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  1. What's in a Name?

    I have been writing a novel for a very long time. Or I should say conceptualizing it. I've mainly been writing it for the past year, but I've got notes on ideas for it going back more than a decade. So what has been holding my back recently...

    Started by Tinker‎, 24 Feb 2010 11:06 PM
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  2. An Gadaí's shit poem thread.

    Okay to prove my point I was making chate about poetry I'm going to wow you all with poems i make up off the top of my head. This is how easy it is to write bad poetry. Crap Poem #1 There was a star hastened glare, as I stood at the foot...

    Started by The Original An Gadaí‎, 19 Jan 2010 10:06 PM
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  3. Gross vehicle weight: a poem

    I am in the habit of occasionally uttering poems, and this is one that came out today. Poetry is a kind of Tourette's with me: Gross Vehicle Weight: Sometimes words bubble up like spring water. But this is blood. My world is bleeding...

    Started by vison‎, 27 Feb 2010 09:52 PM
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  4. Stolen

    One night I was sitting at the bar with Kim and Dan and we were talking about beauty pageants, because that's the sort of butch conversations we have. "Miss Beverly Hills quoted Leviticus about how gays should be put to death," Dan was bitching...

    Started by Nrblex‎, 28 Feb 2010 05:37 PM
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  5. Semi-Colon usage

    Hey, I wanted to start a thread on semi-colon usage. I am finding that I probably use commas where a semi-colon would work better. I'm hoping for something more than just a repeat of the wiki page as I've read it and I kind of get it. I am...

    Started by Tinker‎, 19 Feb 2010 10:00 AM
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  6. Joint Writing Project: Timeline of the Thelland Wars of consolidation and enlightenment.

    Here is the basic idea, a world of Kingdoms and fantasy races that is slowly consolidated into a new Empire. Parallel to but not identical to Europe. The Dwarves are technologists, the Elves mysterious and the Wizards most mysterious. Threaded...

    Started by What Exit?‎, 21 Feb 2010 02:16 PM
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  7. Calls for submissions

    Since we have more than a few people on here who write professionally, I thought it might be helpful to have a thread for collecting submission calls. A couple I've seen recently: Alimentum: The Literature of Food is accepting submissions of...

    Started by Zuul‎, 09 Feb 2010 11:54 AM
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  8. Writing Prompts

    We did this once before and I was hoping to do it again. Your goal is between 100-200 words, but nobody will be counting so if you go a little bit over don't worry about it too much. Once a week we'll have a new prompt to start off with. You can...

    Started by Zuul‎, 12 Feb 2010 04:01 PM
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  9. Making Poetry the Fun Way

    Many years ago, I had the chance to take a Master Class from Terry Wolverton, who is a fabulous poet that I adore. She taught a technique called the 20 Little Poetry Projects. I've always kept this method on hand because I loved to write poetry this...

    Started by pepperlandgirl‎, 02 Feb 2010 12:53 PM
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  10. Write the police procedural version of the Leno-O'Brien slapfest.

    It's inevitable. We all know that. We can bitch, we can moan, we can scream in terror as if we were no more than Tyrrhenoi, but it doesn't matter. Nothing short of an anti-matter meteor striking Los Angeles will prevent the networks from making a...

    Started by Skald the Rhymer‎, 27 Jan 2010 02:47 PM
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  11. Write a story one word at a time

    Alice

    Started by Zuul‎, 12 Sep 2009 11:21 AM
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  12. A Monkey Tale

    This is for Myrnalene. I said it was a “terrible monkey story” and it is, in 2 ways. First, it’s terrible in not being much of a story and second, it’s terrible because it didn’t end happily for a monkey. So forewarned is forearmed - if the...

    Started by vison‎, 06 Jan 2010 05:55 PM
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  13. Short Story - Global Warming [NSFW]

    This is probably the worst story ever written. I haven't even edited it. But it had to be written - erotic fiction about Australian Federal Parliament. Enjoy, or don't. “Thank you for joining me, Acting Prime Minister.” Julia strode into...

    Started by AllWalker‎, 30 Nov 2009 06:46 PM
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  14. A Page From My Memoirs by Quasi

    Easily offended? Skip this, please! ;) And this has appeared elsewhere! The "Almost" Carroll County Accident (apologies to the late Porter Waggoner) Coming back from Border's Books one day where I...

    Started by Quasi‎, 29 Nov 2009 09:30 PM
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  15. Beautiful [NSFW]

    "Beauty is pain. "All art, all music, all of our strongest pleasures come from pain. What is the joy of accomplishment without knowing the agony of defeat? How can a love song hold any meaning without the fear of losing love, without the near...

    Started by Nrblex‎, 02 Dec 2009 05:12 PM
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  16. The First Ever "Mello" Novel

    Here is the Google document. Anybody can view it, but only the posters with permission can edit it. This morning, I was going about my usual routine, when I stumbled upon this call for submissions. As I read it, I realized one of two things was...

    Started by pepperlandgirl‎, 05 Nov 2009 01:42 PM
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  17. Quirky characters

    I've had an idea in my head for a series of seven short films, each involving a quirky character. I have an artist who finds a corpse and decides to use it as art. I have a guy who's a little too obsessed with a woman he sees on a monorail. I...

    Started by Johnny‎, 14 Nov 2009 07:11 PM
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  18. Magical methods of reproduction

    I need some alternate means of reproduction for a story I'm writing. There is a magical race of beings who don't reproduce sexually, but I'm having a difficult time trying to decide how they do reproduce. I have a few ideas, but sometimes just...

    Started by Zuul‎, 16 Nov 2009 11:17 AM
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  19. Mello Novel Chapter 2: The Mists of the Sky

    Lucinda was in a pickle in the moonlight; she was surrounded by penises. The penises belonged to the 30 Steampunk Air Pirates of the good ship Electric Dildo. They had fat penises and long penises and blue penises (from a cream) and curly penises...

    Started by pepperlandgirl‎, 07 Nov 2009 05:36 PM
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  20. Mello Novel Chapter 29: Voyagers in the Man

    “I can't hold on much longer!” Catherine screamed. Mathias looked out across the skull-basket of the mecha-man, searching valiantly for some sign of Catherine after her fall. “There she is!” cried Wang, pointing down towards where she was...

    Started by pepperlandgirl‎, 07 Nov 2009 05:37 PM
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  21. Mello Novel Chapter 1: Angels in the Misty

    1. Angels in the Misty When Mathias Kaufmann woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a man. As he had gone to bed as a three foot long insect, this was somewhat of a surprise. He had known that this...

    Started by pepperlandgirl‎, 07 Nov 2009 05:35 PM
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  22. "Mello" Novel Continuity

    For keeping track of facts we've established in the chapters as they're written. Mathias Kaufmann is a Bavarian bugman barbarian who has just morphed into his human form for the first time. He loves coffee and books and exudes pheromones which...

    Started by Zuul‎, 05 Nov 2009 06:49 PM
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  23. I've never written any fiction but I want to learn it

    Amateur writing is always a popular topic around here, but I have a question that I haven't seen so far. I have never written any fiction, but I would love to be able to do so. I don't have any specific story in mind and I would be open to...

    Started by Feirefiz‎, 04 Nov 2009 04:45 PM
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  24. Write a 1000 word (or less) piece of Genre Fiction Here.

    Any genre goes. Sci-fi, Fantasy, Mystery, Crime, Horror, whatever. Put the title of your story, genre and word count in the subject line of your post. If you can, write something new — don't draw off of an old story laying around. Crank up that...

    Started by cmyk‎, 08 Mar 2009 11:06 AM
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  25. *New* TV Script Writing Competition

    I was going to add this to Paul's thread, but it's just as easy to start a new thread. I just got an e-mail from NYTVF (New York Television Festival) about a new script contest for a procedural drama tv movie with potential for sequels or a...

    Started by Baldwin‎, 21 Oct 2009 04:25 PM
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  26. Travels with Jim (New story revised in post 54), please add more constructive criticism

    I have moved this to Write Here, Write Now to hopefully get some constructive criticism of my writing. If anyone is willing please read, review and let me know where I can improve my writing. I was trying for interesting and humorous anecdotes and I...

    Started by What Exit?‎, 16 Mar 2009 02:18 PM
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  27. Bad Book Club

    We've all read bad books. In fact, I'm reading one right now. One of my biggest frustrations is looking at an awful book and wondering, "HOW was this published?" Another one is wanting to discuss the badness of the book with someone else, but...

    Started by Zuul‎, 06 Sep 2009 04:51 PM
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  28. Tell Me a Scary Story--and win a prize!

    I don't believe in ghosts or paranormal activity but I love ghost stories. The creepier, the better. I want that heavy feeling of dread when the lights go out and I'm the only person still awake in the house. And I especially want some good scary...

    Started by pepperlandgirl‎, 11 Sep 2009 01:38 PM
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  29. An Adventurer's Lament

    You enter the room and find a scroll, on the scroll is a fair and flowing hand you read: Oh woe is the wanderer the adventurous soul for he that chooses to leave hearth and home is rare to live to gray haired remembrance I must choose ere...

    Started by What Exit?‎, 16 Sep 2009 02:21 PM
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  30. Share your favourite poetry!

    I absolutely love America by Allen Ginsberg, this version with music in the background by Tom Waits apparently, is beautiful. Another favourite is Inniskeen Road: July Evening by Paddy Kavanagh. Most of my favourite poems are by him. What...

    Started by The Original An Gadaí‎, 08 Sep 2009 06:02 PM
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  31. Lucy Storr

    You know how one thing reminds you of another. Down the road from our house there is a cherry tree, and right now the road beneath it is red with fallen squashed cherries. They aren’t very good cherries, the tree is a seedling and the fruit is...

    Started by vison‎, 01 Aug 2009 08:29 PM
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  32. The Gay

    I met him as I was leaving my apartment, late for a meeting downtown. He glared at me, obviously looking for a confrontation, and demanded: "Is this your gay?". In his hand he was holding a tiny gay. It was a cute little thing, below the grime of...

    Started by Nrblex‎, 15 Jul 2009 12:00 AM
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  33. Let's rewrite the Trojan War myths

    Please note that I did not write Let's rewrite the Iliad. After all, Homer's lesser epic* is not the story of the war between the Hellenes & the Anatolians; it is the story of a particular incident in the middle of that conflict. What I'd like to...

    Started by Skald the Rhymer‎, 10 Jul 2009 12:36 PM
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  34. Twisted Fairy Tales, or Fairly Twisted Tales

    Something new to get the creative juices flowing. Rewrite a fairy tale, fable, myth etc. Modernise it, tell it from a different POV, put a twist in the ending, your choice. 5000 word limit. SFW. I'm working on the Pied Piper, should have...

    Started by maggenpye‎, 28 May 2009 04:40 AM
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  35. Biblical sonnets and sonnet sequences

    Skald and I were talking in chat the other day about sonnet sequences in general and my biblical sonnets in particular. Here's an example of mine: Abra speaks to Holofernes in confidence Your head is heavy. I did not expect ...

    Started by Julie‎, 04 Jun 2009 08:37 AM
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  36. Let's pretend it's the Saturday serial . . . .

    A story: "The Funny Farm". I never was much for the superhero aspect of life. It always seemed to me that if Superman could do all the stuff he was supposed to be able to do then within about 10 days or so everything on earth would be good,...

    Started by vison‎, 25 Jun 2009 08:37 PM
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  37. Lulu and Pocket Books (a Review)

    Rather than resurrect the old thread, I thought I'd add a new one with an update and a few notes in case anyone was thinking of using them. We did the run, and I was happy enough with lulu that I'm using them for a personal project. The good and the...

    Started by tirial‎, 11 Jun 2009 07:57 AM
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  38. Mature Love - Erotica (probably NSFW)

    A story I wrote a few years ago. Let me know what you think! I know it's kind of rough around the edges but I'm thinking of polishing it. She was older than what I might normally have thought of as someone I'd engage in sex with, though younger...

    Started by Truth and Beauty‎, 04 Jun 2009 06:55 PM
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  39. The "Rhyme, damn you!" challenge

    Over here, CairoCarol thought of a fun writing challenge: Take nonrhyming poetry and make it rhyme. Butcher it, if necessary -- all in the name of the almighty rhyme! So here, without further ado, is the rhyming version of since feeling is...

    Started by iampunha‎, 11 Jun 2009 07:15 AM
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  40. How does anyone write erotic fiction?

    Seriously, I find it at least twice as hard as writing normal fiction, which makes it for me nearly impossible. Even after I learned to type one handed at a normal pace, I still find myself writing at probably half the speed. I find it hard to...

    Started by AllWalker‎, 13 Apr 2009 07:02 AM
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  41. Rejection notices

    I've started submitting short stories to various sites. This means I've also started collecting rejections. Most of them are a generic "does not meet our needs", but the latest one was more specific. It said, "This just didn't hold our...

    Started by Baldwin‎, 10 Mar 2009 05:04 PM
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  42. Post a Bit of What You're Writing

    It might be fun to post a few paragraphs of whatever project you are working on right now. Here is a random selection from my 'Healing Hearts': As the van came closer to the exit, Hannah glanced at Jesse; the windshield wipers were keeping...

    Started by PapSett‎, 02 Jun 2009 09:10 AM
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  43. Writer's Block-How Do YOU Overcome It?

    Over the last couple weeks, I have been struck by the most horrible case of writer's block you can imagine. I have several different stories all going at the same time but when I try to write, I mostly just sit and stare at the screen; anything I...

    Started by PapSett‎, 04 Jun 2009 09:06 PM
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  44. Moved: Ask the published (fiction) author(s)...

    Started by pepperlandgirl‎, 03 Jun 2009 11:31 AM
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  45. Artists, what have you created recently?

    This is not the place for critiques (unless the artist says otherwise), this is just to share what you've drawn, sculpted, computer-generated, or whatever. This is a bit of fanart I did for a friend of mine. These are the two main characters...

    Started by SilverTygerGirl‎, 27 May 2009 06:33 PM
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  46. How fast do you write?

    I was reading a blog entry about the last, posthumous books in the Wheel of Time series when I realized that the professional author writing it seemed to write slowly when compared with myself. Last year I wrote a 100.000 word novel in under five...

    Started by Harlequin‎, 26 Apr 2009 04:21 PM
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  47. Do these characters' reaction to great stress seem sexist?

    I am working on a story, obviously, and am a bit worried about the actions of two of the supporting characters. I'd like some input if y'all don't mind. Here's the scoop. It’s a fantasy story, first of all. I'll call the characters in...

    Started by Skald the Rhymer‎, 26 May 2009 01:14 PM
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  48. The Blue Book - Erotica NSFW

    OK< I wrote this years ago, but lost the file. So I just rewrote it now. I post it without editing as a warning to everyone never to post an MS without editing. Learn from my example. ====== The Gringo Doctor (Erotica, 750 words) Damn it was...

    Started by Paul in Qatar‎, 09 Apr 2009 11:59 AM
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  49. Tell us about killing your darlings

    I think most of you know what I mean, but just in case I'll define the term. Killing your darlings is when a writer removes an element or passage in a story he is particularly fond or proud of for it's own sake because the story as a whole is...

    Started by Skald the Rhymer‎, 07 May 2009 03:51 PM
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  50. Writing Awards and badges

    I haven't been posting for a while, but I did get some good news. One of my lenses, Longitude, just got Lens of the Month for May 2009 for the British Literature Group on Squidoo :smile: . It's a bit of good news that certainly helped with my...

    Started by tirial‎, 09 May 2009 03:10 PM
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