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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Minimum Viable Story in the group Thanet Creative: Writers: 6 years, 10 months ago
I’d like to explore an idea with you – the idea of a minimum viable story. We often overcomplicate stories and run the risk of never finishing the story.
What is Minimum Viable Story?
In business one of the […] -
Christian Writer wrote a new blog post
Wrestle with God in the group Christian Writings: 6 years, 10 months ago
I believe it is time we Christians relearned how to wrestle with God. Too often we paint God as dictating terms to us but the Bible shows us a God that wants to talk things over. These passages of scripture show h […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Descriptive quotes in the group Matthew D. Brown (Author): 6 years, 10 months ago
For a change of pace, today, I thought I’d bombard you with some descriptive quotes. If you are looking for something fun to post on Tumblr you have my permission to use these quotes on the condition that you […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
The story of my pain in the group Matthew D. Brown (Author): 6 years, 11 months ago
A few years ago, I spent 13 hours on a coach and stumbled off in excruciating pain. That pain never left me. Not completely. I had not realised it yet but my muscles were becoming too willing to tense up and d […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Questions: Surviving the apocalypse in the group Thanet Creative: Writers: 6 years, 11 months ago
How would you go about surviving the apocalypse?
End of the world scenarios are a popular one for writers to explore. In the Thanet Creative: Writers (facebook group), we’ve been looking at the topic of how t […]
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jeffjohns wrote a new blog post
Map of cashpoint (ATM) locations in Thanet in the group Thanet Star: 6 years, 11 months ago
Finding a cashpoint (ATM) in Thanet is only easy if you know Thanet or happen to spot a bank. With the help of Google and the data they hold on ATM locations, here is a map of cashpoints (ATMs) in […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Thanet Creative’s first virtual meet-up in the group Thanet Creative: Writers: 6 years, 11 months ago
Today, Thanet Creative held a virtual meet-up as a test for running critique and training sessions online. This is an after action report of our first virtual meet-up on jitsi.org.
How the virtual meet-up wen […] -
Blog: GMs, do you understand the difference between skill types? from
TPK – Matthew D Brown in the group TPK – Roleplay encounters and advice 6 years, 11 months ago
Click grabbing headline aside, I really am going to talk about the difference between different skill types. I’m going to draw my examples from both S3 and […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
GMs, do you understand the difference between skill types? in the group Matthew D. Brown (Author): 6 years, 11 months ago
Click grabbing headline aside, I really am going to talk about the difference between different skill types.
I’m going to draw my examples from both S3 and Pathfinder but really these should apply universally. […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Ideas for a tiny gods autofiction in the group Matthew D. Brown (Author): 6 years, 11 months ago
Truly Tiny Gods was an idea I came up with years ago. A sort of automated story driven by code and user interactions. I never finished it and still think about creating it. I even registered a Facebook app that I […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
World building for very small characters in the group Matthew D. Brown (Author): 6 years, 11 months ago
I’ve been thinking about world building for very small characters or for normal sized characters living with very large peoples (giants).
On the whole, we tend to treat races as simply funny looking humans. […]
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Matthew Brown commented on the post,
Plot-Lines: The storytelling card game, on the groupblog Matthew D Brown 6 years, 11 months ago
As you now know, no it was not quite ready. It’s close, I just need to write some more content.
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz 6 years, 11 months ago
There is a worrying trend in the UK where publishers have started to demand that authors hand over all moral rights to a work. Your moral rights include the right to be known as the author of your work.
Writer […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Thanet Creative: Summer Barbeque in the group Thanet Creative: Writers: 6 years, 11 months ago
Last year, Thanet Creative held a summer barbeque and invited all the other writing local writing groups to come and join us. This year, we’re doing it again.
The Thanet Creative summer barbeque is open to all […]
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Danny H commented on the post,
Plot-Lines: The storytelling card game, on the groupblog Matthew D Brown 6 years, 11 months ago
Will this be ready for beta-testing on Thursday?
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Plot-Lines: The storytelling card game in the group Matthew D. Brown (Author): 6 years, 11 months ago
I’d like to introduce you to Plot-Lines, the storytelling card game.
You play as a team of writers on a new television series but each of the writers has different ideas about the genre, style, and even […]
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Nick commented on the post,
Why you should (not) write for us, on the groupblog Thanet Creative 6 years, 11 months ago
Ah ha. Understood, thanks.
I should have said I like the site very much. I’ve subscribed to get update when there are new posts. -
Matthew Brown commented on the post,
Why you should (not) write for us, on the groupblog Thanet Creative 6 years, 11 months ago
Hi Nick,
That’s not a security issue, it’s by design. You should be able to log into the network using your WordPress account. I’m not sure what the issue is/was with the main domain not resolving for you. If […]
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Nick commented on the post,
Why you should (not) write for us, on the groupblog Thanet Creative 6 years, 11 months ago
Hi,
I have a wordpress.com site and appear to have accidentally logged into Thanet Creatives. Apologies for this, I wasn’t trying to, it just seems to happen automatically.
Just thought you should know in case […] -
Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Writers Explore: Writing a Jewish character in the group Thanet Creative: Writers: 6 years, 11 months ago
Thanet, and particularly Ramsgate, owes some of its heritage to the local Jewish community. Most prominent of these influences is Sir Moses Montefiore who is the namesake of parts of Ramsgate. Sir Moses Mo […]
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Christian Writer edited the blog post
Pharisee is a word too often on our lips in the group Christian Writings: 6 years, 11 months ago
I have come to perceive a shortcoming in my choice of language – the way I use the word Pharisee. Specifically, my readiness to use the term Pharisee when really I mean legalist. It was such a ready term that I n […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
A brief look at Kafka in the group Thanet Creative: Writers: 6 years, 11 months ago
We describe something as Kafkaesque when it is characteristic or reminiscent of the oppressive or nightmarish qualities of Franz Kafka’s fictional world. Very briefly we are going to dip into this n […]
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Christian Writer wrote a new blog post
Legalism is killing the church in the group Christian Writings: 6 years, 11 months ago
Legalism – and the legalists that preach it – are like cancer in the church. Until we remove the infection, it will continue to drain our strength and corrupt our good works.
There are legalists in all strands […]
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jeffjohns wrote a new blog post
Also available on Tumblr in the group Thanet Star: 6 years, 11 months ago
If you like your Thanet news short and snappy with lots of pictures and occasional irrelevancies, then Tumblr might be for you.
You are unlikely to find any really in-depth debates (yet) but you will find us, […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site John Wooster-Brown 6 years, 11 months ago
This painting of a couple boating on the river surrounded by water lilies and goldfish is in a style reminiscent of Monet. It is an experiment with the water lilies framing the central picture of the couple […]