A Kitchen Sink

hi guys! It’s time for our next round of world building. Weather.

weather is actually a very important part of world building. Weather can almost be like its own character. Think about it. No story of London ever made it to press without talk of the constant fog and drizzle. The Boston Jane series is constantly referring to the rain in S…[Read more]

Hello Knaplingers!

As of today, we are at war.

And by that I mean, today is our first change to participate in the guild wars. What’s a guildwar? It’s when a prompt is given, and each guild writes a story that is then judged, and one is declared the winner!

Heres how this works.

There is a two week time limit. And then the finished piece wil…[Read more]

@bekah @SamBerg0 @Naomi-Sowell @MissPenguin and @mckinley

Welcome! I’ve just been informed you’ve been added to the guild. I hope you enjoy Knaphollow. We’re a quaint little village hidden away in the enchanted hills, where unusual and whimsy are bound to happen, and everyone carries a knapsack in case adventure strikes.

Introduce yours…[Read more]

@samantha-pen @hgm_barnes18 @heather-drabant @kb-writer @inspirewrite @duskflower @kjames0813 @ireneadler @kari-karast

@i-david @donna-darling @kr-lalonde @the-golden-light @jennythefaun

Hi guys! So I was chatting with the other guild masters the other day and Brandon shared with us something they do in his guild, and gave the rest of us…[Read more]

Hi guys!

Here I am, fashionably late.

Today on our world building escapade I want to talk about language. Language is one thing that brings a setting to life. Wether it’s the entire languages Tolkien created, the magic language in The Inheritance Cycle (help me out @i-david, I cant remember what it’s called) that controls magical powers, or eve…[Read more]

Since this is the achievements section, I wanted scream to the world that I finished the first round of edits on the fantasy story I’ve been working on all last year. I definitely have hope for it and I’m teally excited to see what feedback I get from beta readers.

Im so happy!!!….and also empty inside. Like…what do I do now?? Anyone else eve…[Read more]

Goodmornight, y’everyone. ‘Tis I, David.

We are unique. And (hopefully) our stories are too. There are so many different things, big and little, that come from us and go into our precious books. Believe it or not, those various quirks and tidbits can also be endlessly fascinating.

So that’s what I want to talk about. What are some unique…[Read more]

Hi guys! So I guess I forgot to post this week, but here I am to continue our world building discussion.

Today I want to get into the history of your world.

In my opinion the history is one of the first things we should try to figure out, because without knowing where the world came from, it’s hard to say what it is now.

For instance, Panem w…[Read more]

So I recently finished a 4 part, (very) short story. I invested a fair amount of time and emotion into it, and I think it turned out alright. I’ll post the first part here. Read it if you want, and if you do, please let me know what you think and how it made you feel. All comments and critiques are appreciated, good and bad alike.

So yeah. Wit…[Read more]

Hi guys!

Since there were two votes for world building when I asked, and when I looked at the answers filled out in the guild application forms there was also several requests for it, I thought we’d start out our year talking about world building.

World building is important whether your story takes place in the real world, or a made up one, and…[Read more]