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Jane Maree started the topic {2018 – Week 7} Show Don't Tell (and what that even means) in the forum Annual Theme Discussion 7 years, 12 months ago
I don’t know about you guys but one of the most common pieces of writing advice I’ve heard is “Show, don’t tell.”
It’s also incredibly confusing and hard to piece together what on earth that means. There’s a lot of courses and articles out there telling slightly different versions of what telling is and what showing is, and—let me tell…[Read more]
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Jane Maree replied to the topic GUILD WAR – Smol Children and Character Voice in the forum Announcements 7 years, 12 months ago
Okay all, who’s up for looking through Faith’s draft and strengthening some character voice?? If you have ideas or inspiration, head over to the doc and dive into editing the rough draft so that this story can really pop out of the page. 😀
OR if you have a different idea and really really want to write it, go ahead and try your hand at a first…[Read more]
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Jane Maree replied to the topic {2018 – Week 6} Describing: Characters' Physical Appearance in the forum Annual Theme Discussion 7 years, 12 months ago
@mairin-atha Your post got sent to spam for some reason, I think. It does that randomly sometimes. xD
Great snippet though! I really liked how you showed the size of the dad’s hands. That’s a really cool detail.
Very nice. Something I actually noticed about that snippet is that the sentences don’t flow smoothly into each other…[Read more]
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Parker Hankins replied to the topic 5 Day Club in the forum Prayer Requests 7 years, 12 months ago
Oh, that’s sad, @faith_blum. But I’m sure the Lord had a reason for this. You may see it soon.
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Jane Maree replied to the topic 5 Day Club in the forum Prayer Requests 8 years ago
@faith_blum Ah nooo I totally missed this. >.<
How did it go?
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Jane Maree replied to the topic Story that we all write together? in the forum Meraki Writing Discussions 8 years ago
Sure you can! You can all go ahead and start all the topics you want as long as they’re writing related and designed for encouragement and support of each other. 😀
I’ll go ahead and tag the rest of the guild members for you.…[Read more]
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Jane Maree replied to the topic GUILD WAR – Smol Children and Character Voice in the forum Announcements 8 years ago
@faith_blum Thanks a heap for the first draft! I’ll have a look at it in a sec. 😀
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Parker Hankins replied to the topic GUILD WAR – Smol Children and Character Voice in the forum Announcements 8 years ago
I think it would be fine. @faith_blum. Last time different people wrote scenes for a while until we decided on which one.
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Parker Hankins replied to the topic 5 Day Club in the forum Prayer Requests 8 years ago
Okay, @faith_blum! I really want it to go well today.
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Parker Hankins replied to the topic 5 Day Club in the forum Prayer Requests 8 years ago
I’ll be praying, @faith_blum!
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Parker Hankins replied to the topic GUILD WAR – Smol Children and Character Voice in the forum Announcements 8 years ago
That would be cool, @faith_blum!
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Jane Maree replied to the topic GUILD WAR – Smol Children and Character Voice in the forum Announcements 8 years ago
@faith_blum I think that’s a cool idea + genre too. *thumbs up*
So for the actual scene, we could make up a conflict or we could use some real life conflict that so many kids today have to go through (e.g. trafficking, slavery, etc.) though naturally we couldn’t actually go into detail about those sorts of topics because they’re not exactly…[Read more]
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Jane Maree started the topic GUILD WAR – Smol Children and Character Voice in the forum Announcements 8 years ago
Okay guys, THE NEXT GUILD WAR HAS BEGUN.
For those who haven’t been here for a guild war, here’s a little explanation: a guild war is where each of the guilds competes against the other guilds to try write the best scene/the most words/etc. This week it’s about writing the best scene.
The Challenge:Â write a scene from the point of vi…[Read more]
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Jane Maree started the topic {2018 – Week 6} Describing: Characters' Physical Appearance in the forum Annual Theme Discussion 8 years ago
First off, thank you all SO MUCH for sharing your biggest struggles in last week’s topic. It saved my brain a lot of agony as I tried to think of more topics that would actually be useful. 😛
Thanks to @Faith-Blum ‘s suggestion, we’re going to be looking at description this week. Specifically how to describe a character’s physical appearance,…[Read more]
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Jane Maree replied to the topic July 31st – Camp NaNo, FALLING SUN {1st draft} in the forum Accountability & Achievements 8 years ago
@faith_blum haha, yep. Same to you. xP
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Jane Maree replied to the topic Introductions! Pizza! Best Buddies! in the forum Announcements 8 years ago
@mairin-atha
@a_small_mousepadBEHOLD, WE HAVE NEW MEMBERS! Both these two human beans have been added to the awesome Meerkats, so please give them a welcome!
New members: Take a tour around all the different topics! Introduce yourself, make friends, you could post something for critiques–just make yourselves at home!…[Read more]
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Jane Maree replied to the topic July 31st – Camp NaNo, FALLING SUN {1st draft} in the forum Accountability & Achievements 8 years ago
Woot, nice! I’ll be stalking both of you. 😛
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F.C. Tait replied to the topic July 31st – Camp NaNo, FALLING SUN {1st draft} in the forum Accountability & Achievements 8 years ago
@jane-maree @faith_blum @parker I won’t be taking part because I’m editing at the moment and I don’t find Camp NaNo so helpful for that, but I’ll be cheering you guys on! 🙂
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Jane Maree replied to the topic July 31st – Camp NaNo, FALLING SUN {1st draft} in the forum Accountability & Achievements 8 years ago
Aw sweet! What’s your goals + usernames?? (so I can stalk you xD)
This is me -HERE-
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Jane Maree replied to the topic {2018 – Week 5} What's YOUR biggest struggle with Prose?? in the forum Annual Theme Discussion 8 years ago
@faith_blum Argh man, physical descriptions + not sounding forced is pretty much the wooooorst. xD About 80% of the time, I just ignore the physical descriptions all together (which is also a terrible option). >.<
@fctait Ah yep yep, descriptions is another good thing to work on.
@parker Hmm well, I COULD potentially do something about…[Read more]
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