Welcome to The Write Angle! Start with these three short steps: Before you post, please read our Community Guidelines. You’ll also find the short rule list here. 1. Create your introduction post. Tell us what you write, what you are working on, and one thing you would like help with. Click “Write something” and give your post a title such as “Hello from [your name]!” 2. Meet another writer. Reply to an introduction or join a conversation. 3. Choose your first course. Start with CASCADE for novel planning or The Craft of Writing Newsletters for connecting with readers. Open Start Here → The Start Here lessons include introduction prompts and direct links to the courses. Once you have chosen a course, aim to finish one lesson and try its activity this week. Bring your questions and progress back to the community. Glad you’re here! Elle

I’m trying a new paid version of The Write Angle, and I’d love to invite you to take a look. The reason for the change is to stop the bots, scammers, and spammers from joining the community. Policing them is taking up time I should be spending working with legitimate students. 'The Write Angle with Elle' is a place for fiction and nonfiction authors to learn, put what they learn into practice, and make steady progress alongside other writers. There are three monthly membership options: • Standard — $9/month: our writing and newsletter courses, video library, writing prompts, community discussion, and live writing sprints. • Premium — $19/month: everything in Standard, plus monthly live training and the replay. • VIP — $49/month: everything in Premium, plus the GlyphStack author-software suite, with app access activated by me manually. Explore the new group and choose a plan here: https://www.skool.com/the-write-angle/about Joining is optional. This group will remain free and open during the test, and no one will be moved or charged automatically. We’ll share the same November writing sprint sessions across both groups. If the paid community works well, I may close this free group. If I decide to do that, I’ll give you advance notice so you can decide whether you’d like to come over. There’s no closing date set now. Whether you join me there or continue here during the test, I appreciate you being part of The Write Angle. Blessings, Elle

Your character can take only three possessions on a journey with no return date. They pack two quickly, then hesitate over the third. Write the choice and the memory that complicates it. Set a timer and write for 15 minutes. You can use a character from your current project or start with someone new. If you’d like, share a few lines or tell us which possession was hardest for your character to choose. Please keep excerpts within our community guidelines, and offer critique only when the writer asks for it. Elle

Your character stops to help someone and misses the ferry to an important meeting. Write the moment they choose to stay. What do they risk, and what do they refuse to regret? Set a timer and write for 15 minutes. You can use someone from your current project or create a new character. If you’d like, share a few lines or tell us what your character’s choice revealed. Please keep excerpts within our community guidelines, and offer critique only when the writer asks for it. Elle

Two friends talk about tomorrow’s weather. One knows they’re leaving for good. Write ten lines without letting either say goodbye. Show what each person avoids. Set a timer and write for 15 minutes. You can use characters from your current project or start with someone new. If you’d like, share a few lines or tell us which unspoken feeling shaped the conversation. Please keep excerpts within our community guidelines, and offer critique only when the writer asks for it. Elle