Hello!

This is Shira/ @WisedomOfProse! I’ve been fairly busy lately, (hence, my disappearance) my apologies. At any rate, a friend of mine opened a group on the Band app for NaNoWriMo/Writers recently!…[Read more]

Hey everyone!

I’ve started a newsletter (which launches in a week) where I’ll post updates,…[Read more]

@eden-anderson @evelyn @seekjustice @rochellaine @ariel @theresa-play @catwing

Anyway…

I’ve really enjoyed beta reading in the past, but I haven’t done so in a while. So I thought I’d ask to see if anyone was looking for a beta reader currently??? Also, if you’re free and want to offer to beta read for anyone…[Read more]

So, if you want to post your name here so everyone can be buddies, that’d be…[Read more]

Hey guys. Has anyone been following the Hong Kong protests?

Whether one is for or against the protestors aside, having a group of rebels/revolutionaries rising up against the authorities is a common trope in fiction and I think the events in Hong Kong are making a great case…[Read more]

Welcome to SE, @sophia-partridge!

Tagging some of you all… @ashira  @jane-maree (Sophia, Jane is my guildmaster with the best guild of all. XD)  @rochellaine  @seekjustice  @abigail-rebekah  and @holly-anne  @eden-anderson  @samantha-pen  @moonlighting-nove…[Read more]

Here’s the link to the blurb: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LRD3ndwALf7aaoKmpeKP6rEQEUW5x-3-UaGWQ4UAp5k/edit?usp=sharing

@seekjustice @rochellaine @theres…[Read more]

What has been the worst historical fiction book you’ve ever read and why? Was it the theme, or lack there of? Modern characters stuffed into the past? Too much fiction that it changed the history?

We all know how hard it is to…[Read more]

Sorry I have been gone for so long! Finally back now… XD

@pensword

Wow, cool! I will have to check that book out. Sounds really neat.

@lrc

(Love your short tag, btw. Lol!)

Ah, I get the “want-to-get-involved-in-every-topic-like-crazy-but-don’t-have-time” thing! Thanks for saying hi, though. 🙂 And I love that line that @his-bard…[Read more]

In real history, probably no real reason for the west to start a second secession, other than because they probably could’ve gotten away with it.

But in my story timeline, the town that sparks the new secession movement is under the leadership of individuals who are fed up with Federal over-reach. They disagree with the Civil W…[Read more]

Hello Everyone!

I need Beta Readers for my latest short story. I would appreciate any comments and critique (from story structure and character development to dialogue to grammar!) so much! Please invite others if you can!…[Read more]

@theresa-play @seekjustice @rochellaine @jenwriter17 @dekreel @emgc Any of y’all on? Anyone want to word war?

I have to go to bed now. Good night. 🙂

Does 15 minutes sound good?

@theresa-play @rochellaine @seekjustice @dekreel @snapper @ethryndal @jessirae I’m on for a while. If anyone wants to Word War or something.

I’ll be writing for a while. Anyone want to join me?

I’m writing now for a bit.

I have eight of the Elsie books and have never liked any of them 😛 As @rochellaine said, way too dramatic and ridiculous, as well as suffering from some unfortunate racial portrayals (as does pretty much any book from the time).

Yeah, I agree with you. There is not any 1900’s Christian fiction that I really like, let alone profit from, anymore. The Elsie books were fine for when I was younger, but they are very melodramatic and highly unrealistic to me now! It becomes obvious very fast that Martha Finley never got married and had a family of her…[Read more]

I didnt really care why they screamed, mad, happy, whatever.  It was just a problem.

Yeah, that makes sense.

Hey, I don’t mind the Elsie Dinsmore books! I am curious as to whether you read them, though, Rochellaine. 🙂 I thought they were pretty cool, and they were a good influence for me at the time when I read them.

Okay, cool! I love researching random facts and things, as well. And the Pepper books drive me crazy with all the screaming, as well, lol.

Sounds like awesome research! I don’t know much about that, though it is familiar as well. Let us know what you find out…and if I find anything, I’ll let you know. 🙂

Thanks so much! I just requested access, let me know if you get it. 🙂 It didn’t give a note option but should come in as my name I think. I won’t bother you until July, then. Looking forward to it! 🙂

Hi Rochellaine! My name is Lindsey and I’m rather new to the forum. I’ve been stalking this conversation for a long while because it’s hard to find fellow historical fictioners. (Most people write fantasy, lol…and for someone who doesn’t, it’s kinda hard to find anyone to relate to).

I think you and I have a LOT in common, and I…[Read more]

1. The betrayal of conviction.

Basically, think of a die-hard zealot watching the leader they’ve idolized and followed for so long renounce what he’s said and done. It would make them furious; all their former passionate support would…[Read more]

abseloutey!!yess!!!!

absolutely… I am hoping for this story to be kind of the start of getting my stuff published and out there so yeah I wanna refine it a lot.

What are your technical/grammatical comments??

I haven’t read DoJ in a while but I think I get the idea. Two other options come to mind:

(1) If you do not wish to give Kashti a more personal connection or investment with the traitor… well that just means he’s the historical equivalent of the keyboard warrior ranting and hating on Public Enemy No. 1 even though it has no real l…[Read more]

what book is this?

I will need a better idea of the context. How important and impactful is the betrayal? What is the traitor’s reason for betraying them. Is it for purely selfish motives or does he think he is doing the right thing by changing sides? Do all the characters have an equal stake in the outcome or does your angry character have more…[Read more]

Ugh no I’ve never heard of them. That’s horrible.

Forgive me if I did not tag you I just pulled tags of a recent post cause I can’t remember half your guys’ tags…

So I have a first draft of the story I had aforementioned to yall and I’m looking for beta readers. I’ll share a link…[Read more]

That is awful! I don’t think I’ve heard of them.