Victoria Marentette

It feels like I only just posted the last week’s activity and now we’re already on to the next one. Goodness me.

I think next year we’re going to have to take a slight break over the summer months because everyone’s really busy. (Thoughts on that, guys?)

This week, I’m going to take a look at what the small details and wording in our…[Read more]

I’m going to start off with a disclaimer:

Description of settings is one of my weakest points in writing so we’re all in this boat together.

But here goes. I’m going to give it my best shot.

Description is something that some people love, and some people hate. I’m not sure that there’s any in between. xD The thing is that you have to find…[Read more]

A little birdie told me that it’s a special someone’s birthday today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JANE!!!!

May your day be one of the best of the year!

@inspirewrite
@valtmy
@esther-sears
@parker
@caleb-e-king
@h-jones
@selah-chelyah
@writerpiper
@jessi-rae
@theswordinthebook
@thewirelessblade

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]

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: write a scene from the point of vi…[Read more]

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]

Okay folks, two things:

a) I’m adhd and today is one of those days where my brain does not want to think, so please forgive me.

b) I don’t know what sort of activity to do today?? Because I don’t know what YOUR struggles are.

So on that note, this week,  just want to know what your struggles are with the topic of prose. What would you like t…[Read more]

Passive Voice. It’s another one of those phrases that you might’ve heard thrown around, but not entirely understood what it means. (I know I certainly didn’t understand what I meant for the first three years of writing, at least.)

Passive voice is when the subject of the sentence is acted on by the verb, rather than the subject doing the…[Read more]