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The Huddle Huddle September 13th - 5.00pm UK time
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Thought for the Day To write a great book, you must ...
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One Perfect Sentence The Scintillating September Challenge!
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Thought for the Day Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' ...
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News Eh, Eye!
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Sedayne
Fanfare! The Craft of Half-Remembering is published in Mslexia Issue 107 out today.
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Thought for the Day Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a ...
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One Perfect Sentence - The Aspirational August Challenge
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Thought for the Day Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much ...
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Jonny
The Huddle Huddle September 6th - 5.00pm UK time
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Thought for the Day Ice-cream is exquisite. What a ...
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Thought for the Day Tact is after all a kind of ...
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Thought for the Day I feel very grateful that for some reason I was raised to believe that ...
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Aethalope
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Thought for the Day Giving a reader a sex scene that is only half right is like ...
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Jonny
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Paul Whybrow
Thought for the Day Books have a life. They breathe. When you ...
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Aethalope
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AgentPete
News This Smells Bad…
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Pamela Jo
Craft Chat BPA Pitch Contest and in Oct. meet the literary agent who will judge it
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Sarit
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Welcome… I’m New Here! Human Writes
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Paul Whybrow
Thought for the Day Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to ...
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The Huddle Huddle August 30th - 5.00pm UK time
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Bloo
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RK Wallis
Craft Chat Tool for Trending Genres
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Lakeland Waffler
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Sarit
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Paul Whybrow
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Paul Whybrow
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Sedayne
Sedayne
RK Wallis
Craft Chat Agent's role in revising your manuscript
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RK Wallis
Sedayne
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Pamela Jo
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Pamela Jo
Craft Chat Scottish Trust FF deadline Aug 31
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AgentPete
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Pamela Jo
Craft Chat Globe Soup Short Story Contest-International
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Paul Whybrow
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Pamela Jo
Dandelion Break For those doing rewrites-there is a light at the end of the frog
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Pamela Jo
Paul Whybrow
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Paul Whybrow
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Paul Whybrow
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Katie-Ellen
Dandelion Break The Stories in the Stars: The Domain of Demeter, Virgo, Vineyards and Harvest Home
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Pamela Jo
Craft Chat T Yates Martin-a book editor on AI editing your book
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LJ Beck
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Paul Whybrow
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Pamela Jo
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Please Comment: WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES
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Paul Whybrow
Thought for the Day I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but ....
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AgentPete
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Bloo
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Paul Whybrow
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E G Logan
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Aethalope
Craft Chat Craft Challenge - The Wilder Structure
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Sedayne
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Paul Whybrow
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RK Wallis
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AgentPete
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I have a ridiculously early meeting in town today so won't be able to post the Daily News Update until I'm back, late afternoon.
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Barbara
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Currently taking part in a self-imposed Writer's Protection Program (AKA break from writing).

Too long a story but basically, my dad died earlier in the year which unleashed (some expected) chaos to highjack my time and cloud my brain. I've also been busy with several on-line classes. I haven't written a thing since March. Can barley get a word out. Having said that, I managed to plot a new novel, but the actual writing just isn't happening yet. It's so frustrating. I'm now digging up two dusty WIPs to get back into writing mode.
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