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@caserola Oh yes, I heard about that.  Thanks for mentioning that, I’ll be praying.  (On a side note, are you feeling ready for NaNo??? There’s only four more days!)

@kelly-lundgren I’m so glad!

@sageinthemeadow  Ah okay, hopefully your week still went okay though. 🙂 My NaNo prep has been slow going, but it’s coming along. (And yes it is, I’…[Read more]

@tashah-claymore 😀

@caserola Nice!

@tinuviel I’m sorry about that.  I’m glad your week went well though. 🙂 (Also, I just added you as a buddy on NaNo. Hope you don’t mind. 😉 )  My goals went okay, thanks for asking.  I still have a bit more math to catch up on, but it’s coming along.

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Okay. Goals!

This week I plan to…

– Keep up wi…[Read more]

Hey all!

@karthmin How’s writing/editing/Inktober going?

@filewriter How are things this week? Writing? NaNo prep? Art? Homework?

@tashah-claymore Have fun!

@devastate-lasting How has homework been this week? Have you been able to write some?

@morreafirebird  How are your goals going this week? I hope the paper’s coming along okay.…[Read more]

Kree! Kree! Ereki, the results are in!

Parimi Alca: 23,265
Knaphollow: 10,009
New Wessex: 8,007
Erekdale: 7,311
Meraki: 2,317
Rillumen: 987
Avensbeck: 279

We placed fourth. 😀
And ariella-newheart wrote the most over all with 8320 words
In Erekdale (on the leaderboard), Emgc wrote the most this war, with 2516 words! Congratulations!…[Read more]

GUYSSS. How did I possibly miss this? Seriously I WAS EVEN TAGGED! Ahh. I feel so behind now, and my excitement over Tolkien is beginning to make me semi-illiterate.

@karthmin, very nice essay, I really enjoyed it! While I’ve thought a lot about Tolkien vs. Lewis, I don’t think the topic of femininity has come up. Oddly enough, though Lewis…[Read more]

@morreafirebird Thank you so much!! And thank you for taking the time to read it!

@bree-dawn Awesome!

@kelly-lundgren Great, I’m glad to hear it!

@devastate-lasting I’m sorry about that. Speaking as a (or at least I’m assuming) fellow highschooler (if you’re not then sorry :P), I know how overwhelming homework can get sometimes… >.< Hopefully you’ll have some more time freed up this week?

@sageinthemeadow Good, good. And…[Read more]

@morreafirebird They are voice or video, whichever you prefer.

Today is the last day of the word war (ending at midnight). Don’t forget to submit your word counts for the week tomorrow! 😀

Word War Submission Form

@bree-dawn @caserola @michael_stanton @trallion @catwing @hope-ann @allison-grace @emgc @enu @princess-foo @seekjustice @karthmin @mlbolangerauthor @lady-frosttongue @sarah-inkdragon @devastate-las…[Read more]

Man, I’m loving all this discussion. XD Seems like we hit a nerve with this topic.

Just to follow up about the whole Lewis and Tolkien thing – there are a lot of factors that I learned about which I hadn’t previously considered about the two of them. I originally posted my essay-thing in a FB group and got a lot of helpful comments on it.

About…[Read more]

@erekdale We’re planning our Second Monthly Video Call this coming Monday night at 6:00 PM EST! The first one was a success (for an exclusively introverted crowd, I think we did pretty good, anyway). XD

And now we’re going to go for round two. This call will have a main discussion topic to start off with, and then we’ll see where the conversation…[Read more]

@morreafirebird Thank you! I’d be up for brainstorming if you need more help!

I wrote about my frog-kisser character here if you want to check it out. I think I want to do something more with her, or at least the concept, at some point.

@seekjustice Thanks! And I’m glad!

@tashah-claymore Great!

@lady-frosttongue That’s great! (And I just added you. 🙂 )

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Okay, looks like a lot of you are ahead of me this week. XD

My goals:

— Participate in word war!

— Catch up on math homework

— Practice music every day

— Do well on (both) big tests coming up this week (which… I…[Read more]

@karthmin

I’ve been thinking, as part of this subforum, that we could try a  book club type thing. Us all reading the same book would be too much, but we could do something like what my mum’s book club does and try making a theme or genre for each month (such as fantasy, sci-fi, or a book with a movie adaption) and then each month we could all…[Read more]

@morreafirebird

That’s definitely something I’ve struggled with. My three main WIPs at the moment all feature female characters and it was difficult for me to decide how to deal with them. One WIP is a dystopian, featuring a revolution, of course. I decided that one of my girls would be in the revolution (since historically, women make up a lot…[Read more]

@morreafirebird

I like your interpretation of the “appreciation of feminine genius” more 🙂 It does sound very much along the lines of his thinking.

I’ve read a few different books on them. “C.S. Lewis” by Janet and Geoff Benge is interesting (but aimed at a middle grade audience). There’s also “Surprised by Joy” by C.S. Lewis, which I haven’t…[Read more]

@morreafirebird My first thought is healer. My second thought it “No, that’s cliche!”. And then my third thought is… “Actually off the top of my head I can only think of one book I’ve read where the MC was a healer. Like, an actual healer and not a she-was-a-healer-to-get-involved-in-the-plot-and-then-gets-in-a-more-action-based-role. And that…[Read more]

@karthmin @princess-foo @morreafirebird

This is such a fascinating discussion! To be honest, I’d never really thought about the difference between the ways Tolkien and Lewis dealt with women, but having read a few biographies of both of them and analyses of their works, I’ve got a few points to add.

One is that Tolkien was Catholic and he had a…[Read more]