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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post #NaNoWriMo padding: The car breaks down in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 1 year, 11 months ago
Bring your characters to a grinding halt with car troubles. Take us through what the characters do to solve this issue. Who do they call? Can they fix it?
Use this to explore how your characters handle a delay […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post IRL writing dare: Live-stream your writing session in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 1 year, 11 months ago
We dare you to live-stream your next writing session or sprint.
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post Writing dare: Your character tells a needless but complicated lie in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 1 year, 11 months ago
For reasons they might not even understand themselves, your character lies about something. The lie is every bit as complicated as the truth – more so even. Now they are stuck trying to cover up the lie which […]
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Blog: I Read Stories: What Are We Going To Do About Helen Couch by Hammond Diehl from Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 1 year, 11 months ago
What Are We Going To Do About Helen Couch? by Hammond Diehl in Kaleidotrope In Cornwall the fae plan to take control for their queen. Ahead of this, fair folk […]
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post Writing dare: Ice cream denial in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 1 year, 11 months ago
Writing dare: Ice cream denial Have a character crave some ice cream. Have them go out of their way to try and get some ice cream and yet plot, fate, and chance mean that they […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post #NaNoWriMo padding: Expressing a crush theory in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 1 year, 11 months ago
Have one character tell another that a third character has a crush on them. Have them explain in great detail why they think they are right. Allow the second character to mull over how they feel about having a […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post IRL writing dare: Let your Twitter followers add some crazy in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 1 year, 11 months ago
Post a tweet asking your followers to shout out crazy ideas for you to include in your story.
Click to Tweet
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post Writing dare: Introduce a majestic elephant into your story in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 1 year, 11 months ago
Introduce a majestic elephant into your story.
How will your plot change now? What does the elephant’s presence say about your protagonist?
Bonus points if there is a second elephant.
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Blog: I Watch Movies: The Mad Room from Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 1 year, 11 months ago
The Mad Room The widow of a general is trying to build a museum to her late husband at her home on Vancouver Island. This is interrupted when her secretary is […]
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Matthew Brown started the topic If you need me, I'm doing NaNowriMo in the forum General Chat 1 year, 11 months ago
If you need me this month – shout real loud because I’m doing NaNoWriMo and have challenged myself to write 75,000 words.
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Blog: is an agent a must have requirement to audition for The Sandman? from Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 1 year, 11 months ago
It’s more like a level of known professionalism is a requirement, and that normally manifests as an agent or representative.
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Blog: So can we get more official sandman merch. I was sad I couldn’t find Dream in his glass ball as a Christmas ornament from Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 1 year, 11 months ago
Long long ago the single ugliest piece of Sandman merchandise ever made was the Dream in his glass ball snowglobe. You might have escaped a terrible fate here.
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Blog: My fave local cemetery has James Branch Cabell, and every time I see him I think of you. I knew about the name for a long time because things are named after him around here but didn’t know he was an author and such until I saw you talking about him! from Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 1 year, 11 months ago
That’s marvellous, thank you. I love the epitaph – it’s part of his own dedication poem, from a book of poems called From the Hidden Way. I suppose his wife, Marga […]
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Blog: How did you choose the songs that played in the background when the Sandman was looking for Constantine? Do you listen to that type of music or was it just dream themed songs? I went searching for each one and I love them all from Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 1 year, 11 months ago
Yes. Things like that are specified in the script. They aren’t just written in by the letterer to add to the mood. Edit – I misread it is “did you choose” and not […]
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Blog: I’ve always wondered why you wanted the voice of God to be American… And I am one. But the Metatron was decidedly Jacobi… Sorry, can’t let it go. from Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 1 year, 11 months ago
I wanted the voice of God we heard as a narrator to be an amazing actor. I quite liked the idea of an American voice because our leads are English and I liked the […]
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Blog: If Morpheus had a birth date. What day would it be? from Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 1 year, 11 months ago
As Morpheus observes, you must be born to have a birthday.
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Blog: Hi Neil! When did you decide to cast a female actor to voice God in Good Omens – before writing the script, or after? Do you think using she pronouns has influenced how you’ve portrayed her? from Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 1 year, 11 months ago
Somewhere early on. And not at all, no.
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Blog: WAS this an easter egg? from Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 1 year, 11 months ago
No. When we cast Ben as Lucifer literally the last thing on my mind was “did he ever say anything in Sherlock about being or not being an angel?”.
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Blog: Philologist Irene Vallejo: ‘Alexander the Great’s library was the first step towards the internet’ from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 11 months ago
The Spanish writer on how Papyrus, her bestselling history of literature in the ancient world, changed her life at a difficult moment, and why it’s a mistake to u […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post Writing dare: Include a wicked witch to make trouble in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 1 year, 11 months ago
Add a wicked witch to your story not as the main antagonist but as a persistent and annoying troublemaker who complicates things regularly to troll the protagonists.
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post #NaNoWriMo padding: Why are we doing this? in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 1 year, 11 months ago
In the lead-up to your characters trying to get whatever it is they want, have them talk about why they are doing what they are doing. Have them ask each other what they hope to achieve. Select a character who […]
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Blog: Ronald Blythe at 100: ‘A watchful, curious and gratefully amazed vision of life’ from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 11 months ago
A life rooted in Suffolk has given the great nature writer Ronald Blythe a deep love of the countrysideThe greatest living writer on the English countryside will […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post IRL writing dare: Cosplay at a café in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 1 year, 11 months ago
We dare you to dress in your favourite cosplay outfit and then go to a café to write your 1.667 words.
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Blog: Writing Challenge: Describe yellow without using the word yellow from Thanet Creative Writers in the group Thanet Creative: Writers 1 year, 11 months ago
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