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New Members (17 Viewing)
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International District (2 Viewing)
A gathering place for members from around the world.
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Bulletin Board (2 Viewing)
Changes and Announcements regarding the Water Cooler
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FAQs (4 Viewing)
All that stuff you're wondering about? The answer is probably here.
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AW Chat (2 Viewing)
Guidelines, scheduled events, suggestions, and feedback regarding the AW IRC chat room
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Pthom, jvc 
Announcements, Events, and Book Promotion (6 Viewing)
For active community members to post press releases, events, and marketing announcements publicizing their work.
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by Susie
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Ari Meermans 
AW History; Questions and Discussion
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Ol' Fashioned Girl, Stew21, clockwork 
From Other Forums and Message Boards
A place to check in, post an update about your other regular internet haunts, or set up a temporary refugee camp during outages elsewhere. No talking smack about other message boards or moderators, though, 'kay?
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AW Library (3 Viewing)
Members' books and stories. Before posting, please visit The LIBRARIAN for guidelines.
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Ari Meermans 
AW Contests and Projects Room
Genre-bending, board-wide, AW contests and projects
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General Writing Interest
Basic Writing Questions (40 Viewing)
Because the only dumb question is the one you don't ask.
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Novels (19 Viewing)
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Write 1/Sub 1 (3 Viewing)
Just what it sounds like - for those committed W1/S1 writers: Here's a place to spread your wings. Whether it's a novel a year or a flash piece a day - write one, sub one.
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zanzjan, Smish 
Writing For Kids (5 Viewing)
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Young Adult (21 Viewing)
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Short Fiction (4 Viewing)
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Scripts, Stage, and Screen (19 Viewing)
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Poetry (4 Viewing)
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Blogging and Social Networking (3 Viewing)
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Comic Books and Graphic Novels (2 Viewing)
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Discussion
Bewares, Recommendations & Background Check (40 Viewing)
Here's where to check in and share about publishers, agents, and producers.
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Beta Readers, Mentors, and Writing Buddies (2 Viewing)
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Grammar and Syntax (35 Viewing)
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evilrooster 
Story Research: Experts and Interviewees Wanted (50 Viewing)
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Publishing
Publishing FAQs and Resources (1 Viewing)
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Ask the Agent (7 Viewing)
Our guest literary agents answer your questions.
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Ask the Editor (4 Viewing)
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Self-Publishing and POD (17 Viewing)
The goal is education to help writers make informed choices. This is NOT a "rah-rah! 'Indie' Self-pubber!" cheering section.
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Book Promotion Ideas and Advice (1 Viewing)
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evilrooster, Old Hack, CaoPaux 
E-Publishing (2 Viewing)
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evilrooster, Old Hack, CaoPaux 
Freelance & Work for Hire
Freelance Writing (4 Viewing)
Writing for magazines, e-zines, and newspapers
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Melina 
SEO/Content/Blog Networks (2 Viewing)
examiner.com, about.com, content sites, etc
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Melina 
Networking: Sharing Leads
Writers, swap market info here-- guidelines, contact info, publishing news and changes.
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Melina 
Paying Markets (4 Viewing)
Editors, please post paying opportunities for writers here. Please include the pay rate inside [ ] in the thread title
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Nonpaying Markets (1 Viewing)
Editors, nonpaying markets belong here.
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Cathy C, regdog 
Greeting Cards, Bumper Stickers, and Fun Stuff (3 Viewing)
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Cabria 
Writing Genre
Interstitial
Writing across the genre boundaries
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Romance/Women's Fiction (8 Viewing)
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Cathy C, Stacia Kane 
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Science Fiction/Fantasy (26 Viewing)
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Religious and Spiritual Writing (2 Viewing)
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Humor (3 Viewing)
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Bio, Autobio, and Memoir (1 Viewing)
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Shwebb 
Erotica (12 Viewing)
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Horror (9 Viewing)
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Animals & Nature (5 Viewing)
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Mainstream/Contemporary/Literary (3 Viewing)
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Historical Writing (6 Viewing)
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Sports and Fitness (2 Viewing)
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Western (2 Viewing)
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Pop Culture
Movies, music, politics, art, and all that cool stuff we want to write, read, and just can't help talking about.
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Art & Design (4 Viewing)
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AW Bookclub (12 Viewing)
Talk about that book you just couldn't put down.
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Politics & Current Events (28 Viewing)
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Now We're Cookin'! (1 Viewing)
Writing about recipes, restaurants, reviewing, and food in general. Harriet Van Horne said, "Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
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Hands-On (3 Viewing)
For crafters, artists, photographers, wood-workers, basket-weavers...and for writing about what we love to do.
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Ol' Fashioned Girl, Stew21 
Games (5 Viewing)
Games, Gaming, Writing for Games
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QUILTBAG (1 Viewing)
Writing about or writing from non-heteronormative perspectives, situations, and characters
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MacAllister 
PoC (3 Viewing)
Writing perspectives, situations and characters by and about People of Color. Discussions focussing on race/cultural-concerns, topical news items, and other miscellany may also occur at random.
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Music and Songwriting (5 Viewing)
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rtilryarms, poetinahat 
Public Speaking & Education (1 Viewing)
Writing for public address.
06-13-2013 02:35 AM Go to last post
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Soccer Mom 
Critical Theory and Philosophy of Language (3 Viewing)
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ColoradoGuy, RichardGarfinkle 
AW Writing Lab
Roll up your sleeves, put in your BIC time, and write! Posting and critting, here.
Poetry Lab
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Music Lab
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ESL Help & Other Languages SYW
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NaNoWriMo and Beyond
NaNo 2012! Are you game? Are you motivated? Are you crazy? Go for it, and find lots of support and commiseration!
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Soccer Mom, katiemac 
Flash Fiction (1 Viewing)
Interested in writing, critiquing and selling stories that are 1000 words or fewer? This is the forum for you!
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jvc, Sophia 
Writing Exercises, Prompts & Whimsical Pursuits (8 Viewing)
Post one for everyone to try, or come to participate!
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The Break Room
Office Party (24 Viewing)
Writers goofing-off, making friends, and getting to know the community
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Goals and Accomplishments (6 Viewing)
Discuss your writing goals and how you're reaching them.
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TIO (4 Viewing)
Where flame wars and thread collapses get booted and buried.
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Rejection and Dejection (8 Viewing)
Tales of woe and methods for dealing with rejection.
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Favorite Exceptions
Celine Dion: For Keeps (1 Viewing)
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