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Blog: Matt’s Node: An experiment from
News Archives » Matrix Dreams in the group Matrix Dreams 1 year, 4 months agoI have a new project that I have been playing with. Matt’s Node is a WordPress blog that runs as an entity on the fediverse. In other words, I have a Mastodon […]
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Blog: from
Joanne Harris in the group Fans of Joanne Harris 1 year, 4 months agosainamoonshine:A note to all creatives:Right now, you have to be a team player. You cannot complain about AI being used to fuck over your industry and then turn […]
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Abandon Twitter for Mastodon if you have not already in the group Author Buzz HQ: 1 year, 4 months agoAbandon Twitter for Mastodon if you have not already
With what is going on over at Twitter I have revised our Twitter advice for authors. If you are still on Twitter, I strongly recommend that you jump […] -
Blog: THE SHADOW EARL from
Stella Riley in the group Fans of Stella Riley 1 year, 4 months agoChristian’s story was released yesterday and reached number 3 in the Amazon UK historical romances best seller lists. If you’ve already read it, please leave a […]
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jeffjohns started the topic How much world building should I start my story with? in the forum A QnA for aspiring authors 1 year, 4 months ago
I have a story I’m ready to write. How much world-building stuff should my first chapter have?
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My babysitter is an assassin in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 1 year, 4 months agoMy babysitter is an assassin
Alex is twelve and he’s pretty sure the babysitter is an underworld assassin. Alex has one question: Should he tell the babysitter about the bully? -
Blog: Books I Read in June 2023 from
A Little Blog of Books in the group Book bloggers 1 year, 4 months agoI went to the Hay Festival for a couple of days at the end of May and picked up Regenesis by George Monbiot from the signed copies table in the Festival Bookshop […]
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Blog: Live Your Own Love Story This Summer from
Mills & Boon Blog in the group Mills and Boon fans 1 year, 4 months agoWe’ve been counting down the days, and now the sun is shining, the days are longer, and this summer just got hotter with Mills & Boon. Wherever you are going and w […]
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New initiative launches to give trans people a voice in the UK publishing industry [Pink News] in the group Author Buzz HQ: 1 year, 4 months agoNew initiative launches to give trans people a voice in the UK publishing industry [Pink News]
Pink News is reporting a new initiative in UK publishing to give trans people a voice. Trans author Harry Nicholas has launched a networking space […] -
Blog: The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 4 months agoThe Second Murderer by Denise Mina; Beware the Woman by Megan Abbott; Murder in the Family by Cara Hunter; Black Thorn by Sarah Hilary; The Housekeepers by Alex […]
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Blog: Elly Griffiths: ‘If I love a book I read it multiple times’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 4 months agoThe crime writer on embracing politics in her teens, discovering the thrill of George Eliot, and learning from Wilkie CollinsMy earliest reading memoryAlice’s A […]
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Blog: Laura Trethewey on the Race to Map the Oceans from
The Virtual Book Channel – Literary Hub in the group The Virtual Book Channel 1 year, 4 months agoHosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological i […]
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Blog: C.W. Goodyear on James Garfield, Most Pathologically Reasonable of American Presidents from
The Virtual Book Channel – Literary Hub in the group The Virtual Book Channel 1 year, 4 months agoHosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological i […]
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Blog: Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan review – lyrical tale of a family accused from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 4 months agoAn Irish family in early 90s London become tabloid scapegoats in this politically astute novel of lives foreclosedOrdinary Human Failings is a considerably more […]
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Matthew Brown replied to the topic Is twitter dead? in the forum General Chat 1 year, 4 months ago
I think it is. Which is a shame. Twitter used to be something special.
I don’t use Twitter any more. I do use mastodon.
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Blog: 5 hard-won editing tips from
Thanet Creative Writers in the group Thanet Creative: Writers 1 year, 4 months agoEditing your writing can be a hard process. At least, it is for me. Here are five tips that I think might help your editing and have certainly helped mine.1. […]
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5 hard-won editing tips in the group Thanet Creative: Writers: 1 year, 4 months ago5 hard-won editing tips
Editing your writing can be a hard process. At least, it is for me. Here are five tips that I think might help your editing and have certainly […] -
Blog: British Library acquires ultra-rare cricket book thanks to anonymous donor from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 4 months agoWilliam Epps’s 1799 book of scorecards from ‘the grand matches’, formerly owned by commentator John Arlott, has been saved for the nationThe British Library has a […]
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Jason Latnar started the topic Is twitter dead? in the forum General Chat 1 year, 4 months ago
Is Twitter dead? Has Musk-boy killed it?
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Blog: Hi Mr. Gaiman, As an accomplished author with several books under his belt, how do you know that a story is a dud for lack of a better word? I have a million ideas bouncing around inside my head at all times, and while I consider them good ideas worth pursuing, how am I sure they will make a good story? I ask this because I have been dwelling on something one of my professors said last semester. He held a seminar on poetry and got to the topic of fiction writing, where he stated that he had just recently finished a story he had rewritten several times over the course of multiple years. Now I myself write as a hobby with a faint imagining that someone might see it in the future, and I have written a dud or two, where the plot was poorly formed and the ideas behind it just had a flaw somewhere in the base concept. Perhaps this is my youth and amateurity speaking, but I was under the impression that given enough time and care, any story could recover from that stage so long as it had not been completed yet. Ideas would need to be reworked, concepts retooled, characters redrawn, but the very basic idea could still survive in a different format. My professor disagreed, stating that he has destroyed 400-500 page novels that he has written before upon realizing said fatal flaw. He stated that the story was in a state that it could not recover from, and that many authors encounter ideas that seem good at the time, but stink later on to such a degree that the basic premise must be thrown out. This seems like a tremendous loss of work to me. As writing is an art form, it feels somewhat similar to destroying practice sketches and ‘meh’ oil paintings that showcase the artist’s progress. An idea that stinks today might be able to work from a different angle later on in my opinion. I suppose after rambling my question is now this: are some ideas and concepts just not worth pursuing? Are some story concepts flawed from the get-go and impossible to save, and is there a way to tell that before writing the whole thing? Is it even possible to waste that time as you’re getting in practice for the next tale?This isn’t something I ever really thought about before being told in sure tones that this is how things work by someone with a degree is this, so I figured I’d ask the professional author for a second opinion. Apologies for the length of the message, especially if this is one you’ve received before. from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 1 year, 4 months agoI have things that have stalled and a few stories that, when they were done, went to the box in the attic rather than to anyone who could publish them (there’s a w […]
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Blog: If we’re supporting the writers’ strike, should we be avoiding conventions? from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 1 year, 4 months agoNo. You should be going to conventions. And if there are any representatives at the convention from the studios you should tell them to tell their bosses to […]
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Blog: sry I’m bugging u so much, I finally got my college applications turned in and suddenly have Free Time. anyway, I’m trying to figure out when your short story The Monarch Of The Glen was first published. Normally these things are pretty straightforward, but the internet has frustratingly vague & inconsistent answers here. I’ve heard 2006, 2004, and 2003. from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 1 year, 4 months agoThe best place to check these things is the Neil Gaiman bibliography web pages. Here’s the first publication info:The Neil Gaiman Visual Bibliography
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Blog: Hi mr gaiman You mentioned wishing there was tone on the internet so I wanted to ask if you knew about tone indicators? They were made to help neurodivergent people understand the intentions of a message, and I’ve found they’re really helpful! /gen from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 1 year, 4 months agoI just learned about them. I have a hard enough time getting my brain to understand that it sometimes might help to write /sarcasm so do not plan to try and use […]
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Blog: Hello, Mr. Gaiman! I was wondering about the Doctor Who episode “Nightmare In Silver.” If I recall correctly, you said that they butchered the plot up so much that it was pretty much unrecognizable. I was wondering if you can tell us more about the original plot of the story and what it was originally going to be like? Thank you so much and I can’t wait for S2 of Good Omens! 🙂 from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 1 year, 4 months agoNo, I never said that. The plot was always broadly the same – a lot of the things that worked against it were simply things in the script that, for whatever r […]
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Blog: hey neil ! sorry if this is annoying but could we possibly have one more confirmation on the time good omens 2 will be released ? because i’m seeing two different times right now and i’m a bit confused ! i think there’s been a glitch of some sort on prime, and some people are seeing the release date as the 27th when it should be releasing on the 28th even in those timezones, and so they are assuming the release time has changed. thanks ! <3 from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 1 year, 4 months agoI’m sorry. I’m on strike and will learn in the same way you do. If I see anything definite I will pass it on though.
