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Friendly reminder that the story is due in like, two days. So, if you…[Read more]

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Okay all, who’s up for looking through Faith’s draft and strengthening some character voice?? If you have ideas or inspiration, head over to the doc and dive into editing the rough draft so that this story can really pop out of the page. 😀

OR if you have a different idea and really really want to write it, go ahead and try your hand at a first…[Read more]

@katthewriter

Sure you can! You can all go ahead and start all the topics you want as long as they’re writing related and designed for encouragement and support of each other. 😀

I’ll go ahead and tag the rest of the guild members for you.…[Read more]

@professorsjb wowzers, you must be so busy!! You go, girl!

I loved that snippet! That actually works pretty well, because you’re telling those appearance details as the POV character notices them, and they notice them very specifically too so it’s totally realistic.

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BEHOLD, WE HAVE NEW MEMBERS! Both these two human beans have been added to the awesome Meerkats, so please give them a welcome!

New members: Take a tour around all the different topics! Introduce yourself, make friends, you could post something for critiques–just make yourselves at home!…[Read more]

@faith_blum Argh man, physical descriptions + not sounding forced is pretty much the wooooorst. xD About 80% of the time, I just ignore the physical descriptions all together (which is also a terrible option). >.<

@fctait Ah yep yep, descriptions is another good thing to work on.

@parker Hmm well, I COULD potentially do something about…[Read more]

Anybody else want to help out?! 🙂

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@katthewriter
@lightning-spider
@skye
@_simplybee

Instant crowd! Don’t worry, I won’t do this too often, I…[Read more]

Sorry for tagging you all again, but it’s been brought to my attention by a lovely staff member that I got my head muddled around and I’ve accidentally gotten my passive voice mixed into a bit of showing vs telling in this post.

So, to correct any confusion: “I saw/felt/heard” is NOT passive voice. It’s telling.

Also: “My pulse was roaring in…[Read more]

@professorsjb You’re quite right about that. So glad someone else likes Dostoevsky….most people I meet haven’t even heard of him.

The hem of my dress rustled in the stems of grass as I stepped from the last stair. With so much fabric swathed around my legs, fitting into the coach might be a harder task than it ought. I cleared my throat to dismiss the faint bubble of a laugh that tried to well up.

Laughing on the way to my father’s funeral would not give the right i…[Read more]

@the-fledgling-artist  Aww, thank you!! <3

(I just realized that the comments I did for @skredder and @professorsjb are almost the exact same… That was COMPLETELY inadvertent. Sorryyyy! *blushes*)

@ariella-newheart  Have I reminded you recently of how amazing of an artist you are?

@mariposa  VULCANODON!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAA!!! *faints of fangirl overload* That is TOO cool!!

And all the rest of your dinosaurs, too. You should make an adoption center for them. XD

@the-fledgling-artist  I love the owls!! You are such a great pa…[Read more]

@professorsjb

I’ve gone through ‘The Spell’ and woooow that was…really interesting. Not at all like I thought it was going to be, but definitely super interesting. I really liked it! Good job. 😀

The main thing to note was that there was quite a lot of passive voice throughout the story. (But that’s also this week’s activity/topic so that…[Read more]

@professorsjb

Ah, nice! (Don’t worry about being late 😛 )

The character voice isn’t too bad. A little rough, but that’s probably somewhat to do with the fact that you wrote this so long ago. 😉