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Arabian Princess posting in Original Fic Writing Workshop
User: [info]woodlandelf
Date: 2009-09-20 15:00
Subject: Challenge
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I have a few coloring books in my room—actually two are technically activity books. I was doing a word search in one of them, and generally, the words you find follow some kind of theme. The word bank for this one seemed...totally random to me, but it occurred to me as I was looking that this would make a great challenge. Hence, I'm posting it as such. What do you get for incorporating the most words? We'll see. ^_^ Try to use as many words as possible, and they don't have to be explicitly said. How you want to interpret them is up to you

Word Bank
PEDAL DUES
UNICORN JOIN
VOTES PRESIDENT
AIM KICK
PAY PETAL
Also, for bonus points, incorporate these words that were not part of the word bank but that I still found.
Extra Words
NUT JET EAR LEG GEL
WOO BAY FLOG PAL LAP

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User: [info]adanesne2
Date: 2009-08-29 12:35
Subject: First or Third???
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I'm just rather curious...

What do you all prefer? First person or third person? I'm trying to figure out the benefits and the downsides of both.

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ederyn posting in Original Fic Writing Workshop
User: [info]ederyn
Date: 2009-07-12 19:58
Subject: Fuel Your Writing
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I'm writing a poem for the summer challenge in the previous post—no, really—but it's not coming as easy as it did when I wrote emo verses at 15. Doh! In the meantime, I just found something through Twitter that might be of interest. A twit called Fuel Your Writing just friended me, and they seem to have some interesting tips and a website that might be useful. Incidentally, if you twitter, there are a number of famous writers you can follow. *reads essay on fanfics*

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Arabian Princess posting in Original Fic Writing Workshop
User: [info]woodlandelf
Date: 2009-06-26 21:30
Subject: Summer Challenge
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It's summer (if you're in the northern hemisphere), and I know everyone wants to go outside and write, so as you're sitting out there (or perhaps just staring out the window), keep these quotes in mind and see if you can't write anything from them.

Mission: Write For Asylum )

Any other quotes would be appreciated, and if you write, be sure to post it here!

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cozzybob posting in Original Fic Writing Workshop
User: [info]cozzybob
Date: 2009-01-19 21:14
Subject: Pictures for the writing exercise.
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I put this into a separate post for dial-up users!

Photography from DA under the cut. )

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cozzybob posting in Original Fic Writing Workshop
User: [info]cozzybob
Date: 2009-01-19 16:46
Subject: Excerise time! (Working with description.)
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Since everyone loved the other exercises I posted, I've decided that, to make the comm more active, I should post them more often! So to start off, we're going to work with description.

Pick something on your desk, or one the objects lying around you and describe it with vivid detail. Give it character, build a story around it. Make it interesting--or find the interest in that object. Why is it there? What is it's purpose? How would it feel, if it could? What is it's connection to the owner?

You can also describe a setting, animal, or something in nature. Maybe from one of these pictures:

Pictures Here

And I'm totally done now!

*off to write something* ^^




Posted for The IJ Asylum Meme.

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Arabian Princess posting in Original Fic Writing Workshop
User: [info]woodlandelf
Date: 2008-12-27 14:00
Subject: Help?
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Does anyone know if I get a free proof from CreateSpace, does that count as getting it published? Even if I don't ask them to sell it? I bet it does, but I wish I could get my free proof and still be able to shop around for a publisher. Well, I don't know if my novel will even be ready by June 1, 2009, anyway. XD

That leads to my other question. Is anyone willing to help me with a small dilemma? I actually just need someone willing to help me hash out problems I have with my novel. (And this will be over time, so consider it "full time." ^_~ I thought I had [info]cozzybob, but then her RL went all topsy-turvy, and I'd really like someone who likes my plot and can get on AIM (or another messenger) fairly frequently to talk it out - once a week or so will be fine.)

Thank you! Happy Hanukkah! Merry Christmas! Joyous Kwanzaa! Happy New Year! +Anything-I-Missed

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kitsune_wolf posting in Original Fic Writing Workshop
User: [info]kitsune_wolf
Date: 2008-12-12 13:10
Subject: For my world is hollow and I have touched the sky...
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Sorry this post has nothing to do with Star Trek.

I've written myself to a standstill. )

A Preview of Chapter 28 if your intrested.

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kitsune_wolf posting in Original Fic Writing Workshop
User: [info]kitsune_wolf
Date: 2008-12-08 21:35
Subject: SM4HE Update
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Part 7 - 853 words

On the one hand Tasha is having way to much fun being the most horrid little brat she can, on the other...Poor Terren! *hugs the geek.*

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ederyn posting in Original Fic Writing Workshop
User: [info]ederyn
Date: 2008-12-02 13:28
Subject: You've written a novel...now what?
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Ooooh, how about entering Amazon's second annual Breakthrough Novel Award Contest? They're offering a $25,000 publishing contract with Penguin Books, with submissions due in February 2009. Details are at the bottom of I Wrote a Novel, Now What? on the NaNo site, which has some other great ideas for what to do now that NaNo's over and real life begins again.

Personally I think I'm going to edit my book and then upload the first 10,000 words to Authonomy to see if HarperCollins will publish it since they publish gay romance. There's never been a gay romance with Nazis before, though, so I dunno. Waaaaaaah! There's no point in me doing the CreateSpace thing NaNo's offering—I can't afford a vanity publisher. Doh!

So what are the rest of you doing? Decided yet?

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Arabian Princess posting in Original Fic Writing Workshop
User: [info]woodlandelf
Date: 2008-11-30 21:00
Subject: NaNoWriMo = Evil...but I WON!
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Tags:babble, nanowrimo

I stayed up all night last night.... I took a 5-hour nap after church.... I have 50,094 words!!! About 30 or so of those are from the chapter titles, but I still made it! It took Christmas song lyrics, a bit of breaking down the fourth wall, explaining in detail how to wrap a present, and a bunch of filler...but I MADE IT! *dies*

Babble on my overall process and how I made it )



Babbling on my novel )

I have a text file of my novel, so if anyone should want to read it in its roughest form, let me know! I'll e-mail it to you, but just know you'll cringe. ^_^ Since WriteMonkey doesn't let me italicize one word, I have use the following: *italics* and _underline_. I should have used *italic/* and _underline/_ so that I could have at least used the search and replace later for HTML tags, but I thought of it too late.

Things I learned from NaNo? NaNo is evil, but when you've won it, it doesn't seem too evil. I can get a novel written (whether it's good or not is another thing). I don't need a writing buddy, which is good as I've been abandoned by [info]cozzybob. ^_~ /teasing No matter how busy I may be, that is no excuse not to write; I can always make time. 1,000 words per day is the pace I should be at for a novel I'm not trying to write in a month. My word pace for November was 2,000 words/day so that I would finish on the 25th (you see how well it worked), and while I made it to NaNo, I think 1,000 words/day is the pace I need for my "real" novel.

While I don't need a writing buddy, I still think I want one, but we'll see. There are probably other lessons I learned, but I can't think of them. I've babbled way too much already, and you're either ignoring me or if you've made it this far, you're wanting me to shut up. ^^

How did the rest of you participating fare? Learn anything? Whether you've done/you're doing NaNo, how is your novel(s) coming along? You may hear more from me soon on how novel(s) is/are coming.

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kitsune_wolf posting in Original Fic Writing Workshop
User: [info]kitsune_wolf
Date: 2008-11-30 15:45
Subject: So much For Happy Endings
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I know I said I wouldn't post the graphic everytime I post, but it is a months worth of updates. ^_~



So Much 4 Happy Endings... Writing_101 challange, post a min of 500 words a week with little to no planning before hand.

Summary: In the age of Darkness Year 4099 The Son of the Archmage meets the White Princess...


Part 1 - 700 words
Part 2 - 943 words
Part 3 - 568 words
*New as of November*
Part 4 - 910 Words
Interlude: Omens - 1096 Words
Part 5 - 1133 Words
Part 6 - 565 Words

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Mot posting in Original Fic Writing Workshop
User: [info]motley_sis
Date: 2008-11-24 12:27
Subject: [evil tool] Write Or Die
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Mood:drained
Tags:writing tips

Stumbled on something that may be of help to people who are having trouble writing:

Write or Die

*cracks whip*   (°w°)c/~~)

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ederyn posting in Original Fic Writing Workshop
User: [info]ederyn
Date: 2008-11-13 12:02
Subject: Ooooh!
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Tags:publishers

If you haven't heard of Authonomy or WEbook yet, (and I hadn't), you might want to check them out. Authonomy is run by HarperCollins as a means of finding new talent worth publishing. You upload 10,000 words of your novel for the public to read and they vote on it. The top five manuscripts go to the editors for review each month to determine whether they're worth publishing.

WEbook is roughly the same, although you can post unfinished work there and have other writers contribute to it, and they seem to encourage collaborative efforts. If your manuscript gets enough votes from the public, WEbook will publish it and you get 50% royalties.

In both cases you'll get plenty of constructive criticism, and the only people who can review or vote on them are other registered users, so you don't have to worry about random flaming.

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Arabian Princess posting in Original Fic Writing Workshop
User: [info]woodlandelf
Date: 2008-11-12 16:30
Subject: NaNoWriMo = Evil
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Tags:babble, venting

The ones who would see this as a repeat aren't checking their flists (or if they are, it's with a filter for just comms), so I assume no one will notice that they've read this already. It's nothing really specific, just a bit of venting. ^_~

NaNo is horrible! I set myself up with the timetable of 2,000 words a day, and I've been behind every single day except for ONE! One night I stayed up until 3a or 4a. I had a bad extended weekend from Thursday to Monday as far as writing went. I should have had 22,000 words by the end of yesterday; I had 15,500 going into the day. I stayed up until 5a this morning to end up with 20,500. I slept until 2p. I was disgusted with myself at how long I slept, but then I remembered how late I went to bed. Hopefully I'll get to 24,000 or at least to 23,000 by tonight, and I will be going to bed a reasonable time (though I'll be taking an allergy pill to assure it (also because my allergies are acting up)).

In other news, this "novel" has completely gone off course from what I originally thought it would be like, but I still love it. In fact, I think I love it more (even though it's atrocious without too much editing). It doesn't take much for a plot to go off course when you just quickly slapped together a loose plot right before November, though. ^^ When I finish it, I plan on posting what all I've learned from this as well as a more detailed report on my novel (if I don't get too lazy). Today, you just got my random babbling.

My NaNoWriMo ProFile | My NaNoWriMo ProGresS

Now, I'm off to do homework and online tests so that I can spend my evening and the next few days solely focused on NaNo. Whoo.... (Remind me again why I wanted to win this?)

Edit: I love using WriteMonkey for NaNo, though it's word count is so off I need to use an online tool.

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ederyn posting in Original Fic Writing Workshop
User: [info]ederyn
Date: 2008-11-11 16:49
Subject: Publishers and Resources
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Tags:publishers, writing tips

No, I'm not back at IJ yet. But I set up an asylum filter so I can visit my comms while avoiding the pompous proselytizing about the election still going on in my flist. Yayzors! That being said, I stumbled upon a couple things that might be helpful to anyone at the editing stage of their novels. One is an editing forum recently set up at the NaNo site here with some helpful remarks. If you have an account there, you might want to join the discussion. Another is a RedRoom.com contest where you can win a $2,000 professional editing consultation for free just by signing up and creating a blog. Full contest rules are here. This was an eye-opener for me, as I didn't know you could get paid 2 grand just for three hours of sifting through someone's book. Doh! And apparently you don't need a license or anything to do it, simply a desire to.

If it wasn't so painful to wade through other people's work so much of the time I'd totally go into business for myself! )

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User: [info]lanternsdance
Date: 2008-11-08 15:13
Subject: Help?
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Hey all,

 

Sorry for just stumbling in blindly without lurking for a bit as I normally do but I was wondering if I could get a bit of help. I’m working on a longer, more complexed, story then I normally am and would very much like to get on going with it. However, I’m having some difficulty connecting what, exactly, a reader would know from the first ‘chapter’. As most of you know, the building and lead up of a story is very important (second to characterization in my opinion) and if I can’t see what other’s are seeing I just don’t feel like I can continue.

I’ve also had a tendency to ramble at people so finding a couple of people I know won’t temper crit for me and haven’t read the story already has been…difficult.

So, I’d love concrit—but I do have a more specific question of “what do you know” from this chapter?

I’m going to swing through some of the previous posts this evening and try to respond to some people’s things (I would feel awkward just swinging in if I didn’t) and sorry for such an abrupt introduction!

 

Note: I’m all for strong concrit—rip the thing apart if you please (a little sugar helps the medicine go down, but I’d rather get the meds now then later ^^ thanks)

 

Title: A Quiet Manor: Part One
Rating: Over all: R—PG-PG-13 for this part
Word Count: 2,800
Warning: slavery (indentured servitude), bastardization of Scandinavian mythology, dark fantasy
Summary: Set loosely in the time just after the conversion of a pagan society to Christianity, a young man in the middle of priest training finds himself gambled away and indentured to a battle weary general.

 

 

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kitsune_wolf posting in Original Fic Writing Workshop
User: [info]kitsune_wolf
Date: 2008-11-06 17:31
Subject: Time to bite the bullet I guess.
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So, I've been posting last years Nano in a dead RP journal.

I was just going to leave it sit until after I've finished with the series but what with the creatspace proof copy only being available for six months I've been working in it again. So this is me asking for feedback. *Pretty Please?*

The first 11 parts are here: [info]beastswithin

I would like to say bring on the full contact con crit, but I've never *really* had the thickness of my skin tested so maybe I'll go for...

Moderate concrit -- you would like to hear gentle criticism, or criticism tempered with plenty of encouragement for good aspects of your writing/artwork.

...instead.

Thanks in advance.

*Hides*

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ederyn posting in Original Fic Writing Workshop
User: [info]ederyn
Date: 2008-11-01 14:53
Subject: (no subject)
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[info]wystii and [info]kitsune_wolf have given me an idea. Since you guys are posting your fics here, do you want concrit on them? If so, we should come up with a system for requesting the kind of crit the writer wants, like other comms do.

For example... )

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kitsune_wolf posting in Original Fic Writing Workshop
User: [info]kitsune_wolf
Date: 2008-11-01 08:58
Subject: Nano08, a pic and 521 words.
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And as always I start with a picture :P

Eep! Last year I posted the first 500+ words as an excerpt.

I can't do that this year since it looks like Trinity is trying to make up for Scarifice's lack of blood shed oO!

(Gore Ahead)

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