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    How do storms and floods affect culture?

    Not sure if this is the write place, trying to repost in a different category but can’t find how to
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    How do storms and floods affect culture?

    Has anyone ever been to the beach when it’s snowing? Wondering how you’d describe that?
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    What are other good Writing Forums?

    (I want to be stalwart and chic. I don't have to be trendy - I have to be timeless. Preferably channelling Josephine Baker. MrNybble I'd like long term satisfaction as well as consistent praise. Hm. But I hate it when my joker mates call me out on social media for being lame when I think I'm...
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    So is this forum more for general chitchat or crits?

    lemme know :)
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    A cotton thread

    So I think for my next stuff I can go a bit darker and get some serious drama going on - or explore the worlds a bit more and start building the worlds and cultures out a bit more. I think this cross between real word places and experiences and fantastically dreamt up stuff is going to be my...
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    A cotton thread

    Thank you Riva! x
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    A cotton thread

    There once was a magical land called Lithuania. For half a year the land was white as sugar, a quarter red like fire and an eighth like watery rivers. It was a calm place, where human beings were nice to each other and liked to dance. On certain occasions, they would light up the city with...
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    National Tell-A-Joke Day

    Sorry, I'm always late for things.
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    National Tell-A-Joke Day

    With help from a native speaker - translating these from a Lithuanian comedian and localizing into English: I put 10 euros on the table when the wind was blowing and then I turned around. When I turned back, the 10 euros were gone, and the wind was gone too. I was chatting with a girl in a...
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    What are other good Writing Forums?

    I'm starting to realize forums are a great way to cut through the noise of social media. This, so far has been the most engaging forum! I will check out the reddit writers pages too. I got banned from SFFChroniclesI think it's because I name dropped "Netflix" but I wasn't trying to promote it...
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    Imagination and writing

    That sitting down thing is starting to become easier. I think if I have music on in the background it's also easier to get words on the page. I'm trying to do a really thorough outline for the bit I'm writing at the moment. Hopefully, it'll all fall into place at it is 17 pages of bullet points...
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    Imagination and writing

    Yes, I found when I lived in the middle of nowhere I enjoyed the noisy, crowded bars more. Now I prefer shooting stars and green trees to the bursting city. I just wiki'd Hermit, aka eremite. Eremite feels like it's the name for a socialist's kryptonite. And will try and get it into my next...
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    Imagination and writing

    You say you "held many intensely social jobs/owned businesses, lived in large cities"... perhaps writing creatively is catharsis. It perhaps can also help us to make sense of the real-life situations we're in. An explanation of sorts if our minds can't make a more 'rational' explanation/answer
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    Imagination and writing

    I hope you feel better soon. Lemon, lemons and more lemons! wow that's a lot of words, do you by chance, drink coffee?
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    What type of Writer are You?

    Oh great question skip.knox re: style & voice. Yes style, to me, is sentence structure, rhyme, how words sing off a page, breadth of vocabulary, comedy, rhythm. Voice is who the person is talking that day (I guess this is important to my own style). Is it the well-rested voice who's passionate...
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