Am I late to the party? *hoping I’m not*

@sam-m

That sounds really interesting! I love high-stake suspense like that 🙂

@sarah-inkdragon

Ooh, heist stories! I like the idea of your “shift”. My story has a concept called the System and Levels, which kind of reminds me of your “shifting”.

My current WIP used to be a trilogy, but…[Read more]

Ooh, that sounds fun! I know a few people who write their screenplays and shoots them around the city. I’ve assisted the sound engineer in one of the expeditions.

@thewirelessblade

Let me know when you’re releasing the blog! I’d love to check it out!

@joseph_darkgrate

I hope you and your family recover! My sister just…[Read more]

I survived another year of NaNoWriMo (albeit I put my WIP to sleep at 35K). I’ll have to spend my next two weeks finishing my college application and last-minute ACT prep (yup, I love taking standardized college tests), so I won’t be writing during that time. But after I’m finally released from all that, I hope to finish one of my…[Read more]

As some of you may know, I didn’t finish this year, but I learnt a lot from the experience, so it was still good. I hope you all had fun!

I’ve sent you an invite to be my buddy!

We can be buddies and support each other! You can find me…[Read more]

Same here! I’ve been stuck on the same novel for as long as you have been (or maybe longer?) and with all the craziness facing college, I was getting really discouraged. But as soon as  I popped back into the forum, I feel much better! Thank you so much 🙂

@e-b-raulands

I am back! I nearly died, but I still live. Thank you all for your prayers.

I have an SAT creeping up on me, and as I’m a senior student, I have this last one to make it or break it. To prevent a complete meltdown, I have to focus on my test studies thus, and I shall be away until October the 5th, which is the day of…[Read more]

Like most of the people on here, I would love to help if not for my study saturated life starting in three days for SAT…I can probably show up once a week on the forums, but I’m not sure if I can do so daily.  (Or  I can be that emergency that runs topics evading your memory…)

I have been absent for two weeks, I come back, and I finally discovered this wonderful section that could have spared me for all the apologies…

Aaaahhhh! One of my most cherished part of SE!

But it’s okay. I still get to pester you with questions, so all is well! I really do like the idea of a mentor since I’ve been searching for one for the longest time. I will send you an email regarding this, I hope.

I’m sorry that I hadn’t gotten around to reading this until now. Like you, life happens to me a lot. 🙂 A few things before I make a fool out of myself:

1. I’m not an expert at critiquing so I need practise for this as much as for my writing craft.
2. I do, however, read extensively and have finished certain major projects along…

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Am I late for this topic? Will I be pardoned for my continuous tardiness? (The fact that I am posing such questions verify my lateness to the party.)

But I do have valid reasons for my disappearance, I promise. For ten days I was away at a Strings Boot Camp that drove musicians from nine to five into super musicians. Really, a boot…[Read more]

Thank you for all your advice! I’m going to take it slow and steady (hopefully), and maybe for my three-month or half-year anniversary, I would love it if you could guest post if it’s okay with you.

I have begun stalking people on their blogs, although I have yet to comment on them. It’s so fun to see what other people had written…[Read more]

Thank you for your advice! I rethought about my schedule, and once a week is something I will try to stick with. I will try to hunt out other blogs like mine. Would you mind if I started with yours? And do you have any recommendations on other blogs you know that I might find interesting?

I would also love to have a guest post on my…[Read more]

I totally agree with what everyone is saying! I also apologize for being rather inactive…this is heavily due to the part of me having to shift gears into more ‘serious studying’ for my school part of life since I will be going on to university next year, and I need to have shockingly high marks to achieve that. (As well as try to…[Read more]

Although I usually have a lot of ideas, this has happened to me before. For me, since I’ve been kind of busy lately, I haven’t had as much time as I would have liked to talk about my stories to others in general, but I do have a close friend who doesn’t write but full-heartedly supports my writing that I can talk to when I feel stuck.…[Read more]

Hi all! I still have a deadline to meet by the next week so I might pop up and disappear again, but I like the idea so far! I mean, pencils. I’m an artist, so I practically die for such things.

How about when we use pencils, we include other things like the kind of paper you’d use and maybe the setting around it like…[Read more]

Sorry I have gone MIA again. It’s the end of the years and I still have a summer full of studies and intensive viola playing ahead of me, so I’m not sure if I can show up consistently…

@mairin-atha

I totally agree with you on the COOLNESS of notebooks. Like @e-b-raulands, I used to only write on notebooks because I didn’t have a…[Read more]

I love these kinds of plotting/editting techniques! Okay, here I go:

LISA is a genius trapped in the mundane school system from where she constantly plots to escape by getting expelled, which she just succeeds in doing. On her way home from her karate class, she discovers strange teenagers, who she follows into the city of Shinagawa,…[Read more]

and everyone else

I’m super sorry I couldn’t help you out on this guild war as much as I would have liked to. I was sick for a whole two weeks…I just looked at the draft, and I think it sounds great! I love gladiator stories.

I thought I’ll order it according to the most problematic ones.

1. Plot holes–This is a big one for me. For one thing, my novel is divided into three parts that were originally three separate books (but I decided to mash it together since I have a pet peeve against trilogies). For another, it has several storylines and layers since…

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I listen to a lot of classics, soundtracks, and piano pieces. I’m also a fan of Vocaloid, but it really depends on what I’m writing.  I also like the Piano Guys!

@parker

I couldn’t listen to music while I was writing to start with. But I can write now with music (mainly those without lyrics). I think it also depends on what…[Read more]

Thanks for the wonderful story! I really enjoyed the conversation and journey of the dogs/wolves? It’s always enjoyable to read what other people come up with. 🙂

Monday works for me. I’m in the PST, so that’s 1-2pm-ish, right?

Creating playlists for my books…such a wonderful idea! I wonder why I didn’t think of it before. XD

This is such a good instruction on editing, if not one of the best editing advice I’ve ever read! Thank you…(Gotta save it in a document)

I think I teeter between the strict and loose, depending on the day. I also like to let my story sit for a while and ask my brother to rip my draft apart in the mean time.

I’m inspired by lots of works, but the more recent one would be Inception.

Why this guild is the best? This is the best thing that happened to me in 2018. Since I joined this writing group, I finished two WIPs that were from my major work. I would agree with @mairin-atha that edits would be nice…(which you’ve already started, so I have to take a look at it!) Thank you so much for being such an…[Read more]

I love these kinds of music!

Out of curiosity, do you guys have music that you listen to while you…[Read more]

Thank you for your story! Although, I must say I would need you to update the permission statement so that I can read your wonderful work…

…and everyone else. Happy New Year!

I have a huge list of things I plan to do and wish to do, and I think half of it has to do with my studies. The rest are theology and writing and stuff. Like not dying from the newly acquired skill set concerning social media, and somehow keeping anonymous at the same time.