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Prompt for April 7, 2025
Disguises. Aliases. Faking identities. Hiding in plain sight. Characters in many stories find many reasons — and many ways — to fake their identity. So consider this: How would your characters either disguise themselves as another person, or hide who they are in a public space? Remember that disguises are more than just changing your…
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Prompt for March 31, 2025
Dragon Soul Press tries to every niche that readers are likely to buy. But in every case, they require authors to pitch their work. This week’s writing prompt asks, what’s your pitch? Choose a story that you’ve written or are currently writing. Then write: Our members respond to and discuss writing prompts on our Discord…
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Prompt for March 24, 2025
Some stories leave little impressions on readers, but others stay with them. With that in mind this week’s storytelling prompt has three parts: Name a story (novel or otherwise) that left you thinking long after you finished. Then describe how the writing evoked a deep emotional response. Finally, how can you affect readers like that…
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Prompt for March 17, 2025
This week we find ourselves between St. Patrick’s Day and the vernal equinox. To honor the season, this week’s prompt is a quick culture exercise: Invent a fictional custom that celebrates a time of year when rains make everything green. This can be for something you’re working on or something unique — maybe something related…
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Interview with Author Kevin Carver
Author kevin carver talks about his upcoming novel, when to write by hand, and not living in dystopian worlds.
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Discord Channel Updates, February 2025
As our group evolves online, we change the organization of our Discord server. This time around: All that’s to help us organize our five kinds of regular events as the anthology submission deadline approaches in addition to the many channels that remain active. Check them out:
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Open for Submissions!
Pen & Pier is officially opening up for submissions to their 2nd annual anthology. Last year our anthology was around the theme of “Reverse Tropes” but we chose to keep that within the group as a practice of sorts. Well, we are ready now to make a full-on publication and the editing team is very…
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Interview With Fantasy Writer Siddhi
Thinking beyond a life in STEM, Siddhi talks about her fantasy fiction projects, overcoming writers’ block, and silencing her inner critic.
