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Yes, horror isn't one of the more usual categories on GA. I'm like you - I don't mind having spiders around. I'm glad you enjoyed the story.
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Thank you for persevering!
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I've just posted a story (Incy, wincy spider https://www.gayauthors.org/story/northie/incy-wincy-spider/1) . When I posted the story content into the editor, I selected the not pre-formatted option. Using this option, I've lost all my italics. It's mildly irritating this time round, but the anthology story waiting for publication is about half italics and I don't know whether the italics are there. I miss being able to preview content before publication. If I use the pre-formatted option, the line spacing doubles. Word processing is either Word or Open office, using Chrome, Windows latest versions.
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Prompt 575 You woke up and were running late to work. As you run out the door, you hit the button on your key fob to unlock your car door and stop cold. Your car is covered in spider webs. Turning to run back into your house you see it is also covered in hundreds of webs and there are spiders everywhere you look. What happened? “Do you mind!” Dave Harrison stopped dead in his tracks, almost leaving rubber scorch marks on the floor. He was late for work, again. He listened hard, tu
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Dave Harrison is late for work, again. Turns out, that's by far the least of his worries.
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I'm glad you enjoyed it. The all-pervading surveillance is certainly dystopian and I think dystopias by their very nature, are much more interesting than utopias.
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I'm still working on the spider prompt from last week but holiday preparations got in the way. To follow soon, hopefully. Meanwhile, here's my response to prompt 500 https://www.gayauthors.org/story/northie/amilate/4
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I liked the repetition poem - that was also a prompt I liked writing for. Your reasons for crying? They should be everyone's. My favourite was the last one. Short but it conveys so much - the feelings of dislocation, depression are painfully clear. As is the cure.
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April 2nd is the stand out one for me - the short, terse lines carry so much meaning with them. They provoke such clear, stark images, as well. The doubt and uncertainty of April 1st also got to me - a good poem on an unfortunately familiar theme.
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April 28 is my favourite by far - clever and very sweet. Next in line would be the two double cinquains. That you manage to produce verse at all with your workload is astonishing. That it is so good, well ...
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prompts Writing Prompts #574 & #575
northie commented on Renee Stevens's blog entry in Writing World
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[In a bohemian, but run-down house well outside of the castle walls, a bard sits at a table. Both room and table are partially submerged by books, papers, discarded quills. The bard is jauntily dressed in shades of blue and green, but his clothes have seen better days. He is writing angrily, his quill scratching against the heavy paper as if he hopes to make holes not words. It becomes apparent that he's not composing verse.] How the heck am I to pay the rent this month? [He speak
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This story has its roots in a narrative poem I wrote for a friend on GA last August. He was having a rough time and I wanted to cheer him up. The poem was posted in two parts in my blog – they can be found here, and here, The story is presented in the style of a screenplay. However, it is not written to be a functioning screenplay, and, although I've tried to avoid obvious errors, it should not be judged on that basis. All actions and descriptions are in italics within squar
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I enjoyed the first two prose poems very much, Atlantis particularly. As a new poet, knowing not very much about form, I find the way you've laid this out fascinating. Your explanations followed by wonderful examples get my brain cells whirring, even if the forms are a little beyond me at present. I imagine I'll be back from time to time.
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I find it fascinating - reading everyone's differing views on what they liked, what caught their imagination and why ...
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Oh, dugh, I'm sorry there was no pink elephant - my imagination is obviously a little lacking ... .
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Thanks, asamvav. I was a bit uncertain about the haiku - I made sure I read AC's guide, but even so ...
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Like Gary, I have trouble picking any favourite. I found reading April 6th painful, the personification poem made me smile in recognition - I too would be Caution. I very much liked both cinquains.
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Thanks, AC. More words definitely seems to have received the most votes.
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Thank you! I was a little unsure about posting them without you seeing them first. The haiku was a case in point and I'm glad it worked for you. More words I thoroughly enjoyed writing and luckily it was more flow than drip.
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Gorgeous is a word I'm quite partial to, but usually giving not receiving. Thanks, Gary. I'm sorry in my case relates to the written word but it is certainly open to other interpretations.
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Thanks, tim. I'm glad you enjoyed them. I was slightly nervous about the haiku - wondering whether I'd got the right tone ... More words - well, as authors we know that words aren't inanimate objects just waiting for us to bring them alive.
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Thanks, Val. You and your prompts have been one of my main sources of inspiration.
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Old Wilf Old Wilf pilfers skim milk and pilchards as oodles of sky-blue poodles pooter round to his place. He helps a heartless hog swim and swirl, then swish and skirl, squishing one poor cat flat as he does so. At noon, he swoons at the sight of some gormless buffoons, and then inks two twinks with three moons and a sphinx. 'Good god', he groans and sings mean tones, then whets both his wives with the whistle of a bibulous, carolling bat. ~ I'm sorry!
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Given the week you've had, I'm astounded at your creativity and humour. I'm sorry had me smiling in recognition the most, but the manners one had me laughing, partly at your ingenious ways of finding rhymes ... I'm off to see if I've got any creative thoughts (got some to spare, have you? ) PS second to last stanza of I'm sorry has a 'I'm sort' ...?
