#WordWeavers Mar 18:
Tell us about a time when your MC failed

In novelx3, Dr Andrew Bridges, the climate scientist, is walking St Cuthbert’s Way in Northumberland on a pilgrimage to Iona (it’s complicated) when he finds himself in Coldstream

Coldstream is not on St Cuthbert’s Way

That’s apart from the fact that he had failed to persuade the government to take appropriate action over global warming

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#ScribesAndMakers 2 Whatever?

The climate was changing at an alarming rate. If it went on like this – and it would go on like this whatever anyone did now – large parts of the world would become uninhabitable within decades. ... There would be floods and droughts and storms and wild fires and temperatures would become unendurable. There would famine and there would be war.
He had done what he could. He was worn out.

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WordWeavers 4th June

Mood of the opening paragraph in 3 adjectives

despairing tired frustrated

"It was the end. He couldn’t do it anymore. He’d had enough. There was no point, except that there was a point and he knew there was a point and he knew that he had given his whole life and all his energies, all his skills, his expertise, his understanding,... – he had given everything to get the message across but no-one was listening"

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