Catherine Roche

J.A.Penrose replied to the topic Guild War : You Know It in the forum Announcements 7 years ago

Hello all! This has actually been around for a while, but I totally forgot to announce it. (story of my life right now, honestly. XD)

We didn’t win, sadly. </3 That title goes to our friends over in Meraki, so be sure to congratulate them!

Our main issue was (as we kinda knew) that it was a HUGE story trying to masquerade as a super-duper…[Read more]

J.A.Penrose started the topic Word War that Your Guildmaster Forgot in the forum Announcements 7 years ago

Does Jess deserve an award for being super forgetful??? YEP. *nervous laughter* Thank you, Catherine, for reminding me of this. XD

We have a word war happening, people!

This one is going from Monday to Sunday. If you’ve already written words from Monday to today, count them as well. *facepalm* Still can’t believe I forgot this.

Here is the…[Read more]

Evelyn replied to the topic Poetry Biome in the forum Parimi Alca Writing Discussions 7 years, 1 month ago

@writercatherine Wow, I love that. I especially like how the lines are short and so dramatic. It really makes the writer sound furious and screaming, which makes me want to cry. xD

Evelyn replied to the topic Writers' Corner in the forum Accountability & Achievements 7 years, 1 month ago

@writercatherine Congrats! That’s more than me this week. 😛

Hmm. That’s interesting.

J.A.Penrose replied to the topic Historical Fiction Biome in the forum Parimi Alca Writing Discussions 7 years, 1 month ago

@writercatherine Eyyy nice! I also don’t typically label myself by HF, but at the moment, my Major Work is an HF short story and I’m actually really enjoying writing it. In a different way, of course.

Also, those are cool things to base short stories off. Do you feel you have a set style that you use when writing HF?

J.A.Penrose replied to the topic Poetry Biome in the forum Parimi Alca Writing Discussions 7 years, 1 month ago

@ariella-newheart That’s beautiful!

@writercatherine Oooooh. I really like that. It’s actually giving me serious F451 vibes thanks to the mentioning of ashes and the fact that it’s a poem. I mean, I imagine after the ending of the book, that could be a type of resistance they’d start up: Writing poems everywhere.

Really cool!

J.A.Penrose replied to the topic Writers' Corner in the forum Accountability & Achievements 7 years, 1 month ago

@writercatherine Yay! Writing is always good.

And goodness, no. I did not expect that.

Steward of the Pen replied to the topic Poetry Biome in the forum Parimi Alca Writing Discussions 7 years, 1 month ago

@ariella-newheart Ooh, I read that one a while ago! It’s so lovely, and so appropriate for us as writers. I should print it up and put it on my wall.

@writercatherine That’s really cool! I love the rhythm of it. Very dramatic and fitting.

J.A.Penrose replied to the topic Guild War : You Know It in the forum Announcements 7 years, 1 month ago

Hey guys! You’ve all done awesomely and I’m so proud of you! I have to call this as a time’s up, though, and send it through for submission.

Great…[Read more]

J.A.Penrose started the topic Writing Life : The Community in the forum Weekly Theme Discussion 7 years, 1 month ago

As an introvert who lives in the middle of nowhere and is known for muttering, “humans” under her breath whenever she’s around other people, I have to say that I often find it hard to actually hang out with people…Even the writerly sort. I mean, what if they’re extroverts? What if there’s more than two of them?

Thankfully, Faith is here today…[Read more]

J.A.Penrose replied to the topic Guild War : You Know It in the forum Announcements 7 years, 1 month ago

On that note…

If we haven’t started on a draft in 24 hours, I’m probably just going to start writing. Just so that we definitely have something to hand in. *fingerguns* Ideally, I let you guys write the first draft so that you can practice and grow, but having something happening is the no. 1 priority.

Volunteers,…[Read more]

J.A.Penrose replied to the topic Guild War : You Know It in the forum Announcements 7 years, 1 month ago

As Christlover has said, guys, I reckon it’s time for us to get writing!

For all of you old-timers, (You’re over a year old, some of you. Yikes!) you should be pretty familiar with the routine, and it would be great if you keep things going smoothly through the rather chaotic drafting process that’s about to ensue.

The doc we’ll be writing in is…[Read more]

J.A.Penrose started the topic Writing Life : Getting a Professional Edit in the forum Weekly Theme Discussion 7 years, 1 month ago

Hello Parimis!

While I’m here, I just wanted to thank you all for being so good with being active and commenting and helping each other out with things. I’m quite often not replying to things, and it’s just great to see you all doing it instead! <3

Moving on. Today’s lesson comes from my awesome cousin, Jane, who does a lot with editing,…[Read more]

J.A.Penrose started the topic Biomes in the forum Announcements 7 years, 1 month ago

Hello all!

If you haven’t seen our guild home page, you definitely should check it out. And I know that the running list of current members is completely wrong, but I plan to get Daeus onto that soon. (Or get his permission to let me fix it.)

However, what I want to draw your attention to, is that I’ve talked about ‘biomes.’ Back in our ‘[Read more]

J.A.Penrose started the topic Writers' Corner in the forum Accountability & Achievements 7 years, 1 month ago

At the request of @ariella-newheart, Parimi Alca now has a Writers’ Corner! *cheers*Basically, this is just where you say that you are writing, and others who are around can all write with you and hold you accountable on a smaller scale.

I mean, how often do we sit down to write and find ourselves scrolling through Pinterest boards of different…[Read more]

J.A.Penrose started the topic Guild War : You Know It in the forum Announcements 7 years, 1 month ago

You have seen the notification that there is a guild war coming. Holding your breath between your teeth, you click on the notification.

“We’ll win the war this time.” The thought brushes, feather-light, against your mind. “Just what exactly is it?”

A war of You.

Well Parimis! After that fantastic smashing of a word war, I think it’s time…[Read more]

J.A.Penrose replied to the topic Word War : April 2019 in the forum Announcements 7 years, 1 month ago

Results are in!!!!!! YAY!

Parimi Alca: 60196
Meraki: 41706
Erekdale: 23954
New Wessex: 23438
Avensbeck: 14653
Rillumen: 6096
Knaphollow: 5154

WOOT! Good job…[Read more]

J.A.Penrose started the topic Writing Life : Forming Habits to Write Consistently in the forum Weekly Theme Discussion 7 years, 1 month ago

Hey guys, sorry this is late. But guess what? It’s May, and time for me to set up some new things for the guild! (It’s also International Star Wars Day, so as a Sith, I’m pretty darn excited about that.)

Back on task though. Today we’re hearing from Maddie about how to gain the habits required to write consistently. I’m excited, because I’m…[Read more]

J.A.Penrose replied to the topic Word War : April 2019 in the forum Announcements 7 years, 1 month ago

Hey guys! Word counts in by…[Read more]

J.A.Penrose started the topic Word War Thread in the forum Parimi Alca Writing Discussions 7 years, 1 month ago

Hello all! I’m just going to let you know that this thread exists now! *throws celebration confetti everywhere*

If you want to have a word war with people (where you basically have a writing race with each other) you can just say you’re around and up for a war!

If you want to be notified of people requesting wars, click the little box at the…[Read more]

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