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There is a small bit of business we ought to take care of. Most people have expressed to me a desire to allow critiquing of each other's work. I think this is a good idea, with one reservation: posting your work to an open forum, such as FR, could leave you open to copyright infringement. Granted, it's not likely to happen, but one never knows. It helps some that FR time stamps its posts, so you can get an exact date for when you created the material, and it would further help to keep a copyright posted in your posts...

This is the initial Righters Ping List, in alphabetical order. Normally, a ping list is used to alert folks on FR to articles that would be of interest to them. While this ping list will be like that, I'm hoping that as time goes on it will become more. What I would kind of like to see happen is have this thing turn into a kind of writer's workshop, a place where folks could come to learn from each other. I know I could use that kind of help. If anyone has any good ideas to that end, or any...

Squarebarb: There were some of us including GOPpoet who were thinking of starting a writer's thread here on FR. There's a horse thread, a football thread, a Hobbit Hole thread, so why not a thread for us writers? And mainly sticking to fiction otherwise the discussion tends toward politicsa iinstead of the craft of writing. Okay Eleutheria5, YOU start the thread." Eleutheria5: On it. Could use some help from someone who knows how to do HTTP and other techy stuff, though. Tried to learn, but drat that right hemisphere dominance we creative folks have. I've actually been running a board...