Sarah Burns

So, I’m plotting my latest and greatest novel at the moment, but I’ve come across a plot hole, and unfortunately, it keep getting bigger the more duct tape I put on it.

For the sake of secrecy, since I haven’t announced this idea to anyone yet, suffice it to say the government is mostly evil, the radicals are also evil and the main character…[Read more]

Since Kingdom Pen isn’t working right now. And I still wanted to talk to y’all, so I thought we could start the Writers’ Corner here. 🙂

How’s it going? Whatcha working on?
I’m working on Finding Secrets. If any of y’all want to word war I can. 😀

@seekjustice @rochellaine @dekreel @jenwriter17 @theresa-play @valtmy @snapper @ashira @ncstokes @ethryndal

I’m going to Realm Makers this year! *throws feathers*
So I was wondering who else was going and if any of y’all wanted to split a room. Even if you don’t want to split a room it would be nice to meet some of y’all there (if you are going). 😀

@rochellaine @ashira @jenwriter17 @ncstokes @snapper @ethryndal @alia @jessi-rae @emgc @princess-foo…[Read more]

Hey Saxon Scribes, we’re doing another word war! This is a great chance to plow through your manuscript.

At the end of the week, submit your word count here: https://goo.gl/forms/CtXuDDqnPKBlzmPF2

@ethryndal @corissa @raemarie @kate @j-parkhurst @gabbyj @chalice @noahlitle @julianne @germaine-han @sesi @r-j-karas @rosemarylouise @msqueen8 @timoth…[Read more]

Hey Everyone! This may be our last week on worldbuilding and I wanted to touch on a subject that’s dear to me.

If you listened to our second podcast episode, you heard me argue that Tolkien was a great writer largely because he was a great philosopher. For those of us who invent our own worlds, we have a great opportunity to point to certain…[Read more]

I recently made a big breakthrough. As you may know, whether you write speculative or real-world fiction, you need to do research for your story feel authentic and rich.

But… research is hard. Particularly if all you want to read is fiction, like me. 😉

Enter audiobooks. For me at least, audiobooks take almost no commitment to plow through.…[Read more]

ATTENTION!

If you haven’t seen it, I made a post about some changes to the forum and guilds. They’re not that big really and I think they’ll improve everyone’s experience.

On a related note, I’m trying to move everybody to subscribe to new posts in the guild so I don’t have to tag everybody each time I make a post. To do this, go to New Wessex.…[Read more]

I’ve been thinking recently about something that’s never caught my attention before. Taboos. If I could only ask one question about a culture to learn about it, I’m tempted to think I’d ask about its taboos.

Taboos could keep a whole nation in slavery (for instance, if they think it brings bad luck to question their priests).

Or taboos can…[Read more]

Hey, SOOOO I’ve been thinking a long time about starting a blog but I’m kinda unsure about whether it’s worth it. I’ve heard good things about blogging and bad things about blogging. (And I’m also thinking “seriously, there are already like 5 million teenage girls who have blogs, goodness knows we don’t need one more!!” 😉)

I think it would be fun…[Read more]

Prompt wars are back. Tada!

As a refresher, we have two weeks to come up with a submission. Word limit is 2,500.

This war’s prompt has got me terrified. The prompt?

Write a non-cliché happy ending.

How do you write happy endings? 😮 😮 😮 And how do you make them non-cliché?

I guess this will be instructional for me. 😀

@ethryndal @corissa [Read more]

Hey Saxon Scribes!

Last week I missed our theme discussion because I got buried in research on the topic. Since then, I compiled all my thoughts into an article which I plan to submit to SE. First though, I’d like to share it with you and get your feedback. 🙂

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There I was, gobbling up page after page of Out of the Silent Planet. Was…[Read more]

Hey, guys!

I’m excited to announce that I have started a blog. You can check it out here:

Noah Litle Writes

Right now I’m in a kind of pre-launch stage, where you guys can give me some feedback on the posts and everything before I launch it for real on the first of March.

If you guys could tell me if the posts are helpful/enjoyable/coherent it…[Read more]