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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: 2 years, 7 months agoBring 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: 2 years, 7 months agoWe 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: 2 years, 7 months agoFor 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 2 years, 7 months agoWhat 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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Writing dare: Ice cream denial in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years, 7 months agoWriting 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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#NaNoWriMo padding: Expressing a crush theory in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years, 7 months agoHave 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: 2 years, 7 months agoPost a tweet asking your followers to shout out crazy ideas for you to include in your story.
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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.
