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Creative writing

Whether you enjoy writing sci-fi, fantasy or fiction, join our Creative Writing forum to meet others who love to write.

Ideas about favourite tropes?
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How to help DS
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Agented authors - how long to receive contract?
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I'm thinking of writing a book.
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Pamphlet/Book Cover Ideas
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Waiting on agents
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How to chose which agents to approach
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Experiences of digital first publishers for unagented submissions
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Contract offered by Pegasus Publishers - scam?
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Anyone writing historical fiction and want to talk research?
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Does Marta work for a Spanish character or seem too old-fashioned?
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Anyone applied to Curtis Brown Creative's September 2026 six-month novel online course?
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Am I a mad woman?
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Question for people who have self published
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How do you decide whether to self publish or get an agent?
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Advice needed - suspect I am being dropped by publisher
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Is it normal to write a first book in small bursts?
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Novel completed ✔️
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Best platform for a personal blog without sharing family photos?
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AI generated, or workshopped?
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Career paths for my fictional, young, non-academic gent in the 1920s/30s
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Southlands Arts Centre Creative Writing Competition
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Any suggestions for someone who can edit my work please?
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Beta readers
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Do you know what I think is amazing
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How my main character would post in my shoes.
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Do people share poems here ??
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Does anyone here write just for fun?
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Would this get you hooked?
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How do you find space and quiet to write at home? Or do you write elsewhere?
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From First to Final Draft - The New Creative Writing Thread.
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Adriana or Lorena for a character in my creative writing?
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Dodgy moves by a writer friend…
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Same name as another author?
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2026 📖✏️ submitting to comps & agents
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Experiences of Faber short courses compared with City Lit alternatives?
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Questions about comp titles
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Support thread for those waiting to hear back from agents.
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Beta reader swap with me?
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Very interested in writing biography/non-fiction - but where to start?
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Starting out…
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Romance novelists lured by A.I.
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Honest opinions - poem
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Anyone entering any of the comps?
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Chat GPT
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Just got my first agent rejection.
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Libraro? Anyone?
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Short story competitions
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Anyone Written a Crime Novel?
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Entering Lucy Cavendish Novel Prize
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