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Samantha Farrar replied to the topic Grab Your Knapsacks and to Arms! in the forum Announcements 7 years, 3 months ago
Yes, I would love to hear what all you guys were thinking. + it would be really cool if we could all throw out names and pick out…[Read more]
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Samantha Farrar replied to the topic Grab Your Knapsacks and to Arms! in the forum Announcements 7 years, 3 months ago
Okay, I’m not sure who is on here right now. Are you still wanting to write this @kjames0813. I don’t think we need fantasy at all for someone to burn a town. Though a good question is why does the villain burn down the town. I’m not entirely sure if the whole birthday present thing works with the story we have come up with. Does he do it cause…[Read more]
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Samantha Farrar replied to the topic Grab Your Knapsacks and to Arms! in the forum Announcements 7 years, 3 months ago
So we need to think about the time era and the size of the town. I’m guessing its pretty small. Are we thinking like a western town? What culture do these people come from… The villain could possibly come from somewhere outside the culture of this said town and the protagonist. Should the Villian be the same age, gender… etc
Is our town…[Read more]
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Maddie Morrow started the topic World building: terrain, travel, and distances in the forum Annual Theme Discussion 7 years, 3 months ago
Hi guys!
here’s your next topic to consider when writing in your chosen worlds. How do characters travel, What is the terrain like, and how far are they going?
this applies to real life settings or made up ones.
In the first draft of my dystopian set in Cody Wyoming, my characters walked or rode a horse everywhere, but they always arrived at t…[Read more]
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Maddie Morrow replied to the topic Grab Your Knapsacks and to Arms! in the forum Announcements 7 years, 3 months ago
I say do it. This is only our first war, so it’s ok if it’s not perfect. I know who the judge is. She’s lovely. It’s going to be fine.
I think we can definitely take this whole final conversation with the city burning and run with it. A few sentences with the right emotion are going to be enough to set the stage showing these two charact…[Read more]
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Samantha Farrar replied to the topic Grab Your Knapsacks and to Arms! in the forum Announcements 7 years, 3 months ago
So with what you all are saying the city burning in the end idea could still kind of fit!!! Like if the hero knows the villain is going to burn down the city and can’t stop him and in the end, the city burns down and everyone has to leave. So the last scene would kinda physically represent the burning of his old life and choosing something b…[Read more]
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JennytheFaun replied to the topic Grab Your Knapsacks and to Arms! in the forum Announcements 7 years, 3 months ago
I also clap and cheer and whoop for @duskflower‘s third idea for the ending, and @duskflower‘s second idea for the story itself. Such as, what if the villain has kind of taken the protag under his wing and mentored him, intending to make the protag his successor? But when the villain starts asking the MC to do terrible things, the protagonist…[Read more]
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Samantha Farrar replied to the topic Grab Your Knapsacks and to Arms! in the forum Announcements 7 years, 3 months ago
Hey, everyone, shall we take a tally and begin writing?? I can’t wait to see what we come up with!!!
I thought another aspect that might help us narrow down the story would be to think about the character we want to write about and who they are.
Do you all have any new ideas or…[Read more]
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Samantha Farrar replied to the topic Grab Your Knapsacks and to Arms! in the forum Announcements 7 years, 4 months ago
What if the story was third person somehow and the town is destroyed but somehow the would be hero has a reason to think he has begun to get through to the villain and in the end the town burns down and its really sad but it is about somehow the way they changed the villain or maybe the vilian does have a major change of heart and nobody knows…[Read more]
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Maddie Morrow started the topic World building: weather in the forum Annual Theme Discussion 7 years, 4 months ago
hi guys! It’s time for our next round of world building. Weather.
weather is actually a very important part of world building. Weather can almost be like its own character. Think about it. No story of London ever made it to press without talk of the constant fog and drizzle. The Boston Jane series is constantly referring to the rain in S…[Read more]
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Maddie Morrow started the topic Grab Your Knapsacks and to Arms! in the forum Announcements 7 years, 4 months ago
Hello Knaplingers!
As of today, we are at war.
And by that I mean, today is our first change to participate in the guild wars. What’s a guildwar? It’s when a prompt is given, and each guild writes a story that is then judged, and one is declared the winner!
Heres how this works.
There is a two week time limit. And then the finished piece wil…[Read more]
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Maddie Morrow started the topic Greetings! in the forum Announcements 7 years, 4 months ago
@bekah @SamBerg0 @Naomi-Sowell @MissPenguin and @mckinley
Welcome! I’ve just been informed you’ve been added to the guild. I hope you enjoy Knaphollow. We’re a quaint little village hidden away in the enchanted hills, where unusual and whimsy are bound to happen, and everyone carries a knapsack in case adventure strikes.
Introduce yours…[Read more]
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Maddie Morrow started the topic Character Chats in the forum Knaphollow Writing Discussions 7 years, 4 months ago
@samantha-pen @hgm_barnes18 @heather-drabant @kb-writer @inspirewrite @duskflower @kjames0813 @ireneadler @kari-karast
@i-david @donna-darling @kr-lalonde @the-golden-light @jennythefaun
Hi guys! So I was chatting with the other guild masters the other day and Brandon shared with us something they do in his guild, and gave the rest of us…[Read more]
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Samantha Farrar replied to the topic World Building: Language in the forum Annual Theme Discussion 7 years, 4 months ago
Sorry I haven’t been part of this conversation before. I missed the part about real-world stuff and didn’t really know how to contribute as I don’t really have experience in Fantasy
As I may have mentioned before I basically write his-fic and that has sorts of language differences involved. And then there’s also the different cultures within…[Read more]
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Maddie Morrow replied to the topic Update and support in the forum Accountability & Achievements 7 years, 4 months ago
thats awesome! Congratulations and good luck! What is your website so we can subscribe?
@samantha-pen @hgm_barnes18 @heather-drabant @kb-writer @inspirewrite @duskflower @kjames0813 @ireneadler
@kari-karast @i-david
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JennytheFaun started the topic Concerning a Shortish Story and a Longish Story in the forum Critiques 7 years, 4 months ago
So, a couple months ago I wrote a story that was just going to be “for fun,” but ended up being one of my favorite things I’ve written. It also ended up being rather long for a short story, weighing in at over 9,000 words. I’m not planning on editing it more (unless you guys convince me I should), but I’d appreciate it a lot if you could give me…[Read more]
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Maddie Morrow started the topic World Building: Language in the forum Annual Theme Discussion 7 years, 4 months ago
Hi guys!
Here I am, fashionably late.
Today on our world building escapade I want to talk about language. Language is one thing that brings a setting to life. Wether it’s the entire languages Tolkien created, the magic language in The Inheritance Cycle (help me out @i-david, I cant remember what it’s called) that controls magical powers, or eve…[Read more]
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Maddie Morrow started the topic Excitement! in the forum Accountability & Achievements 7 years, 4 months ago
Since this is the achievements section, I wanted scream to the world that I finished the first round of edits on the fantasy story I’ve been working on all last year. I definitely have hope for it and I’m teally excited to see what feedback I get from beta readers.
Im so happy!!!….and also empty inside. Like…what do I do now?? Anyone else eve…[Read more]
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Maddie Morrow replied to the topic World Building. A History in the forum Annual Theme Discussion 7 years, 4 months ago
I’m loving getting to hear more and more about your story. I love the legends you’ve built!
ooh a feud. I love it! I love reading historical fiction, but don’t write it much because I have a really hard time doing research, so way to go you for having the determination to do that!
creating your own town…[Read more]
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Maddie Morrow started the topic World Building. A History in the forum Annual Theme Discussion 7 years, 4 months ago
Hi guys! So I guess I forgot to post this week, but here I am to continue our world building discussion.
Today I want to get into the history of your world.
In my opinion the history is one of the first things we should try to figure out, because without knowing where the world came from, it’s hard to say what it is now.
For instance, Panem w…[Read more]
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