• Café Life is the Colony's main hangout, watering hole and meeting point.

    This is a place where you'll meet and make writing friends, and indulge in stratospherically-elevated wit or barometrically low humour.

    Some Colonists pop in religiously every day before or after work. Others we see here less regularly, but all are equally welcome. Two important grounds rules…

    • Don't give offence
    • Don't take offence

    We now allow political discussion, but strongly suggest it takes place in the Steam Room, which is a private sub-forum within Café Life. It’s only accessible to Full Members.

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Hi Michele

Welcome to the Colony! Any questions about the site, please message me. I'm one of the Guardians and always happy to help.

Do check out the Colony Notices to familiarize yourself with how the site works – The Prime Directive is the foundation of our ethos. If you're looking for critique partners, have a look at our Writing Workshops. The first three threads in that forum will tell you what you need to know. The best way to find feedback partners is to critique other member's work first (but do familiarize yourself with our method for giving and receiving critique before you post your first review). For literary chat and general socializing, head over to Café Life.

So get stuck in. You'll see that the more you put in, the more you get out.

Great to have you on board.
 
Hi Michelle,

Welcome to the Colony and hope you have a great time here. There's plenty to do and we have lots of people happy to give but also receive advice on works in progress. You'll get the most from the Colony with a two-way exchange and you'll be pleasantly surprised how beneficial offering critiques is for your own work also.

We're a friendly and supportive community and best thing to do is dive right in. You'll find a very helpful intro here How to guide which will point you in the right direction, and the Writing Workshops Directory WWD is a great place to road test your opening pages, chapters, blurbs & synopses etc. You can also give advice and your feedback to the work of other members there.

Oh, and very best of luck with your Pop-up submission.

If there's anything you're unsure about or need help with please drop me a message and I'll be happy to help.
 
Hi my name is Michelle I just joined I think I'm doing this right not very good with the computer except for writing manuscripts! I'm really excited that I will have one of my book intros read on pop-up this week it's called How To Dig Your Own Grave. I'm a very excited old lady!
Hi Michele!
Welcome! :) And all the best on Pop-Up!
 
Hello @Michele Houlihan. I'll look out for you on Sunday- With a title like that I'm not likely to forget it's yours! Besides that, I hope one day you will also join us in one of our Huddles and meet you there face to face. Saturday Writers' Huddle
I just need to get the credit cards capped up so I can join can't wait to meet you all thank you Eva. I'm still learning how to do these things haven't found the huddle yet but will look for it cheers happy Saturday
 
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