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Blog: Iris Murdoch’s poems on bisexuality to be published – read one exclusively here from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 week, 2 days agoDrawn mostly from notebooks discovered in the attic of the late novelist and philosopher’s Oxford home, a new collection spans 60 years and touches on deeply p […]
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Blog: Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung review – sinister stories from the graveyard shift from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 week, 2 days agoHorror tropes meet modern nightmares as the South Korean author takes us deep inside a research facility called The InstituteOur fears turn feral when they have […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
How many words should a novel have? in the group Thanet Creative: Writers: 1 week, 2 days agoHow many words should a novel have?
This post was first published on Author Buzz UK in 2024. How many words should a novel have? That’s a question I’ve seen many times. Just […] -
Blog: New faction: The Guild of Privateers, Mercenaries, and Free Labourers from
Matrix Dreams in the group Matrix Dreams 1 week, 2 days agoI have added The Guild of Privateers, Mercenaries, and Free Labourers in a detailed write-up for my setting, The Three Kingdoms of Termeria. The entry started […]
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Blog: The Revolutionists by Jason Burke review – from hijackings to holy war from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 week, 2 days agoA colourful study of the evolution of extremism in the tumultuous 1970sNo one knew what to call them. For some they were “skyjackers”, for others “air bandi […]
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Blog: Dead Weight, Annabel Chase from
RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed 1 week, 3 days ago2024 paranormal fantasy, fifth of a nine-book series. As Lorelei Clay
tries to come to terms with being the guardian deity of a small town,
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Blog: The Land of Sweet Forever by Harper Lee review – newly discovered stories from an American great from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 week, 3 days agoIf we regard this book as literature, it is an unqualified failure. But these juvenile stories and essays shed fascinating light on the repression of Lee’s early l […]
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Blog: Poem of the week: On the Death of Dr Robert Levet by Samuel Johnson from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 week, 4 days agoAn elegy to the poet’s personal physician is full of vivid detail delivered with infectious warmthOn the Death of Dr Robert Levet by Samuel JohnsonCondemned to H […]
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Blog: Jesus Christ Kinski by Benjamin Myers review – a trip inside the frazzled mind of Klaus Kinski from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 week, 4 days agoThe German actor’s real-life meltdown is the springboard for this compelling autofictional account, in which the author sets out to write about Kinski during l […]
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post
What’s the funniest dialogue you’ve ever written? in the group Shall we talk?: 1 week, 5 days agoWhat's the funniest dialogue you've ever written?
Have you ever written dialogue so witty, so funny, you actually laughed? Share it with us. -
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Writer Talk Carnival: Work in progress (Oct/Nov) in the group Shall we talk?: 1 week, 5 days agoWriter Talk Carnival: Work in progress (Oct/Nov)
So, it turns out Chat was this month’s fallback host for the Carnival. Whoops. We’re a bit late with the carnival, so it will run to the end of […] -
Blog: Pavane by Keith Roberts from
Dogwood Tales in the group Book Reviews by Dogwood Tales feed 1 week, 5 days agoThis book takes the premise that Queen Elizabeth I was assassinated in July 1588, triggering a civil war between protestants and catholics, allowing the Spanish […]
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Blog: Lily King: ‘What is life without love?’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 week, 5 days agoThe American author discusses our need for fiction in an age of disconnection, the challenges of growing up with 14 step-siblings, and why she’s going ‘all in’ […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Is it Wether or Weather or Whether? in the group Thanet Creative: Writers: 1 week, 6 days agoIs it Wether or Weather or Whether?
I had a dyslexic moment and could not remember which weather I wanted. So I looked it up. Following the advice to “blog your homework”. Here’s the […] -
Matthew Brown replied to the topic
How long should a novel be? in the forum Aspiring Authors 2 weeks agoI found the post I was looking for: Here’s a list by genre:
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Jane Smith replied to the topic
How long should a novel be? in the forum Aspiring Authors 2 weeks agoYour story should be as long as it needs to be.
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Adam Bassman replied to the topic
Login page changes? in the forum Help and Support 2 weeks agoI’ve not noticed anything.
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Jason Latnar commented on the post,
Python: Objects that change (for story reasons), on the groupblog The Fantastic Site of Lord Matt 2 weeks agoStand back! Matt’s doing coding again.
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Blog: Code review: Items that change from
The Endless Rooms in the group The Endless Rooms 2 weeks agoI’ve been coding up some tools to help storytelling in Ren’Py. This is a class (actually two) for items that change as they are used. You may need to view the code […]
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post
Python: Objects that change (for story reasons) in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek: 2 weeks agoPython: Objects that change (for story reasons)
For my visual novel project, I wanted things that have images and tags, but can mutate or change as they gain more. This is the code I wrote: […] -
Matthew Brown replied to the topic
How long should a novel be? in the forum Aspiring Authors 2 weeks agoAround 50,000 words is a novella (very short novel), but after that, “normal-sized” depends on the genre. Fantasy novels can exceed 200,000 words, whereas a comedy might range from 80,000 to 90,000 words, but again, it depends.
My advice would be not to worry about it. Just write the best story you can. Getting it to the right size can come…Read more
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Acorn Boi started the topic
How long should a novel be? in the forum Aspiring Authors 2 weeks agoI think novels come in regular, big, and oversized or something IDK. What size should mine be? How many words or pages or summit?
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Matthew Brown replied to the topic
Login page changes? in the forum Help and Support 2 weeks agoThere are no changes that I’ve made. It should still be as vanilla as it gets.
Mine works fine, which is no help at all for you.
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Blog: An Uncertain Death, Hazel Holt from
RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed 2 weeks ago1994 mystery. Sheila Malory is on the committee of the Taviscombe
Festival, which has been turned by incoming luvvies from a pleasant
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Blog: The Running Man (Comic-con trailer) from
Matrix Dreams in the group Matrix Dreams 2 weeks, 2 days agoWell, this looks like some fun sci-fi action. I bet it will be formulaic and rehash all the old tropes. Yeah, of course. That’s part of the fun.
The post The […]
