Hahaha, thanks for following me!

@elisha-starquill

Yes I am! 😀

@irishcelticredflowercrown @elisha-starquill @lonathecat (lol, I guess I didn’t necessarily have to tag you…) @sparrowhawke

I’m just curious, has that board helped anyone?? I know I’ve only been adding names lately, but I did go through and add more…[Read more]

Sweet!!! Thanks for following me! Btw, are you a violinist?

@sparrowhawke

Awesome, thank you! I am following you as well. I’ve learned that I must be the only person on SE who hasn’t seen LOTR or Harry Potter XD

Hey thanks for the great advice!! That article was very helpful!

But what makes these intelligent villains extremely creepy is when they are so so so clever and they anticipate everything the good guys do and it just…gives me the chills. At how intelligence can be twisted and used for evil. But at the same time what they do makes sense and it’s all so clever.

Oooh, YES! I love it when that h…[Read more]

Group #3: 18,072

Group #2: 7,213

Group #1: 18.072

And the individual record for this month was 8,792, by @corkybookworm

@toklaham-veruzia @hope-ann @seekjustice @hope-mcclellan @r-m-archer @emberynus-the-dragonslayer @gabrielwoods @kari-karast @fairfay @the-golden-light @corkybookworm @abigail-rebekah @cassidy @millen…[Read more]

Oooh, those are awesome!

Here’s another:

In the Dutch rural areas, you shouldn’t knock before entering, and you don’t use the front door. You should find the back door and just walk in, preferably calling something along the lines of “Folk!” or “Hello?”.

It isn’t very strict, but some people will look at you like you grew a…[Read more]

Thx for the advice!! And yes, it does help. I’m hearing a lot about WordPress; I’m thinkin’ I’ll go with that one. I looked into Bluehost, and they are pretty cheap, but I haven’t read their privacy policy or security stuff yet. 🙂

BTW, your blog is one of my favorites. You have a great sense of humor; keep up the good work! 😀

@zee @josiah-degraaf @elisha-starquill

Thanks for the advice!! I will try all of that and will for sure post whatever it ends up being.

Our word war champions have emerged. In a stunning victory, word war group #3 takes the lead with 14,577 words, group 2 following with 7,358, and group 1 strangely no-show.

The individual with the highest wordcount was @joelle-stone with 6,841 words!

Great job everyone who participated.

@toklaham-veruzia @hope-ann @seekjustice @hope…[Read more]

I really need to write a blurb for my fantasy, but I’ve never written one and I have no clue where to start. I don’t want to include so much info but then I can’t include too little. And, I don’t want it to be super cheesy (wich is all I’ve been able to write so far lol) but I don’t want it to be hard to understand.

So yeah, any…[Read more]

OHHH I LOVE THAT IDEA!!! Why didn’t I think of that?? *facepalm*

After they find the jewel (Ivy actually knows it’s location, but she’s not willing to give it away at first), they get attacked by the witch and have to escape from her magic. They then go back to the castle to save the princess. Assuming she’s still alive that…[Read more]

We had some insane competition this week. Some people cranked out more words in a week than I thought possible. 😂

Let me present you with your winners.

Group 1: 54,882
Group 2: 21,329
Group 3: 14, 860

And the individual with the most words? @the-golden-light at 22,828. 😱

Great job…[Read more]

Here are the new calculations:

Word war group 1: 10,810
Word war group 2: No participation
Word war group 3: 6,567

Individual with the highest word count: @fairfay with 6,191!

Sorry about the confusion, f…[Read more]

Word war group 1: 10,810
Word war group 2: 12,306
Word war group 3: 9,768

And the personal highest word count? @dakota at 6,538!

@law0413 @mayajoelle @dakota @pookiemonster @trallion @emgc @gabrielwoods @theswordinthebook @millennium @writercatherine @naiya-dyani @cazadoradelaluna @eden-…[Read more]

@elisha-starquill

I didn’t even realize it until I read your post, but I’ve been quite guilty of that.  Lately, I’ve been procrastinating writing my book and telling myself that I’ll do it later.  It’s because I’ve been letting the technical, structural side suck all the fun out of…[Read more]

@tashah-claymore

@tinuviel

@anne_the_noob14

@mayajoelle

@elisha-starquill

@naiya-dyani

Hi there! Yeah, I still love doing word wars! I am currently re-plotting my novel, but I will definitely post here when I do some actual writing! Let me tag some of the others who have been on this thread just so we know we’re still active. 😉  And you feel free to tag us (or at least me) in a message if you’re around to…[Read more]

I agree that it’d be interesting in 1st person 😀 And I’m still giving serious thought to trying it… So we’ll see XD

Ah yes… I wasn’t sure quite how to refer to them, so I used those terms to make it easier for myself to know what I was talking about lol. So you’re saying have…[Read more]

Ah! Look at the marvelously long comments!! Which I mean in a very non-sarcastic way! I just skimmed over them now, and I’ll have to take time tomorrow to actually read through and think about them fully, but I saw several things that looked very helpful. 😀

Okay, so my form has decided to be finicky, so @elisha-starquill I got your email where you commented—@claire-h, if you could comment on the post…? Thanks so much for wanting to read it!

@eitan, no worries, I totally get that, and thanks!!

@eden-anderson I hope it is ☺️

*nods* Right. Got it. So this is where that little blurb on the inside of the jacket or on the back of the cover comes in handy 😀

That’s a good question… And I think it’s gonna be in 3rd person, because I don’t know if I can get…[Read more]

So, yeah, I sympathize with you. 😄

Everybody has been…[Read more]

@arindown, Yes, that was very helpful! I can have a bit of a one-track mind sometimes, so it’s easy for me to get so caught up in all her messiness I…[Read more]

One of the most useful “general guides” on medieval military strategy and tactics has been Christine de Pizan’s The Book of Deeds and of Arms and of Chivalry – there’s a modern English translation of it available (it was originally a military manual written in French in the early 15th century). If you want to get REALLY old…[Read more]

The others have already mentioned stakes and internal battles, and I definitely recommend listening to them. Based on the references you’ve made to other fantasy battles, my guess is that this is an epic scale military confrontation as well, not just a battle between our main characters and their nemesis.

My suggestion is to…[Read more]

LOL, yeah, I hear you. He actually does such a good job that I don’t think of him as Stark much when I see his Holmes rendition, haha!

@christlover Same here! 😀

@elisha-starquill Oh,…[Read more]

Thank you so much! You warmed my heart☺

A Bible passage that really helped me was Romans 8.
Thank you! Verses 5-6 really addressed my problem:

Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The…[Read more]

Cool!

Hmm, my city isn designed with wide streets, and from almost every corner you can see the desert, so it isn’t very crowded. Tel Aviv however is very crowded (and one of my most hated places. I was once in New York city and didn’t like it either. Big cities aren’t nice).

@elisha-starquill

Library is Sifria, which is a pretty…[Read more]

Hey, this is already going where I didn’t expect it. I actually really liked Matt. 😁Well, particularly his younger self, but the older self was fine too. It’s fascinating how we read the same things differently. @taylorclogston, the lines you quoted, I…[Read more]

Dragon ink allows writers to set history in stone—or to change it. 

Duyên Lai’s dreams are realized when she’s admitted into the ranks of the calligraphers, authors considered trustworthy enough to defend time from those who would change it. She’s thrilled at the opportunity to record he…

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I’m a bit of a language nerd.

Me too! And thank you for clearing the question!

In fact we have contractions in Hebrew! For example, the correct form to say ”of you / of yours” is the separate word shelcha, but in speech we usually contract it to the suffix -shcha. The correct way to say school is beyt sefer (which lite…[Read more]

Boreal forest? It’s so cool!

@elisha-starquill

Hi, and welcome! It’s so cool that you live in Israel

Hello, thank you!

what was learning contractions in English like for you? I’ve always wondered, because I think English is the only language with them.

Sorry, I didn’t understand the question… And nowhere I find the meaning of ”l…[Read more]

So,…[Read more]

Thanks for tagging me on that. I don’t know a whole lot about Catholics, so I thought they were Christians, but because of my lack of knowledge on the subject I didn’t want to address the subject. Which is why I just said I didn’t know if Tolkien was Catholic or not. 😛 xP  But ya, I don’t know much about all the different…[Read more]

@steward-of-the-pen @ariella-newheart @elisha-starq…[Read more]

@abigail-rebekah @evelyn Thanks for taking the time to read it. It’s really encouraging to hear that you like it. 🙂

Hey, all! I finally finished editing the flashback chapters into my book. (They are now chapters 2 and 4, with transition paragraphs in the preceding chapters that I am quite proud of.) If you guys have the time to look it over and give me your thoughts, that would be much appreciated! If you…[Read more]

We’ve launched a cool new feature on the forum called groups.

You can find them in the nav bar like so:

Groups are hubs for writers to gather around something they share in common. They include a Facebook-like feed and most of them also include their own forums.

So far there are three types of groups:
1. Word war…[Read more]

*nods* You’re welcome! And I can help convince people if need be 😛

Sweet, another Peretti fan! I feel like I always get blank stares when I mention his books, so it’s aweso…[Read more]

Ah… Which one was it? And yeah, I know what you mean about it being weird lol. And like… to me? I like sci-fi. So I’m not as weirded out about things as some people are. *shrugs* But the ones I’ve seen are really good. So I would suggest that you give it a shot lol. But maybe have somebody…[Read more]

@morreafirebird Google hangouts is a brilliant suggestion for chatting with each other! I also have some stuff that’s ready for critique, but would be very happy to start with whomever :D…[Read more]

Sweet! I don’t mind dropping my email here, since I have half a dozen and I’m fairly certain a lot of people know this one anyway 😛 It’s kmsmall46[at]gmail[dot]com.

Well, I have a piece of flash fiction that I’m hoping to have ready for other eyes by Sunday. If there aren’t any other takers, I’d volunteer t…[Read more]

All that sounds good to me 😉 I was also picking up on similar threads in the posts of all four of us, so I’m glad I wasn’t the only one!

The one thought I would add is that it might be best to have this in a Hangouts group (if everyone is alright using Google Hangouts.) The Story Embers forum is public, and while there’s nothing wrong…[Read more]

Ah, nice. *nods*

Pretty ok, I suppose. Nothing terribly exciting going on. Although I did watch The Rise of Skywalker and The Mandalorain the other week and I LOVE THEM OMWWW (hence the new profile pic)

That makes five SW movies I’ve seen. Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, Rogue One, and The Rise of…[Read more]

That’s cool that you’re into art as well! What kind of things have you been drawing? To answer your question, I’m currently fascinated with concept art—especially in film—and my s…[Read more]