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Hey everybody,
I haven’t finished up my plan for these activities moving forward, but thanks to all of your REALLY AWESOME feedback on my topic last week it seems that the picture prompt activity was by far the most popular, so I thought I’d spin another of those together.

You need to write a short scene.  Source of conflict?  The glass w…[Read more]

Hey guys!

So I’ve been having an issue lately… coming up with a new one of these every week is hard.  That’s my excuse for not posting one this week.

Sorry.  I know it’s lame.

However. I’m going to take this week to put together something of a long-term plan that will (hopefully) help me communicate and use these activities to really be h…[Read more]

Hey guys,

We’ve got two big things going down this week.

First, FEEDBACK FORMS.  The Story Embers staff and Guildmasters are looking to make these guilds even way more better.  To do that, we need your guys’ thoughts.  So, we’ve put together this short survey for everyone to go through instead of doing an activity this week.  Please take a few…[Read more]

One strength that descriptions have is their ability to set the mood for a scene.  For example, if my character is walking in the woods I can describe either the spring breeze brushing through the trees or the hollow, cracking leaves whisping through the eeire silence.  In these descriptions I’m describing the same thing, but I’m creating a t…[Read more]

Okay so the last Guild War Prompt was a little heavy.  That’s okay, sometimes life is heavy and stories must be honest.

ON THE OTHER HAND, we don’t want to leave everybody feeling low, so this time around we’ve got a more… light-hearted prompt: “Write a scene from the point of view of a five-year-old who has an engaging character voice.”

Due…[Read more]

Hey Everybody,

I have some important announcements so I’m going to give them their own topic.

This week’s prompt is a scavenger hunt.  Open up your favorite book and find a description you love.  Once you’ve got it, share it here along with a short explanation of why you like it or how it works.

Can’t wait to see what’ you’ve g…[Read more]

Hey Guys,

I’m working on some other stuff today so we’re gonna take a well-earned break from activities this week.  (If you’re feeling let down, you could always swing by the critique board and help a fellow Lumenite out.)

Also, one of the things I’m working on is a guild feedback form so keep your eyes out for…[Read more]

Hey Guys

Um… no announcements today.

Cool.

And the assignment I have in mind is pretty chill too.  I want to try to keep making these so that they help you write your WIP (is that what you guys want, or do you want a weekly break from your WIP?) so… this week we’re literally going to write your WIP.

Go to your first scene.  That opening s…[Read more]

Hey Guys!

How was the week without me?  Seems like Rolena did a fantastic job of keeping everything rolling smoothly.  (Big shoutout to her for that.)

We have three new members (yay!)

@star, @graceabounds2129 and @wordsmith

y’all know how to give them a proper welcome.

Finally, this week’s activity is easy.

yay

I found this great K.M. We…[Read more]

Hey Rillumenites!

It just so happens that our beloved guildmaster is away for the week (doing many exciting, writerly things). So, a thousand pardons, but y’all will have to put up with me again. 🙂 So if you have any questions over the week, go ahead and direct ’em my way.

This week’s activity will be simple since we’re working hard to finish…[Read more]

(This might make a duplicate, in which case I apologize, but I think I accidentally deleted the original trying to edit it to get a tag right. XP)

My main character makes a lot of bad choices as part of her arc (negative and then recovering from that negative arc) and I have two themes that I want to emphasize: 1) People need people. 2) Bad…[Read more]

Hey guys,

NEW GUILD WAR CHALLENGE!  This time we’ve got two weeks to come up with the most emotional death scene we can write.  Here’s the dirt:
Max words: 2,500
Due: 6/18/18
Topic: Death scene

So, last time we did this we wrote two (really good) stories and ended up having to choose only one.  Not only was it hard and sad, it also wasted ha…[Read more]