Ryker Dawson

Writing from the POV (point of view) of someone of the opposite gender can be challenging to do realistically, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. If you’re a girl, writing from a girl’s perspective will naturally come easier simply because girls know how girls think. And vice versa for dudes. However, sometimes you don’t want to write fro…[Read more]

Okay, I’m not going to lie, I had a bit of a mental scream when I realised it was almost 6 pm (in my timezone) and I hadn’t written the week’s topic yet. I brainstormed ideas and came up with a whole lot of nothing much.

And so here I am. And this week I’m being lazy asking you guys for some feedback!

– Am I doing okay with our weekly topics?
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Writers are (or certainly should be) constantly growing in their craft. We work on it every week, every month, every year, and as time goes on we learn how to make our stories better, stronger, deeper.

As we grow to be better writers than we were before, it’s very easy to look back on old writing, cringe, hide it in a deepest corner of d…[Read more]

RALLY TOGETHER, MEERKATS, AND DRAW YOUR SWORDS PENS. The next guild war has begun!!

If you haven’t been around for any of the past guild wars, don’t worry, it’s pretty straight forward. A guild war is where each of the guilds competes against the other guilds to try write the best scene/the most words/etc. This week it’s about writing a s…[Read more]

There’s a piece of writing advice I hear all the time “Never edit while you write the first draft” and I wanted to share a bit of my POV about this. A bit about how I don’t think it’s a good bit of advice and my reasons why.

First of all: No. No no nooo. With all these ‘writing advice’ tips, they NEED to be taken with a grain of salt. Don’t just…[Read more]

Yep guys, this is basically the same as the introduce your story topic, but with characters instead!

1) pick one or two characters
2) share a little bit about them/their personality/their role in the story
3) share what their character arc is, and anything else you want to note

So I’m going to go first again, just because that’s…[Read more]

Bear with me for a moment as I tell you a little story about my day today.

I spent a long time this morning sorting through emails, replying to guild things, organising a lesson I’m teaching at a local school tomorrow, and doing everything else on my do-list other than writing this.

Why?

Because I had no clue what I was doing for this week’s…[Read more]

Before we begin: this is an important announcement, so please take the time to read it all.

First of all, thank you to everyone who filled in the survey. It was very helpful and I hope that we’ll be able to use your feedback to make the guilds even more awesome than ever!

Our vision for the guilds is to form a tight-knit group of creators…[Read more]