Day: July 27, 2017

Podcast: So You Want to be a Writer
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

Writing Podcast Episode 188 Is Wattpad useful?

In this minisode of So you want to be a writer:Is Wattpad useful? Should you send interviewees your article to approve? Got a question for Val and Al? Ask at podcast [at] writerscentre [dot] com [dot] au Click play below to listen to the podcast. You can also listen on Apple

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Australian Writers’ Centre Team

Word of the week: Lacustrine

Lacustrine (adjective) [luh’kustruyn] Thanks for Matthew Morrison @acutemattiosis for pinging us this word which he, in turn, read in a tweet by Rob Macfarlane. “Lacustrine” usually refers to things like plants or animals that live or occur on or in lakes. So you must say “That’s a lacustrine plant” if it’s

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