Linyang Zhang

@devastate-lasting nice! Your poor character 😉 Is there anything that keeps him from getting his mother’s love?

@allison-grace that’s a neat backstory for Kare 🙂 Is he ever in any situations where he has to risk being rejected in order to achieve his plot goals or some such?

@sarah-narnathron wow, that’s awesome! It’s especially interesting…[Read more]

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Happy Monday, Ereki! How did your goals for last week go? I did okay with mine despite a crazy week 😛 My new goals are:

– Polish my short story and actually submit it

– write and edit my other short story

– begin reading through my novel again

@Bekks2017 @Sarah-Inkdragon @Allison-Grace @TheInviZibleMan @lydia-writes @Devastate-Lasting @WarrenL…[Read more]

@devastate-lasting that’s a great way to put it! While I think it’s fine to go over what the MC can handle, going over what is humanly possible isn’t the best idea, like your example (which was hilarious, btw XD). Though I do think there’s a time to put something like that in a story just to make the MC blow up, though you’d want to make sure it…[Read more]

*drumroll* The results from the guild wars have arrived….

I’m sorry to say we didn’t win (Avensbeck did), but we did a great job with our prompt and I’m certain we grew as writers while writing it, and that’s what counts 🙂 On that note, all of the prompts are compiled here: …[Read more]

@Bekks2017 @Sarah-Inkdragon @Allison-Grace @TheInviZibleMan @lydia-writes @Devastate-Lasting @WarrenLuther04 @ajaj2000 @Sageinthemeadow @cowlick @ENU @Kara-Lynn @Sarah-Narnathron

How’d everyone do last week for their goals? I only met two of mine, but I’m pleased with the progress I made 😀

My goals for this week are:

– Completely finish my short story and submit it

– Figure out what I’m submitting said short story for 😛

– Outline another short story

– Work on organizing notes for my novel if I have…[Read more]

@sarah-narnathron I agree, but I’ll see if anyone else has suggestions 🙂

Just a couple hours left until I’m going to submit it! What about Twenty Times for a title, since Camreigh re-lived that part of his life twenty times?

@Bekks2017 @Sarah-Inkdragon @Allison-Grace @TheInviZibleMan @lydia-writes @Devastate-Lasting @WarrenLuther04 @ajaj2000 @Sa…[Read more]

We’re so close to the end of this guild war! I just went over our submission again and I think it’s epic. 😀  It’s due tomorrow morning, so we’ll have time to proofread it then. 🙂 Also, it isn’t necessary, but we’re allowed to give our submission a title. Sage mentioned putting a Bible verse at the end as well. Any thoughts/ideas on those two…[Read more]

@devastate-lasting he’s the reason I want to reread all 32 of the original books again. XD

@devastate-lasting awesome! I just went over it again and made a few minor suggestions (while trying not to get too emotional reading the last few pages…). Feel free to resolve them and the comments as you edit, and if something does come up, just tag me on Sunday and I can help out. 🙂

@allison-grace I found the typo 🙂

@devastate-lasting I’d do a different plot structure for each book in the series. The plot would hopefully have some common threads for the whole series, but I’d fill out your plot points for individual books as opposed to the whole stories.

Theme & character arc are more flexible IMO. Some series have one overarching theme and character arc.…[Read more]

*alights on a phoenix* I come bearing exciting news 😉

First off, I have created a google doc where we can consolidate all the ideas we’re coming up with. I think brainstorming will work best in this forum thread, but once we’ve all agreed upon something (like being called Ereki) we can put it in the document. The only thing that isn’t there…[Read more]

Alright, Ereki! We have a couple days left to finish up our submission for the guild war. If you all could find some time to make some final suggestions today, we can proofread it and submit it on Sunday night. Here’s the document one more time. We’re so close to finishing! 😀

@Devastate-Lasting if you get some final suggestions by tonight, will…[Read more]

@devastate-lasting I think in a series, such as a trilogy, there CAN be a plot, them and char arc that spans all three books, but generally, I think, there is also a smaller version, per se, of each one. For example in Chris Columbus’ House of Secrets trilogy, there is a structure to each one, a climax and everything, but it is still part of a s…[Read more]

@devastate-lasting That is a very good question. Also, it makes me happy that you have a large family in your books.

And you know what third wheels are good for? SNARK. All the snarky teasing.

@morreafirebird That’s awesome! And haha, yeah. I’m the older one in the family, so I tend to be on the receiving end of awkward questions . . .

Another…[Read more]