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Computer sounds like tiger crouching in jungle waiting for unsuspecting writer to happen by.

I've written a few genres. Currently MG fantasy mystery :)

Thanks for the recommendation RK. I haven't read that. I'll add it to the list of unexplored alleys. What's your taste in alleyways?

Welcome aboard @Stuart G :) Have you read Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennet? It's a fantasy crime thriller but really unique which sounds up your alley.

Newborn Litopian here, freshly traumatised by a wishlist that I wouldn't wish on my best enemy, courtesy of @AgentPete Looking forward to burning off people's eyebrows in The Lab and having mine burned off in return. My goal is to find an...

You're welcome to come anytime--I was describing my garden. :)

So true about that first draft and after is a fog of drafts. Nothing important, just a discussion on everyone's process :)

What's a draft? Every time I finish another run-through and temporarily fool myself that this is it, the best I could do, maybe a few minor tweaks needed, but this is the one. And then I let people look at it, and very, very quickly realise it's...

It's easy to identify the first draft - that's when I've written something in its entirety but not edited it. The subsequent versions and edits are too unwieldy to identify or quantify as drafts I suppose I could count the number of saved...

Different for each writer. Hard to define.

Hey all, I have a question: What do you count as one draft? For years, I counted "one draft" as one complete MS read through, whether structural changes or something else. Only this morning I decided that's too hard to track (it's always been...

Hi @Marta welcome aboard :) There's a wealth of content here, of all kinds. What interests you the most?

Gravel crunches underfoot as you enter the property. Passing an exuberant border of native grasses, shrubs and trees, the garden opens out into a potager, complete with espaliered fruit trees and a towering cardoon heavy with big purple blooms...

This is an awesome roasting disguised as a setting :cool:

When the glass door slides open, you’re hit in the face with a blast of humidity, heavy with a waft of chlorine. Spread out before you is one long pool, divided into lanes under an arched roof. A line of orange cones hover each lane. The laughs...