Sesame Street

Hey Saxon Scribes, as someone who never follows politics, I feel sheepish writing this, but I’ve learned a few things through experience and I wanted to leave you with a challenge.

Few things define a society like its government. Yet, for those of you like me who aren’t familiar with the ins and outs of politics, this can be unnatural t…[Read more]

Saxon Scribe, ahoy!

I’m rubbing my hands that I get to tell you about Sanderson’s third law today. Brandon Sanderson is, of course, a famous fantasy author and he developed three laws for how to develop magic systems. You may enjoy reading all his three laws, but today we’re going to focus on law #3 because it applies to spec-fic writers and…[Read more]

Hey guys,

The other guild masters and I have been talking about the guilds and we thought we might be able to improve them with a few minor changes. I would really love your opinion on these. We’re not planning on any of these yet, just toying with the ideas, but if you really like them we might roll them out.

Here they are:

1. We would open up…

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There are two pitfalls with worldbuilding. It seems you either don’t worldbuild enough or you worldbuild so much you can’t keep track of it all.

Worldanvil helps you fix both these problems. Thanks to @kate for recommending it to me.

While this site is built for speculative fiction writers, it could also work well for anyone who wants to…[Read more]

Hey guys!

This past November, I finally finished a rough first draft of my short story/novella (thanks to a few word wars I participated in). I’ve started this story so many times, but this is the first time I’ve made it through to the end. *Happy dance* 😀

I let it sit through the month of December, and now I think I’m about ready to come back…[Read more]

Drumroll please!

Today, we take a day off from our discussion of worldbuilding to focus on our guild member @bama-rose. *hands you the microphone* What do you want to share? It could be a description of yourself, a question, or a request for critique (or all three)!

@ethryndal @corissa @raemarie @bama-rose @kate @r-m-archer @literatureforthelight…[Read more]

Hey friends,

Some of you may know that about a year ago I released an in-depth e-course on show don’t tell.

Today, I completely finished all the scripts for part 3 of the course. I’m looking to see if anyone is interested in being a beta for it. What’s in it for you? You’d get free access to part 3 when it is released (value ~$70-$100).

I’m…[Read more]

@ethryndal  @bama-rose  @raemarie  @corissa  @kate  @r-m-archer  @literatureforthelight  @j-parkhurst  @gabbyj  @cassandraia  @chalice  @noahlitle  @julianne  @germaine-han  @maddiejay  @sesi  @r-j-karas  @rosemarylouise  @msqueen8  @samuel  @eden-anderson  @professorsjb  @elizabeth  @scarletimmortalized  @parker  @katthewriter  @daeus-lamb okay so you basically hit every note already, so I’m just going to drop a random list of randomness.

Ways the past can affect the present in your novel:

• The present springs from the past, as Daeus said
• People forget the past, which can lead to:
• Misconceptions about the past, and thus mistaken solutions for problems in the…

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