Martin Detwiler

@karthmin Aah thank you! Will keep this in mind next time! *bows* Also no rush! Thanks for looking at it!

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I think (hope?) that I write woman realistically, being one myself. I think there have only been a couple of times where I thought “A woman didn’t write this female character”.

The Bendel Test is a bit of a tricky question, because I’ve been writing a lot of short stories lately, and since there isn’t a lot of room for a lot of…[Read more]

@karthmin yeah, it was pretty neat!  It was really useful to see his face (which looked very much like my character, of course) move and make different expressions.  Better than just looking up photos on Pinterest, which is what I usually do.

I don’t think imprisoned dragons being used as coal furnaces has been done before.  If it has, I ha…[Read more]

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TOLKIEN AND LORD OF THE RINGS YAAASSSS!!!!!

I once heard that Eowyn’s arc was about war. Tolkien fought in WWII and that generation was a realization that war wasn’t the glorified stories they had all been told.

From what I can remember from my mix of reading the books forever ago and seeing the movies, at the beginning of her arc she…[Read more]

@tashah-claymore I’ve actually never experienced encountering one of my characters in real life. 🙁 That must have been fun. XD

@hope-ann I believe it! So many people, and for some reason you see the biggest cross-section of characters when they’re congregating in one place and are All Very Hungry. XD

@emgc *laughs* I’m totally the same way.…[Read more]

Love all of these quotes so much, @princess-foo! These are all definitely in my top favorite LotR quotes.

Speaking of which, I wrote a thing about Lord of the Rings (and C. S Lewis) the other day. Seems like an appropriate place to share it, even though it’s basically an essay. XD

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I recently got to thinking about the differences between…[Read more]

Hello everyone!

Let’s all welcome @bree-dawn to! She is our FINAL ADDITION to Erekdale! That’s right, this guild has ceased expanding and we’re now on cruise control, so to speak.

Anyway, let’s give Bree a warm welcome today, and get her accustomed to our craziness. 😀

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@bree-dawn @caserola @michael_stanton @trallion @catwing @hope-ann @alli…[Read more]

@karthmin Seriously, it’s worth writing this story just for a response like that. 😂

I may or may not grant your petition… 😉

@evelyn You’re too epic not to be in the story. 😉🤗 And my apologies for making you blonde. 😜 I’ve only seen a black-and-white picture of you, I think, and your hair looked blondish in the photo. Oh well. &#x1f…[Read more]

@caserola Here’s a link to where you can sign up for NaNo: https://nanowrimo.org/sign-up

I meant the link to your story. 🙂

@kelly-lundgren Yeah I’ve had that happen. 😉

@tashah-claymore Great! I hope you do well in the competition. 🙂 And that’s awesome! I’ve been playing around 3 1/2-4 years as well.  Have you ever played for…[Read more]

@mariposa “Chief Shortbeard sat regally on his exercise ball…” may be one of the funniest things I’ve read in a long time. I can literally picture it perfectly. This is awesome, my friend.

Who’s the dark haired girl with the dagger?

@karthmin It’s the baker in her that typed ‘Shortbread’. Honestly, I was reading it as ‘shortbread’ anyways. 😀

@jessi-rae @daeus-lamb @j-a-penrose @supermonkey42 @karthmin @savannahgrace @maddiejay @catwing @brandon-miller @josiah @anne-of-lothlorien @scribbles

Why does it seem like every time I post one of these that I’m apologizing for my lateness? 😂 I guess I should stop apologizing and just say I’ll write when I write and you can die from suspense in…[Read more]

@hope-ann Great! Sounds like a busy week.

@caserola Yeah, I could probably do that. 🙂 Are you looking for more general critiques, or would you like me to critique grammar/prose/pacing as well?

@devastate-lasting That’s good then! Hope school’s been okay. 🙂

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Okay, guys!  Time to once again post your goals for the week.  I hope this has b…[Read more]

Hey guys! The deadline to critique Ella of Cinders is tomorrow!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zk8QldbQbAJvfYEpCACVx6Styismop3E1euVHGYnrMs/edit?usp=sharing

@tinuviel @tashah-claymore @caserola @michael_stanton @trallion @catwing @hope-ann @allison-grace @emgc @enu @seekjustice @karthmin @mlbolangerauthor @lady-frosttongue @sarah-inkdragon @d…[Read more]

*appears on a random box* Ereki! The results are in in! If you haven’t seen already, here they are…

New Wessex: 50,445
Erekdale: 26,232
Knaphollow: 22,499
Parami Alca: 6,854
Meraki: 3,379
Rillumen: 1,340

We came in second! Good job Ereki! *throws feathers*
Somehow New Wessex crushed it with twice our word count. Wow.

w-o-holmes wrote the…[Read more]

Remember that we are critiquing Ella of Cinders this week! I would appreciate any and all comments on it.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zk8QldbQbAJvfYEpCACVx6Styismop3E1euVHGYnrMs/edit?usp=sharing

@tinuviel @tashah-claymore @caserola @michael_stanton @trallion @catwing @hope-ann @allison-grace @emgc @enu @seekjustice @karthmin @mlbolangerau…[Read more]

@tinuviel I’m glad you’ve had success with worldbuilding! It’s always exciting when everything starts falling into place. 😀  My goals have been going pretty well, thanks! I had a significant breakthrough with my world building as well, and while I wasn’t really able to finish my other writing goals, I’m happy with the progress I made. I didn’t…[Read more]

@karthmin That definitely sounds much less intimidating when you put it that way. I think I would use this subform a lot :). And I kind of like what @morreafirebird said about analyzing short stories, if we wanted to do something organized as a group.

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I really enjoy analyzing stories so I hope we either keep this subform or create such conversations elsewhere. I think the main problem is that a lot of us have read different books, or read the same books, but one of us finished it yesterday and the other hasn’t read it in three years 😛 Group reading novels might be a little too much…[Read more]