Strictly Writing: poll

It's an oft-debated subject whether writers should stay true to their art regardless of anyone else's opinion, or write for a specific market. When blogging publicly like this, however, it would be pretty odd if we didn't care what our readers want. We're thinking about how to improve Strictly Writing over the next few months and we'd love to hear what you would like to see on the site.

Please tell us what you like best about the blog by taking our poll, and if you have other feedback about new things we could be doing (within reason - we don't mean stuff like posting nude pics of the team or anything) then let us know in the comments. You can even give constructive criticism if you like - we promise not to go all 'Greek Seaman' about it.

If you can't view the poll below, you can also access it here.

Welcome

Welcome to our blog. We are a varied group of writers - published and aspiring; poets, short-story creators and novelists - with one thing in common: an enduring love for the craft of writing. A love which requires great resilience in the face of recurrent self-doubt, writer's block and rejection. In the face of the obsessive checking of emails, inch high dust and burnt dinners. In the face of a gamut of RSI injuries and writer's bottom. But a love that repays itself ten times over with those sparkling seconds of elation when finally, the right prose unfolds, like a quick-footed jive or seamless Cha Cha Cha. That's when we trust once again the voice in our heads that urges... "Keeeeep writing!"

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