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If you’re reading this then you’re not writing. To be a writer you have to write, you have to keep learning and you have to network. If you’re reading this you’re probably learning and you’ll probably check in at the forums so you’ll be networking too.

If you’ve started to seek out information about writing online you will have come across some great writing communities that are helpful, encouraging and a fun place to be. If you’ve been hanging out in writing communities for a while you’re probably spending a large chunk of your time keeping up with the activity. You may even find that you’re not writing as much as you’d like because of it. This becomes more obvious when you participate in challenges such as SoCNoC and it’s easy to put the blog and forum reading to one side for a month but that doesn’t fix the problem for the rest of the year.

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