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 Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:30 pm
As the title says, this is the section where crew and members can suggest or request things that can improve the guild as a whole. Ideas, reasons, and suggestions on execution are preferred if you have a suggestion.
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Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 8:22 pm
Can we get new challenges every 2 weeks instead of monthly?
XD
I just love challenges.
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deadzonedragon Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 8:26 pm
You can always do more than one challenge. You can do one for each quote or something of the like. Kudos on being goal oriented though. You're much less of a procrastinator than I am. sweatdrop
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Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:01 pm
deadzonedragon You can always do more than one challenge. You can do one for each quote or something of the like. Kudos on being goal oriented though. You're much less of a procrastinator than I am. sweatdrop Hehe. I've done 2 of them already, and i think i've only been in the guild a week. I've also posted other original works from my deviant art. I'm a fairly new writer, so challenges really inspire me and give me something to work on. My brain is still too full of ideas for me to pick just one and write a short story or start a book (although i would really like too.) I think i need help with that. Once i have a plot going and ive actually started writing something I'm good to go. I was going to do the older challenges, but i there are only three more, so I don't want to waste them! hehe. Plus new challenges are exciting. im in another creative writing guild and the most recent challenge was really nifty. It involved taking a song, and then using a lyric from the song as a start of a new paragraph to a story. But you didn't have to use all the lyrics, or in any order. It just had to be from the same song, and each paragraph had to start with a lyric.
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Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 10:04 pm
That is an awesome challenge. And dzd's right, there's no limit, but if you'd be interested, I could certainly start updating twice monthly, or even start a topic for mid month submissions. (So nobody feels pressured to do more than they're comfortable with). Thanks for the input.
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Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:10 pm
Evermore Reality That is an awesome challenge. And dzd's right, there's no limit, but if you'd be interested, I could certainly start updating twice monthly, or even start a topic for mid month submissions. (So nobody feels pressured to do more than they're comfortable with). Thanks for the input. I know i would definitely be interested in more challenges. And seeing as how this is creative writing and not an essay for an award or anything, i don't think the other guild i am in would mind if I post it here. (between you and me, i like this one much better. More active, and i feel more comfortable here.)
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Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 11:25 am
Thanks, I try. biggrin It's getting more active as new members join, too. (You'll notice that practically no one posted earlier.)
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Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 5:50 pm
I have had a ton of computer issues and haven't really been on much but i thought i would post this as a suggestion for future challenges, or maybe a "creative writing exercises " thread that could possible be a sticky.
I found this whilst stumbling! <3
Exercises:
1. Write the first 250 words of a short story, but write them in ONE SENTENCE. Make sure that the sentence is grammatically correct and punctuated correctly. This exercise is intended to increase your powers in sentence writing.
2. Write a dramatic scene between two people in which each has a secret and neither of them reveals the secret to the other OR TO THE READER.
3. Write a narrative descriptive passage in a vernacular other than your own. Listen to the way people speak in a bar, restaurant, barber shop, or some other public place where folks who speak differently ("He has an accent!") from you, and try to capture that linguistic flavor on the page.
4. Play with sentences and paragraph structure: Find a descriptive passage you admire, a paragraph or two or three, from published material, and revise all the sentences. Write the passage using all simple sentences (no coordination, no subordination); write the passage using all complex-compound sentences; write the passage using varying sentence structure. The more ways you can think to play with sentence structure, the more you will become aware of how sentence structure helps to create pacing, alter rhythm, offer delight.
5. Focus on verbs: Find a passage that you admire (about a page of prose) and examine all of the verbs in each sentence. Are the "active," "passive," "linking?" If they are active, are they transitive or intransitive? Are they metaphorical (Mary floated across the floor.)? What effects do verbs have on your reading of the passage?
6. Take a passage of your own writing and revise all of the verbs in it. Do this once making all the verbs active, once making all the verbs passive. Then try it by making as many verbs as possible metaphorical (embedded metaphors).
Characters: There are two types of characters: well rounded and flat.
1. Create character sketches. This is a good exercise to perform on a regular basis in your journal. Sometimes you can just create characters as they occur to you, at other times it is good to create characters of people you see or meet. Some of the best sketches are inspired by people you don't really know but get a brief view of, like someone sitting in a restaurant or standing by a car that has been in an accident. Ask yourself who they are, what they are about. The fact that you don't really know the person will free you up to make some calculated guesses that ultimately have more to say about your own vision of the world than they do about the real person who inspired the description. That's okay, you are NOT a reporter, and ultimately the story you intend to tell is YOUR story.
2. Write a character sketch strictly as narrative description, telling your reader who the character is without having the character do or say anything.
3. Revise the above to deliver the character to the reader strictly through the character's actions.
4. Revise the above to deliver the character strictly through the character's speech to another character.
5. Revise the above to deliver the character strictly through the words/actions of another character (the conversation at the water fountain about the boss).
6. Often when we call a character "flat" we mean that the author has failed in some way; however, many good stories require flat characters. Humor often relies on flat characters, but often minor characters in non-humorous pieces are also flat. These characters usually appear to help move the plot along in some way or to reveal something about the main character. A flat character is one who has only ONE characteristic. You can create whole lists of these and keep them in your journal so that you can call upon them when you need a character to fit into a scene.
7. Young writers are prone to write autobiographical pieces. Instead of writing about people like yourself, try writing about someone who is drastically different in some way from you. Writing about someone who is a good deal older or younger than you will often free up your imagination. It helps to make sure you are delivering enough information to your reader so that the reader can clearly see the character and understand the character's motives.
8. Write a scene of about five hundred words in which a character does something while alone in a setting that is extremely significant to that character. Have the character doing something (dishes, laundry, filing taxes, playing a computer game, building a bird house) and make sure that YOU are aware that the character has a problem or issue to work out, but do NOT tell your reader what that is.
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