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  • #14818
    ClaireC
    @clairec
      • Rank: Knight in Shining Armor
      • Total Posts: 628

      Hey guys!
      My sister, who is HeatherC on the Rebelution, read a comment by @overcomer. She said that this was a great writing website and forum for Christian teens. So I had to see for myself! πŸ˜‰
      I…Write. Not really any other way to say it!
      Long story short, I started a book a while back, but had no idea about structure, so it flopped, to say the least. Number 1 tip from me. STRUCTURE!!! I highly recommend K. M. Weiland’s blog ‘Helping Writers Become Authors’. This is what truly started me on my writing journey. I spent a year toying with and tweaking, researching and planning an idea for a WWII historical fiction, and I am now in the Character Sketches stage. I am so excited about this project and hopefully my writing style will be good enough to live up to my plot. I plan to start writing in October.
      I have wished for a long time that someone would write some books that were not only clean but also glorifying to the maker of story ideas. I mean God created everything (even history is a story… His-story), which include everything it takes to make a book, so why shouldn’t we give thanks to our Maker and Savior through this beloved part of our lives? So I was just slightly thrilled (okay, maybe just a little more than that!) to discover this website and forum! Thank you to everyone who created this place. I look forward to being part of a God-glorifying community!
      ClaireC

      Official Member of the Certified Club of Aussie Kapeefers

      #14819
      BlueJay
      @bluejay
        • Rank: Eccentric Mentor
        • Total Posts: 1622

        Hello @clairec and welcome to the bestestist place on earth. *Yes I win* It’s a bit of a competition to be the first to say that to all newcomers. πŸ™‚
        I think that is a very good way to say it. I…write. Love it. So do I. I have just started writing slightly longer short stories and it’s so exciting.
        This is definitely the write place for you. (I know I spelt it wrong) πŸ˜› I have been here for a few months now and it’s a great community of Christian writers. *Be prepared to laugh way too much*
        Where in America do you live? That is, if you’re from the USA. I myself am from the land down under; Australia. Awesome place and freezing cold.
        I think that’s all I have to say. Enjoy. πŸ˜€

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        #14825
        Daeus
        @daeus
          • Rank: Chosen One
          • Total Posts: 4238

          @clairec Glad to have you on.

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          #14826
          Anonymous
            • Rank: Wise Jester
            • Total Posts: 52

            Hello, newcomer! Welcome to the bestestist place on earth! (Yes, I know @Bluejay, but I don’t care. I want to say it too)
            I totally understand needing structure; I’m not even going to begin my sad tale about that, but still, that was a bad day…
            Well, have fun around the website, ahem, the BESTESTIST place on earth.

            @clairec

            #14828
            Kate Flournoy
            @kate-flournoy
              • Rank: Chosen One
              • Total Posts: 3976

              Welcome to KP, @ClaireC! It’s always great to get a newcomer here. What genre do you write?

              Ingrid
              @ingridrd
                • Rank: Knight in Shining Armor
                • Total Posts: 830

                Welcome, welcome, welcome, @clairec!

                I have wished for a long time that someone would write some books that were not only clean but also glorifying to the maker of story ideas.

                I have wished that too. And then I thought, wait…I can write those clean, God-glorifying books! It’s so amazing that we have that ability. It makes me really happy!!!!! πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

                Well, hello! And have fun!!!

                A dreamer who believes in the impossible...and dragons. (INFJ-T)

                #14834
                Anonymous
                  • Rank: Eccentric Mentor
                  • Total Posts: 1486

                  Welcome to Kingdom Pen @clairec!
                  K. M. Weiland’s blog introduced me to story structure too! Her blog is AWESOME! Have you read any of her books?

                  #14847
                  ClaireC
                  @clairec
                    • Rank: Knight in Shining Armor
                    • Total Posts: 628

                    @BlueJay , You’re from Australia!!! So am I. Best place in the world to live right?! Where in Aus are you from?

                    Official Member of the Certified Club of Aussie Kapeefers

                    #14848
                    ClaireC
                    @clairec
                      • Rank: Knight in Shining Armor
                      • Total Posts: 628

                      Kate Flournoy, My current W.I.P. is a historical, maybe a little alternate or speculative, fiction.

                      Official Member of the Certified Club of Aussie Kapeefers

                      #14849
                      BlueJay
                      @bluejay
                        • Rank: Eccentric Mentor
                        • Total Posts: 1622

                        No way @clairec I kinda thought you might since you were up *late* last night. Not too many Americans are on KP when it’s our night.
                        I’m from Victoria. What about you?

                        #14851
                        ClaireC
                        @clairec
                          • Rank: Knight in Shining Armor
                          • Total Posts: 628

                          @BlueJay , Queensland, Brisbane to be exact. That is, I currently live there. I have lived 7 places in all and traveled quite extensively… the longest I’ve lived somewhere is 4 years. So, yeah.

                          Official Member of the Certified Club of Aussie Kapeefers

                          #14852
                          ClaireC
                          @clairec
                            • Rank: Knight in Shining Armor
                            • Total Posts: 628

                            @Gabrielle, I have read some of her writing books and basically know the plot line of most of her fictions, but I haven’t actually read them. For ‘Storming’, her most recent release, she put out her entire outline transcript as an example. I have read that. Not sure that counts?! πŸ™‚

                            Official Member of the Certified Club of Aussie Kapeefers

                            #14856
                            BlueJay
                            @bluejay
                              • Rank: Eccentric Mentor
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                              @clairec 7 places!?! Whoa. I have lived in two but we moved when I was 6 months old so I don’t remember the first place. Have you ever been to Victoria?

                              #14868
                              ClaireC
                              @clairec
                                • Rank: Knight in Shining Armor
                                • Total Posts: 628

                                Yes, I have been to Victoria. We traveled around Australia in a caravan for 15 months when I was 6/7. I really liked Victoria. My oldest sister was born in Melbourne.

                                Official Member of the Certified Club of Aussie Kapeefers

                                #14876
                                Greta
                                @gretald
                                  • Rank: Knight in Shining Armor
                                  • Total Posts: 450

                                  @clairec Welcome to the awesomest, bestistest, coolest, greatest…any other words that end in -st place on the internet! I’ve grown so much as a writer just from participating in discussions with more experienced writers and learning from them. I know you’ll love it here!

                                  I have wished for a long time that someone would write some books that were not only clean but also glorifying to the maker of story ideas. I mean God created everything (even history is a story… His-story), which include everything it takes to make a book, so why shouldn’t we give thanks to our Maker and Savior through this beloved part of our lives? So I was just slightly thrilled (okay, maybe just a little more than that!) to discover this website and forum!

                                  Yup, that’s exactly why I write. Writing is such a great way to influence the world for Christ! I think you’ll find a lot of like-minded people here. πŸ™‚ πŸ˜‰

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