Oops, you are right @nuetrobolt ! I meant to take that part out, but can’t edit my post now. I’m thinking it’ll be better to try doing it once every 3 to 4 weeks instead of back to back. What does everyone else think?

@cassidy You are absolutely not too late! Come, join! This is a sort of informal activity we are throwing together and seeing how…[Read more]

@nuetrobolt @candide @happyholly_c @rillumen

PROMPT #1

Imagine a world where the words you speak appear on your skin. Would you be more careful of what you say?

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Note: you may write in any perspective for any length of work.

Schedule

Post personal writing schedule and request critique p…[Read more]

@warden

I do to. But if we don’t we can always spread it out further, like do it once a month instead of twice. Or even once every other month 🙂 We will learn through trial and error!

@nuetrobolt

It is absolutely a come and go thing!! I myself will highly likely not be able to participate in every war, especially if we do it back to back (which we don’t necessarily have to). As you have time and desire to participate, you are always welcome. For this reason, it would be different critique partners each time, unless two people…[Read more]

New activity thread is posted! You can find it under Rillumen’s Writing Discussion category.

Hey, @happyholly_c ! I’m almost done writing up an instruction/introduction post for this!

Was thinking it would be great to have some guidelines/ideas on how to critique when we get to that part. Anyone interested in writing up something?

Oh I love this! I’ll have to come back and post when I have a moment… Poke me next week if I haven’t posted!

Yay!!! The word war just officially started yesterday if you haven’t seen Daeus’s post yet. We are not behind!! This time I can actually fully participate in the word war 🙂

Also, no. Brandon seems to have disappeared lately.

@wordsmith

Hey!! Hope you are doing well. Thanks for letting us know/cheering us on!

Not sure what the prompt is @brandon-miller ? Or is it a word war?

Rillumen needs more life again!

@nuetrobolt Hey! Sorry I disappeared for a little bit… Got busy around here. I can get a discussion thread going, and we could figure out there when would be the best starting time for everyone! I’ll work on creating something.

I, too, may be busy until about mid September, then after that life is just “normal” again. But that doesn’t mean I…[Read more]

@corkybookworm @missfaeriekaiti @nuetrobolt @happyholly_c @brandon-miller @rillumen

So based on everyone’s favorites so far, here is an idea:

What if we posted a thread where everyone who wanted to participate posted their “writing plan” for the week (like 30 minutes on Monday, and hour on Tuesday, break on Wednesday…etc.) and we had a mini…[Read more]

@corkybookworm Thats so awesome!!! What color is your dress? Also, I love Spanish so much!! It’s been a couple years since I was able to take it in the classroom setting, but I’ve been trying to do my best to keep up on my own. Not going fabulously, but its better than if I were doing nothing haha

I’ll be honest, I don’t always actively think about sentence structure as I write fiction. I do often write in first person, and find that shifts in scenes, action, etc. help me to keep that variation going as well.

I recently read Style by Joseph Williams and found it to be a wonderful resource in learning about sentence structure and editing my…[Read more]

@corkybookworm Congratulations to your brother!! Also, that is a lot of students! What grade(s) are you teaching?

@missfaeriekaiti @happyholly_c @nuetrobolt

How about this: we all think through our favorite parts of Rillumen and what we are each most likely to participate in. It might end up being a host of things, but if we find a way to kind…[Read more]

@nuetrobolt @corkybookworm @missfaeriekaiti

Yay, people! I miss Rillumen being as active as it was before, but I also understand that everyone is busy… I’m one of those too 😉 I, too, finished up my summer job this week. My sister is getting married in a couple of months, so we’ve gone into full wedding planning mode around here. And I’m…[Read more]

@nuetrobolt NaNoWriMo is 50,000+ in 30 days… I’ve used NaNo as motivation for several years now, but never completed the 50,000… yet 🙂

How is everyone?? Haven’t had much activity in Rillumen lately.

Congratulations to Parimi Alca!

That’s okay, I do agree with what the judges said. The piece was written, but it was far from perfect. I enjoyed getting to be part of the prompt war this month!

@brandon-miller Before our next word war, I think we should host discussion thread(s) on some of the entries/winning pieces. Talk about what made a…[Read more]