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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 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...
View ArticleDefine this weird word:
This is basically a fun definition game that I found on another writers forum website (one that's not as good as AW in my humble opinion). You start with a weird word and give it your own definition....
View ArticleHello! From southern Alberta, Canada
I'm here to work on poetry and short-stories, mainly. Just finished getting prose/sentence structure down for a week. An entire week. LOL. But now it's to actually form poems, instead of word play. I...
View ArticleHello All
Hello, My name is Ricky. I am very glad to be here and hope to connect with some more writer. I have been looking for join a community of writers and saw Absolute Write of Twitter. I thought would give...
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...
View ArticleThe Next Circle of Hell, Vol. 2
Welcome to volume two of the deeper fiery pit! This thread is more or less for those of us with or without agents, on sub, and wondering if only one spezna is really enough to get us through. Here's...
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Jed's Super-Dooper Newbie Question-of-the-Week Thread
Due to unpopular demand I've decided to start a new thread in which, each week (yep, it used to be every day, but now every week, maybe 6 days, or 5, it'll depend ), I will ask a brand new super-dooper...
View ArticleWelcome to Me.
Hi everyone! I'm Jennifer and I'm new here. I'll see how active I become, it looks great, but overwhelming so far. I haven't published any work, but finished my first draft of a novel recently. It...
View ArticleMe: An Introduction
Hello all, Call me Butter. I dislike room temperatures and being left out, especially in combination. I'm an academic writer dabbling in simply becoming a better writer. The best papers make their...
View ArticleReading & writing within a dream
Are you able to read and write in your dreams? So last night I dreamt I was in a creative writing class, and was frantically putting together a short story for it in advance. I REMEMBER writing down...
View ArticleCharacters visual representation
I have a lot of characters rolling around in my head (as I’m sure many of you do!). However, I would like to create a visual representation of them somehow so that I can pin it on my board. My grasp of...
View Articlelast song listened to...
As I Sat Sadly By Her Side by Nick Cave (c) Nick Cave As I sat sadly by her side At the window, through the glass She stroked a kitten in her lap And we watched the world as it fell past Softly she...
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Scammers offering COVID tests: all results are negative
Nationwide COVID testing company investigated as people brand it a "scam" Customers have left reviews on the Better Business Bureau's website expressing concerns that the company is scamming people....
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Say the First Word that Comes to Mind, part III
This is an old game played on other forums with this template: Without thinking about it say the VERY FIRST word that comes to mind, reading the word the poster before you has written..... I say Book...
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Word count and does it matter?
Does size matter, or not? Sorry, I had to throw that in. I wrote in another post that I’m presently writing a memoir—which I initially thought was going to be an autobiography. Hell, I’m still not...
View ArticleThe 2022 AW Reading Challenge! Turning the page on a new year.
We have an exciting new crop of AW regulars, and many long-timers either resurfaced or still going strong. The key piece of advice to all writers (and readers, for that matter) is to read as widely and...
View ArticleRussell Brand kind of screws up
and prolly should do some research before he starts explaining Australian lockdown conditions to Brigid Delaney I mean I still like him. But maaate.... ETA: World - we don't have pandemic concentration...
View ArticleAnother Newbie Joins the Ranks
Hello, AW community! Joining a writing community/forum is still uncharted territory for me. I’ve made a couple of attempts in the past, once online and once in person. Neither was really what I was...
View ArticleHave you been vaccinated for COVID-19?
This is mostly an experiment to discover how polls work. I am curious about people's thoughts regarding COVID-19 vaccinations. So you should see a poll, but I'm interested in anecdotal evidence too,...
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