7 years, 7 months ago
Listening to an old Jimmy Buffett album. Doesn’t have the same impact it did when listening to it lying on the deck of my boat with a glass of rum in my hand, swinging to the anchor in a Caribbean bay.
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Nothing beats a good rummage through bookshops/book stalls, does it? But I confess I do love my kindle very, very muchly. 🙂
Nothing can beat the smell of books.
Magical, I agree, but then again Pebby’s pie shop in the village has a certain attraction, too.
OOOOOh! Pieeees! I am rather partial to a pork pie!
My problem is more with amazon than the kindle per se. I’m happy to read on an ipad, I just don’t want the intrusive presence of amazon.