Silverclaw

Welcome to our lovely frosty (or maybe sweltering, depending on where you are) first lesson of July! We’re going to be focusing on emotions in storytelling today. What do emotions have to do with pacing and suspense? Glad you asked.

It’s all very well to write a scene that has an insane amount of tension in the action. After all, he only just…[Read more]

WOOT! You made it alllll the way to our 4th lesson! *hands out lembas* Good job. Now we’ll be looking at our beautiful little vectors. Those points that your readers have their attention drawn to. That thing that keeps being mentioned. It doesn’t have to be huge, but the mystery around it does. You need to keep feeling yourself get drawn into it.…[Read more]

Okay all ye Parimis, it’s about time we found out why you signed up for a guild.

Here is where we can discuss our WIPs (Works in Progress) and get help and ideas from one another. So essentially, a thread full of flailing brainstorming! *cheers* I’m looking forward to seeing what everyone’s working on!!!

I’ll start us off with a quick…[Read more]

Hello Parimis!

I don’t know how many of you are participating in Camp NaNo this year, but I’m making this thread so that if you want extra motivation or need quick help with something it’s just here.

Camp NaNo, for anyone who doesn’t know,  is a virtual online writing camp that happens in April and July internationally. You can set yourself a…[Read more]

Here’s the next update on using information to create effective pacing and suspense. If you missed last lesson, it doesn’t matter too much but you can look at it here. Most times, you will write a scene and there will be dialogue. The temptation with have an antagonist vs protagonist scene is to have them both scream at each other their plans. The…[Read more]

Here’s the next update on using information to create effective pacing and suspense. If you missed last lesson, it doesn’t matter too much but you can look at it here. Most times, you will write a scene and there will be dialogue. The temptation with have an antagonist vs protagonist scene is to have them both scream at each other their plans. The…[Read more]

Time for our second lesson in Pacing and Suspense, and hopefully it will be a major help. Until the end of June, we’ll be working through choice of information.

One of the things that will keep a reader riveted to a book is if they don’t know everything. If you know exactly what’s going on and what will happen, you’ll get bored. I can guarant…[Read more]

As you might have seen, your guildmaster is currently MIA. As her irl cousin, I’m here as acting guildmaster for you folks in her place, and I’ll also keep you updated so you can be praying.

Basically: she has appendicitis (probably) and has spent the night in hospital. Last I heard, she had surgery scheduled for today in which she may or may not…[Read more]