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I'll be brave and go first (unless someone beats me to it while I'm typing this)! Here's my initial 250 vignette from the start of the workshop: Setting Stars The portal snapped shut as Balac stepped over the bodies. Orchid-scent wafted toward him. Home. He took in the overgrown vines and drooping ...

BeeW wrote:Wow... picking random pages of this thread is like opening a time capsule!

Yeah, I'm part of the time capsule; something like 15 years of it.

Dustin Adams wrote:Hey Sean, I saw your interview where you specifically said you did this, and you did!

Re-read your story the other day. Forgot how artistically written it is. Most excellent.

Just bought Sean's anthology. Supporting each other is vital to friendship and to survival on the long road of writing.

czing wrote:Looking for a first 450 swap if anyone is willing.

If you want, I'll swap with you. Email me at: corbin.maxwell@yahoo.com

Thank you,

sorte001 wrote:I am down. I may need to catch up on the rules here. But I am open to a swap.

I don't think there's many rules to a 450 swap. My email is corbin.maxwell@yahoo.com

Thank you.

Anybody up for a 450?

Anyone up for a 450?

For those who are a bit down about their R’s. I’ve been writing for 17 years with 15 years of R’s. I’ve won two contests and a small press published a book of mine that sold about 50 copies. The publisher went out of business. I guess in these 17 years my biggest accomplishment has been that Charli...

For those who are a bit down about their R’s. I’ve been writing for 17 years with 15 years of R’s. I’ve won two contests and a small press published a book of mine that sold about 50 copies. The publisher went out of business. I guess in these 17 years my biggest accomplishment has been that Charlie...

SHM, which makes three in a row now. Steady on, until up. I'd say that's a good sign. SHM is early / mid finalist pile. So I’ve been told. Though I submit to the contest, I’m not writing for it. I write for me and my sanity, writing the way I want regardless of judges and editors. And I know people...

sorte001 wrote:Third R in a row. Close to just calling it quits for awhile.

If you really like to write don’t call it quits. If you want I can try to help you. Or you can look into Wulf Moon’s writing advice forum thread. I don’t follow it myself but I think it’s designed specifically with the contest in mind.

SHM, which makes three in a row now.

[quote="SwiftPotato"]Results of check-in already here (I'm sharing this one cause I think it's important for y'all to see): got a really, really good personal from Charlie on this one. He gave me a big long thing with paragraphs, character names, examples, and page numbers. Which is TERRIF...

Hey everybody,

Anyone feel like a read through on 5,800 words?

I'm curious about the story's excitability.

Thank you,

My Q4 was submitted a few weeks ago. So I'm good.

Can anyone recommend resources for upskilling my line-by-line prose? I’m not looking for anything on spelling/grammar (that’s a whole other kettle of sardines); rather, I’m looking for strategies to make my prose flow effortlessly, while still retaining a bit of vibrancy. I already read my stories ...

My problem with eloquent writing is when it enters the world of "purple" prose, or the imagery doesn't actually make sense but sounds pretty, or it's a literary attention grab that doesn't actually add anything to the story. Anybody want to post writing snippets as practice towards eloque...

HermioneLee wrote:

Dustin Adams wrote:

HermioneLee wrote:Just got my second R...hope I can finally break my streak of Rs next quarter

That's the spirit! Let's exchange 450's this quarter and see if we can both up our game.

Great idea! But what’s 450?

First 450 words of your story.

Working on my Q4 as we wait in twitchery.

If it were my paragraph, I would start my description with the hills because the rivers run through them. The hills stood against the skyline, blocking out the horizon to the far edges of the world. Through the grassy hillsides ran rivers their water red as blood. Filthy and without compassion for ...

Anybody want to post writing snippets as practice towards eloquence, or whatever you're going for. I really like this idea and would want to start it up again if anyone's interested. Of course, I like all exercises, as seen from the Wulf's exercises thread. (That's because they give good exercise t...

[quote="Corbin Maxwell"][quote="Reuben"]You didn't ask for a critique, but I figure that's the point of the thread, and I would certainly appreciate if someone would critique mine, so here goes.


What did you need critiqued?

You didn't ask for a critique, but I figure that's the point of the thread, and I would certainly appreciate if someone would critique mine, so here goes. My suggestions: Read Syn and Syntax, Cormac McCarthy, and Faulkner. My two paragraphs: John McCarthy stands awash in the finality of sunset, sta...

Post an example so we can see the problem better. This is a particularly bad case: They walked through the town in the dim afternoon light. Grass filled the cracks in the asphalt and spilt into windows and doorways. Old vehicles sank deep between dark nettles, and a bicycle plaited itself into the ...

Heh. I had a long talk with Joni yesterday, and she didn’t drop a clue about Q2 results, alas. I did discover she’s been enjoying pictures of Disgruntledpeony’s baby pictures, so there is that. :) Oh god. wotf019 We talk a bit in post-results e-mails sometimes, and I've been sending her pics of the...

At the moment when I'm telling a story I feel like my sentences are thick bricks I'm chucking against windows, smashing them to get my point across. They aren't beautiful. A brick is a brick, I find myself relying on the same repetitive sentence structures over and over again as I write. Post an ex...

My suggestions: Read Syn and Syntax, Cormac McCarthy, and Faulkner. My two paragraphs: John McCarthy stands awash in the finality of sunset, staring into tinted glass through which a muted sun glows out of the burnt horizon. The day’s final moments spilling forward against the window where his refle...

I'm not greedy. I'll settle for just one spot and leave the others to whomever the judges choose. I have a Q4 ready but not sure I want to submit that one unless I can't push out something I like better.

Submitted my Q-3 today. Another quarter notched into my pistol grip. This is my 13th year of entering the contest and my 17th year of writing. Just before writing this post, I was looking over the list of forum members. It's filled with writers and judges I knew and forumed with since 2007. I've wat...

I was thinking that flow-state should be a compound noun. It seems to read better that way. Personal choice I would imagine.