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ambitious writer — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:57:29 GMT

Being a writer do you think all your work are good enough for Publishing or do you think a writer should pick and perfect the work for Publishing?

MyBlog.blogspot.com

C.C. — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:43:32 GMT

How can I drive traffic to my blog???

How can you punch up, descriptions of cities you've never been to, or that are fictional?

rixxie — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:10:52 GMT

How can you make scences more realistic, without overdoing it, or sounding as if you just read it. You've never been to these places what brings them to life?

The Writer should invite people to visit the forums

vade — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:45:23 GMT

I have been a subscriber for several issues, and never noticed that there was a forum associated with the magazine. Althought the website is shown on the cover, I think it would be nice to have a short write-up of the features available online, and offer an invitation to people to participate in the forums. I've spent an hour browsing the forum, and would love to see more active members here. Replying to posts that are months, or years, old doesn't seem worthwhile--sort of like talking to myself.

Sara

sara987 — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:44:50 GMT

Hi guys i am verronica .i like this site so much because there are all things what i want so i love it .

Verronica

http://www.crystalrecovery.com

another suggestion

jimdens — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:50:59 GMT

Hello The Writer staff. Though I just joined the forums I may already seem familiar. I posted a suggestion in the Staff Blog Comments forum about marketing The Writer forums. This idea sort of goes along with that one. How about a forum where members can discuss writing in general? Not the business of writing, not specifics such as grammar, but a broader forum to discuss things like writer's block, (whether it exists or not), to share information with one another, or simply just to talk.

What do you think?

edited to add: if such a forum already exists, would you please point me to it? Thanks very much.

Uh, Why Premium Forums?

candylilacs — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:01:23 GMT

Did I or other people suddenly become experts suddenly? I'm not being paid, so why are they making people pay to use those forums?

I don't like it. It's silly and cheap.

RSS Feed

cherann — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:09:09 GMT

It would be great if you guys set up the RSS feed capability to make the blog more visible and easily accessible.

Cheryl

Public library subscription readers should be allowed access to premium forums, too!

marviolet — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:09:29 GMT

I read The Writer at the Pewaukee Public Library, the subscription paid for

by my rather substantial, property tax dollars. I shouldn't have to pay twice

to be allowed access to the premium forums. Yeah, I know--

life's not fair :(

How to Describe an Gruesome Death In A Story

JCL — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:38:34 GMT

Hello To All;

Hey guys; I am writing beginning of this story but my murder victim dies in a gruesome death. I wanted to show the readers how this victim how he dies and where. I liked to have your suggestions how I would show it in the story.

JCL

Blog for $$$

nickyboy — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:38:19 GMT

Fellow writers: here's a great opportunity to be paid for submitting blog entries, on topics of your choice ... (The system works in conjuction with Google Adsense) I just started today, and already have income from it!

The website to check out is

http://www.Writingup.com/blog/nick1956

Dumb questions

jobydog — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 19:35:25 GMT

I have a question: why do the forum posts now show the comments from another poster in the "reply" section? I was wondering if respondents are copying and pasting these previous comments on purpose, or whether they just "show up"? I notice it is not happening on all posts, and some have replies in a box, also sometimes with reply comments from others. I don't remember seeing this sort of format in the old forum area, but I had only joined up a couple of weeks ago and was not that familiar with the old forum site, so maybe I am mistaken. I am having a harder time reading the forum posts because I am having to read through the other posts to get to the respondent's commeents. Is this just me or is this aggravating to others?

Also, on the old forum, there was a place to mark a section for an alert e-mail when there was a reply to a post. I don't see that now. I thought that was a convenient feature if there was a topic you wanted to track without looking at the others and if you just wanted to hop over to the site for a quick read. Am I missing something?

Needed an idea for a Christmas Story

JCL — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:04:25 GMT

Hello Everyone;

I needed an idea for a Christmas story that I had to write for next week. My two main characters is my two detectives. I really needed an idea quick. If anyone can come up with an idea.

JCL

Writing Circles: A Lost Cause?

The Sharpened Quill — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 05:21:19 GMT

When I was ...younger, I found that I enjoyed the idea of a writing circle. The chance to improve upon someone elses story or add my own two cents has always appealed to me. But to what end? The only opportunity I got was with several third graders that didn't know one end of a pencil from the other.

So, is this practice banned or frowned upon by older peoples? We are told to write, write, write!! Wouldn't a group of people just committing to write for a half hour a day on an assigned topic keep those minds sharp and pencils moving?

Well, whatever the function of a "writing circle", to practice or continue one story with fresh points of view every turn, are they truly phazed out? I feel they could be revived if they were treated properly by those who are serious about writing. I crave to slip into the muddy flow of my mind and have it joined by the clear stream of thought provided by others to dilute the sludge that keeps me trudging in circles, chanting the same old stuff.

Perhaps those that share my point of view could contact me and we could set up such a lovely situation. It'd be like a cold dip in the pool on a hot summer day: refreshing and invigorating. Feel free to email me: Goldenfrog42@yahoo.com.

April

One Million Word Story!!!

koolman — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 15:07:33 GMT

Hey everyone. I was looking on the internet for a good place to get together with other writers online and create something big. I found something that I thought you might think was neat. It's a website where I guess the goal is to create a one million word story. It looks like a good place to show off writing skills, so take a look

Here's the link: www.onemillionwordstory.com

check it out!