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Telling the Story
HOW TO PLOT A SHORT STORY – the 3-Act formula that makes it 1, 2, 3! In this article I will cover mainly plot-driven narrative in plotting the Short Story. I will try to show you some ways of approaching…
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Black Lives Matter
To GL. 8’46”. We miss you terribly. It was a dark and stormy night…the cliché made a perfect fit as Mother, teeth gritted and eyes clamped to the streaming windscreen, guided the Renault down the sodden road alongside the Sewerage…
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WINNER!…and runner-up
The MEGASAGA 3 writing competition has reached its conclusion, and the WINNER will be awarded £100 in shiny British Currency! Interestingly, there were many comments on the website supporting our decision. As I said, the decision was based not on…
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Corona Chronicles Part 3: THE CRACK OF DOM
…what happened to Part 2? That was the WRITING A MEGASAGA competition! Where have you beeeeen??? We are nearly in phase 2 of the Pandemic. Phase 1, disease spreads, people die, people panic, governments thrash about in utter confusion. The…
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THE SHORTLIST
Who will win £100 in the MEGASAGA WRITING COMPETITION? BEFORE you check to see if YOUR story made the shortlist, please read this. Take a breath. Ok? Many’s the time I have waited intently for a shortlist, and felt that…
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UPDATE 3: NEWS AND BLUES
Hello from Leafy Lockdown London! With only 10 days to go before the MEGASAGA3 writing competition deadline, I’m gradually getting your knickers in a twist! Bad metaphor. I mean, confusion is setting in because when I receive a Megasaga3 entry,…
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Corona Chronicles Part 2: WIN £100 WRITING!
Strategies for Survival: 2 WRITE A MEGASAGA! This is the WRITING COMPETITION which can WIN YOU A POUND A WORD! ALERT! UPDATE 2, 24th APRIL! SEE BELOW ! What is a MEGASAGA? A MEGASAGA is a story in 100 words….
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Corona Chronicles Part 1:
Let’s Get Through This! Strategy 1: Reach out This blog is the first of a series which should give you strategies for getting through 12 weeks of isolation. These strategies are the result of brilliant insights gained at 3.52am every…
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Short Stories! Musings, madness, poetry….
from the author of whom Hilary Mantel wrote “…fairly waltzes the reader along…the mixture of the mundane and the fantastic is deceptively artless, the prose full of energy and humour, and beneath the playfulness there is an undertow of pain…”…
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