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Jo Derrick Fiction: Band Themed Short Story Project Week 6
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Welcome to my blog! Sunday, 15 February 2015. Band Themed Short Story Project Week 6. It's been a good week for the band themed project this week, as I've finished five out of the seven stories. They are nearly all Flash Fiction pieces this week, because I was fed up of trying to write longer stories then not finishing them. I've decided that after Week 9, when I'll have run out of nominated bands, I'll spend a week finishing off stories. At the end of March. Nominated this English contemporary folk band...
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Jo Derrick Fiction: Band Themed Short Story Project Week 5
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Welcome to my blog! Sunday, 8 February 2015. Band Themed Short Story Project Week 5. Monday's band was The Cure. I have a few of their albums, so you'd have thought this a relatively easy one for me. However, my story didn't take off as I'd have liked it to and I stopped at 526 words, struggling for inspiration. This is one I need to go back to. Tuesday's band was Queen, nominated by two people, Natalie Timbs, a friend from home-educating days and Viv Brown. I enjoyed researching Soft Machine on Friday a...
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Jo Derrick Fiction: July 2015
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Welcome to my blog! Saturday, 25 July 2015. The 2015 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate Part Two. Saturday kicked off with a cracking interview between Ann Cleeves and Lisa Gardner. The day before Mary Jane Riley had assured me that I’d enjoy Lisa’s writing. I certainly enjoyed listening to her speak about her research and her novels. Lisa has over twenty-two million books in print (imagine that! 8220;Are you booking for next year? 8221; I asked. She told me that while relaxing in ...
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Annie Seaton-Romance Author: A Coastal Christmas
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Thanks for dropping in. I hope you enjoy reading my blogposts. If you want to know more about me and my books. Come on over to my website and visit. Http:/ www.annieseatonromance.com/. Wednesday, 27 November 2013. Can you believe the festive season is upon us and we are already writing Christmas posts? How do we spend the day? We’ll get up very early and do the Santa Claus presents with the grandchildren, then we’ll go for a lovely walk on the beach (if it’s not too hot! I love including the ocean, river...
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Jo Derrick Fiction: The 2015 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate Part One
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Welcome to my blog! Thursday, 23 July 2015. The 2015 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate Part One. The Old Swan, Harrogate. Fast paced, intense and addictive. No, I’m not talking about the work of Patricia Highsmith nor the latest novel by Eva Dolan, but The Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate. If I’ve been to any more in between, then my memories of them are hazy, to say the least. We all trooped in to The Morality of Murder panel at 3.30pm (Belinda Baue...
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Jo Derrick Fiction: The 2015 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate Part Two
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Welcome to my blog! Saturday, 25 July 2015. The 2015 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate Part Two. Saturday kicked off with a cracking interview between Ann Cleeves and Lisa Gardner. The day before Mary Jane Riley had assured me that I’d enjoy Lisa’s writing. I certainly enjoyed listening to her speak about her research and her novels. Lisa has over twenty-two million books in print (imagine that! 8220;Are you booking for next year? 8221; I asked. She told me that while relaxing in ...
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Jo Derrick Fiction: December 2014
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Welcome to my blog! Monday, 1 December 2014. The Psychopath Versus The People's Friend. I'll begin this week's blog with some lovely news. I won second prize in the Greenacre Writers November Competition judged by crime writer, Bettina von Cossel. He was harassing a girl of around eighteen-years-old (he was middle-aged) so much that we nearly had to say something to him. Instead my husband and I retired to our room and drank champagne. So it was quite an honour. I had another rejection from Alison Cook a...
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Jo Derrick Fiction: March 2011
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Welcome to my blog! Friday, 25 March 2011. This story was first published (under my first married name of Jo Good) in Issue 3 of Upstart! Magazine in Summer 1998. The issue was edited by Carol Barac and Marilyn Ricci. The idea for the story came from an exercise at a poetry writing workshop in Milton Keynes. We had to pick two words from a list and put them together. My words were ‘slipper’ and ‘tree’. I have an idea. It doesn’t matter. I start to bring slippers every day. Once the first branch is co...
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A Tale to Tell. What Is A Tale To Tell? How Do I Tell My Tale? About A Tale to Tell. A Tale to Tell. What is a Tale to Tell? How do I tell my tale? About a Tale to Tell. A Sense of Place – Georgia Hill. October 20, 2015. This week on the blog we have the wonderful Georgia Hill talking about how location impacts her writing, and it’s written so beautifully, I want to immediately head straight to the places she describes… (don’t get me started on the cheese or cider! Over to Georgia…. This autumn we’ve bas...
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Jo Derrick Fiction: March 2015
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Welcome to my blog! Thursday, 12 March 2015. Band Project Update/Feeling Demoralised. It hasn't been a good week writing-wise. I had a rejection on Monday from Woman's Weekly. Saying the story had a 'well-worn theme'. I was an 'also read' in last Saturday's Write Invite, which means my story was in the bottom three (this was a 'band themed' story based on Jack Savoretti). Then I had another rejection today, this time from The People's Friend. The funny thing is that I'd almost forgotten that I now have 3...
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