Welcome to Litopia - the net's oldest community for writers
stablished over a decade ago, Litopia Writers' Colony is quite simply the 'net's pre-eminent community for writers. If you're serious about your writing, this is where you need to be.
By Writers, For Writers
We're run by writers, for writers. Many websites claim to have writers' interests at heart; most of them turn out to be - what shall we say? Disappointing. Don't be fooled.
Litopia is often copied, but rarely equalled. Your time spent in the Colony will be well invested. Stimulating and intelligent company is guaranteed: many lasting friendships have been forged here.
The warmth and friendliness of the place is breathtaking. We have members from all over the globe, from all walks of life, and from all backgrounds. What unites us is our shared passion for excellence in writing.
At the social heart of the Colony is an area we call Café Grande: a literary salon in the grand European manner. Here you'll find high-minded banter rubbing shoulders with low-down wit: just what a literary salon ought to be. Express an opinion, share a yarn, catch up with industry gossip or just spend time recharging your gray matter.
But Litopia is far more than a mere talking shop. It's a sweat shop, too: this is where your skills will be honed and your talent nurtured and burnished. Our unique "Houses" system can take your manuscript from first draft and see it through to its fullest potential.
And that's not all. There have never been more publishing options for authors than there are these days; making sense of them all is almost a full-time job.
Fortunately, you're not alone - expert support and guidance is available inside the Colony, from writers who speak from their own experience.
"Joining Litopia is like signing up for a post-graduate creative writing degree at a top-notch university" a member wrote recently, "without the fees, the pompous professors and the dawn lectures".
Read what our other members say, and then decide if Litopia is for you.
Better yet, try Litopia for yourself - for free!
What with Benedict Cumberbatch's radical new television interpretation of Sherlock Holmes, and the recent big-screen Guy Ritchie / Robert Downey / Jude Law action movies, the Baker Street seven per-center is enjoying a major revival of interest.
How appropriate, then, that the master screenwriter of the entire Holmes canon should be joining us on Litopia...
J Katrin
Not physically, no--I would disappear if that happened. But I've recently dropped a lot of mental baggage by the wayside.
Most of it's about other people, and nothing that needs to be detailed here...
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One hundred years ago, on January 17th, 1912, Captain Robert Falcon Scott's five-man team reached the South Pole: only to find Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen had beaten them to it more than a month earlier...
RL Sutton
I may be wrong, but today, reading a closing report on the Digital Book World expo written by Sarah Weinman for Publisher's Lunch gave me a decidedly positive feeling about the biz. For years now, there have been so many cries of doom, destruction and the end of various institutions surrounding the publishing business that any sign the storms are lifting is good news indeed.
The sea change the industry began combatting wasn't just about the economic reality of less disposable income. It was also composed of equal parts of technological battery (as in assault), marketing confusion, transportation costs, and entertainment...
Carolyn Rosewood
Last year I did a blog post about apostrophe abuse. It bears repeating but today I have a different rant. Your versus You’re. There is a difference between them. They are NOT interchangeable. YOUR is a pronoun used to denote possession. YOU’RE is a contraction for YOU ARE.... |
Wordsmith
January guilt has struck again. However, I’m beginning to feel that rather than giving up chocolate, cheese, alcohol and losing weight (that's losing weight; not giving up losing weight ) I should give up guilt. Perhaps the same theory as the man who kept reading that smoking was bad for him so he gave up reading. Not only is the January weather grey and soggy, my brain feels the same after a blast of shopping/giving/...
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WoleryWol
With the advent of Hughes House for poetry critiquing on the colony, some of you might be interested in visiting my blog to see my three posts this week about a multimedia collaboration between myself and celebrated artist, Julian Sutherland-Beatson. To whet your appetite, here's today's picture. ...
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keystrokes
Only entrepreneurs can save the UK from going over the cliff. The following is a letter I had published in the Financial Times almost three years ago. While the numbers may have changed a little, the basic message remains the same. Sadly, while cost cutting has been started, very few steps have been taken to address the UK's core problem - its lack of growth. Imagine a publicly held company with revenues of £500m and costs of £700m...
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Donna
Writers love to show lawyers using twins to trick witnesses into false identifications. The plotline will have the witness asked, “Can you show me the man who attacked you?” The witness points to... |
SeaSerpent
There's something about old discarded farm equipment that fascinates me. It's lying around all over the place - in thickets beside the fields, by old gateways, or in a clump of nettles by the side...
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RL Sutton
The NY Times magazine of this past Sunday, posed an intriguing question in its table of contents. The article, written by Garth Hallberg, was titled,...
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Donna
In the episode “Parenting Made Easy,” The Good Wife represents a professor who claims she was fired due to discrimination based upon her political beliefs. Whether or not such a claim... |
Peaceful_Thinker
I have always thought of writing as an art. It’s truly amazing how a magical world can be created with words. Yes, it truly is an art. I feel that writing is for everyone. Sadly, getting...
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Pelotard
In this blog post, I seem to, unconsciously, have sort of bought into the common perception of North Korea as a strange, illogical place, where...
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RL Sutton
Yesterday morning, I looked in the mirror, after climbing out of bed (Note: climbing out. I used to jump out or roll out). I saw the tired, old reprobate looking back and instead of rubbing my...
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Donna
Guess what folks? Being a lawyer is my job, not my hobby. If I didn’t make money doing it, I could be spending time with the kids or writing a novel. So it really, really ticks me off when people...
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Ysleliss
So 2011 becomes the past and what a pooey year it was, starting with me being diagnosed as having CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) and ending with me getting bronchitis. Now that just seems to be... |
Peaceful_Thinker
I feel that writing, like life, is a journey. Even those who have been published will always be on a journey. They will improve just as we are trying to improve. There are always ways to make our...
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Carolyn Rosewood
His Majesty’s Secret has a home! I’m thrilled to announce I’m now a Siren-Bookstrand author! His Majesty’s Secret, my 70K+...
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Appalachian Artist
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