Ewan
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Ewan Lawrie
The picture is me signing copies of my novel, Gibbous House at Unbound Books HQ in Islington by the canal.
Both Moffat novels are available here
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Anniversary Rhyme
I actually wrote this for a different numbered anniversary. Found it today and changed one letter to a capital. [See if you can guess which. A puzzle too, eh?] I may record it if I get around to it. Image is used in acc. w/ CC-by SA 2.0
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And...
Cheery stuff. Image free for non-c use from wallpaperflare.com
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Sunday Morning, 3 a.m.
Odd... I quite understand if you don't like it. Image is free for non-commercial use from pxfuelhere.com
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Mostly Stalinist Conditions
Self-explanatory Image made from pd/free to use components by me.
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Gentlemen and Players
Over a very busy weekend, I managed to attend an exhibition match which was held as a tribute to a former comrade-in-arms, a fellow rugby player, who died recently. Servicemen are sentimental, and so are rugby players. Anyway, I wrote this for me, and for anyone who was there, in body or spirit. Picture is ©Garlands 2021
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Posted on Sat, 27 May 2017
I tell you how much I like this? There is satire, menace, allegory, myth and fable, also some tight writing anyone would be proud to have written. It takes genuine talent to get all that stuff in a piece of writing without bashing people over the...
Read full commentPosted in Boatman's dream 22
Yes,
Posted on Tue, 09 May 2017
you could actually start from "The sun blazed". All the expository back story is a dense amount of telling about the characters. You could show a little all the way through.
"Most of the time he wore a light grey...
Read full commentPosted in Caiman's bazaar
For me...
Posted on Wed, 03 May 2017
and how I write (I know, we're all different) I'd keep banging these out and then edit when you've completed a narrative (arc or spiral, who cares?) This is all sufficiently intriguing for me to persevere. If Tim needs to go, get rid of him later...
Read full commentPosted in Boatman's dream 10
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
Hmm...
Posted on Fri, 18 Mar 2016
Almost everything you do has me thinking of gothic cathedrals and mediaeval buildings. Perhaps it's the ring o' roses I hear. Nice nod to the grumpy Librarian, too.
Yep, the no-win situation of low-self esteem. "I can't be any good because...
Read full commentPosted in Hereditary fears
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)
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