After ghosting the internet for another month, I returned and found this! Hurrah!

I need a short story to clear my mind, so I would love to join 🙂 I’ll try to have my story in in a couple of weeks!

(Glad you extended the deadline to the 30th, or I would be kinda screwed lol)

We’ve all been there – where we don’t even want to look at our writing, it’s just so horribly awful.

… About a month ago, I put my writing on pause. There were jobs, commitments, family issues, and to top it all off, vacation. ‘I’ll get right back into it when I get back! I’ll f…[Read more]

I’d love to help out, but I’m afraid I wouldn’t be very consistent… I might accidentally ghost you… pretty often…

That being said, if you want casual beta readers, I’d be up for it!

Also yes I am still alive, summer happened and I was without wifi for a very long time my apologies to everyone I’ve ghosted this past month-and-a-half

Yes! I would love to hear about it!

Wow… I absolutely love the second idea. When you write it sign me up for a beta read XD I’m not joking though literally do

But honestly, that sounds amazing.

I have a few ideas that I’ll share about later, but those ideas deserve some recognition in their own post, and godspeed in writing them!

I literally just take real place names and change a couple of vowels 

@e-k-seaver I’ve drawn the face of Ly, if you could lemme know the type of outfit I can finish it soon!

There you go! I’m really sad I started drawing too far down the page, cuz now she just ends at her knees 🙁

Despite it taking long, I had to do color, cuz I mean… she’s a pirate… XD

As a member of a big outdoorsy family, I loved drawing this XD Your characters are so fun!

There ya go! Dunno if the clothes are at all accurate…? Should have just looked at a picture bible 

I think that a lot of themes are hidden. Some stories, such as, say, aesop’s fables, have themes and meanings that are very evident. In other stories, the themes can be harder to concretely put words to. Take LOTR. I would say that a huge theme in that story is heroism. The book doesn’t state “that’s what it means to be a hero!”, it just…[Read more]

Here you go! I don’t know what happened with her body but she was really fun to draw 🙂

My old camera really sucks at taking pics so this looks a little odd… oh well maybe I should switch to digital art so I won’t have to deal with this problem : 

*Tries not to cringe* There’s some “previous art” as promised!

@sparksaraabbott11 If I have reference, yup!

@e-k-seaver Haha sounds like me XD and yeah I can do that!

Just give me a description, (photo reference would be appreciated if you have any,) and I’d love…[Read more]

I am bringing jalapeno cheesies and green tea ice cream.

My gift will be a rendition of let it go.

I will wear my blanket-of-warmth-and-slug-like-qualities wrapped around my body. Nah, I’ll go big and wear my duvet-of-warmth-and-slug-like-qualities wrapped around my body.

I wrote an entire post before realizing that it all could be summed up into “I just gain momentum and go where the mood takes me because I am a pantser”. So not very helpful.

Actual stuff that helps me, though…

– Having photos and music as “reference” to the mood, location, etc. It also keeps me fully immersed in my…[Read more]

One hour, 900 words, and half a chapter – great considering I didn’t think I would get any writing done today.

Favorite line: *WHAT WAS THE WORDNUMBERTHING I USED IN CHAPTER ONE AGH GO CHECK IT WHEN YOU’RE EDITING*

Real favorite line: He paused to muse a moment before murmuring, “Because w…[Read more]

Imma jump in here until 4:00 ET, see if I can finish my chapter 😛

Sounds super fun!

Hm. I haven’t read many books like this, but my instinct would be to say that the books should tie in to each other in some way. It could literally be a tiny cameo, or “Remember ___”, or whatever, but I think that even small connections like that make it much more satisfying as a reader.

Also, realistically, events in…[Read more]

And also thanks so much for telling me about yourselves, I may not be able to keep names straight but your writing seems so awesome, your hobbies and…[Read more]

First of all – that was really good! It was interesting and engaging, and I was hooked  why did you leave us on a cliffhanger I am so curious now lol !

Ember is quite likeable. I agree with what some of the others have said, seeing her emotions a little more clearly would be nice, but overall, I thought she was a great character. She…[Read more]

Yay, just submitted! The level of editing is awful since I’ve been gone all week 🙁 but I’m happy with the story itself, so cheers to that!

After the contest is over, all the entrants should consider posting a link to our stories on here, cuz I really wanna read everyone’s 😀

For me, traditional publishing has always been my end goal. This is mainly because…

The genres I write in are marketable (at least now lol). If I get my writing quality up to snuff, I should be able to get into trad pub, because people buy the sorts of books that I write. If I were writing, say, a conservative commentary on…[Read more]

Right now I’m just here crying cuz I decided to do something awful to my characters, like, actually heartbreaking and I know I need to but I am dyinnnnnggggg T_T

Sorry I just needed to get that out of me, and communicate to someone who might…[Read more]

Here’s one that related to my latest WIP:

Last year I was running laps, nothing unusual, normal fall day, and then I pass this group of kids.

They were probably… idk, 12, 13? But there was this one kid, super short with super messy strawberry blond hair, super freckled, who was being super…[Read more]

But now that I’m nearing the end of draft one of book one, I can’t decide whether I should edit it at all before starting book two.

I strictly…[Read more]

A series I recently finished, The Queen’s Thief by Megan Whalen Turner, was very interesting and amusing as a casual read – beautifully written, with wonderful characters and captivating plots. The author did decide to go woke in the last book, but most of the first ones are quite a good option for someone who wants a lighter fantasy read.

I’d love to read over it! I’ll try to write up a comment on it before the weekend! And like Jodi said, what exactly are you looking for critique on? Totally ok to literally just want any comments that come to our minds, but if you wanted historical accuracy, or more specific stuff, lemme know so I can read through with that in mind.…[Read more]

In my opinion, having personal experience with jobs has helped my writing become better, because I have the…[Read more]

Tolkien forevaaa… I actually got fairly far in learning Sindarin (elven language), and o_o it was tough… eventually gave up and just learned how to use the tengwar (elven scripty thing).

Out of those three… Ella Minnow Pea is a very amusing read, told through postal correspondence, where letters of the alphabet are progressively…[Read more]

Thank you so much for helping me accomplish mission writing-british-without-accidentally-swearing!

Honestly, thanks so much. This is a very awkward topic so I’m glad someone took pity on my naïveté, lol.

I just finished the first draft of it! It was so. fun. and really gave me the boost I needed, cuz it is so satisfying and fulfilling to actually finish a story from start to finish! I say “boost” in the encouragement sense, since physically I was up till 3 am writing in the pitch black, wondering whether it was ‘squeezing your eyes…[Read more]

As a precursor, I am… well, I’m not an American, but I am a North American, so I really don’t have much of a *realistic* view on British culture. Also, I am really sorry if I swear, I don’t mean to which is the entire point of this post.

I’m writing a fantasy where there are people who…[Read more]

Chapter 24:

POV: TBD

Topic: walking… mebbe

And that’s literally it.

If you think you suck, remember someone always sucks more. (My own version of it could always be worse.)

@daisy-torres actually decent stuff for a…[Read more]

Nice to meet you too!

@devastate-lasting

Favs… LOTR: Gandalf, Hunger Games: Johanna, and Star Wars: Darth Vader… or maybe R2?

@kathleenramm

The first time I remember writing a story was when I was… idk, 6? To be clear tho, my writing habits were extremely sporadic until I turned 13 a few years ago. I don’t know if I even could…[Read more]

This is totally different from editing a scene while I’m writing – in that case I have an extremely…[Read more]

1. Isbel – Weirdest mix of a huffy and haughty British Princess, and your demanding CEO. Has a thing for brandy and hates being outside. Practical as heck, but is also very concerned with presenting herself properly. 17, and ESTJ.

2. Katarin – Chemist, works for military. Absent minded but brilliant, the Albert Einstein of her…[Read more]

Love les miserables – ofc the musical but the book is amazing. Can’t go wrong with Austen, and I love the Odyssey, Illiad… yeah I love a lot lol.

Heheheh *deep breath* lotr (of course), Narnia, Marvel (Lokiiii), The Silver Eye (webcomic, little known but amazing), the Hunger Games (Am I the only one who NOTP’s Everlark?),…[Read more]

I’m from Canada, ehhhhh

I know that isn’t even how you use “eh” (what? we totally don’t cover “eh” in grammar class) but I feel it’s mandatory to stick it in there if you ever mention Canada. Yup, I’m from Ontario, where there be lots of trees, and I do see moose occasionally.

Ooh! But Australia is awesome. Did I just reread your…[Read more]

Yeah, you can probably guess a lot about me just from the title and first line ¯_(ツ)_/¯

You can call me Relia, I’m an INTP writer currently in need of just some support and laughs, and this seemed like an awesome community so I was like “we needs it preciousss the nice peoplesesss”

Yes I did just say that out lou…[Read more]