Drudge Work In a city full of unstable magic, bad ideas can lead to great rewards, and the senior students at the Academy of Mages have the worst ideas of all. Merrick Fitzroy, undoubtedly the heaviest mage who ever lived, thinks his partic...
Dogs, Cats, and Earthquakes By: Dale Angel Could it be an Earthquake that’s wondering around underground looking for a place to re-arrange the earth? Because the neighborhood dogs are all barking at once. Dogs can surprise you; the...
Today at Writers Forum, we have reviews of a couple of writerly products from Writers Forum member Dave Smith. Take it away, Dave… Do you Scapple? By: Dave Smith Good things should be passed along. Here are two I found w...
For the class of 2020… An envelope arrives from the University of Toronto. “It’s a big one!” my mom says. I run up the stairs to open the package. “Oh, it’s just my certificate of graduation,” I say, disappointed. Not a pa...
Hi Shadro I’m one of the forum moderators, and I want to welcome you to the forum. I’ve been waiting to do the formal welcome, because I was hoping we could get a section set up specifically for writing stories for gaming. You’...
With school ending and the global pandemic in full effect, it’s getting extremely hard to stay focused. This simple and easy-to-implement system will take you less than 15 minutes and help you get more done, be more productive, and lessen...
Writers Forum President and Queen Laura Hernandez submitted a short piece on supporting the protests in the middle of COVID-19 on the day the one demonstration was to assemble in the Kohl’s parking lot. Before I could get it posted, t...
I am a blogger writing his first novel. It is a fictional novel focusing on the dormant trauma in young British men raised in Church of England education and the unacknowledged loss of faith going unchecked. However, on my blog, which is ve...
Today we have another entry received for the Writers Forum 2020 Short Story Contest. Since the contest judges are supposed to be judging the entries without knowing who wrote them, the author’s names will be withheld until after the w...
What would you pick?I spend my weeks making writing help videos and writing articles to help others who are where I’ve been. I usually just peruse the forum to see what people are struggling with and take an educated stab in the dark....