Gravy Day (for the Aussies)
I nearly miss it every year, please someone be in charge of reminding us all when the time comes, because National Pride and also Christmas. Thank you.
View ArticleOh no! Not the Gavle Yule Goat again!!
I'm not sure if this goes under Activism, Current Affairs or Hope - but it's a story about a giant goat and Christmas, so it goes somewhere. Every year since 1966, officials have erected a giant goat...
View ArticleFind that word in your WIP
So, I saw this game on a different forum, who, for the record, stole it from another forum, and I thought it might be fun to try here. I don't know if it will work, but I'll give it a shot. The idea of...
View ArticleReferring to TV characters as nicknames
I think I know the answer to this but I thought I'd ask. Is it a problem to have a character in your story be given the nickname of a popular television series character? I was thinking of having one...
View ArticleThe Beatles Get Back Documentary
I started watching this the other day. I remember watching Let It be way back when I was in college and most of it is a difficult watch. It essentially appears to be the Beatles breaking up on camera....
View ArticleJean and Jorts
Hilarious stuff posted to Reddit’s “Am I the Asshole?” subreddit this week. Is this real or parody? I don’t care but sooooo want it to be real. Original post:...
View ArticleHi! I'm Jen!
Hello writerly folks! I'm Jen. I'm so excited that @CobraMisfit and @amo1143 invited me to be here and hang out with you all! I write all over the place in fantasy--high, contemporary/urban, and...
View ArticleThe Expat/Emigrant Lounge
Who's moved around the world? Where'd you come from, where have you been, where are you now? What's it mean to you? What do you miss, what are you glad about? I'm an American, but I've been in...
View ArticleYour favorite SFF writers of dialog[ue]?
I don't feel I'm naturally god at writing dialog. While there's all kinds of genre-agnostic advice on it, I'm curious. Any SFF writers that you really admire for good dialog? For example, for me, N. K....
View ArticleMarketing
Has anyone thought of marketing the elderly population ? I have worked in longterm care for like 5 years. Audio books I think would go over very well as many residents cannot hold, or with poor...
View ArticleThe Great AW Song Chain
Some shenanigans (which were completely my fault) in another thread got me thinking of a Great AW Song Chain. Someone posts a song title and artist, and the next person has to find a link to another...
View ArticleThe New W1S1 High Tea Bar and Lounge (with extra-comfy sofas)
After getting the okay from our wonderful room mod, @zanzjan, construction has started on a new W1S1 hangout space. Nothing wrong with the old one, of course, but sometimes fresh is good, right? Make...
View ArticleRunning out of suitable book doctors for my proposal.
Hi everyone, I am wondering where I can find book doctors who are former or are presently literary agents or acquisition editors who offer paid editorial services to fix my book proposal. I have looked...
View ArticleLast letter game.
Okay, the rules are simple. You give a word and the next person makes another word with the last two letters you put eg if i say spice the next person can put cellar Word: Arsenal (P.S. that is the...
View ArticleCreative Couplets
The object of this game is simple: To pair two words, that together form an interesting turn of phrase, idea or expression. And each person who posts, uses the second word in the previous pair to begin...
View ArticleThings That Rock: A - Z
Anacondas... Feel free to comment on any choices above you - AFTER you tell us your item that rocks.
View ArticleHow quickly do you turn on your stories?
Hi folks Interested to know how quickly people lose faith in their works after they're finished. As soon as I've finished something, the clock starts ticking and if I don't get any positive responses...
View ArticleThe Perpetual AW Book Chain
Now that the Great AW Song Chain is chugging along nicely, let's see how a Book Chain does. Rules: Post a book and author that links, by title or author, to that posted by the previous poster. Example:...
View ArticleWhy I don't outline
I've long thought that the reason so many writers love the "rules" (whether that's grammar or genre conventions or the proper use of dialogue tags or whatever) is because there is so much self doubt in...
View ArticleMortal (long life span) or immortal?
Hello! Settling a minor disagreement here... Would you class these guys as mortal or immortal? The race in question are 'made'. They're offered up to the Great Ones, as mortal adolescents, and turned...
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