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| 5 Aug |
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How honest should I be?
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I've recently been asked to submit my full manuscript to two agents, which I'm really pleased with obviously. Anyhow, today I
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 Smilingrightatyou
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| 5 Aug |
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The Impossibility of being Everything to Everyone
Ok, so I'm developing some strange fixation with trying to write the perfect synopsis and have come to the conclusion that there is no such
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geoffmorris
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| 1 Aug |
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Creating a rounded antagonist
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The question is, do we need to? Most stories have an antagonist of one sort or another, even if they don't fall easily into the obvious
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Sibelius
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| 26 Jul |
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How do you know you have finished?
I finished my first novel Ghostport, (a rip roaring adventure/horror story for older children) about two years ago, having written it in
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 Kristian
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| 25 Jul |
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I can`t put it off any longer...can I?
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After almost two years of writing it, and months of editing it and days and days of prevaricating over it, I've just printed out my
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susieangela
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| 23 Jul |
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Writing in the first person and POV
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I am currently changing my first chaps from 3rd person to 1st person, as an experiment really. I have been tempted to write 1st person for a while but
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Casey
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| 22 Jul |
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Welcome NMott as new site host!
We're delighted that Naomi aka NMott has agreed to take on the role of site host following Nik's standing dow
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 david bruce
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| 20 Jul |
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After years of struggle my first book has just been published!
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... Publication day was 1st July and it has been the maddest two weeks of my life. But I am merely going to say this' DON'T GIVE UP!!!! Keep g
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lola2004
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| 20 Jul |
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Grammar question
Can I really say 'she had used to' do something? I want to make it clear it's the
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RT104
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| 20 Jul |
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Character `motivation`
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I've been reading the 'where to start' thread in this forum with interest and something struck me, but I thought it best t
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ladyblackbird
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| 14 Jul |
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Where to start??
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I’ve had the idea for a novel circling around in my head for some time. I’ve written maybe 10,000 words- some key scenes, snippets of importan
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vicw
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| 12 Jul |
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Thanks to Nik!
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The staff at WriteWords would like to thank Nik Perring for his wonderful work here as a site host.
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david bruce
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| 9 Jul |
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Bristol Prize - Congratulations, Becca!
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Elbowsnitch
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| 29 Jun |
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Email notifications for bookmarked author
For a while now we've had the 'bookmarked authors' section on your profile/my writewords page. Now we've just added the option of receiving notifications
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david bruce
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| 25 Jun |
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Simon Trewin evening
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For all you lucky London people, Simon Trewin is doing this
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susieangela
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| 24 Jun |
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A sense of the whole
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Just following on from the thread about printing it out, I was thinking how many times I end up printing the thing out just to read and whether that&#
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snowbell
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| 24 Jun |
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Kill your darlings ...
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I've heard it said by various people that 'killing your darlings' or removing your favourite passages from your work is one of the most im
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catcrag
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| 21 Jun |
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Lists - courtesy of Rachael King.
I found
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 rogernmorris
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| 15 Jun |
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Uncommented work
We've added a new link in the archive for 'Uncommented Work' - you can now help the community by being the first to comment
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david bruce
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| 10 Jun |
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How to sell some books
Just got back from my launch in the UK (The Sleepwalker's Introduction to Flight) and thought I'd share my experiences-
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scottwil
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