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  1. JM_Webb

    Writing Prompt The Triggering Town

    Here's a writing prompt I've done a few times, it's Richard Hugo's "The Triggering town" Taken from the poetry foundation So, try this out. I'll try to do it later this week too!
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    The news spread quietly, like a plague. Instead of a cough, it was a whisper. Instead of a sniffle it was a suggestion: “come to the longhouse tonight to hear the necromancer speak.” In the evening, the longhouse was full. Love this passage so much. Either this or We had been staring up at...
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    What genre/kind of short story do you like to read?

    what about science fiction? That genre THRIVES in short form!
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    Choose your OP weapon

    Here's why the leaf is an OP weapon: First, make sure your leaf is spherical, and incredibly dense. Put the leaf in potato gun. Shoot potato gun, change leaf to VERY LARGE (car sized) as it becomes the side of a tree and crushes a building.
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    Migrating here from Wattpad

    I tried wattpad for a bit, and it became very clear very quickly my books would have no audience on that site!
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    Free First Chapter Feedback

    That's another idea too. That probably makes more sense tbh. Put it in my notes for revisions when the dang thing is done.
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    Free First Chapter Feedback

    Thanks for the compliments on the prose and the feedback on certain things. I definitely plan on revising this chapter if I ever publish it. I was uncertain how much people would pick up on me hinting at her being a necromancer while I also tried to show that the town was confused as to whether...
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    Want to write poetically? Read Paradise Lost.

    An audiobook honestly sounds really nice! Milton wrote it while completely blind, so in a sense it's as if it it's intended to be spoken. The first time I was forced to read Paradise Lost, the teacher made us memorize and recite the Invocation. It made it a lot easier to read. Also, a good...
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    Want to write poetically? Read Paradise Lost.

    Okay, so I hope you'll indulge me on a favorite past time of mine: obsessively plugging John Milton's classic epic poem Paradise Lost ALSO PLEASE KEEP IN MIND: I am not saying that everyone needs to read Paradise Lost. I just think that it's a very useful book to read because it makes everyone...
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    Free First Chapter Feedback

    I triple dog dare you to read it! Although I am all out of dogs so all I have is a fiction link! https://www.scribblehub.com/series/314639/drinker-of-the-yew/
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    Recommendations Are there any Christian-themed/inspired novels?

    Not on this site, but John Milton's paradise lost is probably the best piece of christian fiction ever written.
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    Writing Judge my Magic system Idea

    A couple things you should consider: Because magic users are going extinct, are they more valuable or less valuable? How does this fact change the type of magic that is cast? Are people afraid that the world will run out of magic? What is the something that happened, and would it change...
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    I can predict whether your story will become popular or not

    Title: Drinker of the Yew || Chapter 1: The Paladin's Wife Synopsis Wracked with misfortune, a nameless village along the edge of the Gray Spine rejoiced at the arrival of a paladin. Those celebrations, though, turned to wary tension as the paladin brought an unknown into their midst - his...
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