Brandon Miller

@rolena-hatfield YAY AIRPORTS. Such adventure and everyone moving with a purpose and joyous reunions and tear-stained goodbyes and luggage and nasty (expensive) food and business guys in suits standing next to vacation guys in Hawaiian shirts and flipflops while everybody ignores the little kiosk salesperson with the sunscreen bottles under 3…[Read more]

Yeah . I mean Mary Weber is gonna be our keynote so…

I guess that means you’ll be needing your copyback by then, doesn’t it?

Also, Same on Fawkes. I need to cram Peddler and Evaporation in between now and then.

I have a friend who’s letting me borrow it.  (*cough*) I’ve gotta have it done before Realm Makers… which means before Fawkes releases.  (FAWKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Just a random and kind of related thought:
Having too many settings is a good way to distance your reader from the story.  Keeping your settings down in numbers will help them feel more comfortable in your storyworld as specific locations grow more familiar more quickly.

@kayla-joy

The short answer is we’re not sure which ones were which bc anonymous voting and stuff.  Sorry about that.

I think Avensbeck’s was #4

(Also, we got a shoutout honorable mention.  Didn’t realize that was us until just now.  Go you guys.)

Welcome, @graceabounds2129, glad to have you!  Big writing goals are cool.  What books have you read about writing?  Go Teen Writers is my favorite.  What’s your WIP dystopian about?

Don’t worry too much about the quiz, you got here and that’s the main thing.  (Besides, 56 sounds like a valid score, actually.  It’s complicated. anyway… moving o…[Read more]

@graceabounds2129 Welcome to the crew!  Scribbles got it right, this is a Rillumen only thread.  Welcome to the special zone.  Getting on a forum for the first time can be a mess, so feel free to ask any and all questions over on the questions page.  Excited to have you aboard!

Hey Guys, the votes are in and…….

the prize goes to Avensbeck.

I think they may have some tricks up their sleeve that we could learn.  Lucky for us, we can take a look at all the contest entries and learn from their strengths.  Check them out here.

Many congrats anyway and we’ll check back in next time. (Hopefully I’ll be around more now.)

Yeah not too grand.  Struggling to figure out how to get all of my stuff done between getting home from work and going to bed while leaving enough time for writing.  We’ll see how it goes.

Thanks for asking.

This was a great idea.  Thanks, @Rolena-Hatfield!

Hey guys,
I’m going to submit this a few minutes after I post the week’s description activity.  Nice work to everyone involved and thanks @rolena-hatfield for taking command while I was out!

Well… it appears that (literal) technical difficulties are going to win the day.  Sigh.

Launch day has been indefinitely postponed.

:'(

@scribbles YES.  It is my blog.

*was

*will be again on FRIDAY!

I’m excited.  http://www.woodlandquill.com/

@rolena-hatfield Thanks.  Lucky for me, I made no $10,000 check donation plans this time.  lol

@rolena-hatfield

You had to ask.

Long story short, the outline isn’t even completed yet.  Ideas have been… hard to come by and I had to reread it (90,000 words) just to remember what I had to work with.  It’s been rough.  New goal is to have the outline FINISHED before I leave for workshop next week (with flexibility for the new ideas Wo…[Read more]

@corkybookworm OH MY GOODNESS.  My mom used to make the best blueberry banana muffins when we were little.  She hasn’t made them in ages and I forgot all about them.

Ha, guess what’s going on the menu next time she asks what I want to meet?

@nuetrobolt, okay that’s fine.  Maybe just sit back and watch your family, or some kids at the park or someone in the shopping center and try to discern what emotion they’re feeling by their gestures and facial expressions.  Just… don’t be creepy.  Or maybe… don’t get caught being creepy.  lol

@corkybookworm, No, you’re just already late.

😐

*sheepishly* (yeah, I’ll change that)