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have you ever seen Frozen?
✨ Let it gooOooOoOOoooOo ✨ *Throws back my hair dramatically* I sing that song whenever my siblings are unnecessarily argumentative.
"If I don't like something, it's probably sanctification. Ugh." -E.C.S.
oh goodness.
there is so much wrong with that song.
😂No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.
My brother loses his steam over many inconsequential details.
Me: 🎵 It’s funny how some distance makes everything seem smaaaaaalll 🎵
"If I don't like something, it's probably sanctification. Ugh." -E.C.S.
Oh goodness.
🙄😂No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.
I’m sorry, there are just too many uses for Disney Princess quotes. I want to watch Tangled again, just to remember all of Flynn Rider’s lines. My quote arsenal is running low.
"If I don't like something, it's probably sanctification. Ugh." -E.C.S.
Yes, I have seen Frozen, and I think I know what you are getting at. Elsa, like Alan, worries about her powers and hurting others with them but needs to learn not to push others away. If you go back to when you were asking us which characters are like our own, Whaley, you will notice Elsa was one of the characters who I mentioned was similar to Alan.
Also, an actual photograph of Jade Wherl after she abondened Alan on her brother’s doorstep:
*Plans to sneak the words ‘let it go’ into Jade’s dialogue somewhere in Book II.*
Sometimes it is necessary to paint the sky black in order to see the stars.
oh my goodness. She’s a horrible mother. 😂
(and I feel bad for laughing)
I was actually thinking about the magic. It seems to be thought based. Like yours. At first it seems emotion based, but then when I rewatched “let it go” to see if I was right, it seems more thought based. Whatever it is, we aren’t told how she’s casting those spells, and everyone is okay with it. They just take it and go along with the ride. I think if you look at it a little more like Frozen’s magic you’ll run into less snags with writing it. *shrug* idk if that’s even a problem anymore.
just a thought.No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.
@whalekeeper @theducktator @ellette-giselle
My progress today. I wrote down on sticky notes everything I knew so far about the plot.
Pink notes are what I already had planned from Alan’s perspective when I started this. Green is Martha’s Perspective. The blue and yellow at the top are some alternative ideas I had for the beginning. All the yellow in the center are my ideas for the middle. I got my sister to help me come up with some of those. It was easier to come up with ideas for that part since I know the least about it and am not committed to an exact flow of them yet. Phew! Done with that for today. I’m going to look through these tomorrow and start finding my story’s core. My hand is sore. I’m not used to this much handwriting.Sometimes it is necessary to paint the sky black in order to see the stars.
good work!!
wait… your hand cramps from writing? Mine never did that. I thought it was a myth.
but I also thought unions burning peoples eyes was a myth until my friend and I were cooking stir fry and she started tearing up really bad while cutting them. 🤣
No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.
Hmm… That is a good point about Elsa’s powers. As far as we can tell once she learns to control her powers, she just seems to will things to happen.
I think I do want to stick with the idea for Alan having visions of magic capturing him. I think this adds a thematic element that will make Alan’s struggle more real without going into how the magic works. But for the actual use of the spells, this might work. Thank you for the suggestion!
Sometimes it is necessary to paint the sky black in order to see the stars.
Thanks!
wait… your hand cramps from writing? Mine never did that. I thought it was a myth.
I have a bad habit of gripping and pressing on things to far. Since I’ve done so much drawing, and have trained myself to do lighter strokes there, it’s not an issue, but I need to train myself to do it with writing as well.
Sometimes it is necessary to paint the sky black in order to see the stars.
That’s a lot of note cards. That does look convenient though, having those dividers and everything stored vertically.
Sometimes it is necessary to paint the sky black in order to see the stars.
glad I could be of some help!
oh, that makes sense. 😄
No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.
I also thought unions burning peoples eyes was a myth until my friend and I were cooking stir fry and she started tearing up really bad while cutting them. 🤣
It’s hard to cook when you anthropomorphize your vegetables.
To err is human; to arr is pirate.
@whalekeeper @theducktator @ellette-giselle
Okay, I’m starting to make some refinements to my ideas, starting with some guiding principles. That involves pinpointing a one-sentence premise and pinpointing the theme of the story, as well as thinking about the arc I want Alan to go through. This is supposed to be a document that I can reference to keep me on track as I write.
My thoughts on the series as a whole.
Overarching Theme: Christ must increase, we must decrease (John 3:30)
Book I: Salvation (Trusting in Jesus to be saved)
Book II: Sanctification – focus on putting of the old self (Trusting in God to help us fight sin)
Book III: Sanctification – focus on putting on the new self (Glorifying God in what we do)I’m hoping each of these themes will flow naturally into each other.
What are your thoughts?
Sometimes it is necessary to paint the sky black in order to see the stars.
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