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I like the writing prompts idea, but I have just put out my first book and I have a real opinion about this. I lost my religion trying to make my own author website. I bought my domain, got a free website builder, hit publish **crickets chirping**
3 hours of tech support and many curse words later, turns out I didn't add a "hosting package" @#$@#%@%$@
So yeah, an easy to understand "how to for idiots" article would have been right up my alley!
I hope you do start a website, and I wish you the best of luck!
-PJD
I think we really need something that puts everybody else but us off writing in the first place, to do something to cut down the competition :-)
Hmmm.We could do a writing prompts thread in the group.
Any interest in that?
I've been finding photos I've taken on holiday are useful writing prompts. It happened last year and again this time.
I find pictures very useful prompts for Tallis Steelyard stories, but also for other things
That's a really great idea. I take it as meaning I need to go on more holidays!
if you use pictures as writing prompts, and more general as a good resource for cover images, there's unsplash - basically free high-quality photos.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Hmmm.We could do a writing prompts thread in the group.
Any interest in that?"
I find that for a writing prompt to work best you need to be able to post the results to the writing prompt location. Goodreads threads don't really support that so well, so I imagine that it'll not get a huge uptake. I may be wrong though.
I would happily post the occasional image and see if it inspires anyone... Like this one for instance.
the picture has given me an idea and I'll try and use it for the next Tallis story :-)
The two most useful things that I've seen on websites for writers:1. Agents and publishers naming the things that they really want to see in writing ... and the things that they don't want to see. We could all save a hell of a lot of time if we internalised stuff like that.
2. A before and after discussion of an actual piece of writing, showing it being improved through discussion from first draft to final polished text. There's a section on absolutewrite.com called Share Your Work which does exactly that. It can be very painful but also very educational. I learned a lot by lurking in that particular website!
Jim wrote: "I think we really need something that puts everybody else but us off writing in the first place, to do something to cut down the competition :-)"Quite right, Jim. How brave you are.
Great picture, Gingerlily, my imagination went into overdrive. But as my head already has a queue, what I need is the time to get on with it.
Will - yes. Spot on.
Gingerlily - All kinds of everything! wrote: "I would happily post the occasional image and see if it inspires anyone... Like this one for instance."
https://tallissteelyard.wordpress.com...
Nice work Jim. I wonder if anyone else will come up with something.
Erm. Except time passed, not past.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Erm. Except time passed, not past."oops
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Patti (baconater) wrote: "Sorry. Pedantic."it was broken and needed fixing :-)
So, what features would you want a website for writers?
As a start, I'll mention one thing I enjoyed on the now defunct writon.amazon -: weekly writing prompts for a flash fiction story. I'd change that to daily, but that's something that's been on my mind as a 'would like to do' for a while.