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64 of my 2,343 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 65 votes
Ewan Lawrie
The picture is me signing copies of my novel, Gibbous House at Unbound Books HQ in Islington by the canal.
My stories
32. Social Fools
"We do OK Society's Fools..." Good job this will NEVER get published. The image is the author's responsibility being a photo-shopped image of a record in his collection.
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Rust and Barnacles
Bon Voyage... Image is copyright ©Simon Johnson and used under CC BY-SA2.0
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Chronogram
Look it up. Image is used in acc. w/ GNU Free Documentation License , Version 1.2 photographer is Michal Maňas
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A Conversation in Hester Pit. 16 January 1862
204 miners died in a Mining Disaster at Hester Pit in January 1862 Image source is Wikipedia Commons, and it is in the public domain.
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31. W O L D
Really? Award ceremonies are like this? Surely not... Image is created by author from royalty free components in the public domain.
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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)
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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