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More Politics For Beginners
The image reads " William was frankly bored. School always bored him. He disliked facts, and he disliked being tied down to detail, and he disliked answering questions. As a politician a great future would have lain before him. " Richmal Crompton predicting the rise of Boris Johnson in 'More William', first published in 1922. Image author's own.
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Whistles
It's not really about whistles. image source wiki-commons: licence CC BY SA 3.0
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Bronte's Inferno XXV (Parma Violets)
Long time no write... never mind. Image is PD source wikipedia.
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The New Maths Project
I wonder what really bad news this is distracting us from? Now with added audio! Image made by author from PD elements, at Canva.com
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The Ecumenical Atheist
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I do
Posted on Thu, 07 Jul 2016
agree with Jack that the ending seems a little rushed. I'm not sure I want to see (much) more backstory or a substantially longer piece, though. Have you thought about making the story arc more circular... start from just before where it...
Read full commentPosted in Flowers (Part Two of Two) (IP)
Splendid...
Posted on Thu, 07 Jul 2016
the welter of detail contrasts with the things you leave out. The combination of observation of the mundane and the barest of allusions to horrific deeds makes it all the more chilling. Fine stuff.
Read full commentPosted in Flowers (Part Two of Two) (IP)
A long time ago...
Posted on Mon, 28 Mar 2016
When I was first posting on ABCTales (I think) BJD was around too. I know he was when I was an editor. He must have gone away for a while. Any comments, though very insightful and worth following, were sometimes really, well, not fluffy. I know...
Read full commentPosted in COSMIC ARBORETUM
Like...
Posted on Tue, 09 Feb 2016
All the best science fiction, this is our own present and reality viewed in a fun-house mirror. I'm going to read part two now. This is a great beginning. The voice is believable and distinctive. As it's 1st person POV you can get away with a...
Read full commentPosted in The Net Caster (Part One)
Not a word misplaced, not a
Posted on Tue, 14 May 2013
Not a word misplaced, not a superfluous line.
Marvellous.
regards
Ewan
Read full commentPosted in The sadness of tulips
There's
Posted on Wed, 06 Jan 2016
nothing wrong with a long sentence, provided it's completely clear and you don't lose the reader on the way. Dickens was pretty good at sentences which sometimes seemed like Latin periods, but he was a dab hand with a semi and full colon. Unlike...
Read full commentPosted in the hungry earth (2 of 2)
I
Posted on Sun, 05 Oct 2014
...agree there's some nice description.
You need to avoid a tendency to tell. 'He had been able to avoid... etc.'
I'm not sure I believe the internal monologue in the paragraph beginning. 'He looked past the end...' You say the boy...
Read full commentPosted in K Ward - part 1 (Out of Sight)
That's
Posted on Thu, 02 Oct 2014
the very word, uncanny. Fascinating etymology it has too.
Nice to hear from you. I've been away a while, I know
Ewan
Read full commentPosted in By the Light of a Gibbous Moon
Confused
Posted on Fri, 13 Jun 2014
Hey Jack, great pieces on an interesting day.
Just one thing:
"I offered Ewan a cheese sandwich, but he said his
Read full commentfriend had made him an old-fashioned bacon buttie. They’d been in the
army together. I went to sit on the...
Posted in Unbounders Away
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