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  1. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day It takes an awful.....

  2. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day All my writing has....

    All my writing has been an effort ton sort nout the paradoxes of my life. Nancy Friday
  3. From Our Blog

    Blog Post: In Other Words…

    New blog post by Claire G – discussions in this thread, please --- I’m Fine Whenever I meet someone new, I try to learn their language. I don’t mean French or German; I mean things like what they convey without actually saying the words, or the way they might say something but mean something...
  4. From Our Blog

    Blog Post: The Seven Deadly (Writers’) Sins…

    New blog post by AgentPete – discussions in this thread, please --- Come over here for a moment, would you? But be careful of the edge of the table, it’s rather sharp. Good. Now you can see things from my side of the desk. That towering pile you see in front of you? It’s what some unkind...
  5. Sedayne

    Craft Chat Chapter Length

    I’ve been wondering about chapter lengths. In my current WIP, I’ve let the scenes and story dictate the length of the chapters, and consequently, some are rather long, and some are very short. The inconsistency hasn’t gone unnoticed by first readers. So, I’ve been looking at chapter lengths in...
  6. AgentPete

    Service Update The One Perfect Sentence Contest Has Started…

    ...over here, in a new section. Have a go! It’s the antidote to all other writing contests (you’ll enjoy it a lot more!). So now it's started – you need to start to play around with the voting. Everyone so far has been awfully restrained and hasn’t voted… that’s got to change! I did say in the...
  7. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day Talent isn't enough.....

    Talent isn’t enough . . . Writing is work. Anyone can do this, anyone can learn to do this. It’s not rocket science, it’s habits of mind and habits of work. I started with people much more talented than me, and they’re dead or in jail or not writing. The difference between myself and them is...
  8. Pamela Jo

    Craft Chat How to live long and prosper

    Per Hermingway. Only I use a keyboard instead of a typewriter. In his day I would have bled whiteout. Boy do I NOT miss typewriters. But having seen multiple things on social media about how people who do things they don't want to do live longer- I figure writers have the chance to outlive...
  9. From Our Blog

    Blog Post: Shrek – a Masterclass in writing character

    New blog post by Jake E – discussions in this thread, please --- I recently had a great movie night with my daughter. We made a fort (three kitchen chairs with a blanket thrown over the top and far too many stuffed toys to get comfortable), we made popcorn and a bowl of Skittles, and settled...
  10. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day Write beautifully what....

    Write beautifully what people don’t want to hear. Frederick Seidel
  11. From Our Blog

    Blog Post: Let Them Eat Cake

    New blog post by Robinne Weiss – discussions in this thread, please --- As a writer, I tend to focus on plot. I love a good action scene, and I also enjoy writing dialogue (probably stems from loving to talk, myself. LOL!). Over the years, I’ve developed a method for outlining my novels that’s...
  12. Matthew WP

    Self-Publishing Hey everyone, I'm back!

    Well, it's been a heck of a year :rolleyes: sparing everyone the details, our immediate family (me, my wife and both our fathers) were struck with various cancers so... #fuckcancer Now that's over with, I've come back out of hiatus and I'm back to writing again. I published my fourth book just...
  13. Still Waters

    Help Please! I have a BIG PROBLEM fixing my creative writing

    Yesterday I dug up the first short story I ever wrote, back in 2011. I loved it at the time. It is a hybrid between real experiences from my life, and some necessary fiction to move the scenes along. I'm not sure if it constitutes creative non-fiction, but something of that nature. I wrote it in...
  14. GabrielOro

    Help Please! Publishing in the US market from somewhere else

    Hello everyone, Despite not being from the US or any English-speaking country, my career started out with writing in English. I used to post to Reddit's short scary stories sub, and some of my work was picked up by an Asian publisher, gaining quite a bit of mileage. So I kind of built from...
  15. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day Bad writing is....

    Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor. Christopher Isherwood
  16. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day Writing is....

    Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel like I should be doing something else. Gloria Steinem
  17. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day Writing without....

    "Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear." Patricia Fuller
  18. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day Writing, to me....

    Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. Isaac Asimov
  19. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day I'm writing a....

    “I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shovelling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.” Shannon Hale
  20. Paul Whybrow

    Thought for the Day Writing is.....

    Writing is basically a job for people who like punching themselves in the face, I’m pretty sure. Warren Ellis
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