Story Embers | joshuareidwriter | Group Activity https://storyembers.org/members/joshuareidwriter/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which joshuareidwriter is a member. Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:25:35 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 3317f412aab36f63850373d2c39c5d1b Em with an E joined the group Contemporary Fiction Writers https://storyembers.org/activity/p/104949/ Wed, 09 Aug 2023 00:54:43 -0400 0 c2cf0016e3e35752f15f80539555c0b2 RAE joined the group Historical Fiction Writers https://storyembers.org/activity/p/104827/ Wed, 05 Jul 2023 17:45:25 -0400 0 00cff0f2a6ad3d5059ecee72efa131db Sharon Marcus joined the group Contemporary Fiction Writers https://storyembers.org/activity/p/104713/ Sat, 10 Jun 2023 09:01:21 -0400 0 ce1f261ae7c0c3034b738d217367628b Sarafini joined the group Historical Fiction Writers https://storyembers.org/activity/p/104413/ Mon, 27 Mar 2023 20:27:47 -0400 0 df073be0f8ce1193f51272e41a94fa98 Sarafini joined the group Contemporary Fiction Writers https://storyembers.org/activity/p/104412/ Mon, 27 Mar 2023 20:27:45 -0400 0 f0ce7253f3c2da25b017a818e4724cd2 Abby Jo joined the group Historical Fiction Writers https://storyembers.org/activity/p/104345/ Sun, 19 Mar 2023 23:24:04 -0400 0 444600d22d63259e0c61591c16938759 Daeus Lamb replied to the topic New Phase of Life... Aka: Goodbye! in the forum Contemporary Fiction Writers https://storyembers.org/activity/p/104312/ Mon, 13 Mar 2023 21:16:56 -0400 @olivia I’ll remove you. I do think you have to subscribe from the emails manually, unless perhaps I completely deleted your account.

]]> 0 e6424fbf8ed9f9ce11c9fdc7cd29c88c Daeus Lamb replied to the topic New Phase of Life... Aka: Goodbye! in the forum Contemporary Fiction Writers https://storyembers.org/activity/p/104311/ Mon, 13 Mar 2023 21:16:53 -0400 @olivia I’ll remove you. I do think you have to subscribe from the emails manually, unless perhaps I completely deleted your account.

]]> 0 473fa49b97c521dea7426862766fb935 Josiah DeGraaf replied to the topic New Phase of Life... Aka: Goodbye! in the forum Contemporary Fiction Writers https://storyembers.org/activity/p/104303/ Mon, 13 Mar 2023 12:21:17 -0400 @olivia Good question! I’ll let Daeus answer the forum question since he knows that better than I do. But the emails and forum access are not connected. You’ll need to manually unsubscribe your email at the bottom of the email to stop receiving those. (:

Glad to have been with you for this last part of your journey!

]]> 0 390b0f30f94f85e32711f4b07dfa2028 Olivia Catherine replied to the topic New Phase of Life... Aka: Goodbye! in the forum Contemporary Fiction Writers https://storyembers.org/activity/p/104286/ Sat, 11 Mar 2023 23:37:14 -0400 @daeus-lamb @josiah

Oh, and if I officially get kicked off the forum (haha, just kidding), will I also no longer receive the emails? I wanna unsubscribe from those as well.

]]> 0 8a0bb76d34c46de8e934be6acee62deb Olivia Catherine started the topic New Phase of Life... Aka: Goodbye! in the forum Contemporary Fiction Writers https://storyembers.org/activity/p/104285/ Sat, 11 Mar 2023 23:26:44 -0400 My main character has a dilemma…

She’s part of this great group of young people who all love to write, but she’s discovered she is in a different phase of life and must move on. How can she exit the group?

 

 

Lol, all that was just for fun. I’m the main character and this is the group of writers. But ya, I’m in a new phase of life and need…[Read more]

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I’m new to the forum, and I have a few questions for this short story (and it possibly might even turn into a book) I’m planning…

Basically I came up with this idea to write a story about a United States Marine Corps soldier who goes on a combat patrol, gets pinned down by enemy combatants, and has to make some serious decis…[Read more]

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Good morning, Katylin! Hope you’ve been having a good week.

I set my story in the fictional town of Pineville, near the foothills of the mountains. I was originally thinking of calling the book Kate’s Journey, but there’s another book with the same title. The books aren’t anything alike, though. I suppose it doesn’t matter that…[Read more]

]]> 0 85e587300907d0cf391dedc1f275c824 Kaytlin Phillips replied to the topic Book Title in the forum Historical Fiction Writers https://storyembers.org/activity/p/101414/ Mon, 09 May 2022 02:28:30 -0400 Oh, New Mexico is so beautiful! Are you setting it in the plains or mountains? Both are so gorgeous! That’s where we went on vacation last year.

You could try just Kate’s Journey, I personally find it slightly cliche when a romance title always includes love in the title, but that’s just me…lol…

Um, Loves Long Journey…or even thinking…[Read more]

]]> 0 e2d082d1106788faf491efc9b3f47a2f Kaytlin Phillips joined the group Historical Fiction Writers https://storyembers.org/activity/p/101413/ Mon, 09 May 2022 02:24:21 -0400 0 21791188431d7fc89f5c04f2d0c261b3 Brian Stansell joined the group Historical Fiction Writers https://storyembers.org/activity/p/101305/ Wed, 04 May 2022 00:15:34 -0400 0 c751d5eaf4be4837580e4c191c1f1754 Moonlighting Novelist joined the group Historical Fiction Writers https://storyembers.org/activity/p/101302/ Tue, 03 May 2022 23:24:43 -0400 0 c14931362a17cda953ce5793387c218e Elizabeth joined the group Historical Fiction Writers https://storyembers.org/activity/p/101273/ Tue, 03 May 2022 01:36:41 -0400 0 9f63cb2381667fc7b3fb2092950ed58c Betty Wojtowicz started the topic Book Title in the forum Historical Fiction Writers https://storyembers.org/activity/p/101234/ Fri, 29 Apr 2022 11:48:28 -0400 Good morning, all! I’m writing a western historical romance, currently on my third revision. My working title is Finding Her True Love, but I’m not sold on it. It’s about a 1870’s Boston socialite, Kate MacGregor, who runs away to escape a forced marriage. She ends up in a small town in the New Mexico Territory, where she faces danger and…[Read more]

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]]> 0 2b99f7cf5335eb4b0400226bd0a29275 Pearl F. joined the group Historical Fiction Writers https://storyembers.org/activity/p/101024/ Wed, 20 Apr 2022 01:05:48 -0400 0 45edf4838a784a28a037709ea2703b33 SavannahJane_author joined the group Historical Fiction Writers https://storyembers.org/activity/p/100104/ Thu, 10 Mar 2022 03:53:59 -0400 0 94e254f89a119b4d3dc50920d5e4dda8 Carrie joined the group Historical Fiction Writers https://storyembers.org/activity/p/99998/ Fri, 04 Mar 2022 21:18:57 -0400 0 5ab768cb23c985aa2c2490dd1ca70b1d Brian Stansell replied to the topic What Else Can I Do? ~ Short Story in the forum Contemporary Fiction Writers https://storyembers.org/activity/p/99475/ Fri, 18 Feb 2022 04:01:38 -0400 Kimmi,

That is amazing and heart-wrenching.  Very evocative and poignant.  Great job!

Some pain can only be mitigated by being present and connected.

Be happy with those who are happy, and weep with those who weep. [Romans 12:15 NLT]

]]> 0 09b67ebe8d8f871712a1bd1f063e379c Cathy replied to the topic What Else Can I Do? ~ Short Story in the forum Contemporary Fiction Writers https://storyembers.org/activity/p/99440/ Wed, 16 Feb 2022 01:40:43 -0400 That…yeah.

That was painfully beautiful ❤️💔❤️‍🩹

heheh…

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I swallow hard and make my leaden legs step forward. The white door swi…[Read more]

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Thank you so much, this was super helpful! I hadn’t really ever heard of the genre of ‘spy fiction’. You’re right, I have no point of divergence from real world events because even though this is an obscure part of the real world in my brain, that’s never really presented in the story. I think I’m going to call it a spy fiction…[Read more]

]]> 0 5507444e67e97bd33367d088b8007651 Anne of Lothlorien replied to the topic HELP I Don't Know If This Is Historical Fiction or Not in the forum Historical Fiction Writers https://storyembers.org/activity/p/96266/ Tue, 16 Nov 2021 19:07:35 -0400 @rusted-knight Even if that historical event has nothing to do with the real world history? The events in this book and the events that trigger a change in leadership in the country are not from the real-world at all. I’m not even taking a real world event like World War II and changing it to see what would have happened if we lost. (which…[Read more]

]]> 0 e14ff4801c63e84c3dd973e100309373 Taylor Clogston replied to the topic HELP I Don't Know If This Is Historical Fiction or Not in the forum Historical Fiction Writers https://storyembers.org/activity/p/96174/ Sat, 13 Nov 2021 18:40:02 -0400 @anne-of-lothlorien That’s a really hard question =P

First and foremost, spy fiction is a genre. You should look into that.

The rest of your description doesn’t sound like historical fiction to me. HisFic needs to interact with the real world in some way. If the only possible way a reader could tell the story took place in an alternate version…[Read more]

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This is what we call “threading the eye of the needle.” I think this is a historical fiction as long as there is a trigger event were history changed.

]]> 0 2d06bf44926f23482bb84b643f959342 Anne of Lothlorien started the topic HELP I Don't Know If This Is Historical Fiction or Not in the forum Historical Fiction Writers https://storyembers.org/activity/p/96145/ Fri, 12 Nov 2021 15:24:24 -0400 Hey guys! *general wave because I don’t know who all is on here*

So I have a WIP that I’m trying to pin down the genre on. It’s called The Apprentice Spy. It takes place in a fictional country that is still in our world, and the setting and time period is… vague? I’m hoping if I give some description that y’all can help me pinpoint what to call…[Read more]

]]> 0 01d444861e3eafe433810b97243f056d Anne of Lothlorien joined the group Historical Fiction Writers https://storyembers.org/activity/p/96144/ Fri, 12 Nov 2021 15:16:35 -0400 0 04789e8904b32b20d7598ac44f30004e Rusted Knight replied to the topic Hello there! in the forum Historical Fiction Writers https://storyembers.org/activity/p/96064/ Thu, 11 Nov 2021 02:59:27 -0400 @blenkiness
Well this is very late but welcome aboard. I’m a specialist in world war two but war in general pulls my attention. Tactics, troops, equipment, you name it I know a little.

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