prescience. noun. Foreknowledge; foresight.
This is basically a fancy word to describe fortunetelling. Take the Latin for "before" and "to know" and you have prescience. Have an oracle or a 10 year old ...
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We're getting a lot of submissions to the Halloween Writer's Jam right now! I'm really excited to see that... but, since I've been reading a lot of them, I figured this would be a good time to mention something I think could be helpful for pe...
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Hey guys! Since there hasn't been much of a turnout for prompt responses lately (my own fault as well), I'm just going to offer a few prompt for the people who are having trouble getting started with their Halloween entries:
1. Write a horror story in which a fairy tale figures prominently.
2. Write a horror story using lore from a foreign country.
3. "And then she turned around..."
Good luck! Be sure to take part in the Writers' Bloc collaborative scary story!
I'm sure by the end of this Halloween Writer's Jam, a lot of you might start appreciating what I have to go through a little more... hehe.
I'm sure you're all probably starting to notice that we've been publishing a lot of Fan Words lately, eh? I've eased up on my usual ultra-lofty standards so more people can get in on these fun times. Aside from spelling and very obvious grammar things, I'm not cleaning things up too much, so what you're seeing is more or less what the writers are writing.
That said... I need to rely on some solid commenting and critiquing from all of you to keep everyone in check, okay? Peer evaluation is always a little more believable than anything else, so don't let me down, guys!
Other than that, I'm proud to say that we officially have a Simon Cowell to add to our judges: Anomaly is just the kind of girl to keep the rest of us nicer people - myself, Becky, Kei and Sabrina - in check. She doesn't hold back, so you guys better not drop the ball now that she's watching.
So that's that. On to the usual bits; as always, in case you need 'em:
- Do you have a written work you'd like a beta-reader to look over? Comment below!
- Do you have any specific writing questions you'd like to have answered? Comment below!
- Can you answer any of those questions? Comment below!
- You have a writing workshop idea and would like to do the upcoming week's Tuesday Guest Post? Comment below!
Don't be afraid of asking big questions, either. If a question would require more than just a comment answer, we can always use them as ideas for workshops over the next week.
Remember, none of us here are teachers, professors, or professionals (well... not just yet, anyway). We're all just members who love to write, hoping to help out other members and their own interests in writing.
Hey there, Bloc. Well, I suck really badly, and my workload is showing no sign of slowing up, so I'm afraid I still don't have time to write up a workshop this week. However, I've been ignoring the Bloc way too much lately, so let's try to have some fun, yeah?
(This was suggested by ShadowLight a few days ago, so thanks, babes!)
What we're going to do today to try to warm up for the Writers' Jam is a good old-fashioned collaborative story: I'll give you a starting line, one of you will continue it with a few lines of your own, and it keeps on going. Don't think too much about it, just write the first thing that comes to mind. And remember to make it scary!
To avoid confusion, comment in reply to the person whose thread you're continuing. Then they can follow the story, too!
Ready?
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"I'm never going back there."
