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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Thanet Creative 7 years, 10 months ago
I could give you advice on writing better (in general) but as I am still learning, here is what the experts are saying.
We recently asked what makes a good writer? Here are some tips (mostly from other people) […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz 7 years, 10 months ago
The 2017 H. G. Wells Short Story Competition shortlist has been announced.
The Short Story Competition shortlists were posted Thursday 21 September, H. G. Wells’ Birthday.
There are two prizes on offer.
T […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz 7 years, 10 months ago
If you are having difficulty creating an account, please let us know.
Some users have reported that while they can sign-up via a WordPress.com account, they cannot always complete the sign-up process directly. […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz Developer Blog 7 years, 10 months ago
We have identified a possible fault with the sign-up process for Author Buzz. It only affects people signing up with email but not with WordPress.com.
The fault appears to be that the email for new accounts […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Thanet Creative 7 years, 10 months ago
Hack writing is the fastest way to go from interesting story to trite and boring without really trying.
In almost all cases hack writing is a result of lazy storytelling often combined with a failure to write […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Thanet Creative 7 years, 10 months ago
Female characters. For whatever reason, they do not get the same page time as their male counterparts. There are no good reason for it aside from perhaps a lack of understanding of how to write a compelling female […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz 7 years, 10 months ago
Do chaos and good writing go together? This is a question we are about to avoid but not entirely.
Welcome to the weekly roundup of the best posts on the Author Buzz UK network.
In case you are wondering, a […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Matthew D Brown 7 years, 10 months ago
The relative calm of my writing space has been disrupted this week.
I mean, sure, the work needed to be done. And yes, the walls were crying out for fresh paper. Even so, the amount of writing I have done this […]
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Blog: What makes you a good writer? – Thanet Creative from
Lord Matt (old geek) in the group Matthew D. Brown (Author) 7 years, 10 months agoWhat makes you a good writer? – Thanet Creative: A new blog post by yours truly.
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Thanet Creative 7 years, 10 months ago
What makes a good writer? Specifically, what does it take to make you a good writer?
This post is inspired by Thanet Writer and author, Matthew Munson’s blog post. I took his main points and examined them one […]
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Blog: "The only time all the writers in a room agree with each other on everything is when there is just…" from
Lord Matt (old geek) in the group Matthew D. Brown (Author) 7 years, 11 months ago“The only time all the writers in a room agree with each other on everything is when there is just one writer sitting alone and sometimes not even then.” – Matthew […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Thanet Creative 7 years, 11 months ago
A new site, a new competition! Are you ready, writers?
Explain the series of events that ties these images togetherHow to enter
Unlike our last competition which ran week to week, this one will run month to […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz 7 years, 11 months ago
Getting published is not easy. Getting a literary agent helps but getting an agent is no easy task.
This article is an update to one I published on the now retired Thanet Creative Writers website which has now […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Thanet Creative 7 years, 11 months ago
Thanet Creative exists to create opportunities for Thanet’s many writers. Some of us writers like to blog – here are five ways you can.
Blogging for sites related to your field of writing is a fantastic way t […]
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Wayne became a registered member 7 years, 11 months ago
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Thanet Creative 7 years, 11 months ago
A term that we have used on this blog a lot is “Thanet’s writers”. What do we mean exactly?
It could, for example, be taken to mean the historical writers from Thanet’s past. People like Dickens, for example. […]
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Jack Dent posted an update 7 years, 11 months ago
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Blog: Relax, no one is going to steal your ideas from
Lord Matt (old geek) in the group Matthew D. Brown (Author) 7 years, 11 months agoauthorbuzzuk:
Relax, no one is going to steal your ideasA mistake new authors make is to hide what they are doing in fear that someone might steal their ideas. […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Thanet Creative 7 years, 11 months ago
Thanet Creative Writers is now Thanet Creative. If you want to know what’s up with the new name, keep reading.
At our AGM yesterday members voted unanimously to simplify our name from Thanet Creative Writers to […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Thanet Creative 7 years, 11 months ago
Welcome to Thanet Creative on Author Buzz Blogs. This will be the new home of the site of the charity previously known as Thanet Creative Writers.
Here we will be posting the same great stuff that we had been […]
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Blog: What does it mean to subvert a trope? from
Lord Matt (old geek) in the group Matthew D. Brown (Author) 7 years, 11 months agoWhat does it mean to subvert a trope?: thanetcreativewriters:What do you say? What does it mean to subvert a trope?
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John Wooster-Brown wrote a new post on the site John Wooster-Brown 7 years, 11 months ago
The Captain – a view from Ramsgate harbour circa 1898 or maybe early 1900’s – before the first world war.
About The Captain
The traction engine has just placed a Council Road Works van for a gang of men for a […]
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Blog: British Library exhibition to open in New York in 2018 from
J.K. Rowling in the group We love J.K. Rowling 7 years, 11 months agoThe British Library announced yesterday that its Harry Potter: A History of Magic exhibition will be travelling to a new home at the New-York Historical Society, […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz 7 years, 11 months ago
A mistake new authors make is to hide what they are doing in fear that someone might steal their ideas. No one is going to steal your ideas – here is why.
To illustrate the point, we told Tumblr what we were […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz Developer Blog 7 years, 11 months ago
Today was nothing if not frustrating. I spent hours looking for ways to set up a simple user-badges system and got nowhere fast.
Given the huge number of pre-existing plugins that cover this task, I thought […]
