Recent content by Ruru

It's always worth writing it, since as has been said many times now, writing it will bring much practice. And practice is everything. I had my own big story, the novel I so desperately wanted to write. I loved it, I lived it for years. And everytime I went to write it down it rambled and...

If it helps at all, the South Island (NZ) wasn't inhabited anywhere near as heavily as the North Island until European settlers arrived, and even then it took a while for numbers to build there. It is very mountainous, but more than that it's high latitude, and the eastern and souther sides are...

I think this sort of thing comes down to reader preferences. Me personally, no, I don’t think you need a clear antagonist in the traditional sense. Your two main characters each have an antagonist (each other), so you still have a means to drive their respective story lines forward. IMO there...

How large are your mushrooms? Fungi can grow or be trained to grow into many different shapes, if you wanted to go with the “grown” building idea.

Haha kinda does doesn’t it. The forum is great, but sometimes things get lost in the huge volume of info that comes out here. Having a small group who can get to know your current project, and act as a source of encouragement, accountability for goals etc can be really valuable. At least I have...

Sounds like an interesting concept. One of my first thoughts was what impact having next to no light would have on your characters. Do they not really use facial expressions? Expressions became critical to humans in a group context, but that's visual, so if you have little to no light, would...

Hey all, I have created a discord sever for writing groupies to chat and work on. If you want to come join us, PM me or Zander and we will send through the link :). Stable_Idiot I will send you the link now :)

I am with Devor. Not bad, it’s just intense. I killed a recent main character unexpectedly while writing the ending of a story (as in unexpectedly for me). It fit the plot and the feel of the ending, so I went with it when the words went that way. it was pretty intense to write, which hopefully...

You are very welcome Vicki :). Sometimes the best thing you can do for your writing is to do what feels right and works best for you. It is your story, after all. There is so much advice out there, and almost all of it conflicting, it can be a little overwhelming! All the best with your writing...

haha we must have been writing at the same time! Exactly as A.E Lowan said. Everyone has their own process :) And there are many different processes out there. If its working for you, stick with it! If it's not, maybe try something else haha

I'm glad you have found the forum so helpful! There is some really useful information (and people, hah!) here. I have found it very encouraging. As an answer, this is the experience I have had with my current story. I started it a little over two years ago as a way to practice my craft...

Come join us very keen to start up some causal writing chats/help/ discussions with you all

I don't really have much experience running something like this, but I'm definitely keen to be a part of it. Discord works for me, I've used that before. Having a series of topic channels seemed to work pretty well. I was in one for Camp NaNoWriMo this year, and we had a series of channels (or...

I guess that depends a bit on what you / people are wanting to get from it. Encouragement? Critiques? Walls to bounce things off? All of the above for me, haha. I have been a part of groups in the past that have used Discord and Slack as ways of communicating. We shared documents via google...

Sorry to hear about your dad Zander, I hope things are looking up now!