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Ignite, we could all tweet about you giving good feedback and being a GR reviewer and Amazon Top 1000 Reviewer. I'v plenty of writers among my followers alone - You'll never have to pay for a book again! ;)I also dithered between about three entries. All very good. I was a stickler and went with an entry that satisfied the given assignment ;)
So what's next then, Ignite? :)
Erm. OK. How do I tweet a Gallimaufrey? I haven't even got any followers!
Give us your twitter name and we'll think up some suitable tweets of high praise ;)
This is ludicrous. I'm following a few of you - Andrew Lawston is now following me. Don't follow me, I'm lost! I must find out how to tweet. So far it would be easier to PM Andrew!
I'm thinking of a piece of music? Anyone know how to get a link so everyone can hear it?
youtube usually has most music on it
I've just sent out a recommendation for people to follow you ;)
Right. You're a geek. (And I mean that in the nicest POSSIBLE way!)Can you find a link to the Meditation from Thais by Massenet?
(Gives good reviews eh? A few people won't tell you that! You have to write a good book first!)
There's quite a few of that piece, but this one seems better quality soundwise than some others:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ajCJF...
(may you be sent many interesting books!) ;)
That sounds pretty good. What do you think, Oh Great One? A piece of writing, max 250 words, inspired by that music.
Sounds like a good title. Stops me getting confused when you're talking about the other Darren.Oh, you mean the contest? Yes, nice music - though I personally think 200 should be the max otherwise it starts cutting into book writing time ;)
Please en a new thread entitled Writing Contest #2 when you get sorted, okay?We don't want things to be any more confusing than they already are...
OK 200. We'll let The Great One start it eh? He's in charge.
Patti (Stir Crazy) wrote: "Please en a new thread entitled Writing Contest #2 when you get sorted, okay?We don't want things to be any more confusing than they already are..."
And that would be
I shall write a book called "Confusion". Then I can be the author of Confusion ;)
So the entrants can write anything inspired by the music or do you want to be more specific? It's hard to compare the entries when one is a poem, another humour, another serious, another something else...This music would inspire some sort of scene or mood, I should think...
Do you want to make it all prose and then no-one will say, Ha! That's her again and I can enter once more incognito? Serious description inspired by the music.Sorry to have been away so long - I've been weeding!
Have you got any more followers yet? :)"Serious description" sounds good. Humour, dialogue, poems, etc. can be done in the future. We'll just make sure no one picks the same things too often.
Is Patti still taking the submissions?
I got the impression that's what she fingered you for. I've got 7 followers. That's nearly as many as the people I know in real life.
It would be brilliant if someone else could accept, keep track of and post the submissions.Seriously, I'm inundated with stuff I need to keep track of at the moment. I'm sorry.
Darren, perhaps you could do this one, then Jud can take over after this week?
Is it appropriate for an entrant/author to do it? Or would it just be taking the submissions and not the poll?7 followers? A book for each day of the week ;)
It sounds like you would just accept the submissions. Patti would need to so the poll as it has to be set up by a moderator.
Yes, just the submissions Darren.I'll still do the poll. I believe the group is set so that only mods can set up polls, so Simon or I would have to do it.
Make Simon do some work then - the lazybones!
Well done Ignite on a well deserved win.And what a stunning piece of music.
Gingerlily (or Cyberlily..) wrote: "Make Simon do some work then - the lazybones!"At the moment I think I still have more free time than Simon.
Or he's lying to me. ;)
I've started the contest #2 thread. Is it just to write 200 words to describe the music or a scene inspired by the music or perhaps either or both?
A serious scene that the music inspires. Thanks, Jud!
Inspired by the music Jud. Prose, max 200 words.
Congratulations Ignite,very well done!
Dunno. I thought DM Andrews was organising it. I've scared him off!
Please please can someone tell me who voted for me?
Did anyone vote for me? Can I find out?
Story of my life. Always the runner up, never the winner. I voted for ignite.
Anyone interested in swapping weeding for watching a three million quid project go up in flames?
Oh dear. I do hope they can't manage to put any of the blame on you!
Simon (Highwayman) wrote: "Story of my life. Always the runner up, never the winner. I voted for ignite.
Anyone interested in swapping weeding for watching a three million quid project go up in flames?"
It'd be a novelty!
Gingerlily (or Cyberlily..) wrote: "Oh dear. I do hope they can't manage to put any of the blame on you!"I have my fireproof underpants on but it is getting warm.
Simon (Highwayman) wrote: "Gingerlily (or Cyberlily..) wrote: "Oh dear. I do hope they can't manage to put any of the blame on you!"I have my fireproof underpants on but it is getting warm."
Have you been eating curry again?
Nope, not run away - just in the midst of HTML formatting. Yuck...
Of course, Ignite, the prize for winning is the expectation of your book on kindle in the very near future.
Indeed it is! May I suggest a title?:"The Woman from U.K.A.K.F."
Suggest away boys! All I need is a talent for telling a story - and that I DON'T have. The ending would be blindingly obvious and if I tried to weave two story lines together I'd finish up in the corner with my limbs knotted up like a failed yoga guru!
You could do it in epic verse form - like El Cid or Beowulf or something... ;)
I've not read El Cid but I have read Beowulf. It's a bit too exciting - I'd have to keep having a lie down.
Now just give us the links to your books and we'll tweet them to high heaven! Hmm...
Well, OK, bit of a flaw there, but at least you get to set the next task! :)"
Perhaps the Gaulimaufry could be tweeted as it's very much Ignite's baby?
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