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Writing is so difficult, that I often feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter. Jessamyn West

Saturday sees our weekly Writers' Huddle, and at the bottom of this post, you will find a link to the Huddle Hangout Forum. If you wish to be included in this week's session, then simply post your name below (in this thread) with an optional message along the lines of (Yes please. Count me in...

Saturday sees our weekly Writers' Huddle, and at the bottom of this post, you will find a link to the Huddle Hangout Forum. If you wish to be included in this week's session, then simply post your name below (in this thread) with an optional message along the lines of (Yes please. Count me in...

Saturday sees our weekly Writers' Huddle, and at the bottom of this post, you will find a link to the Huddle Hangout Forum. If you wish to be included in this week's session, then simply post your name below (in this thread) with an optional message along the lines of (Yes please. Count me in...

Whoooosh! So that was 2024... and as time waits for no one, it's now 2025. So Saturday sees our weekly Writers' Huddle return to the schedule, and at the bottom of this post, you will find a link to the Huddle Hangout Forum. If you wish to be included in this week's session, then simply post...

New blog post by AgentPete Safeguarding Writers’ Mental Health In 2025 Writers are, by definition, people of heightened awareness and sensitivity. If you weren’t, you wouldn’t – couldn’t – be a writer. Yet in a world that increasingly seems to fetishize cruelty, revenge and malice – as...

This year’s Xmas Writers' Huddle was one of the best on record (our regular Saturday Huddles are pedal-to-the-metal intense – we need to kick back once a year and have some fun). We thought those Litopians who could not attend might like to share one of the word games we played… The Ant Game...

A cheery note for aspiring trad-published writers. The market may well be increasingly fragmented but there is hope! https://brevity.wordpress.com/2024/12/20/publishing-is-alive-and-well/

I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers. Sylvester Stallone

I’m pleased to say that we can again handle gift memberships. Litopia is nothing if not a warm, cohesive community, and the best way we can continue to grow while ensuring we stay true to our roots is to ask members (er, that’s you!) to spread the word among your friends and like-minded folk...

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it. Charles Kuralt

https://www.bbc.co.uk/writers?fbclid=IwY2xjawFp1lZleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHfkyMv3YqL6XagdSQxl_yfVcVOleHS31-2YQNOpOEeCKXZEX4ix0VK12-w_aem_Y40T__T7aMYFGSnCtDUqnA

“If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies.” John Don Passos

Are in the news today... https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/michelle-paver-among-13-authors-featured-in-ghost-story-collection-from-sphere Will discuss the issues surrounding anthologies in the Huddle if requested. :) p.

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

Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography. Fran Lebowitz

"Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge." Jeanette Winterson

'Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.' Carlos Fuentes

If writers were good businessmen, they’d have too much sense to be writers. Irvin S. Cobb

All writers know how important a good title is. It's the first thing readers see, along with a knock-your-socks-off cover - a seductive 'come hither' for the story within. Caroline Leavitt