So what are you waiting for?

a plot that doesn't grind to halt half way through!

At least you guys were the innocent victims of inexplicable computer deaths. I murdered mine, last Christmas, by drowning. I was heading across the room with a container holding about 1.5 litres of water intending to put it in the Christmas tree receptacle. It was a wide necked container which had originally held catering sized quantities of nuts. I tripped against the mat and knowing that if I and the water went down my laptop would have been splashed.

So I engaged, as I thought, a bit of quick thinking and threw the receptacle in the opposite direction... where it hit the wall, ricocheted and emptied directly onto my lap top.

Sorry, I forgot about this bit until just now with all the rubbish today.
I assume you were referring to the (thankfully) one and only Marc Bolan there??

Incidentally, and totally uselessly, that post is weird to answer - you can't get it to quote properly. I had to paste it over quoting another post to get it to work with your username. Never seen that before. I reckon it's the stray 'end quote' bit under the blue box messes it up.

marks from the judges:
Craig: 9
Darcey: 10
Len: 10
Bruno: 10

you need to edit it still has YOUR username attached

yay it's worked!

What spooked her this time - one of your puns?

I'm not sure whether to or . Have both:
, and a

That's definitely

It's always the bloody end that comes first, even if it's just a letter. Getting there is the pain.

it's so frustrating i've done so much research and have main characters and plot but no solution....have to have that before i can work backwards with the details....i'm relying on divine intervention currently

Well spotted
Just going to try something - so the next post might be odd, if it works ...

Hmmmm ...

EDIT: sorry, just wondered what happens if you paste a different username against the user ID at the top of a quote box.
Answer - nothing

The water did lap over the top!

Dropped a mobile phone into a cup of tea once. Dried it out in the oven but could never get the number eight to work.

it's HAUNTED

well i transmogrified into An so not exactly nothing.....

Ever seen Brian Eno's 'Oblique Strategies'?
It's a set of cards with different things written on them, which he designed to help break mental blocks while in the studio. Some are directly relevant, like 'take out every second track and then add a drum', while others say things like 'count the paving stones round the block'. There's different versions down the years (and they're not cheap) but you can read them online.

Amazingly, no. I was trying to remember a book title about fried green tomatoes. She was probably mixing a Bloody Mary at the time!

My oven doesn't go up to number 8

You have spirits on the brain tonight!

yes i've seen them (love Enos...particular fondness for Roger) but they aren't appropriate for my particular problem booooooo perhaps if i immersed myself in it all again i 'd get somewhere....

murther and the walking spirits...oh wait wrong thread,,,,

Yep openings are my problem too Dave, although I have never attempted to write creatively/fiction.

I often write middle paragraphs waiting for inspiration about how to get into the body of the piece to strike.

Can't figure that one out!

just the sentence structure Fink it read as if the 8 on the oven wouldn't work.....

No, what I did was used what I think is your id, but changed the name to An's. Thought if they were intrinsically linked, then something would happen if I played with the combination.
Gone back to look at those numbers on a couple of your other posts, and it's not a personal id. Must be a post id or something, as it changes every time (and appears to go up).