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PoindexterOglethorpe

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11. Good for you!

Reply to AZLD4Candidate (Original post)

Fri Oct 20, 2023, 10:06 PM

Oct 2023

I am a sometimes writer. But a novel is completely beyond me. I write short. Very short. I almost never get as far as 500 words.

I cannot plot to save my life. Which is why I'm not too bad at very short stories.

Please keep us posted and tell us when it gets published.

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My first ever novel is finished with its rough draft [View all] AZLD4Candidate Oct 2023 OP

Wheeeee!!!! Congratulations !!! Karadeniz Oct 2023 #1

Congratulations WhiteTara Oct 2023 #2

That's quite an achievement. zanana1 Oct 2023 #3

Congratulations WacoCheryl Oct 2023 #4

Welcome to DU! KS Toronado Oct 2023 #7

I'd like to learn the secret bucolic_frolic Oct 2023 #5

I did the same thing I do, when I write my screenplays AZLD4Candidate Oct 2023 #10

Have you built a community to grind through it? All the good, bad, and ugly? hunter Oct 2023 #6

Yes. . .the same group that does that for my screenplays. AZLD4Candidate Oct 2023 #9

Congratulations! crosinski Oct 2023 #8

Good for you! PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2023 #11