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Doing this out of order ... ;)


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I am posting creative writing exercises over at hd_writers all through September. The second one goes up tomorrow. :)

This is the first one from last Friday:

Originally posted by vaysh at September Weekly Creative Writing Exercise #1: discover the story

In August, I taught a four week online novel coaching course and came up with creative writing exercises for ( Read more... )

There is a 48-hours-writing challenge on tumblr some of you might enjoy. ;)

It's done by
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Required word count for this week's prompt: 145 - 160 words

Two hours of deleting, rewriting and rewording later: still at 198 words

Aaaaargh!!!!!

Seen by many people, most recently by
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I am totally not doing the Snowflake Fandom Challenge this year. :) But I found this great resource last year that I'd love to share with you. Thus:



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So, this is an experiment. I have no idea whether this fest format will work but I've been thinking about it now for so long. And I am so excited that Nox decided to mod the fest with me. Yay!!

Share the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
hp_concrit_fest -
A Harry Potter Fest for Constructive Criticism


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This is a quiet, unassuming, insightful and thoughtful interview about Simon Tolkien's experience growing up as the grandchild of JRR Tolkien and the son of Christopher Tolkien, and what it means for him to become a writer himself.

»I still think of the past as another country as real as the present but forever just out of reach.«

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