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Sleepers
You'll never get these minutes back
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Fairy tale in G
Say you'll still love me in the morning
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The Spider
After what's his name
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Blimey. Sitting on a bench
Posted on Sat, 04 May 2019
Blimey. Sitting on a bench with the sun just sunk behind trees scribbling out something new and just saw this.
Thank you x
Read full commentPosted in Never far from where we start
Morning Ed. It's lovely to
Posted on Fri, 15 Feb 2019
Morning Ed. It's lovely to hear from you again and I know exactly what you're saying. I expect there's a less than pragmatic reason for moving away from English close to centres of government and administration in the EU. The pragmatic reason for...
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:))))
Posted on Sat, 20 Oct 2018
:))))
Thanks insert. It was a tremendous success. Lots of nice poetry. Inspiration for All Quiet On The Western (Weston?) Front. A Blackadder series. Spin-off household technologies that we now take for granted, like the tank. Knitted...
Read full commentPosted in General Synopsis
Nice wordsmithying. Betrays
Posted on Sun, 26 Aug 2018
Nice wordsmithying. Betrays that erudition again. Not sure about progress, though. Too passive.
Read full commentPosted in Army of Poets
Thanks ice rivers. I'll try.
Posted on Thu, 26 Jul 2018
Thanks ice rivers. I'll try.
I think an action moment is a good place to start with a non-linear telling. The crash. Then people are ready to know the whys and wherefores. The trick is keeping the glued from thereon. Sometimes we get too...
Read full commentPosted in August 26, 1989 (heaven part 3)
Yes. The quote's his. Ok.
Posted on Wed, 25 Jul 2018
Yes. The quote's his. Ok. Will do. I commented on part 4, I think, about the drafts and maybe looking at getting them more polished ahead of posting them. You'll pick up more readers and feedback.
Read full commentPosted in Better Angels of La Grange (heaven part 2)
Hi ice rivers. Contractions
Posted on Fri, 27 Jul 2018
Hi ice rivers. Contractions are just where we reduce (usually auxiliary verbs) from "I would" to "I'd" etc. She is - she's.
In direct speech it sounds more natural as it's how we tend to speak, in narrative writing it's more relaxed and...
Read full commentPosted in Darien Lake Flashback (heaven part 4)
I hope not. There have been
Posted on Sat, 28 Jul 2018
I hope not. There have been some superb novel length pieces produced on here. Readers are encouraging but human. I think people drop out and then sometimes drop in again, but there's usually a core who stay with it. It goes without saying that...
Read full commentPosted in Short Cherry Rant
Try to cut a little where you
Posted on Wed, 25 Jul 2018
Try to cut a little where you can. Put yourself on a barstool keeping the drinkers mesmerised.
Eg "I told him I wasn't sure" could be reduced to "I wasn't sure" directed straight at the audience. Direct, rather than reported.
Don'...
Read full commentPosted in Better Angels of La Grange (heaven part 2)
Maybe go with informal voice
Posted on Mon, 23 Jul 2018
Maybe go with informal voice / contractions (we'd). Keep the clauses short (when I came to... Maybe just that).
Read full commentPosted in Indiana Spin (Heaven Part 1)
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