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Please Comment: More on AI
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Thought for the Day How do you know if it’s time to wash the dishes and clean ...
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Thought for the Day Books have the same enemies as ...
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Please Comment: Gold is a pain in the ass, Part 2
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Craft Chat Ream (kind of like Royal Road) fiction event
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The Huddle Huddle October 11th - 5.00pm UK time
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Thought for the Day Life is like a library owned by an ...
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Hannah Faoileán
One Perfect Sentence The Ominous October Challenge!
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One Perfect Sentence The Aspirational August Challenge!
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Welcome… I’m New Here! Hi, my name is Chris, and I'm a writer.
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Thought for the Day Comedy is simply a funny ...
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Craft Chat Stay True to Yourself-a writer after 50 years of rejection
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Craft Chat Any more info on the audiobooks children talk in the Bookseller?
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Thought for the Day The main difference between men and women is that ...
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The Huddle Huddle South October 8th - 8.00am BST UK time (please check the time in your local time zone)
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Thought for the Day If you find a path with no ...
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Thought for the Day Imagination is intelligence with ...
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One Perfect Sentence Aspirational August Results!
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Craft Chat Free Seminar: Short Mystery Fiction
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Sedayne
Craft Chat Call for Submissions: The Pooh Files
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Jonny
The Huddle Huddle October 4th - 5.00pm UK time
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Paul Whybrow
Thought for the Day I would be most content if my children grew up to be the ...
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Craft Chat Comp for stories about todays reality
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Craft Chat E Books at Bookstores-Discuss
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Craft Chat Publishers blind to Dark Romance
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Thought for the Day A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who ...
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Craft Chat Spiracle expanding as audiobook publisher
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Thought for the Day You may not know it, but at the far end of ...
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Paul Whybrow
Thought for the Day The thoughts in our minds are not facts. If your mind is ...
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Please Comment: Narrative Tension
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News "The Fate of the World" - Prof Bill McGuire
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RK Wallis
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Thought for the Day When life gives you lemons ...
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News Today's(ish) Book News :)
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Paul Whybrow
Thought for the Day Anger gets you into trouble ...
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News Weekend's Book News
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Sarit
Self-Publishing Short promos vids for my characters
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Thought for the Day The struggle of today is not altogether for ...
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Thought for the Day Nothing is more despicable than ...
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Please Comment: A violation of innocence
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Paul Whybrow
Thought for the Day Tears come from the heart and ...
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Paul Whybrow
Paul Whybrow
Paul Whybrow
Thought for the Day If I had to live my life again, I’d ...
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Thought for the Day It is better to write a bad ...
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Paul Whybrow
AgentPete
News Today's Book News
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Craft Chat Bookseller sales figures-any tea readers out there?
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AgentPete
News Today's Book News
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Craft Chat TYM on how to protect yourself from AI
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Please Comment: Lessons I’ve Learned
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Pamela Jo
Craft Chat Anyone got Horror contest links Post here.
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Lee Murray
Pamela Jo
Craft Chat Two Irish short story contests starting
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Pamela Jo
Pamela Jo
Craft Chat Glob Soup Contest
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Pamela Jo
Paul Whybrow
Thought for the Day Stop in the middle of a sentence, leaving a rough edge for you to ...
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News Today's Book News
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Paul Whybrow
Thought for the Day Consistency is the last ...
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Paul Whybrow
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David Newrick
Craft Chat 'Write for the top ten percent of your readers' - King
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David Newrick
Paul Whybrow
Thought for the Day Writers don't have lifestyles ...
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Paul Whybrow
Paul Whybrow
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Thought for the Day Life is too short to be ...
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Paul Whybrow
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Please Comment: Writer Beware
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Craft Chat Creativity is not a talent…
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RK Wallis
RK Wallis
Craft Chat Voice
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News Today's Book News
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News Today's Book News
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Aethalope
Aethalope
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Thought for the Day The problem is that horror is not a genre ...
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Paul Whybrow
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Welcome… I’m New Here! Children's picture book author is a bit lost
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