How'd You Find This Site?

I was surfing around the net and trying to find literary agencies and I came across this forum.
So I says to myself I says "Self (I refer to myself as self, not Mo), wouldn't it behoove you, a writer just starting out in a literary realm to acquaint yourselves with other writers?"

Behoove. There's a $5 word.

Anywho, it looked like a great place to get to know people and to have possible questions answered or dilemnas resolved.

I found a link at http://yahighway.blogspot.com/.

I was looking into finding literary agents and was directed to P&E and then wandered my way here, and I am very glad I did. This site is great for someone just starting out. I am very grateful for all the authors out there that want to share and help everyone they can.

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thanks for all comments here. have fun



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I spend a lot of my life Googling, and one day I happened across the infamous TWFT blog. Lurked around AW for a couple days.

I joined another writer's forum but it was mainly geared towards SEO online content writers. That's cool but I was looking for 1 forum that had the total package. I searched for forums and here I am.

I've been posting to Done Deal Pro for many years, discussing screenwriting, but I'm becoming more interested in writing prose so I asked if there were any good forums related to novel writing and someone pointed me to AW.

I found the site whilst googling for info on a maybe dodgy publisher. Found they were discussed on one of your forums.

I Found a question on Y!Answers (where I posted previous work) and It referred me here.

Saw AW mentioned after reading Charms by Shweta Narayan. I clicked on her web page and there was a thank you to this forum's users for all their help.

I searched through questions on yahoo answers about the best site for writers and was directed to some other site which I didn't like AT ALL.

I decided to search yahoo answers again and this is what I came up with! I am soooooo gladd I decided to try again!

I had seen this site mentioned more than once on writer and agent blogs.

I was googling for information about the Delacorte writing contest, it directed me to a thread I found very valuable. I read page after page and decided this was a place I needed to spend more time. Now I am addicted.

I was Googling the correct way to format a synopsis, and it led me here, and I am SO glad I found this forum! So much valuable information, all in one spot.

How I got here

Weirdly, I can no longer remember. I think it was through Writer Beware, which in turn I found through Miss Snark. I ended up at the Bewares and Backgrounds board and spent a lot of time browsing.

I may have nightmares after sitting down and reading the NEPAT threads end to end, but the more you know....

My good (published) friend Bubastes recommended it as "the" best site and I think I agree! Though boy oh boy is there a lot to find, catch up on, etc. This could keep me busy for many lunch breaks and evenings...

typed in writing forums.

So far I have been met with hostility from some.
For anyone who cares, I am a dedicated writer and I came here looking for advice.

Hi WordLover-

I'm a Newbie too and I'm sorry to hear you've been met with hostility. I've found this forum to be very helpful and the participants to be understanding.

I hope you find the answers and advice you're looking for and if I can help direct you to to the proper thread, please let me know.

Writer's Digest/Writer's Market 101 best Web sites for writers. Glad to hear so much enthusiasm from so many people. Seems I picked the right Web site to join (and obviously, you did too).

WordLover said:

typed in writing forums.

So far I have been met with hostility from some.
For anyone who cares, I am a dedicated writer and I came here looking for advice.

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I'd like to respond to this for clarity. I've looked at your posts, WordLover, and the only hostility and arrogance I'm seeing is coming from you, or is in response to yours.

I think I found this site via random web browsing for writer-type stuff, and became hooked.

Everyone here has been helpful and great help in my experience as well.

How I found this site

Well, I was looking for a writing site that people were more active on. At first I really liked Critters.org but you have to read others writings and critique (a large amount) in order to stay active. I really liked it, but I never had time to read others (70k word stories. when mines is 18k words.) So then I found mibba.com and booksie.com but I kinda got bored of it and it was like basically just for writing and not asking questions and then someone recommended me this website so here I am!

I knew about this site previously but wasn't aware of the forums.

I have participated in the forums at writers.net and enjoy the discussions there, but have grown weary of the software running their forums which dates from roughly 200 BC. I asked on that site what other writing forums exist with quality discussion forums and was directed here.

So far, it looks like a good place to be. The discussions appear to be lively and full of good advice. And hey, the forum software was at least written in this century.

I was double wolf dared.. so I joined, dived in and found the waters are deeper than I thought, which means I can learn plenty.. and I'm glad ;-D