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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: 2 years, 7 months agoIntroduce 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 2 years, 7 months agoThe 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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Kennethmet became a registered member 2 years, 7 months ago
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Matthew Brown started the topic If you need me, I'm doing NaNowriMo in the forum General Chat 2 years, 7 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: 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 2 years, 7 months agoThe 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: 2 years, 7 months agoAdd 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: 2 years, 7 months agoIn 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 2 years, 7 months agoA 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: 2 years, 7 months agoWe 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 2 years, 7 months agoWriting Challenge: Describe yellow without using the word yellowView On WordPress
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Writing Challenge: Describe yellow without using the word yellow in the group Thanet Creative: Writers: 2 years, 7 months agoThis week’s writing challenge is to describe something yellow, or yellow itself, but without using the word yellow.
This is an admittedly hard challenge. All attempts will be considered for our monthly-ish […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Blogging Prompt: Clichés and Tropes in the group Author Buzz HQ: 2 years, 7 months agoThis week, let’s focus on blog content. Try writing a post or two exploring some of the common clichés and tropes of your genre.
This has three benefits.
Your readers will have something they can reply […]
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Blog: Somebody Loves You by Mona Arshi audiobook review – a vivid coming-of-age tale from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 7 months agoThe author narrates her powerful debut novel about a British-Indian girl who suddenly loses the ability to speakIn Mona Arshi’s debut novel, which has been s […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Writing Dare: Add a comedy writer using your characters as their subject in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years, 7 months agoIntroduce a new character who slowly gets closer to the main characters before it becomes clear to them that the writer is writing a comedy with your characters as the inspiration for the comedy.
Bonus points […]
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Blog: Tom Gauld on how autumn brings out the poet in everyone – cartoon from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 7 months agoContinue reading…
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Blog: I Read Books: A Wizard Of Earthsea from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 2 years, 7 months agoA Wizard Of Earthsea In Earthsea true names are the basis of magic. Ged, known as Sparrowhawk, comes into his powers, apprenticing with a local wizard, famous […]
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Blog: Hollywood: The Oral History by Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson review – dinner with the stars from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 7 months agoFrom pancakes with Jack Nicholson to drinks with Billy Wilder – stories from the great and good of TinseltownThe American Film Institute (AFI) is where H […]
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Blog: Word of the Day – Xocolatophobia from
For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 2 years, 7 months agoThe post Word of the Day – Xocolatophobia appeared first on For Reading Addicts.
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Writing dare: Waiting for cabbo in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years, 7 months agoStart a chapter with at least two characters calling a taxi/cab. Follow the conversation and activities they engage in trying to pass the time. Every time they call the taxi company there is some reason why the […]
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Blog: 142. Marmee from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 2 years, 7 months agoMarmee. Sarah Miller. 2022. [October] 432 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: All day long, Amos’s letter waited in my pocket—the most perfect of Christmas gif […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
#NaNoWriMo padding: That one childhood toy in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years, 7 months agoHave a character explain in great detail to another character why they value a childhood toy so much. Have them derail the plot slightly by going back to get their childhood treasure.
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Blog: Hana Sheik’s brand new Kwanzaa romance! from
Mills & Boon Blog in the group Mills and Boon blog 2 years, 7 months agoWe are thrilled to be publishing Forbidden Kisses with Her Millionaire Boss by Hana Sheik. This is an uplifting romance set during Kwanzaa celebrations and is […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
IRL writing dares: Dictate a scene while doing jumping jacks in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years, 7 months agoToday, try to dictate your scene while doing vigorous exercise. For example, jumping jacks.
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Blog: Sunjeev Sahota: ‘I’ve never thought of novels as sources of comfort’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 7 months agoThe novelist on being inspired by Rohinton Mistry, surprised by JL Carr and captivated by Chekhov My earliest reading memoryThe Tree of Knowledge magazine – r […]
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Blog: International Excellence Awards Submissions Open for The London Book Fair 2023 from
The Hub by The London Book Fair | Publishing News in the group The London Bookfair Hub Blog 2 years, 7 months agoLBF also calls for Lifetime Achievement Award nominations London, 4 November 2022. The London Book Fair (LBF) has today announced the opening of submissions for […]
