Can confirm redirection here for the Poets and Publishers/Marketing Nerds subgroup.

Hmm…I think we need characters for each of these two cultures. Maybe not a ton of characters, because we only have 2500 words, but maybe a leader or representative?

Or it could be two ordinary people from the two cultures, like hunters, who meet and have to deal with cultural differences. Then we have our mediator enter the scene…

I basically got dragged under by school and other things. It unfortunately happens. Where is everyone else? Just because I happen to show up with a long post about someone’s writing doesn’t mean that everyone else has to leave.

Research. I’m actually blown away by the perspective you bring to this story. You also have an incredible ability…[Read more]

6 days…yeah, I hope @katherineh is working on something because I am swamped, folks.

I guess the story I failed to submit to the short story contest is a mystery, so I could technically hand that in if all else absolutely fails, but I thought that story was too violent for SE and I have no time for revisions at the moment…

I’m honestly confused as to what the question is asking. The chief asset of the guilds, from what I’ve seen, is that work we post here isn’t visible to the broader internet. (That’s why I’ve been skittish about posting my poetry on here because then it would be considered “published” and thus unavailable to submit to journals. Just a thought.…[Read more]

*headscratch* I’m still wondering if this goal-oriented approach to writing is treating writing as some sort of idol. I mean, if you really don’t want to write…but I guess not everyone is like me who is procrastinating her Spanish homework to go write. It’s really important to identify as a follower of Christ first and as a writer second,…[Read more]

Funny you asked. So what happened is that one of the ideas turned into a ridiculous idea for a merchandising line of plushies, er, the second idea didn’t take off, and the third idea…uh, I finished editing it at 10:40 PM on June 30 and actually went to go submit it, only to realize that I was in Pacific Daylight Time, again. Oops.

So the…[Read more]

@jenwriter17 If it’s an either/or thing, we should definitely go with the second story. I just thought I should put in a note for the future that the first story is better, in case you wanted to publish it somewhere else or something.

I mean, if there was a way to include more sun without taking so much of the rest of the original story out, that…[Read more]

No. I actually admire writers who have the courage to tackle dark subjects. I tend to disagree that all Christian work must be cheery, happy, etc.

I think you need to write a new character. I tried to explain myself in post #91885, though I probably got too long-winded, a problem that I sometimes have.

Also, you’re welcome.  But yeah -…[Read more]

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To be honest, I actually liked the first story better…as an actual story, heh, at least with the plot and characters. The second story does fit the prompt better, but life is not about writing prompts. (You all can find the original under version history.) I liked the first version better because it was more…[Read more]

@jenwriter17 No worries. I can’t write all of the stories, heh. An interesting and admittedly dark direction that is more original than my lame suggestions. Well done.

I take it that the sunrise was the ordinary thing of emphasis?

@jenwriter17 Uh, I had kinda left the story in your most capable hands since I was working on my story for the contest. 😛 But okay…

Uh, for this prompt *puts on public school student hat* we need two things for the story:

1. A dramatic setting
2. An ordinary object

Usually a dramatic setting involves two or more parties in conflict. For…[Read more]

Sorry, but I feel I need to add this – for a fictional story, protagonist-antagonist conflict is important. You can skip that for non-fiction books or memoir because that’s a commentary on the real world we live in and information about it, for which the “wow, this happened in real life!” is enough to draw us in. That doesn’t work for fiction…[Read more]

@kayla-skywriter My apologies, I should have tagged you, heh. With that in view, I did leave some comments on your Google Doc, so if you want to look at those, that may help. I do feel the need to address some points that line-item Google Doc criticism really doesn’t cover, so here we go.

First, this is story is really dark, so I’m sorry if it i…[Read more]