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Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply. Patti Smith

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could! Brian Lumley

Write Club South is a semi-weekly craft exercise. All Litopians are welcome to join. A private thread will be opened to present results, and we can also hold a Zoom meeting at Huddle South time to discuss them. You are of course welcome to submit results even if you can't make the meeting. Or...

Write Club South is a semi-weekly craft exercise. All Litopians are welcome to join. A private thread will be opened to present results, and we can also hold a Zoom meeting at Huddle South time to discuss them. You are of course welcome to submit results even if you can't make the meeting. Or...

"I’m a writer, and everything I write is both a confession and a struggle to understand things about myself and this world in which I live. This is what everyone’s work should be – whether you dance or paint or sing. It is a confession, a baring of your soul, your faults, those things you simply...

I love this competition. Everybody knows Nighthawks, but what about the other paintings. https://fracturedlit.com/2026-ekphrastic-hopper-challenge-april-27-2026-to-may-10-2026/

As promised, the WCS prompt is presented in a more timely manner this week! It's a good one, and like last week is from the superb VOICE: The Secret Power of Great Writing by James Scott Bell. I've added an expansion to help with the actual writing of a scene. Chair Through the Window Imagine...

If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that. Yann Martel

Hello! This week we have an exercise based on a suggestion from @RK Wallis. It's quick and interesting, not too much writing involved. Both are taken from James Scott Bell’s VOICE: The Secret Power of Great Writing (Bell on Writing), which seems like an excellent work on developing a unique...

We have an interesting writing exercise for the week - Ursula le Guin on Virginia Woolf If anyone's up for it, we can do a zoom meet at Huddle South Time +1 on Wednesday. Otherwise, feel free to post what you've got here. It's all for play, not critique, so have fun and go wild! Do Part One...

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze. D. H. Lawrence

Hey all, Anyone up for a craft meet this Wednesday? -> 4.30pm Singapore, 7.30pm Sydney (DLS starts 5 April), 9.30am UK (DLS started 29 March) Sorry for the short notice. I wasn't sure if Huddle South was meeting, and looks like it isn't. We've got a craft exercise from James Scott Bell on...

Hi everyone! Anyone up for a craft meet this Wednesday? -> 4.30pm Singapore, 7.30pm Sydney, 8.30am UK We've got a craft exercise from Ursula le Guin about Being Gorgeous. Of course we're all gorgeous already, but lets put it down on paper 🥳 @RK Wallis @wrightstuff @LJ Beck Anyone else...

Hi everyone! A couple of us from Huddle South are planning a craft meeting this Wednesday, 4.30 pm Singapore time (8.30 am UK time and 7.30 pm Sydney time). That's a little after the usual Huddle South starts. There will be a small writing exercise and some sharing of what we produce. I reckon...

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else. Lawrence Durrell

"You don't write about people you know, you write what you know about people." Jan Mark

“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.” Junot Diaz

Hello, I'm aiming for the ambitious goal of becoming a full-time author. It seems the best way to do this is to build a huge author platform and write to market. Does anyone have experience writing to market? Seeking advice and productive conversation.

“Why this hunger to write — I always ask myself — if not the longing to discover what I believe? The pen divines my thoughts.” David Conover

'Pedestrian writing, thin characters - I can handle the criticism. I write to pedestrians. And I am a pedestrian. I write the best I can. I know I'm never going to be revered as some classic writer. I don't claim to be C. S. Lewis. The literary-type writers, I admire them. I wish I was smart...