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Can I post This Here?/Topic Request Line
If you want to promote your community ask me about it here rather than just posting your info.
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Do any of you have any requests for topic subjects to discuss?
On the creative side of things.
I have several character and world building posts planned out already but do you have specific areas you'd like focus on? Other things on the creative side?
The nuts and bolts of writing.
How about things to do with plot, structure, dialogue, setting, scene, conflict and etc.?
After the first draft is done then what?
Revision, rewrites and editing, proofreading, spellchecking, grammar, punctuation, beta readers and critiques.
The business end of the writing gig.
The query process, agent search, publishing, after the sale is made, getting paid, royalties, copyrights, can you make a living as a author, should you quit your day job?
Something else?
If you can describe what you want to discuss in more detail than just 'plot or grammar' it would be a help and if you say, 'everything', I'll fly over and eat you messily and with loud crunchings so do try to be a little more specific. ;-)
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Do any of you have any requests for topic subjects to discuss?
On the creative side of things.
I have several character and world building posts planned out already but do you have specific areas you'd like focus on? Other things on the creative side?
The nuts and bolts of writing.
How about things to do with plot, structure, dialogue, setting, scene, conflict and etc.?
After the first draft is done then what?
Revision, rewrites and editing, proofreading, spellchecking, grammar, punctuation, beta readers and critiques.
The business end of the writing gig.
The query process, agent search, publishing, after the sale is made, getting paid, royalties, copyrights, can you make a living as a author, should you quit your day job?
Something else?
If you can describe what you want to discuss in more detail than just 'plot or grammar' it would be a help and if you say, 'everything', I'll fly over and eat you messily and with loud crunchings so do try to be a little more specific. ;-)
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Hearing about story ideas are great. I just think that it is potentially fraught with peril to venture comments upon them without personally understanding said author's opnions on accepting questions.
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EX.
Author writes:
My character PharphenLogaloo an alien who loves to eat phlegm, a delicacy on his homeworld.
I say:
Hmm... Interesting. How do you pronounce the name? And is that phlegm, like we know phlegm, or is it something different?
Author Response:
It's Phar-fen-lug-a-loo and what do you mean? Of course it's on his planet? Do you think I'd have him eat phlegm??!!!
Silliness aside, that's the best example I could come up with right now. Sometimes it gets a heck of a lot uglier than that on some of the writing forums I've been on.
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At the moment I'm curious about what software people use? Is there anyone out there still pounding out wordage on a typewriter?
Later I'll ask more coherent questions, probably about characterisation, since that is the area I just don't 'get'.
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Yes. I'm curious about what people use as it's always good to find the best, easiest or most comfortable software.
I also use Word, having moved from WordPerfect when Win98 came out and Word suddenly got better.
I also regret to say that I'm criminally guilty of head-hopping. This is something I would like to learn how not to do, and at the moment first person narration is the only cure I have.
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One of the reasons I started writing in the first place was because I couldn't find what I felt like reading, it just wasn't out there. So, I started to write what I wanted to read. If you feel like discussing something, expanding an idea or exploring a side thread, go ahead and make a post of your own like you've done already. That's what this community is here for and it will definitely be more interesting with the additional voices and minds offering a variety of experiences and viewpoints.
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The one and only time I modeled a character after a real person I just took an aspect of personality from that person.
Say you know someone who is narcissistic, it is a dominant characteristic of this person, you could use that characteristic to help you develop the narcissistic character. Imagining what the real person would do and how they would act can help you 'get into character' when you write scenes with your narcissistic character. You'd sort of be looking through narcissistic coloured glass when you were working with this character and everything they did, thought and said would be influenced by it.
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Also, brainstorming or prompt ideas would be interesting to share. Maybe some prompt challenges?
I'm just throwing things out here. They may not be the type of topics you are looking for.
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It is for the discussion of anything to do with fiction writing, but mainly I've been using it to catalogue all the online writing resources I've come across. There are a good number of links on a variety of different subjects. If people are interested in a specific area of writing they can take a look at the Tags page, as that's a quick way of finding relevant posts.
I encourage members to feel free to share information and links, start discussions, ask questions, and request advice and/or critique, but there's no need to join the community to have access to the information/links. It's all public, and it will remain so.
Please let me know if it's okay to post in your comm to rec my comm.
Many thanks
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Sorry to take so long to get back to you, real life has been eating my braaaainssss.
I'd really like to encourage more discussions here in Writer's_Loft along with interesting links to other information sites.
So, to that end, would consider doing cross posts (an entry in
Those who are interested can follow your community link and friend your community if they choose and it won't seem like a big ol' advert on this end.
Would that work for you?
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I was wondering if I could do a post in
Please let me know. Thanks,
Bart/cgmod