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]

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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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N2ncbna_hrlN9NX976LxrFGYCm_NV_3_yMoeqSmPOi0/edit?usp=sharing

I still have to go back and fix repetitive language and put some details to rights, but here’s my draft, about the same length as Kate’s. Please tear it apart… and edit away.

Also, I assume for the sake of time, people…[Read more]

I’m going to do a slightly more in-depth post about disposition for this week’s theme discussion topic. If you missed it, here’s my first post on disposition: https://storyembers.org/forums/topic/disposition/

This being a relatively new idea for me, I’m still learning about it and I did a lot of that learning over the past week. The…[Read more]

I can write something-that’s-not-so-good-but-it’s-still-something by tonight, then turn it out to all of you so we can jump into the editing process.

Or, if someone is reading this who wants…[Read more]

So right now I’m brainstorming/outlining for my WIP, and in short, I know where I’m going to end, I’ve figured out my beginning, but it’s a little hard for me to continue plot-brainstorming. Maybe it’s because it’s a lot of work, but I’m hesitating to try to create a plot line from the first plot point and getting it to end where I…[Read more]

Parents.

The obvious fact is that most parents in novels die or are already dead (at least it seems like it). The less obvious fact is that even when they’re around, they’re not very important as parents.

What may be even less obvious is that even when they do matter as…[Read more]

The word war is now over and we hope to announce the winner tomorrow. (If you haven’t given me your word count yet, please go post that in the related thread.)

Right on the coattails of that guild war we have another battle. War is life! *raises…[Read more]

I hope you don’t mind if I splatter my not-fully-formed thoughts all over this page.

For a while, my writing conscience has nagged me about this topic I call Disposition. To me, it encapsulates everything that makes a scene matter. Having just stepped out of rewriting a scene where I did not use this principle, it got me…[Read more]

The six guilds are competing in a massive word war. The guild that collectively writes the most words (for fiction projects) this week wins. That’s all there is to it — very straightforward. The war starts right now and ends Sunday night.

If you’ve been wanting to increase your weekly word count, now is the…[Read more]

A rather melodramatic observation, considering how happy I am to finally be here.

I stand silent before a half-cold hearth, my back to the long darkness of the hall, and watch the embers burn. Coals lie scattered like isolated cities between charred remains of smoking logs. The smoke drifts past…[Read more]

I theorize that you never really know a writer until you know what they write, so I thought it would be a nice icebreaker for us to share what we’re writing at the moment.

What’s the premise, what gets you excited about it, and what’s at the heart of the story?

@cindy @kate @elizabeth @r-m-archer @literatureforthelight @m_…[Read more]

@josiah @christieaton @daeus-lamb @hope-Ann @gabriellepollack @brandon-Miller @gracelivingston @cindy @sierraret @supermonkey42…[Read more]

@sierraret Thank you! And yesss, it really is. *sips chai tea*

@scribbles Good. Neeeeever pat a snake. Or snake will pat your hand with its lovely teeth.

Wooooah. People have emu farms over there? We don’t even have many over here… *hand over heart* Maybe Americans are more Aussie than us…[Read more]

This is to let you know that the guilds are launching this Wednesday!!!

If you haven’t signed up yet, do so now so you don’t get left…[Read more]

It’s nice to find a fellow Canuck on this website. When will winter ever stop? I want summer. Someone needs to go find Elsa and comfort her. Her tantrums are getting way too out of hand. 😛

Your home sounds like Arendelle. 😜☃️❄️ What’s your favorite thing to do on snow days?

The Story Embers Great Hall, on the other hand… This needs to be a thing.

🙂 That was a cool entrance though. Why didn’t I do anything cool like that?

Excuse my ignorance, but what does the job of Staff Writer mainly entail? I mean, I’m guessing writing, for Story Embers… articles?