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Shoo
carola
 Yesterday, 16:27 Post #141151

Trust me to get it wrong Beth! hadn't noticed anything since the Birkin handbags.
Hope you are not snowed in guys.
Carola

On the question of book titles
rosefitzrobert
 Yesterday, 16:17 Post #141150



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Short story success
k0306
 Yesterday, 16:15 Post #141149

Hey, that's brilliant, Lee. I always loved your stories.

Huge congratulations and all the best, Kate

www.katehanney.com
Short story success
karen milner
 Yesterday, 16:06 Post #141148

Well done, Lee. It's always great to read about talented writers doing well.
Telling and showing in writing.
NickPoole
 Yesterday, 15:52 Post #141147

Quote: sarsen, Saturday, 4 Feb 2012 14:45


That is well made (particularly the penultimate para). It can't be said too many ways or too many times. Thanks, Nick.



Think nothing of it...
Felicitations
PERRY
 Yesterday, 15:51 Post #141146

Provide our personal details and we can meet up in Paupers' Prison or Guantanamo, duplicate passports having been vested at various venues.
Telling and showing in writing.
PERRY
 Yesterday, 15:47 Post #141145

Quote: NickPoole, Saturday, 4 Feb 2012 13:06
Quote: PERRY, Saturday, 4 Feb 2012 13:04
Loud squawks from Nick at seeing the word "delusional" in response to his comments. Blinkers fall. Manhood droops. Voice raises to flag intelligence. Few heads turn.


I think you need to consider the craft a bit, Perry.


Got hots for Robin Tunney, Neve Campbell isn't so bad either, but Fairuza Balk is just weird. Don't see your point though, Nick. Push your mop over a bit, I might see it.
Hi from me
Samantha Browne
 Yesterday, 15:33 Post #141144

Hi
I just joined and I have a story that is too short!!
If anyone has time to take a look I would appreciate it, and of course take a look at your story too.
Bestest wishes,
Sam
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Telling and showing in writing.
sarsen
 Yesterday, 14:45 Post #141143



Quote: NickPoole, Saturday, 4 Feb 2012 12:54
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I AM interested in the show/tell thing though. How to provide the experience rather than telling about it. Somebody said, "don't tell them it's raining, make them feel the water running down the back of their necks and leaking into their shoes". Or something like that.

It's what is meant by "identification". It also means that the character has to be worth spending time with. So even if they are insipid, milksop mice, their internal world must be compelling.

It's where a lot of people fail...even if they grasp the mechanics of point of view they still can't create compelling characters.


That is well made (particularly the penultimate para). It can't be said too many ways or too many times. Thanks, Nick.

blog: http://1513fusion.wordpress.com/
Felicitations
dancingsue
 Yesterday, 14:41 Post #141142



Quote: fleursdemontblanc, Saturday, 4 Feb 2012 12:15
Hey Folks!
I’ve won a fortune on ‘Euromillones Loteria Internacional’ in Madrid.

They’ve matched my name and address to a ticket number and sent me a letter to let me know and all I have to do is send them all my bank details.

I’d like to find the organizers and shove their ink-jet printed fake letterhead right up where the sun don’t shine.
Or, wait . . . this could be a ‘what if?’ moment. There might be a story in there somewhere.

Any ideas on how to wreak revenge?


That's funny, because I won a few months back! We should have a winner's get-together. I'll bring the pop and Ritz crackers.
the long and the short of it

Triclops: a collection of forty short stories by Avery Mathers, Susan Howe and Lee Williams.
Thanks Sue
fleursdemontblanc
 Yesterday, 14:30 Post #141141



Thank you for your suggestions, Sue.
I’m having a think now. Pity, I was still day-dreaming about winning all that money on the Euromillions and how I was going to get my own back on the bastards. (notaboutbooksthread)
Sincere thanks,
Celia
'A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction' Virginia Woolf
Amanda Hocking's AMAZING TALE of self-publishing
pam1234writing
 Yesterday, 13:36 Post #141140



Quote: papa stas, Saturday, 4 Feb 2012 10:09
Hocking started e-booking her pulp, genre mixing novels / novellas the past few years. After being turned down over and over by the industry system. No American publishing giant or mini would touch her.

Couldn't get an agent...rejection letters took down too many trees. Etc.

She quit writing for awhile, because she caved in and believed everyone telling her she wouldn't make it; was no good. More etc.

Without an agent or success...she got back on the writing horse.

Rode it right to the audience...global...by way of e-book.

No publisher; no agent; no system acceptance.

Just from the audience.

Started selling e-books on line. Making close to; maybe over a million before the publishing industry finally realized they'd been wrong about her. All along. Why?

Not because she wasn't talented.
But because...she simply wasn't doing it their way.

She wasn't accepted into -- THEIR -- system. Wasn't doing it the way everyone is supposed to do it, if you want to be in that system and be successful. THEIR way.

http://amandahocking.blogspot.com/2010/08/epic-tale-of-how-it-all-happened.html


Amanda Hocking's story is one that inspires Indie's everywhere. She was making a fortune and there are those who think she should have stuck with her independence. However, it's her call and she had them begging - eventually. Better than the other way round in anybody's books. Good luck to her.
"And, in the end, the love you take / Is equal to the love you make." Lennon and McCartney 1969

Three Steps to Heaven
'Til I Kissed You
Always On My Mind

A rock'n'roll trilogy by Pam Howes all available on Amazon.
Visit my website for details.

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Short story success
pam1234writing
 Yesterday, 13:30 Post #141139



Congrats, Lee. You know I'm a big fan of your shorts! Stories that is! Well done,you. It's great news.
"And, in the end, the love you take / Is equal to the love you make." Lennon and McCartney 1969

Three Steps to Heaven
'Til I Kissed You
Always On My Mind

A rock'n'roll trilogy by Pam Howes all available on Amazon.
Visit my website for details.

website
Telling and showing in writing.
NickPoole
 Yesterday, 13:06 Post #141138

Quote: PERRY, Saturday, 4 Feb 2012 13:04
Loud squawks from Nick at seeing the word "delusional" in response to his comments. Blinkers fall. Manhood droops. Voice raises to flag intelligence. Few heads turn.


I think you need to consider the craft a bit, Perry.
Telling and showing in writing.
PERRY
 Yesterday, 13:04 Post #141137

Loud squawks from Nick at seeing the word "delusional" in response to his comments. Blinkers fall. Manhood droops. Voice raises to flag intelligence. Few heads turn.
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