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New blog post by Bloo Identity Politics Holy hell, this shower feels good. Pretty sure I’m using up the hot water, but any fucks I could give evaporate into steamy bliss. After ten hours underground proving a new coal hauler design, I’m going to treat myself. And the company I work for is...

New blog post by mickleinapickle Detritus in Paradise Thinking back to January 2021… I was feeling rather stodgy after Christmas excess, and Mrs. Treaclechops had a touch of winter blues, so we decided on a stroll along Wychall Reservoir in south Birmingham. It was a mild 10℃ with a sky of...

I liked this. https://darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/voice-and-pov

New blog post by Rachel McCarron My Resolution (Or a List of Books) As the old year comes to a close, I think about things I am grateful for and about fostering good habits for the new year ahead. Which is ridiculous, I know. Why should the day after the thirty-first of December have any...

New blog post by Vagabond Heart WTF, Will! The poems 1 – 5 Well, I’d just read all of Shakespeare’s plays and I was feeling extremely showy-offy. And yes, I’d been totally mind-blown or singularly unimpressed and all the stops inbetween. But I couldn’t say I’d read the Complete Works until...

New blog post by Vagabond Heart WTF, Will! parts 36 – 37 Unbelievably, after nearly six months, I had almost come to the end of the complete works of Shakespeare. That lockdown challenge had proved hard to do sometimes, but also impossible to stop. And now I had just two last plays before...

If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. Every single evening for the past week, as my husband and I walk our dogs, we’ve encountered one of our neighbors sitting outside in her front yard hunched over her computer working on her complex system of Halloween decor...

New blog post by Vagabond Heart WTF, Will! parts – 30 – 32 By now Shakespeare was all Henried out, so he turned to the ancient world to inspire his next set of plays. With varied results, to be honest, but he did get us in the mood with this famous tale of doomed lovers. 30. Anthony and...

New blog post by Vagabond Heart – discussions in this thread, please --- I’d now encountered a few stand-out plays, in my great Shakespeare-reading marathon, so I felt quite buoyed up at the prospect of what was approaching. But then I was hit with this one. 11. King John I’m not saying this...

New blog post by Johann Maestrukner – discussions in this thread, please --- test post here --- Get the discussion going – post your thoughts & comments in the thread below… For more posts by Johann Maestrukner click here This is A Test – Litopia...

New blog post by Laura Rikono – discussions in this thread, please --- Ten minutes before I left the house, my boss called. “The science class is cancelled today. Take Jisoo and Jennie instead. They need adjective practice.” (By the way, this happens a lot. I once opened the classroom door to...

New blog post by Jason L. – discussions in this thread, please --- I have to make a new word. This is not uncommon for me. Legiterally is now, officially, a thing. Coffeed is a passive verb that has long need to be in existence. I am still looking for one for accidentally on purpose and those...

Royal Road is partnering with publishers to help writers on their site. https://www.royalroad.com/blog/70/introducing-a-new-publishing-program

New blog post by mickleinapickle – discussions in this thread, please --- She was distracted and he ran on the pitch in an instinctive, uninhibited, exhilarating chase along the right wing. . He out-stripped the startled player, gave the ball a tremendous kick and followed up with a...

I would like to know people’s thoughts about using a pen name. Does anyone here use one? What are the practices one must adhere to when using a pen name? I have always intended to use a pen name. One long-standing reason for this is that I have never wanted anyone from "the family" to discover...