@rae

@abrielle

@e-n-leonard

@lady-grace

@inkhorn

@wingiby-iggiby

@mischievous-thwapling

@millennium

@rusted-knight

@jasmine

@backwardslivewriter

@joelle-stone

@rose-colored-fancy

@littlewolf

@sparrowhawke

@anne_the_noob14

@noah-cochran

@irishcelticredflowercrown

@denali-christianson

@emily-waldorf

@mamaauthoress

@jar…[Read more]

I’ll tag some people I know!  I’m not sure how many will respond (since the forum has been pretty quiet) but I’d love for you to get to know some people here &l…[Read more]

There used to be a tradition of studying the masters when it comes to art.  I think some of the same principles apply to studying authors who do fight scenes well.

One of the authors I think does this in a spectacular way is Louis L’Amour. [Yes, the western writer]  What many do not know is that the man wrote many of his c…[Read more]

What’s your WIP about?  Do you have any favorite books?  What are some of your favorite crafts?
That’s really cool that you’re learning to knit!  I never learned to knit, but it does seem fun (and practical.)

I think that SE is…unfortunately rather inactive at the moment.  I think that…[Read more]

Okay, everyone’s advice so far has been great!

Do y’all know of any complex, yet immersive and suspenseful battle/skirmish scenes? Any problems you’ve run into and fixed?

So… none come to mind, except maybe the battle scenes in Skyward, I know you’ve read that one. Brandon Sanderson had a lecture about battle scenes iirc… Som…[Read more]

@ethan-leonard

@joelle-stone

@the-inkspiller

@noah-cochran

@calidris

Okay, from now until 8pm Eastern Time (USA) November 19th, I’m having a poll as to where we want to hold the writing group: over email or on discord? If you don’t reply by then, I will assume that…[Read more]

I am trying to get 4-6 people together to form a writing spring group. Basically, we get together at scheduled times to do writing sprints. It could be weekly, biweekly, monthly, whatever. I just think it would be good for me to do sprints, and it would be so much funner and more accountable with others!

I was hoping we could…[Read more]

Thank-you! I would really appreciate any help you can give. 🙂

Ideally, I would like to write a completed novel with 50,000 words, but I’m not sure that is going to be feasible. The goal that’s most important to me right now is getting in the habit of consistently setting aside time to write/hitting a consistent word count each…[Read more]

I feel ya, but just sayin’, that is not a big deal at all. Worry about that when you’re line editing and in between books. Of all the problems to have, free-flowing, but mediocre prose is an awesome one.

Honestly, that’s very encouraging XD I’m going to enjoy it while it lasts XD

I’m over here wavin’ goodbye to 10k words a week be…

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Not in the way you’d probably think, it’s not the dreaded writer’s block. Rather the opposite, I’m in that blissful state every writer longs for where word counts are being hit, the words are flowing, the story is taking shape, and writing is fun.

However, in the…[Read more]

Hey Arindown! It’s awesome to see you around again! How have you been? How is writing? Characters behaving? What are you writing currently?

Ooohhh YES permission to infodump!! I love nothing more!

First of all @calidris it was so cool seeing Sebastian’s character all put together! I still love him, even though he’s horrid and evil…[Read more]

It’s been ages since I’ve been on SE, so there are a lot of new people to meet as well as old faces I’m so happy to see still around. 😉

Tell me about your villains! I’ve been working through arc/backstory/motivation for some of my antagonists lately, and I want to hear everything about yours.

Info dump away. XD

Gonna tag some…[Read more]

https://silverpenstrokes.wordpress.com/ my new blog!!!

Check it out and consider subscribing, because there’s a great new post coming out tomorrow (I post once a month for now)

I’m just gonna tag a few people I know and those who have been active on this…[Read more]

I’m aware that the Greek literally means “servant”. I guess what I’d like to ask is why do we automatically assume that Phoebe was just a servant of the church? From what I’ve read surrounding this verse (and other verses discussing deacons), the evidence points to Phoebe being a deacon. This mini study does more justice…[Read more]

For some reason, the site isn’t letting me post my reply about deaconesses and textus receptus to you. Bear with me while I figure out what’s going wrong. XD

I do compare versions regularly.  Check out the online Blue Letter Bible which has a selector giving access to all versions including the Textus Receptus and KJV.

Each verse has a Bibles link that shows a linear comparison of verses in each of the prominent translations.  There is also an Interlinear which is c…[Read more]

Here is the passage containing an example of a deaconess:

I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deaconess of the church at Cen’chre-ae, that you may receive her in the Lord as befits the saints, and help her in whatever she may require from you, for she has been a helper of many and of myself as well. [Romans…[Read more]

First off, I am completely confident in my beliefs, and it doesn’t really bother me if you think I’m a lost soul. I was raised by two linguists who taught me good exegetical skills. My father supports egalitarianism and encourages me to stand up for myself when I am “put in my proper place” by a man. My…[Read more]

Right! And every single time Ezer appears in the Bible (outside of Genesis) it is used to describe either YHWH himself (17x), Isreal’s allies (1x), or Isreal as an ally (1x).

God uses the same term that he gave to women (from the very start, in Eden) as a term for himself. If we are going to say women can be helpers/rescuers of…[Read more]

So do you write chronologically (starting in chapter 1 and ending at last chapter)?

I am probably the most nonlinear writer you could hope to meet! But I’m actually trying to make an effort to be more liner with my Certain as the Sun fic…

…which I’m currently ignoring in hopes of finishing this outline…

(There is clearly no…[Read more]

I knew I kept you around for some reason! 😉✌️

As Camirvablahblah said! Moneymoneymoney *gremlin ominous grumblings* moneymoneymoney…

Yeps!

*notices blinking red alarm light*

*checks it out*

“forum update from” *checks date* “three days ago?! HOW?”

@noah-cochran

Wow, three books in one book? Is it gonna be 200k+ words? If so, fantastic! (I have a great liking for long books that aren’t C…

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Ikr, I am evil! 😂

This is glorious…

This is how I need my history books to be!!! You need to make more of these lol!!!

I hope so I’m still dutifully procrastinating my InDesign assignment 😉

@kimlikesart

My Heart!! *squeezes tight*

❤️How’ve you been lately?❤️ 🙂

This is what I come back to…? Like I just came to reply to Noah…😁✌️

*So, seeing as I started this debate up again it is possible I may have started something*

*again.*

Ok ok, guys, a lot of arguments just spark from misunderstanding what the other people say. Lets look unpack this!

Once I reply to Camirvablahblah…[Read more]

Not sure why the tags weren’t working in the other post.

I’ll preface this by saying that I worked on this response with a really close friend of mine, Al Zapor. When I asked his thoughts on some things that were mentioned above, he said he had some opinions that he wanted to share. However, he’s waiting for forum account approval rig…[Read more]

@k-a-grey

@obrian-of-the-surface-world

@inkhorn

@noah-cochran

@jared-williams

There are four of us on Story Embers, five of us total.

Is your WIP a stand alone or a series?

As for my WIP, the working title is Lost City of Dragons – I tend to abbreviate it to tLCoD. Another working title is Brand of the Crypt – I hate the title though. 😑 It is SUPPOSED to be a standalone novel, but it’s also kinda a…[Read more]

Of course, they were gorgeous, as like unto the blood of your enemies 😉

Well you just aced the bad-pun street there honey 🙃✌️

@hannahrenner

Alrighty!

Then do it already!!! 😂👌 (JKJK!!!)

@noah-cochran

That’s probably for the best…

To @hannahrenner, ok so his Pinterest board had the two initials PB…[Read more]

Thank you for responding.
I like that you focused on emphasizing simplicity. Sometimes, as people, we can get the temptation to overcomplicate things. Do you think creatives have an extra struggle to overcomplicate in doing actions that require a lot of thought, or does that not make a difference? If yes, how do you see this playing…[Read more]

*smoothly swipes the Starbucks and gulps it down*

*smirks angelically*

OK!!!!

Soooo

First, Kimmi!!! @kimlikesart, my angel my Heart my soul!! It was her birthday a couple weeks ago!!!! She has a newsletter too!!! She’s so amazing I could go on and on and on an–*bites lip* *for now*

She’s a nondenominational Christian and likes art, his…[Read more]

@noah-cochran @calidris @obrian-of-the-surface-world

Said grammar-dictionary sister said (as far as we could tell without reading my story together) that what I said in my previous post about “Were” is probably right, but is a situation that should be avoided.

Thank you!

Ah! No, “was” is incorrect, but not quite in the way you’re thinking. These two sentences are similar in that the MC is thinking hypothetically:

When something is a wish or otherwise hypothetical, it is correct to use “were”, although people will use “was” because it sounds right (like I thought it did). I might…[Read more]

here it is. I didn’t edit before posting:

Really A Big Word

I am waiting. Waiting for the train to come; for life to start; for the memories to stop.

Just…waiting.

The d…[Read more]

Could you perhaps skip playing with tenses and just switch persons?

Shall I post it here?

Whether you’ve written first-person present or not, do you have any tips for writing it? Any common mistakes you see people commit?

Okay, as you know I primarily write first-person past tense with interludes of third-person past tense.

The biggest differences are psychic distance, voice, and unreliability.

You already have all of t…[Read more]

Story Ember did a podcast on POVs that might be good to check out.

SE Podcast #40: The Power of Point of View

It is possible I may have started something again.

Absolutely you cannot! Now how goes with you in life?

🙂☕

This is very true and everyone can a…[Read more]

It is possible I may have started something again.

Absolutely you cannot! Now how goes with you in life?

😁

This is very true and everyone can a…[Read more]

love the idea!  got the mental juices flowing.

I would imagine one difference would be there would be a lot less % water content around the earth. More tectonic activity means more volcanic activity means more land mass and less ocean. Would have to be careful about that though, because the ocean is our greatest atmosphere and…[Read more]

So, this is giving me The Giver vibes.  Also maybe  The Matrix.  And I can kinda see the archetype of opening a forbidden secret, like Eve in Genesis or Pandora in Greek mythology.

What if she stumbles upon a website containing the secret tho…[Read more]