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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Thanet Creative 7 years, 11 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?
A question I recently asked on SO Writers. -
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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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 […]
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Blog: September 2017 from
Marian Keyes in the group Fans of Marian Keyes 7 years, 11 months agoSeptember! Baby Hannah arrives! Himself goes away and I go feral! Hello and welcome to my very very very favourite day of the year which is the 1st of September! […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz 7 years, 11 months ago
Researching where to submit short stories can be something of a chore but if you happen to be looking for Sci-Fi magazines accepting submissions (and paying) then you might well be in luck – we have five of […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Matthew D Brown 7 years, 11 months ago
This post is an update on what is new with me focusing on publications and submissions.
It only seems moments ago that I published my list of crazy life goals. Now I have some early success to report back […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Matthew D Brown 7 years, 11 months ago
I have come to see that what I call “My Crazy Goals” might simply be what others call “my life’s calling”.
I was watching Carrie Green speaking at TEDxManchester and she was talking about setting herself crazy […]
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Blog: Game Creation Log: That story as a game from
The Fantastic Site of Lord Matt, Super Geek in the group Matthew D. Brown (Author) 7 years, 11 months agoSometimes card game mechanics make for better computer game mechanics.
I’ve been kicking around ideas for a game based on That Story with the cat in it for a […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz Developer Blog 7 years, 12 months ago
This post, unlike most of our dev posts, is not about Author Buzz but about some software that I hope will be hosted on Author Buzz one day.
About three years ago I realised that if I was going to make it as a […]
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Blog: TonnoMint is 3 already, or at least the idea is… from
The Fantastic Site of Lord Matt, Super Geek in the group Matthew D. Brown (Author) 8 years agoI turned my AI project on today and realised that I have
been tinkering with it for 3 years now.The funny thing is that for most of those 3 years TONI […]
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Blog: August 2017 from
Marian Keyes in the group Fans of Marian Keyes 8 years agoMi Scuzi! Hello, I’m back! And so is Autumn! Hello there, welcome to my shiny new website and I hope it is to your liking. It’s been a while since I’ve done a new […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz 8 years ago
With a book, readers know what to expect because the author’s intentions are clear from the title, the cover and the blurb on the back. Are you doing the same with your blog?
Recently, we talked about author […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Matthew D Brown 8 years ago
How do you know when you have written a story with a vivid sense of time and place?
That’s where asking the right questions comes in.
The sense of place is what brings a story to life. It is what makes […]
