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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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...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 16 May 2025

Another fabulous week for ABCTales. A very big thank you to all our writers and poets for sharing their wonderful words with us. My choices for this week are as follows: Story of the Week goes to hudsonmoon for J.C Jones III - A Surprise Guest in the hope that he'll write another one soon. Poem of the Week is Jessibear's beautiful Tempranillo Haze. https://www.abctales.com/story/hudsonmoon/j-c-jones-iii-surprise-guest tempranillo-haze The new...

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...

Intrapersonal Experience

Posted by memphis on Tue, 06 May 2025

INTRAPERSONAL EXPERIENCE YOU’VE ORCHESTRATED A NARROW POINT OF VIEW. IT’S PROJECTILES RICOCHET OFF THAT LIMITED ATTENTION SPAN. CALCULATED, MANIPULATIVE; EVEN THE SHADOWS WHISPER SUSPICION. NO SHAME IN PLAYING THE BLAME GAME. ONLY REINFORCING YOUR TINTED GLASS REALITY. EVIDENCE? DENIED. YOUR CONTRADICTIONS TO IT. DISMISSED. SINCE YOUR OPINION IS ALL THAT MATTER. IT'S ALMOST HERITABLE: IF NOT HILARIOUS, IT'S NOT. LIKE IT’S ETCHED IN YOUR DNA,...

Story and Poem of the Month

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Mon, 05 May 2025

Our Story and Poem of the Month for April, very kindlty chosen by RJNewlyn Pick of the month April 2025 Well done to everyone who has posted this month and for keeping up the quality so ably. It has been a tough call … For prose, do take a look at Caldwell’s riff on The Raft of the Medusa ( https://www.abctales.com/story/caldwell/th%C3%A9odore-g%C3%A9ricaults-raft-medusa ), K-Burgin’s challenging ‘Killing Caprice’ ( https://www.abctales.com/...

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