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Years ago on radio 4 women's hour they read " poem to an aborted child" I have never been able to find more information on this, does anyone have any more details that would allow me to track it down....
So I am writing a story for my course and it just made me wonder how many words are in a novel? I know it will be different for each one, but how many is the average? Or is there a minimum to get...
Can someone please comment on the correct Spanish expressions for places of birth and marriage. Is this right? Married XX XXX 2014 Ayuntamiento de Ciutadella [this is the impressive city hall.]...
I am 14 and i am going to make a manga soon,i would like to know if my plot is good,interesting,original to become a manga,i would also like to know if you have any questions about my plot(so i could...
I have been writing a story and just wondered if anyone would read the first little bit and tell me what they think? “Time to get up Ladies” The voice woke me with a start and I groaned into my...
Caught the last10 minutes of this book by Janet Anderson M.P. being read on Radio 4 yesterday (Sunday 5th.) Sounds fascinating but I can't find it on Amazon or Waterstones website. Does anyone know...
Must be a couple of years ago and may have been an entry in the BBC short story competition. Narrated by an old lady with Alzheimers. She sees a chair under a tree but can't remember that she put it...
The film of this book ended with the schoolteacher setting off a suicide bomb which blew up the 'cuckoos'. But I recall a story in which the cuckoos set up a sort of parallel universe which was a...
I picked up quite an old book at a sale .Corgi edition 1970.The book has the repeat of some of an earlier paragraph and as a result has 11 pages missing of a later paragraph .Would this be an unusual...
I posted the story on Wattpad.com (a site on which writers can post their stories so that people can read them). Be honest and give me constructive criticism....
Give me constructive criticism and honest feedback.
1. What do you think of the writing style?
2. Would you read more?
http://www.wattpad.com/64568666-the-bane-chapter-one...
It was a story about a group of animals who had to leave their field and find another home. The all got in some sort of boat and drifted downstream. The pictures were stunning. The drifted through...
Does anyone know the title of this book, is not a Maigret story. A man meets a stranger on a train, stranger gives man a case and asks him to look after it, stranger disappears, man takes case home...
Now that I've finished writing my YA dark fantasy novel, I'm wondering what other people think of the first chapter. I posted the first few paragraphs of the first chapter (NOT all of it) and I want...