Dream story

The first four chapters are up on my page.

How do I post onto my own page?

Still haven't figured out how to post thing on my page. Everything seems to end up on this page which is not quite how it's meant to be is it? Anyone got any suggestions?

HOMEWORK 

Trick Shot

50 WORD E-MAIL Past Event

That Judge had no sense of humour. Next time I’ll hire a lawyer and hang the expense. I’m still on for the tournament in February aren’t I? Practice is a bit tricky at present. The cues tend to end up chopped in half.  Or with a pointy tip. Send ciggies.

20 WORD POST Future Event

‘B’ Block’s first open challenge snooker tournament. Next Wednesday after Corrie. Entry fee: 2 ciggies.  Has anyone got any chalk?

Twitter Fiction

The Guardian is running a series of exremely short stories using the Twitter limit of 140 characters. Writers so far include Joanna Briscoe, John O'Farrell, Kate Mosse and Katie Price. The home page is here.

Homework

You can post your Facebook style comments on the Fakebook page.

Halfway to Hell

I've always wanted to write a crime novel in the style of Mickey Spillane or Raymond Chandler and I've decided that this course would be the ideal opportunity to do just that. I've followed Charlotte's lead and written the cover blurb first, followed by the first chapter. If you're interested, I'm also posting it on WATTPAD as I go along. It's an interesting site. Let me know what you think.

Dogalogue.

I've added this to my page - I had two main aims; to be mildly amusing but also to establish, early on in the narrative, the difficulty of 'escaping' from dreams - I suppose I was also trying to imagine the world from a dog's point of view.

Wonderful. Thank you, John. Sara.

Many thanks, John. From Sara.

enjoying this group and knowing the fun people in it. Am surprised that a few of the members aren't already well established and published authors!

Trick Shot

Hi Everyone

Don't know if this is going to work or not. I logged in to the FFF blog but didn't get the front page I was expecting and I can't see how to view everyone else's work! Maybe it will become clear after I publish this post. Here's hoping. On my page is the finished version of the short story we were asked to write way back in lesson one.

Self publication

According to this Guardian article 250,000 novels were self-published last year. As this blog/article in today's Guardian makes clear, critics and newspapers - let alone readers - are having a hard time adjusting to the new shape of things.

– we're not quite sure how to tackle it. Any guidance would be much appreciated, so tell us about the gems we're missing out on, and we'll see what we can do.

Hello and welcome to the blog. This typeface is helvetica and the font size is normal. Is everonyone OK with it? There are lots of jazzy templates you can use but I thought we would start with a plain one. The facebook group is here and is probably the best place for discussions of writing assignments. It is possible to set up a separate page (see mine right) for each of us where we can post our stories, works in progress etc.