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Welcome back to another Silver Arc Saturday Readers! T.C. Arc here! As you may have guessed from the title, today I’m going to be sharing some ways in which you can fix flat scenes. Have you ever started writing a scene with a goal in mind but the end result is just...missing something? If so, you have unfortunately encountered a flat scene. There are several different reasons your scene may be a bit lackluster so I’ll go over some common reasons and ways to fix them.

Heyo Readers! A.G. Silver here! Today I wanted to talk about not only being an author, but also doing whatever other career you want to follow. Now you may be thinking, ‘But A.G. all I’ve ever wanted to be is an author, nothing else.’ and that’s great! But we also have to bring this not so fun thing called ‘reality’ into the spectrum. In the ideal world, we could all write our books and become best selling authors, right? We wish, but that’s not always how the world works. We’ll all probably start off as self published authors with a smallish fanbase and no huge connections to publishers. Besides, even if you DO become a best selling author, that may only be for one book.

T.C.: Happy Saturday Readers! Today A.G. and I are back with our next guest author Beka!

B.G: Thank you both for having me on your blog! :-)

A.G.: Of course! We are thrilled to have you here! So to start off, did you study creative writing or are you self-taught?

B.G.: I’d say I’m a bit of both. During high school I wrote a lot of fanfiction, which really helped develop my creativity. Later on, I attended university and studied English, with my major (eventually) focussing on the Writing stream my school offered. This included a variety of courses, including creative writing classes.

Happy Saturday Readers! T.C. Arc here for a post all about poetry, namely sonnets. I absolutely love poetry for several reasons but the main reason is because of how many ways it can evoke emotion from people. You could have ten people read the same poem and they will all most likely have a different line that stood out to them or a different idea of what they think the poet is trying to express.

Since there are so many different types of poems I decided to go with a type of poem that has a set structure to follow. After working with a set structure for a while you will get the feel for how you like to write poetry and then you can branch out however you like.

Heyo Readers! AG Silver here! Sorry that today’s post was a little late- I have had such a busy week and very little time to write. Anyway, I was thinking about talking about Fairytale retellings for this week's post. It may or may not be because I have a new project that I started….

So for those of you who have never read Fairytale retellings (which I HIGHLY recommend you do), the story is pretty much the basics of the original fairytale, but with a creative twist from the author. Let’s take Beauty and the Beast for example; the basics of the story are that a girl gets trapped in a beast's living space, and the beast is actually a man under a spell/curse. Eventually the girl ends up breaking the curse and the plot is resolved.

Hello, hello Readers, T.C. Arc here! It’s been about a month and a half since I posted by myself so I’m excited to share my recent ventures with y’all!

It is finalllyyyyy spring break! My break is pretty late this year because I’m homeschooling and the one class I have online didn’t have a scheduled break until now (and they gave us a 1500 word essay to write the week before so…) but I am having a pretty good week. My family and I didn’t go anywhere and I am perfectly okay with that especially since my summer is starting to get filled with some camps and conferences.

I’ve finally had time to do some calligraphy which has been great. I usually do book quotes or song lyrics so I’ll show you one pic of each.

A.G.: Hello, hello Readers! Welcome back to another author interview! We are so very excited to introduce today’s author! Drum roll please!

*drum roll*

T.C.: We have the amazing, W.R. Gingell, thank you so much for joining us!

A.G.: Gingell is a wonderful author who dives deep into the worlds of retold fairytales (with a dash of murder), fantasy novels, and occasionally dabbles in sci-fi. We are so very pleased to have her with us today. Thank you so much for joining us today!

Hello Readers! A.G. Silver here!

So, it’s been around… 2 weeks since Elven Cursed was released I think. Dang time flies. I’ve been so blessed these past few weeks with such supportive Readers, and I’m so thankful. It’s so fun to see pictures of everyone with their books, a well as the wonderful comments you send my way. I’m shocked at how intrigued some Readers got into my book. They sent me questions about the smallest details, and it was quite fun to answer them. For this week, I’ll be sharing one of the questions with you guys.

T.C.: Happy Saturday Readers and welcome to part two of our favorite character tropes!

A.G.:Yes, welcome back! We can’t wait to share more of our favorite tropes with you! Let’s get started! First off we have:

Storyteller V.S. Observer

T.C.: Ooof starting off with a tough one. I love the effect the Story Teller often has on the other characters such as a character who always changes their backstory or who always explains the mythology behind a concept. The other characters often discount the stories but enjoy them and react in a funny way all the same. However, I’m going to choose the Observer because I can relate to the trope a lot.

Hello Readers! A.G. Silver and T.C. Arc here! We are super excited to do this week’s post- we get to show y’all our favorite character tropes! Thank you so much to those of you who sent in trope ideas that you like.

A.G.: I can’t wait to get started. Shall we hop right in?

T.C.: Of course!

A.G.: Well then let's get to it! Our first trope of the day is:

A.G. Silver: Hello and welcome to Silver Arc’s second author interview of 2021! Today, we have with us the esteemed poet and fantasy author, and my personal friend, Anjolie Anne! Thank you so much for joining us today!

Anjolie Anne: Awww thank you guys for inviting me to speak!

T.C. Arc: Of course! So what inspired you to start writing?

A.A.: Hmm what inspired me to start writing was seeing void in literature of modern description laden high fantasy, and thus I resolved to fill it (ie the Writer’s Reverie, a crossover betwixt high fantasy and historical fiction).

Hello, hello, hello Readers! A.G. Silver here and holy cow I’m freezing. So the state that I live in NEVER snows during the winter which always makes me sad, but on Valentine’s Day there was a miracle and it started snowing! Fun, right? Well, I thought so too when it was only an inch or two. BUT THEN, it kept snowing. And snowing. And snowing. So then it got to like 6 inches which is an INSANE amount of snow for where I live. Well logically because my state isn’t used to any snow, we were not prepared for it at all, so there have been some issues. My house and sooo many others lost power on Valentine’s Day evening, and we haven’t had power since. So it’s like 40 degrees in our houses and everyone is wearing 5 layers of clothes. So yeah that’s why I’m freezing ahahah.

Greetings fellow Readers, T.C. Arc here! Today I have some writing exercises to help you strengthen and practice your writing skills. These exercises are not supposed to be related to any writings you have in progress, allowing for more growth and expansion of experience. Special thanks to my younger sisters for helping me figure out some of these!

Hello lovely Readers! A.G. Silver here!

In every story you read, it’s always enjoyable to see a protagonist who is different from other authors’ protagonists. If everyone was the same, then the stories would become boring. That’s why today, I’m going to help you learn how to make memorable, unique characters.

So to start off, we need the basics: race (elf, human, goblin, etc.), gender, a few simple descriptions (eye color, hair color, and skin color), 2 personality traits, and the character’s name. Once you have these basic traits, the rest of the character is easier to build. Also, if you are like me and can’t write well if you have to plan everything out (I write much better if I just come up with everything as I go), then having these few things gives you enough info to know what you are doing, but not too much information that you get writer's block.

Hello lovely Readers, T.C. Arc here! I don’t know about y’all but this week has been craaazy and I’m so glad it's the weekend. Today I’m going to go over how to deal with feedback that others give you on your writing. As always, I have grouped kinds of criticism into different groups so I can give specific tips about each of them.

People can have trouble receiving feedback, which is totally understandable. It’s hard to first of all share your writing with someone and then having to receive criticism? Yikes. We do have to understand that our writing isn’t going to be perfect, especially not the first draft. Having the mindset of wanting to improve instead of dwelling on the fact that someone thought your writing should be changed is very important.