@deeprun @michelle @bree-dawn @tinuviel @tashah-claymore @michael_stanton @caserola @trallion @hope-ann @mlbolangerauthor @lady-frosttongue @sarah-inkdragon @devastate-lasting @sageinthemeadow @enu @the-inkspiller [Read more]

@elizabeth @taylor-clogston @sarah-inkdragon @devastate-lasting

(Thank you, Google, for giving me a reference :P)

If you’re like me and have had a little extra time on your hands then yo…[Read more]

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]

@sarah-inkdragon Jumping off what you said about depressed love interests,…[Read more]

(It’s not called reverting to homeschooling. It’s progressing to it. 😉 )

I’m in search of opinionated people to help clear me out of this muddle.

Here’s what I had:

In the beginning, the Songkiller sang chaos into the fabric of the world. Now, he’s returning to finish his dark symphony…

Exton hunts to red…[Read more]

Thank you! That is helpful. I’ll keep working on that and incorporate it into my paintings. Ahh, that makes sense. I love vibrant watercolor pieces, so I’ll have to go back and see what I can do.(:

I’ve never gotten the chance to try out tubes, just blocks, but I’ll have to try it sometime.

Thank you for your help!

Hello, It’s Mic…[Read more]

Wow…that was a really good explanation xD

You’re welcome.

WOW! I totally agree with you!! 100% That’s really good advice.

I hired a blurb artist to make it smashing. He returned this exactly:

In ancient times, the Songkiller sang chaos into the world. Now, he’s returned to finish his dark symphony…

When heroes fall, they pick themselves back up. At least, that’s what the young adventurer named Exton was taught. But when he forges a daring plan to str…[Read more]

BOKURA TIME-FU-RA-I-YA KIMI WO KAKEAMANO KURAIMO TAKE NO MAKURE MOHAGURE KO

WA MOIYARANDA!!!

*proceeds to sing more misheard and thus badly transcribed lyrics that would make a Japanese person wilt to hear*

***did someone mention the Kimi no Na Wa soundtrack????***

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Ah, a new week already. Well, do y’all have any goals planned for this week?

For me:

— Finish organizing everything before I leave (Speaking of which, guys, I’ll be out of the country these next two weeks so I won’t be on here at all. You guys can…[Read more]

Thanks for the offer, but I’m nowhere near that point yet. I have some major character / plot elements I need to demolish and…[Read more]

@seekjustice I’m sure he is. 😉

@deeprun

Thanks. I’ve always wanted to write it all out, but I’m just not really sure how to go about it. I’ve written parts of it, and you’re right it did really help.

Yeah, I really love all the Scandinavian breeds too. Actually I love everything Scandinavian, I always have. But the…[Read more]

Anyway, loving this convo, I’ll leave now 😀

Before I tell my long story here’s some background. I’m currently fifteen, but this all started around five years ago when I was ten. Well, actually it started when I was eight and a half, or seven. We’ll go with nine.

So I was nine and had just moved to a new town, about three hours away from the town I’d lived in most of my…[Read more]

Yeah, I’d never expect to win. But, the thought of getting to spend so long in the saddle *sighs* even as my town girl muscles scream at the thought I get so happy just thinking about it. And don’t worry about the jargon, you have no idea how wonderful it is to not be the one throwing those words out.

Your mare is pretty, I like…[Read more]

I’ve read his whole book and watched the videos many times.

Poor breeding? ? You know the Arabian helped make the American Quarter Horse right?  And my favorite, the Appaloosa. Quarter horses are all different. Beau is way larger, heftier, and taller than Buddy.

You both relize you just told me my first and only herd I’ve worked with and love are all too lame and not good for anything right?? XD

Its three quarter horses,  a super old thoroughbred, and an Arabian paint cross.  And they are amazing, thank you very much.  xP I’ve mostly just worked with 2 of the quarter ho…[Read more]

Ah, now I understand. I’m not saying this because I don’t care, really I do care, and I don’t want to sound mean. But, I just don’t have time to read the snippets. *drops head on desk* It is so hard to not seem like a monster on the internet.

Yeah, he might enjoy what he does more now. But it really wasn’t fair. He was a good horse…[Read more]

@seekjustice Ooh yay for rain! You guys sure need it right now. Hopefully your far away from the cyclones though. 😬 Glad things went well this week. 🙂

@sageinthemeadow That’s great!

My goals went pretty well. I didn’t write as much as I wanted, but I think I’ll be able to make up for it this week. I did get to read…[Read more]

I don’t want my magic system to seem supernatural because that is what those who use the perversion of the ordained magic do. So my magic system its self isn’t supernatural, but those who abuse it add in a supernatural element.

You asked a lot of great question for creating a magic system, good thing I already have them all…[Read more]

I actually struggled with this for a while because I was afraid any magic would feel supernatural. Especially since my Wip’s genre is Historical Urban Fantasy; at least I think it would be, it’s complicated.

Like @sarah-inkdragon mentioned I have…[Read more]

@noodle-mum Like Daeus said, Sanderson’s Three Laws are an essential resource, if only because everyone else will have them in mind when discussing magic.

<h2>Hardness</h2>

We describe magic in a given system as being on a scale from “soft” to “hard.” Generally, the harder the magic,…[Read more]

I’m glad your goals are going well! (And am excited to read what’s next in your story. 😉 )

My goals went pretty well, thanks for asking! I was a bit nervous for my concert just because some things came up to make things complicated (such as one of the violinists breaking her wrist).  But it went really well! I’m…[Read more]

Ooh your story reminds me of one of my favourite shows, Psycho-Pass, which is a little similar in premise (a science-fiction psychological thriller featuring a seemingly perfect society with the main characters being the defenders of the status quo). I’ll just put the synopsis here for reference in case it is useful. From what I…[Read more]

Hmmmm… it’s difficult. I just had a look at the Fahrenheit 451 blurb and it seems to rely on the fact that the audience already somewhat knows what’s going.

Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to…

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Jethro, Moses’s father in law, according to Google 😉

and also John Ronald Reuel, yes.   )

I just guessed because I once named a character Reuel after Tolkien.

As for how to make it sound generic but also interesting… I’m not really sure without employing satire 😀

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Well guys what’s the week ahead look like for you?

For me…

— Get prepared for concert this weekend 

— So practice, practice, practice!

— Read

— Write a little bit at least

— Beta-read

— Keep up with math

@deeprun @michelle @bree-dawn @tinuviel @ta…[Read more]

It strikes me as sci-fi with heavy dystopian themes. I haven’t read Scythe by Neal Shusterman, but the blurbs sound similar.

It does sound interesting, though I think the prose could be tightened in a few areas, as it reads a bit ramblingly. Some bits “truth – real truth – has been accepted in all four corners of the globe.” I t…[Read more]

We’ve launched a cool new feature on the forum called groups.

You can find them in the nav bar like so:

Groups are hubs for writers to gather around something they share in common. They include a Facebook-like feed and most of them also include their own forums.

So far there are three types of groups:
1. Word war…[Read more]

I think it’s not bad. You’ve got the situation and problem of the main plot there but I would recommend providing more details and context to give more clarity as to the type of story this is and catch the reader’s interest.

From the blurb, it seems to be an adventure story. I would not have known that it is a sci-fi because to…[Read more]

@morreafirebird That’s awesome! Now I wanna paint. XD

@michelle Great. 😀 Things have been going pretty well… Didn’t write much, but I’ve been able to read a lot. 🙂

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Hey guys how goes it? What goals do you have in mind for the week?

This week…[Read more]