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wrightstuff replied to the thread What are you reading at the moment? Recommendations welcome.I have recently finished Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck. It won last year's International Booker prize. I can sort of understand why, but it frustrated me. The basic allegory is clear enough: the power imbalance of the protagonists' relationship... -
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The Road Does Go Ever On by MattScho After the epic journey, what's next? So, midway through a recent walk through the forest, my phone notified me that I had done it, I had destroyed the one ring. Sauron had fallen, Middle Earth was saved... -
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The Road Does Go Ever On by MattScho After the epic journey, what's next? So, midway through a recent walk through the forest, my phone notified me that I had done it, I had destroyed the one ring. Sauron had fallen, Middle Earth was saved... -
The Road Does Go Ever On by MattScho After the epic journey, what's next? So, midway through a recent walk through the forest, my phone notified me that I had done it, I had destroyed the one ring. Sauron had fallen, Middle Earth was saved... -
RK Wallis replied to the thread Please Comment: Drafts.I agree :) -
I tend to agree -when it goes out to readers. I still havent figured out the draft that I would consider finished enough to publish.
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I only bother saving a separate "DRAFT", as opposed to a working copy that's under constant revision, when I share with someone for feedback. Instead of assigning a draft number, I assign it the date.
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The Craft Challenge last weekend produced some brilliant and evocative settings. Anyone fancy another go? How about an opening that follows a particular structure? Okay, bear with me a moment.. This week, some of my students (an adorable pair of... -
Stuart G replied to the thread Welcome… I’m New Here! Human Writes.That black comedy sounds great. I'm imagining a guinea pig possessed by a pixie forcing a grandma to murder the paperboy - but grandma gets away with it by falsifying dementia. -
Well in your blogs I think you write human very well, Laura. Stuart I like cool stories where illogical stuff happens in a logical Occams Razor way. It is not easy to do. It's easier to write Keystone Cops stuff, harder to make the madness make...
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Simeon the Simian? Superb! I'll keep an eye out for him. For flying fingers I like aliens and artificial entities, intelligent or otherwise. Humans are still more of slog.
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Before... (waiting for badgers)...(with sweetcorn...) -
Before... (waiting for badgers)...(with sweetcorn...) -
And after! :)
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Pamela Jo replied to the thread Please Comment: Drafts.I tend to agree -when it goes out to readers. I still havent figured out the draft that I would consider finished enough to publish.