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Felicitations
PERRY
 Yesterday, 12:55 Post #141136

Get them all the time by email, flersdemontblanc.

Children's alphabetical building blocks, preferably the old wooden variety - or old news-printers placers - spelling out your details (but jumbled just in case) judiciously inserted in and up every orifice the spammers possess. No lubricants involved.

notty what IS your problem? Are you so challenged by my obvious superiority that you must attack me on every thread??

Or are you just waiting for me to acknowledge your weighty witticism of upper and lower case arrangement?
Telling and showing in writing.
NickPoole
 Yesterday, 12:54 Post #141135

Quote: PERRY, Saturday, 4 Feb 2012 12:30
No, merely use of the wrong word on my behalf. Just wakened. Stunted expression of poetry. My error as regards that. I don't use code to insult. I'll be plain. You can be an ignorant shit who overreacts at times, as you have here.

Not surprising, but still irksome. You did the same to Karen Milner on another thread who was merely being playfully mischievous.

I didn't comment on that because she is more than capable of dealing with your tantrums and a certain other avatar was being more virulent and in a more serious fashion without having contributed anything to the main site - as you have.

Don't presume that means I'm going to be bird-mouthed if you come after me. You haven't been watching closely if that's your delusion. The days of me holding back are "Gone Baby Gone".


I think it's you who are living in a delusional bubble if you think I give a shit about anything you post.

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.
Telling and showing in writing.
PERRY
 Yesterday, 12:30 Post #141134

No, merely use of the wrong word on my behalf. Just wakened. Stunted expression of poetry. My error as regards that. I don't use code to insult. I'll be plain. You can be an ignorant shit who overreacts at times, as you have here.

Not surprising, but still irksome. You did the same to Karen Milner on another thread who was merely being playfully mischievous.

I didn't comment on that because she is more than capable of dealing with your tantrums and a certain other avatar was being more virulent and in a more serious fashion without having contributed anything to the main site - as you have.

Don't presume that means I'm going to be bird-mouthed if you come after me. You haven't been watching closely if that's your delusion. The days of me holding back are "Gone Baby Gone".
This post was last edited by PERRY, Yesterday, 12:43
Felicitations
notleyab
 Yesterday, 12:27 Post #141133

Ooops, sorry abt tt, tt was supposed to have bn addressed to pERRy.
Greetings from SUNNY while you shiver Madrid.
Short story success
fleursdemontblanc
 Yesterday, 12:17 Post #141132



Yay! Congratulations.
Best wishes,
Celia
'A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction' Virginia Woolf
Felicitations
fleursdemontblanc
 Yesterday, 12:15 Post #141131



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?
'A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction' Virginia Woolf
Warmest thanks to all my reviewers
willowtree
 Yesterday, 12:01 Post #141130



Thank you so much, Carola. That was a nice pat on the back. I'm hard at work restructuring a couple of my short stories. See what happens. Writer Tony McFadden (google him) has a post on his website 'story structure in 1 minute'. Not just funny, but very instructive, I thought. Be back soon!
Sigmund Freud: "The Irish are one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no benefit whatsoever."
Telling and showing in writing.
NickPoole
 Yesterday, 11:36 Post #141129

Quote: PERRY, Saturday, 4 Feb 2012 10:16
A fair definition of the concept, if marred by a stunted experience of poetry.


It might be a limited definition of poetry...but "stunted experience"? It's a kind of weird code you use, ain't it? You are either attempting to insult me by suggesting I don't have much experience of poetry or you are just, as usual, talking gobbledegook.

Either way.

My first ever emoticon. Probably my last too.
Short story success
papa stas
 Yesterday, 11:36 Post #141128



big CONGRATS!

Always nice to know someone appreciates your work.

papa
stas ( )
The difference between a CHAMP and a CHUMP is U.
Just popped on to say hello and a query!
060660
 Yesterday, 10:51 Post #141127

Hi
I am new and thought I should just introduce myself. I love reading and writing (especially for children). I have just posted my book Shadow Jumper aimed at 8 to 12 year olds if anyone wishes to take a look. I am happy to give feedback and if anything takes my fancy I will give a free read (time permitting).
One question about the workings of the site. I have 4 reading credits but from the stats it appears nobody has been assigned my book to read. I have had two reviews and am desperate for more! Any ideas how long it takes for a reader to be assigned to a book?
Thanks for any advice on this matter.
Julia
Shadow Jumper
Short story success
dancingsue
 Yesterday, 10:41 Post #141126



It's a wonderful story, so I'm not surprised. Well done!
the long and the short of it

Triclops: a collection of forty short stories by Avery Mathers, Susan Howe and Lee Williams.
Short story success
panurge
 Yesterday, 10:16 Post #141125



The Cafe Irreal have just published one of my short stories, 'While You Sleep' (viewable here). I'm particularly pleased because when I first started writing a few years ago they were one of two sites which made me realise I wasn't completely insane and gave me the confidence to continue. The other, incidentally, was YWO. So thanks!
The Tower of Clavius Boon
Telling and showing in writing.
PERRY
 Yesterday, 10:16 Post #141124

A fair definition of the concept, if marred by a stunted experience of poetry.
Amanda Hocking's AMAZING TALE of self-publishing
papa stas
 Yesterday, 10:09 Post #141123



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
The difference between a CHAMP and a CHUMP is U.
Thank you, lizjcof
dancingsue
 Yesterday, 10:04 Post #141122



Thanks for your review - I'm glad you enjoyed it. Good luck with your story.
the long and the short of it

Triclops: a collection of forty short stories by Avery Mathers, Susan Howe and Lee Williams.
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