EmmaD
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Goodness, the York Festival is filling up fast! If you want to get your hands on Debi, you'd need to move fast...Information
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Are you a ...?Unpublished writer (so far)What genre do you primarily write in?General fictionAre your reading habits ...?OtherWhat are your working habits when you write?DisciplinedAre you the edit-every-sentence-ten-times type, or do you prefer to let rip?Prefer to let rip and edit afterwardsYour ultimate writing ambition?Staying solvent by writingYour worst habit?Procrastinating the rest of my life, in order to writeYour opinion on the books industry?Too much celebrity and hype, but good books still get throughWhere do you write?At home
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"EmmaD" commented on Ele's Blog "Critique of a Short Story".It is Geordie, then! (Which I guess might have been exported to Oz on a convict ship or two, of course...) "Is her use of words quite typical for a critique? " - it is fairly typical, I'd say, though it varies a lot - I'm at the chatty and ...
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"EmmaD" commented on Ele's Blog "Critique of a Short Story".
Good crit of what's obviously a really original and interesting story - highlights both what's right and what's wrong, and some things that make you go "duh!" and some you've never thought of but which make sense. "Not sure what 'telling' means - ...
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"EmmaD" commented on katie 's Blog "Ballet tights .......".
Oh, your ballet kit sounds lovely! I did ballet as a child a bit, and I can still remember how delicious it is - I do hope you enjoy it. On the hair, I'm fairly hopeless at hair in general, but I did get good quite good at doing indestructible ...
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17th March 2012
The Agent's Manifesto: Listen To Authors
publishing, agents, jonny geller, self-publishing
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9th March 2012Why Dorothy Wordsworth is not as famous as her brother
Emma Darwin, Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, poetry, daffodils 20 Comments -
7th November 2011Help with that all-important hook sentence
hook, pitch, covering letter, submission, agents, publishers, Frankfurt Book Fair, 4 Comments -
13th September 2011Read the winning stories from Frome
competitions, Frome, short fiction, short stories, Emma Darwin 10 Comments -
7th August 2011Self-publishing: the myths and the reality
self publishing, jane smith, how publishing really works, dgaughran 14 Comments
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by EmmaD 1 month agoThank you for a all the lovely birthday wishes, everyone! Had a great day - it was Easter Day till after churchgoers had come home and Easter Hare had visited, and then it was my birthday... And I hope everyone else had a good holiday weekend too.
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by MarkR 1 month agoBirthday cake, wine and easter eggs all on the same day. I guess it will be a while before you're back on this earth from heaven. Many Happy Returns. -
by Tony 1 month agoBy the time you get to read this I hope you will have been having a future perfect continuous(ly) happy birthday! -
by Jill 1 month agoYes ~ Happy Birthday, Emma. Have a lovely day. Thank you again, for the invaluable 'tips' you gift we Cloudies with. :) -
by Caducean Whisks 1 month agoIf it's Harry's birthday today, then it must be yours as well. Hope it's a good one, full of Easter Eggs and bonnets! -
by Charlie 3 months agoTorture in parts; writing a villanelle was fun. The way it consumed not just time but also my mind was scary, esp the last few weeks. Finished on a high as I gave it my best (even went on an emergency visit to the Scottish Poetry Library for inspiration). In the next two weeks self-doubt will subsume my optimism until I collect the result expecting the worst. But never mind, that seems to be the writerly way. -
by Charlie 3 months agoWould respectfully like to suggest that a health warning be added to the poetry section of the BRB. I have accosted complete strangers to share my distress about not being able to enjamb my mind meaningfully into poetry after friends and family stopped asking me how I was. And I dimly remember having children hidden somewhere in this messy house...
