How'd You Find This Site?

I was looking up information on general word counts for short stories and novels. This is what Google brought me.

Seems like I may have to shorten my 'starter' novels a bit and work on some short stories. Thankfully I have no shortage of ideas.

Your site was highly recommended by the Predators and Editors site. Thus far, I am quite happy to be here. I really feel that it will help me get my book published. Whereas maybe 10 people have read it and near everyone loved it. Yes, I know friends don't want to hurt your feelings by being honest; however they also won't come back and tell you in great detail how much they liked this or that MC or chapter and so forth if they really did not. Nor will they ask if can let someone else read it.
BTW: I'm talking about an adventure/fantasy novel of 204,000 words! With the excellent help available here, I should be able to get that all-important query letter right, structure and grammar-wise.

Google! It was the most active and thriving of the writer's forums that came up, so I signed up.

Found via Google as well. I was looking up info on creative POV switching and hit an article... Found out there were whole SETS of forums on different topics.

Joined, and was almost overwhelmed at how many message boards there were. I'm coping... I'll get the hang of this shortly. I'm amazed to see how many people on here have 14,000+ posts.

The link was mentioned on reddit.com

Student of mine shared the address with me.

Through Google - I was searching for information on a publisher to see if they were legit, and because of this site, I found they weren't - thank God

While researching literary agents, every time I Googled an agent this site came up. I am glad to have found it : )

found this website

i'm new to the site as well, but someone on my blog sent me this site to assist me in my writing aspirations..

and boy howdy what a good tip it was..
seems to be alot of knowledge and very helpful people here.

Thanks
Zeus

I was directed here by WriterBeware blogs about six months ago and have been lurking on and off since.

it was recommonded to me by someone on associatedcontent. This looks like it will be fun!

I got here through answers.yahoo.com. I asked the question, "where can I get my writing critiqued" and was given several options. Someone at one of the other sites, I think writerscafe steered me this way. I am really glad to be here. So far it is awesome.

I stumbled across this site when I was searching for successful synopsis examples. The information I found was great. Then I really enjoyed taking a look at other people's work. It helps me to think about mine after looking at someone else. It is silly that it is so difficult to find the flaws in your own writing.

I found the site a long time ago, but never gave it much thought until a friend recently referenced this place a dozen times while she and I talked about writing... She thought I'd benefit from joining and so I created a profile.

I joined a few years ago, but have went through some personal issues and haven't posted much, although reading occasionally. I have totally forgotten how I initially arrived here, however, I'm sure glad I did.

Google search for writers having issues with PublishAmerica. Yeah, I'm one of those left oinking from the PA boinking.

The mighty Google pointed me here, and I've seen links on facebook as well....

Funny as it is, I was searching on Google what a "Mary Sue" was (I'm not an english native-speaking and not prone to sci-fi fanfic), and ended up here... and kept coming back.

Where'd I find this site?

It was a link or a mention on Writer's Digest.com. They provide lots of good info that you don't have to pay for. Actually, most of what they want you to pay for shows up sooner or later for free.

Writer's Market. That is all.

I was searching on google for a screen writer's forum and this site came up on the first page. This community seems a little more active and vibrant than others, hence why I am here...

My dear friend KittyPryde pointed me this direction!

Mine might be unique (not sure, didn't read through all the posts!)--I heard about AW via Ravelry, a giant knitting/crochet site of awesomeness. I'm a member of several groups there for knitters who write

Triphi said:

Mine might be unique (not sure, didn't read through all the posts!)--I heard about AW via Ravelry, a giant knitting/crochet site of awesomeness. I'm a member of several groups there for knitters who write

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My wife is an avid Ravelry member, and also a mod of a couple of groups there. I'm continually impressed by the coolness of what Casey has managed to build.

As for this site, I found it by the power of repetition. I follow a number of YA writers and agents on Twitter, and I read blogs here and there. One common thread seemed to pull through them all...

"There's this fantastic website for writers called ABSOLUTE WRITE, and if you don't check it out right now you're doing yourself a disservice." So I caved. And, after a few months of lurking, I decided to stop being such a wallflower!