J.A.Penrose

@cassie-hartfinh Knock yourself out! Write as much as you like, and we’ll happily edit it after you. Ideally wait another day…just to see if there are any more ideas–or more developments–on what we’ve already got. But other than that, it’s totally free for you to write! 😀

@steward-of-the-pen Oooooh, nice questions! (Also, do I see a…[Read more]

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Keep it up guys! These ideas are great. (Jane will love either Historical Fantasy, a grumpy teddy, haunted house, or a food argument xP)

Think as much as you can about how you can best chse a story that will have a character with a super strong voice. Character voice is important, ad don’t…[Read more]

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@esjohnson

*thumbs up*

Going to toss it out there that there are often two ways to make something stand out, just as @fctait said.

You can have a totally normal situation (think back to your restaurant writing exercises from the start) or you could have the environment affect the prose. If you’re writing about the day that marshmallows decided to rebel and throw…[Read more]

Okay, sorry that I’ve been kinda chaotic and sporadic and stuff lately guys, but things have kinda been blegh and yeah. Anyways. I am here now and hopefully can make some suggestions.

BASICALLY, what @ariella-newheart summarised is what we are going with.

I really enjoy the ideas that are being thrown around, and my one concern is that we do…[Read more]

Hey guys!

Just a heads up, try not to tag Jane into anything on this thread. All of the tags appear in her inbox and she’s having to glance at them and then delete them and stuff. So avoid tagging her for now.

These ideas are all sounding great guys! And yes, it is totally fine to start offering plot ideas. That will mean more ideas in…[Read more]

@jillifish In answer to your potato question, Jane was casually throwing a fandom reference out there. Chances are I’m the only one here right now who has read it hough. </3

One of the Reckoners books by Brandon Sanderson. Admittedly, it was used in a different way, so, more of an adaptation of a quote than a quote. 😛

@steward-of-the-pen Yesss, Storm Wielder should be a lot of fun.

Flightless? Yeah, I’m actually thinking, maybe, that I’ll be going through and editing it next year, then getting it out to alpha readers. *hides* So crazy, but it actually turned out really quite well. I did a series of blog posts about it here, here, here, and here. Hopefully, one…[Read more]

@steward-of-the-pen

1. Good job for finishing! *cheers*
2. Hahaha, yeeeup. If it’s a comfort, we all go through that phase. I regularly look back on things I wrote only a few months ago and wince because it seems to sound so bad. But often putting it to the side and working on smaller projects for a while as you improve helps you get back into it…

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Okay, all of this sounds absolutely stellar. Like, really guys. Good job. I’m impressed.

NOTE: @steward-of-the-pen is close, there is a 2500 word limit. Jane only has so much time to go through all of them.

*sits back to think*

1. Plotline sounds brilliant, unique, and generally awesome.
2. The character sounds stellar.
3. The resulting c…

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HOW GUILD WARS WORK:

Whenever I announce a Guild War, I’ll tag you in, and we’ll have a thread where we discuss ideas, (here) and then set up a Google Doc for everyone to edit. Typically one person will volunteer to writer everything that had been decided on into a story, then everyone else comes along and edits it. In this stage you can add ent…[Read more]

BY THE WAY, the deadline is Monday the 17th. So, two weeks to work on it.

Also, I am looking after the Meraki Guild this war as well due to their guildmaster judging.

*waves* Yep! Any questions and I’m just here.

Welcome! @rebecca-w

Whenever I announce a Guild War, I’ll tag you in, and we’ll have a thread where we discuss ideas, and then set up a Google Doc for everyone to edit. Typically one person will volunteer to writer everything that had been decided on into a story, then everyone else comes along and edits it. In this stage you can add entire…[Read more]

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@e-jo3 I’ll be updating you guys as we go, but here’s the winners!

They did it again

Also, if you look over the threads, I’ll always say what the results were and the stories are always included.

@e-jo3 I totally get that. *nodnod* I have to have something in my inbox to actually deal with it, so I tend to have days when I have 30+ notifs from SE and then sit down and do a lot of replying.

Main things that have been regular are the Annual Theme Discussions and the Critiques.

@evelyn That’s fine! Just flick me an email at jessicapenrose2@gmail.com when that’s all coming up so I can mark you down as absent but still, ‘active.’