@Issy McCann Hi Issy. I’m still waiting for my Gold feedback. Please can you check there hasn’t been a mistake? I emailed you but am still waiting for your response. Thanks.

I’m still waiting for Gold feedback. Emailed Issy on 3 April. She said she’d look into it but I’ve heard nothing since.

@Kathryn Brown I completely agree!

@Tami Winbush I do that too! Except without the fancy binding. I print two pages to a page (to save paper, plus it looks like a book). It’s so much easier editing on paper first—especially if you change your mind about something, then it’s never lost. For major initial edits, I even cut paragraphs up to play with the order. It’s so interesting hearing other people’s processes 🙂

Thanks for sharing, Issy! That’s a great way to do it so every judge has their own copy they can bookmark and write comments on. I’m so glad that’s not my entry in your photo! 😅

@Soom Bard phew! that’s a lot of information in a single sentence! Some gorgeous imagery though which I think could shine even brighter with a bit of sentence hacking 😅

@Matthew Fothergill I love the imagery here, how you use the wave as a metaphore for her crashing decision. I think it might read better if the paragraphs are swapped around, as they feel like they’re in the wrong order… 🤔 I’m thinking: A darkening wave rose and tilted light along the harbour wall, hitting the stone offbeat, as though it already knew. It answered before Ellie decided—then faltered, as if unsure it should have. She hadn’t realised she’d stopped breathing.