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Conservative efforts to ban books spur book sales
US conservative parents push for book bans – and unintentionally make reading cool again Narratives about race, gender and inequality are being banned around the US – but sales are rising as the...
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Another newbie
Hi, I just signed up after lurking here for a few months. I'm about halfway through my first novel and I'm not sure if it's any good, so I thought chatting to some other writer-type folk on here might...
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Last Movie You Watched...
What was the last movie you watched, or currently watching... Right now I am watching The Punisher. Great movie!
View ArticleGalavant
It's a great show, that is also a musical. It was unavailable for a while in the US. Now it is available on Hulu. I think writers will really appreciate the jokes. This clip is kind of a spoiler, but...
View ArticleJanuary 2022 Challenge - Build a Writing Habit!
This is a thread open to anyone who wants to build a long-term writing habit, which can include writing, editing, research, etc. or anything else that supports your writing like self-care or just...
View ArticleNewbie here!!
Hi everyone. Glad to become a member here and do some reading on the discussion forums. I'm an almost 60 year old retiree who finally has time to dust off 1st draft of a young adult novel and breath...
View ArticleThe 2022 Sekrit Solstice Sci-Fi/Fantasy Story Swap!
Hear ye, Hear ye! The First of December is once more upon us, which means that we stand on the precipice of yet another season of writer-based joy and wonderment. That’s right, gang, polish up your...
View ArticlePutting searchable work on the internet
I was trying to give someone advice about the wisdom of password protection etc, and I realised I might be terribly out-of-date now. Putting work on the (non-password-protected) internet - is that...
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 ArticleGen z slang in YA books
It's been a while since I've been on these forums and since then it's really shifted from millennials being the target YA audience to gen z and well, now I'm old, apparently. lol Gen z is a whole...
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...
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Replace, Take Away or Add
Objective of this game is to replace one letter in the word to create a new word. To make it a bit more interesting, instead of just replacing a letter, you can also add or take away a letter. However,...
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 ArticleLast goes first:
The object of this game is to write a sentence beginning with the last word of the previous sentence. Example: Post # 1: It was a dark and stormy night. Post # 2: Night and darkness frequently turned...
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Do You Think You Could Respond To This? (Part II)
You can only respond to the question with another question? Did I studder? Can I go First? Did you eat that?
View ArticleThe Never Ending Story/5 word
Rules of this thread: #1 All posts must be of one line, no more. #2 Refer to rule #1 #3 It must follow the last previous word, in some fashion or other. #4 Periods are welcome and not so, if you get my...
View ArticleFortunately...unfortunately
Here's a game I play with my drama students. Someone starts a story and, depending if things are going well or badly, ends the sentence with "fortunately" or "unfortunately." The next person repeats...
View ArticleKeyboard Smash Game
This game can certainly test your abilities. We start with some nonsense letters from randomly smashing at the keyboard. Ex: gskls The next player then creates a sentence out of the given letters, and...
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Count that word in your WIP
I thought I'd suggest a new game just in time for the holidays. It's similar to "Find that word in your WIP," but this time we give the number of occurrences of a word in our WIP along with our total...
View ArticleCountdown to 2022!
How has it possibly been another year again?! Join us as we count down the days to 2021! This is your very own advent calendar, except instead of being full of chocolate you get tasty, tasty...
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