Sarah vdH

I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this problem yet, but I just discovered that when I tried to access the entire current guild war topic, I got the message “Page Not Found”. None of the stuff we discussed in the topic is there anymore. The only way to even access the discussion or the link to the guild war doc is from the notifications…[Read more]

Parimis. The first guild war of 2019 has arrived! And I’ve got a good feeling about this one. (As in, we’re going to love it and go crazy.)

Prompt: Write a story with an Unclichéd Happy Ending. (BITTERSWEET ENDINGS DON’T COUNT.)

Word Limit: 2500

Starts: *awkward cough* Apparently Monday 4th EST

Ends: Monday 18th EST

(So s…[Read more]

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Hey, everyone!! I just wanted to announce that a couple friends and I just made a video titled “23 Things Authors Say”. Feel free to check it out, and…[Read more]

A lot of the time, characters are written so that they are 100% good or bad. The protagonist is perfect, good looking, and maybe he has mild claustrophobia as a weakness. The villain is evil, kills puppies and shoots up old ladies in his spare time, and maybe every now and then he tortures someone who spilt his coffee instead of killing them.

If…[Read more]

The motive of your character is important. The motive is what drives your character forward, and makes every scene feel strong and meaningful. The character’s motive is what brings about the theme, and what pushes the plot along. Your plot is driven by your character’s motive. Therefore, the character motive could be the most important f…[Read more]

What I read – Emmanuel by Angela R. Watts, some of The Fall of Gondolin by J.R.R. Tolkien, WAR by Sebastian Junger, Homeland: Legend of Drizzt: Dark Elf Trilogy, Book 1 by R.A. Salvatore, some of Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

What I wrote – Concept and some paragraphs of a short story I intend to submit to SE, some copywork of T…[Read more]

I’m planning on treating this topic as a mini way of making sure that we all can get a fair idea of everything about characters from the super easy things, to the hard things that we all struggle with. (If you don’t, then goodness. Please teach me.)

Pretty much, the first thing I wanted to talk about is going back to the very basics of what a…[Read more]

First off, I’m not sure if I’m doing this right…. :p Creating a topic, I mean. I’ve never done this, so if this is wrong, sorry! XD (and sorry if I missed tagging someone I should’ve… I still need to find like a list of people or something, lol)

So I started this short story, I suppose it is, on a whim yesterday night because I wanted to…[Read more]

Happy new year guys!

To be frankly honest, I was not expecting so much to have changed between this time last year and now. I mean, Story Ember’s didn’t even exist then. But anyways. That’s not what this lesson is about.

Before I get stuck into our new topic, I’d love everyone to tell me what they think about a few things. As you know, I’m…[Read more]

What I read – I finished reading Dune, started reading The Confession by John Grisham, Tenemental by Vikki Warner, and American Military History by Wesley K. Clark via The Great Courses. I picked up or was gifted a ton more book (biography, drama, essay, fantasy, magical realism, military scifi) but I doubt I’ll be reading these over the next t…[Read more]

Well, you may have gathered this, but us guildmasters are now all seriously thinking about what we can be doing to help improve the guilds, and make them more active. I can clearly see that things have been lagging in Parimi Alca, and how it could actually be becoming more of a burden than it is a help.

If you are struggling with this in this…[Read more]

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I have been wanting to read Dune for a while now, but haven’t gotten around to it. 😛 Do you like it so far?

That’s really neat! 🙂

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What I have read

I have read a lot in 2018 – too much to all write out, (and I’m having trouble thinking of them all 😛 ) but included in the list are: Agatha Christie…[Read more]