Sesame Street

Hey, guys!

I need some ideas. I have a city that needs a name.

So, the city is a kind of modern (think early 1900s) city, but with an ancient roman/middle eastern twist. That basically means they have an arena for ancient roman style games and an open marketplace squeezed between industrial brick.

Fire away!

Hit me.

I’m open to any…[Read more]

Hey Saxon Scribes,

For something like six months now, we’ve studied character development every week. It’s been a good journey, but now I’m coming to the point where I don’t have a whole lot more to discuss. If anything else comes to mind, I’ll make a topic out of it, but if nothing comes to me, next week I think we could start on something…[Read more]

Guys, this is crazy. A little sad. Absolutely awesome.

The word war. How’d we do?

We actually beat the record from past guild wars! I was amazed. We had 51,082 — a whole novel’s worth in a week.

So, the winner?

……

With 72,127 words, it goes to Parimi Alca. I’m super impressed with those guys, especially since I’ve heard they’re the…[Read more]

Guys, this is crazy. A little sad. Absolutely awesome.

The word war. How’d we do?

We actually beat the record from past guild wars! I was amazed. We had 51,082 — a whole novel’s worth in a week.

So, the winner?

……

With 72,127 words, it goes to Parimi Alca. I’m super impressed with those guys, especially since I’ve heard they’re the…[Read more]

Hey Saxon Scribes. I think I missed last week somehow, but thankfully I remembered just in time today.

Let’s talk about relational development. Just like the meaning we bring to the world is often found in our relationships, usually the best character development is actually relational development between one character and another.

Today, it t…[Read more]

Hey guys.

So, I’m working on rewriting and expanding a short story I wrote, and I need some accountability. I’m a little afraid I’ll get into it, decide it’s not really worth writing and give up on it.

I mean, I’ve already started, and decided it wasn’t edifying, so I stopped. Then realized that I needed to work on something so I’m working on…[Read more]

Hey guys,

I forgot there was a word war this week! I’m going to need to set myself some automated reminders.

Anyway, we’re going to do the best we can. The guilds have decided to war starting today and ending Tuesday night.

This works like it always does. We write as much as we can and try to outdo everyone else!

Here’s what can count toward…[Read more]

Hey Saxon Scribes, we have a homepage now!

Josiah fixed it up all nice for us. This isn’t officially launched, but I thought I’d give you a sneak peek at it so you can share any suggestions for how to make it better.

New Wessex

The purpose of this page is be awesome, store important/fun information, and let curious…[Read more]

Hey guys,

I thought with our discussion of handling tricky subjects in the article realm it might be neat to discuss writing criminal types.

Here are a few questions to get us started:

1. How do we write highly engaging criminals without endorsing their criminal activity?
2. Can one write a criminal character just for the purposes of the plot…

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