Hi folks! It’s been pretty quiet here in the community for the last few months, and muchtooarrogant and I have been discussing the future of worldofscribble. We’re both trying to figure out the best direction for this space, and how to juggle that with lots of real-life obligations and time constraints ( Read more... )

This is where you can talk, wax poetic, complain, or otherwise regale us with stories about moments when you or your characters weren't at your/their best. I know it's happened to all of us, those days when nothing seems destined to go right, but have you ever written a story about one of those awful moments in time? Here's your opportunity ( Read more... )

Greetings all. My apologies for posting this so late, my work schedule's been quite hectic of late. That plus a fair amount of absent mindedness on my part takes us to where we are now, a tardy writing challenge post.

Because my partner in crime, lrig_rorrim, won the last writing challenges we voted on, I asked her to compose our intro for this week.

One ( Read more... )

Hey everyone! Here is the discussion topic for the Random Writing Challenge this week. Questions, comments, brainstorming, discussion, and other randomalia about the random topic go here ( Read more... )

Welcome to this week’s Random Writing Challenge!

How this works: Every other Monday I roll a 100-sided die, choose the corresponding challenge for the community from this giant table, and post it here for you! Anyone who is interested writes to the challenge, posts the entry in their personal journal, and then responds to this post with a comment ( Read more... )

Hey everyone! This is just a reminder that the deadline for the Timed Writing Challenges is tomorrow night! There's also a poll to vote in, featuring some nifty things to read that were posted last week.

And here is a silly little survey, because everyone likes clicky boxes to click. Click away!

Poll Reading and Writing, but no Rithmatic

What do you think of this week's Poetry-Random mash-up ( Read more... )

Welcome to the Poetry Exercise ( Read more... )

Greetings, and welcome to our first ballot for February.

First, a quick note. Although lrig_rorrim and I discussed the following change, I don't believe either one of us officially mentioned it in AWOS. The change we decided to make was to extend the writing deadlines for most of our challenges. In practice, what this means is that, regardless of when a ( Read more... )

Got questions, comments, or something else to say about the latest timed writing challenges? This is the thread for you. Please post here, and let us know what you're thinking ( Read more... )