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Thanks for setting this up @Nikky Lee Looks cool! Maybe I need to give myself a profile pic for Track Bear - but I really like that little bruin.

Count me in Nikky. I am looking to get through a third draft of Dead/Line, which I hope leaves it close to ready

Fab work, Nikky :) I'm currently at the midpoint of my MG fantasy. I want to finish it, so I need around 25,000 words.

Last minute running in, phew! I'll join in. Have alot on IRL, but I want this book finished!

Oh, I hope you get a contract out of it. Fingers crossed!

That's what the course I'm doing focusses on: they select you onto it on the basis that you can write good prose accessible to the age of child/teenager that's your target audience. They teach the craft of storytelling and what the children's...

I think I'll embroider that on a cushion: Writing and Storytelling are Not the Same. Then I can kick lumps out of it.

I've just started We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson. I kept seeing it recommended and I thought I'd give it a go, having read and enjoyed her acclaimed short story, The Lottery. So far, so good! I'm intrigued by the set up...

Count me in Nikky. I am looking to get through a third draft of Dead/Line, which I hope leaves it close to ready

Thanks for setting this up @Nikky Lee Looks cool! Maybe I need to give myself a profile pic for Track Bear - but I really like that little bruin.

Hi Nikki, please add me, if I am not too late,?

I'll be with you in spirit, trying desperately to complete the first couple rounds of edits on the next book, but with the Tamariki Book Fest on 12-13 July, chances are good I'll only manage festival work for the next two weeks.

I'm in. Have signed up with Leader Bear (hopefully correctly)

I'd like to give it a go. I'm going to try my hand at a political eco-thriller. Potential log line is: When a brilliant young biochemist creates a virus to peacefully reduce the human population and force global climate reform, her plan is...

Brilliant concept.