Thank you! I’ll be sure to check those out!

https://silverpenstrokes.wordpress.com/ my new blog!!!

Check it out and consider subscribing, because there’s a great new post coming out tomorrow (I post once a month for now)

I’m just gonna tag a few people I know and those who have been active on this…[Read more]

@devastate-lasting

Ey, nice job! It’s good to set a goal for yourself. Right now I’ve been trying to write three pages a day, and it’s pretty much all trash, but I’m glad it’s getting done. Well, it was. Until finals happened 😭.

Thanks! Yes, goals are quite helpful and a thousand a day isn’t too overwhelm…[Read more]

Hey!!

That’s great that you don’t have too many finales! I really hope you get a lot of writing done.

Let’s see, what have I been up to… As far as writing goes, I’ve been working on a romance that is going extremely well. I have been coming down on myself hard enough that I’ve been able to write over 23,000 words in about…[Read more]

@devastate-lasting,

I feel ya. 😛

Writing’s going very well, you?

Agh, I do that too. XD Peeps tag me, then I’m like, “OH! STORY EMBERS! I FORGOT ABOUT THAT!” XD

JOIN THE CONVO

Thanks! I really appreciate it 😀

THAT’S RIGHT I BETTER GET THE CREDIT!!!

lol, I can’t wait read your newsletterings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAH MORE LIKE THE BLAME!!!! LOL “Cheesecake, Lord of Doom!!” XD You know I can see that, right? XD It’s epic and I shall endeavour to adress you as such!

@obrian-of-the-surface-world

Looking forward to your newsletter, Rose (

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Chapter 2, Scene 1

Audio Link: Book 1, Chapter 2, Scene 1

Duration: 8:37

Text: 1490 words

Liorah

My best friend, Sahar, bounced with excitement, her skirt rippling around her ankles. She spun in a graceful dance step,…[Read more]

Nice! 15.5k is great! So, you mentioned you finished your first draft of you YA fantasy, are you in th editing stage for it now? Or what are you currently working on?

I am currently reading Skyward, so make sure that no spoilers slip off your tongue. 😉 Yes, Spensa is the shining star of that book. 🙂 Jerkface (aka, Jorgen,…[Read more]

I got Scrivener for my birthday and I really love it! It helps keep everything organized without having to open dozens of folders for it.

@joy-caroline

Also, Scrivener is awesome for organizing notes and other things. I use it once in a while and would recommend!

At first I didn’t think Scrivener would be useful for me, but the…[Read more]

Thank you so much for listening to it! Thanks for your feedback, as well.

You’re welcome! I really enjoyed listening to it.

Yeah, character voice is not one of my strong points. Also probably because I didn’t do any character development beforehand and wrote this beginning on a whim from an image in my mind. I’ll definitely wor…

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WOW! That was truly spectacular! I was completely sucked into the scene! I love it, and your lovely voice matches the scene so well! (Also, love the title!)

1. Is there anything that stood out to you as intriguing about this scene?

I think the implication of all the backstory, and the boy Chen Mai pictures. The one with the…[Read more]

Thanks for the tag. July was unusually (but in a good way) busy for me, but I hope I’ll be able to get to some of these stories later this month.

@rose-colored-fancy & @devastate-lasting

I’ll try to get to your stories sometime in the next couple weeks!

Linyang,

Your reading was brilliant! You have a very calm and soothing voice, girl. You need never apologize for those dulcet tones.

Your flow is very good and you add nuance to each character, that I don’t even think you realize. Excellent job!  I can’t wait for the others to hear it.  You should be confident to do more p…[Read more]

…AND I have added one additional question that goes to the value of this fun exercise. 😎  12 Disciples – 12 Tribes of Israel – 12 Gates in the Heavenly City – 12 – Eggs in a Dozen… (Okay, I’ll admit I got carried away with this last…[Read more]

Thanks for the encouragement! I’ll try to find a day where my allergies aren’t acting up to record a short piece, then.

Awesome! Ohh, I get the allergies issue! It’s been sniffle, sigh, and sneeze in our house for the past three months XD Can’t wait to hear it! (The piece, not the allergies XD) <3

Hi Rose,

Consider it done.  I will repost the Scene Questions with this one added.

@devastate-lasting

Hi Linyang,

We absolutely love accents here and everyone dislikes their voice at some point. Rose is correct…

…but if she had let that stop her from giving it a shot, we would have missed such a blessing in what…[Read more]

Wow, this looks interesting. Too bad I really hate hearing my voice. Not sure what I would read, either, because of the different brand I write, heh… Nothing long and poetic like you guys. Just sentences.

I’d still love to hear it! That’s an interesting format to write in and I’d love to hear/read it! And I feel like that ins…[Read more]

Hi Joelle,

Whew! It has been a long and busy week.
Trying to catch up on responding to posts.

So, let me clarify a little.  These snippets of scenes are extracted from anywhere in a longer work, so they will often be introduced without context or backstory.  We are just looking at the intrinsic value of a single scene, which m…[Read more]

(yes I started this topic because my writings are a mess and scattered all over and I need to clean and re-organize my Google Drive and OneNote)

tagging some…[Read more]

Just gonna warn you!  You might hate the book’s ending (my sister certainly did, and thus tried to rewrite the ending 😁)

@devastate-lasting

Okay, thanks for clarifying that guys.

@obrian-of-the-surface-world

My sister believes squirrels are trying to take over the world; maybe that’s why dogs always bark at and chase them…[Read more]

No I haven’t read it. *looks it up online* but I’m going to read it right now lol. Yeah Lily’s got some hard squirrel evidence captured on camera. I like it! He collects bow ties, but why does he like them so much XD

@devastate-lasting *gives high five* Right on!

Cool, I’ve never heard of Picrew; is it like Canva?

@michelle

Thank you muchly for the acorn *wonders how I might eat it*  *shrugs and decides to bronze it and set it on a non-existing mantel in the house instead*  XD

Ooo, how about this for the next squirrel story:

“My pet squirrel collects bow ties”

Hey, have you e…[Read more]

Hi there!  No problem!  I sometimes do that too! *thanks you for the amazing cookies!*

Those were pretty good!  I agree with Linyang; I like the first one.  Now I’m intrigued….

@devastate-lasting

Congrats!  That’s exciting.  I also love your avatar.

Okay my six word stories are…..

#1.  The train left the station. But I’m still here.

#2.  T…[Read more]

@imwritehere1920

#4. Abducted by squirrels. They are nuts! #5.

#8. Undeveloped film reveals future crime scenes. /quote]

Those two are my favorite!

@devastate-lasting

That’s a cool one!  Did it win?

Thanks so much guys!  I loved reading these!

Lately, I’ve become obsessed with six word stories (and no, in case you were wondering, I didn’t come up with the above story; wished I did, though 😊.  According to rumors, it’s a famous short story written by Hemingway, though, not proven).

I really like the idea of compacting a whole story just to a handful…[Read more]

Wow, that book sounds awesome! I’ll have to check it out!

It’s the BEST and I can’t recommend it enough! It’s really amazing and severely underrated!

@obrian-of-the-surface-world

I can’t find the post in the thread, but I did get an email about America…[Read more]

That’s awesome! I think the cool thing about motifs is that you might not notice them right away, but on the second or third read, they become obvious.

Another book I thought of that does this exceptionally well is the Red Ribbon by Lucy Adlington. The book doesn’t have chapters, it’s split up into several parts, each n…[Read more]

I’ve heard of motifs before, but I thought they referred more to general things that are in different stories but tend to represent the same thing, like a wise old man or a ghost appearing. Maybe I’m getting it confused with archetypes.

You know, you may actually be right XD ‘Motifs’ was just my rough translation XD
Oh, those are…[Read more]

Hello! I’m an avid fantasy writer and I’m so glad you asked about “fantasy types”, I’ve really enjoyed reading the results so far.

I write mainly historical fantasy. Either fantasy set in a (real) historical setting (like Fawkes, or Romanov, by Nadine Brandes) or sort of alternate universe historical fantasy, I guess. However,…[Read more]

In that case, I’d say The Wingfeather Saga is definitely worth your time if you get a chance to read it. 🙂

Thanks! I haven’t seen that one yet. I’ll definitely look into it, though. It sounds interesting, and I’m glad you like the story.

The idea is actually from November of 2019, but I just got to working on it, as I am a master Procrastinator. It’s been in progress for the last two years or so.…[Read more]

Ooh cool topic!

So, personally, I really like fantasies that have underlying messages that are left for the reader to do with as they interpret it. For example, LoTR does a good job with this. (Although I admit, you do have to do a lot of slogging through pages of Hobbits just wandering around to get to those underlying…[Read more]

Oh, I love Dostoevsky! Crime and Punishment and Demons are two of my favorite books.

The monsters come out at night and hide themselves in shadows and mist. According to my world’s lore, they devour everything and leave worlds behind them in a state of darkness and decay. There may also be some other kinds of creatures later…[Read more]

True!

My favorite things I’ve created so far are probably the Moltan’s…lava people that turn to rock when exposed to water…because their culture is really fun and strange. And the Ticaur (the tiger…[Read more]

I suppose I’m trying to capture the feel of British and Russian lit with the writing style, emphasis on family and social drama, and limited technology. I’m not at all trying to “recreate” a particular time period or culture by any means, but draw from the atmosphere a bit. 🙂

The world my characters live in is fairly ordinar…[Read more]

The only problem with Space is that everyone will think it’s Star Wars. XD

Thanks!

I have some central scriptural verse that resonates with this story:

Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. [Matthew 25:34 KJV]

Here is the key verse of the goal of the Excavatia book series:

And that the eyes…[Read more]

Hmm, I just started experimenting with fantasy so I don’t know all the ropes yet (hence the reason I joined this group to learn from y’all’s expertise), but I’ve been thinking lately about what type I’d like to explore. I like medieval fantasy and also find time-traveling really interesting. Or maybe something in space, like…[Read more]

To your question:

My overall theme is “Lordship”.  I find that one lacking in the myriad offerings of Christian fiction.  “Redemption” is always the more prevalent one since the story arc is fairly clear, but I wanted to take it further than just into the “saving” of the MC or ancillary characters.  To me, sa…[Read more]

@devastate-lasting This is such a cool topic!

I have two different types of fantasy worlds in my stories, but they have similarities. One is your typical Narnia-ish feel (castles, mythical creatures, dragons, magic spells, etc.) and the other is what’s called Adventure Fantasy. It’s really just fantasy with no…[Read more]