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25 Fantasy Writing Prompts and Story Ideas
- ChaoticanWriter
- 5 min read
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Inspiration is hard to come by! Writing prompts can help you kickstart your writing again, and bring you into new imaginative territory... -
Fun with Fonts
- Slartibartfast
- 3 min read
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Broadly speaking, general-purpose fonts are divided into two families. Serif fonts. These are fonts like Times New Roman or Garamond which have... -
By the throat ...
- The StoryWeaver
- 1 min read
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I'm in a bad state, and it's interfering with my writing, and other creative puruits. Did you ever feel like cutting out the broken bits of your... -
Starting to Typeset
- Slartibartfast
- 2 min read
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Ah, typesetting. ...also illustration. Typesetting is great fun. The differences between ‘typesetting’ in a word-processor and typesetting in a... -
Staying Sane Throughout
- Slartibartfast
- 2 min read
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The error I see most often with other writers is that they assume that the reader knows what they do. This book is a how-to guide of sorts and I... -
Getting an Editor and first Beta-Reader
- Slartibartfast
- 2 min read
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Oh boy, this was fun. Proofreading and editing is an expensive service and involves a lot of trust. Anyone can charge you a few hundred to... -
Tips for Using Fiverr
- Slartibartfast
- 2 min read
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Things I Learned When Using Fiverr: - The pricing model is a lot more attractive to people who live in countries where the average wage is lower... -
Finding Freelancers on Fiverr
- Slartibartfast
- 3 min read
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One of the places I turned to for ‘odd jobs’ that I either didn’t have the skill or the software to do myself was Fiverr. This was such an odd... -
Looking Through The Draft
- Slartibartfast
- 3 min read
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Step one, before I even thought about paying anyone to do anything or calling in any favours, was to look over the document myself. It's a short... -
Setting the Scene
- Slartibartfast
- 2 min read
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This journal is about the self-publishing process. I spent the first few weeks of lockdown finishing off a non-fiction project. It’s sufficiently... -
Goals, plans, whatnot
- The StoryWeaver
- 2 min read
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So far a lot of what I've had planned for 2020 has gone to hell in a handbasket, yet strangely I'm still achieving some of my goals. I've spent a... -
Drowning not waving ...
- The StoryWeaver
- 1 min read
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Long before I found this wonderful community I found myself stumbling on my path to recovery - but it took a long time for me to identify the... -
Woah, back-up there ... please.
- The StoryWeaver
- 1 min read
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3 months after it crashed I have my PC back - with all files intact. I'm a prolific creator (and not just with writing) plus I'd been slack with... -
It's all a part of the process.
- The StoryWeaver
- 3 min read
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I was injured at the end of 2016 and sometime after that had my second break-down. It's no exaggeration to say that I barely made it through 2017... -
I'm Sorry...
- The StoryWeaver
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I’m Sorry... she says and she says it often but did you ever wonder why? 'cause somewhere along the way someone (everyone) told her that her... -
Hello from the other side
- The StoryWeaver
- 1 min read
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I found this lovely community when researching some info for a client (for the book that I was editing). I've finally handed in all of my... -
Imposter Syndrome
- The StoryWeaver
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This is a subject I'll be returning to in great length but for today I'll keep it brief. I've been struggling more so than usual. It's not just... -
Intro
- The StoryWeaver
- 1 min read
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Since finding this website today I've really thrown myself into things. I've joined communities in the past and then never got involved, or have...