ABCtales Critiquing Service - good reports!

Posted by tcook on Mon, 26 Mar 2012

Over the years many of you have asked for a critiquing service and it has taken a long time to find (a) someone good enough to do it well and (b) someone who will charge what we regard as a reasonable fee. Finally, we've done it! Lorraine Mace is a freelance writer, columnist and tutor for the Writers Bureau. Winner of the Petra Kenney International Poetry Competition (comic verse category), Lorraine's fiction, features and humour have appeared...

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Imbolo Mbue (2022) How Beautiful We Were

Posted by celticman on Fri, 23 May 2025

Kosawa is a mythical village in Africa, a kind of utopia were people lived free and easy before oil was discovered. It brings immense wealth. None of it trickles down to the villagers Instead their rivers are polluted and they can no longer fish. Their land is similarly poisoned. Young children, in particular, die. But the villagers were told by the oil company representatives, Pexton, that everything was being done that could be done. Any...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 23 May 2025

Posted by onemorething: Another fine week of tales and poems. This week's Story of the Week is jolono's excellent Life Lessons Number 3 with Butch which was evocative and sad and layered. https://www.abctales.com/story/jolono/10-life-lessons-number-3 Thus week's Poem of the Week is Jessiibear's lovely Sea-Salt. https://www.abctales.com/story/jessiibear/sea-salt Our new Inspiration Point is here: https://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip Have...

Rhubarb, Rhubarb

Posted by Ewan on Fri, 23 May 2025

This may be of interest particularly to those of us "Up North" Bradford 2025 Rhubarb Poetry Comp Closes July '25.

Are You Man Enough To Be Woman

Posted by Lille Dante on Mon, 19 May 2025

“It's hard to be true to the one that's really you” - Wayne/Jayne County

The Empty Man (2020), FilmFour, co-edited, written, and directed by David Prior.

Posted by celticman on Fri, 16 May 2025

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-empty-man This is David Prior’s film. I was going to write a post about Celtic playing Aberdeen. Couldn’t be arsed. Or A Brief History of Seven Killings , but that would need too much thought. I know, thought isn’t rationed like sweeties, but I’m sure you know what I mean. The Empty Man seemed ideal because I knew it would be shite. And I wasn’t disappointed. I quite like horror which seems an oxymoron. I...

The Bible - Medieval Myth or Word of God?

Posted by mallisle on Wed, 14 May 2025

A game of Chinese whispers is played by sitting in a circle and each person speaking into the next person's ear. By the end of the game the simple phrase you began with has been distorted into something completely different. Is this how the Bible was written? Wasn't it passed down by word of mouth? There would have been an oral form of the story, especially at a time when the majority of people couldn't read, but there would have been a written...

The Night of the 12th (2022) Screenplay by Gilles Marchand and Dominik Moll, Directed by Dominik Moll, Based on 18.3 – Une année à la PJ by Pauline Guéna.

Posted by celticman on Sun, 11 May 2025

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-night-of-the-12th https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_of_the_12th Grenoble Police Headquarters, retirement party. Each year the police open over 800 homicide investigations. Nearly 20% remain unsolved. Or as the lead detective suggests, a case that haunts them. This is one such case. Based on a true story. A case that burns. The paradox of men investigating the killing of women (matricide). St Jean de...

Nihal Arthanayake (2022) Let’s Talk: How to Have Better Conversations.

Posted by celticman on Fri, 09 May 2025

Nihal Arthanayake’s premise in Let’s Talk is we increasingly live in a polarised world (guilty as charged, anything and everything about the moron’s moron, Trump infuriates me) but we need to put aside our differences and reconcile ourselves to change. We need to talk. Technology drives change (discuss)? Nihal Arthanayake believes like many others, including Professor SherryTurkle, our smartphones make us dumber and lonelier (for example https...

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