Hannah

I read relatively fast…a least compared to my sisters. I don’t know if I read fast compared to the rest of the world. 😛

@bluejay, yeah, I’m the same way. I read fast in my head, but when I’m reading aloud, I always have to slow down. 😉

Sorry to debunk your theory @Daeus, but I read the Count of Monte Cristo in a week, total, and I could spend five hours right now going over it with you point by point, twist by twist, arc by arc, concept by concept. 😀
I’ve always been this way— well, ever since I learned how to read, which was pretty late due to some vision complications. I…[Read more]

Well for me, I read fast. Way too fast! I end up thinking I’ve read everything in the book and then I reread it and find a part that I didn’t know was in there. And then I read the book for the third time and find a completely new part that I managed to miss twice. It can get a bit creepy when I reread a book for the tenth (or hundredth) time and…[Read more]

@cahndida-serkhaman Hi. Welcome to one of the best places in the world. There is a lot of good stuff on this forum and everyone is super helpful. There is never a boring moment here. 😀

Welcome to the forum, Cahndida Serkhaman Stardust Galadriel! 😉 I love singing too, and archery, though I don’t do that as much as I would like. 🙂

Important forum abbreviations to know are as follows:
WIP: work in progress
POV: point of view
MC: main character

Also, if you want a particular person to answer you or see your post, you can tag…[Read more]

Yes, definitely @Daeus. 🙂

Emotion is a hard thing for me to write, though it is definitely worth taking the time to write well because unrealistic emotion ruins the best story.

One thing which could help with emotion is to show the character’s thoughts as well as make sure the reader understands the villain’s emotional reason for wanting to kill the MC. If they can…[Read more]

No problem @sarah-h! 😀 The list I gave you is just to help ‘humanize’ your characters in your mind— if you can think about them as living, breathing, complex… er… problems, that’s half the battle. 😉

Does a character have to have a major flaw to be relatable and realistic? No. In fact if you think about it, there’s not a majority or…[Read more]

That’s a very good question, @sarah-h! And unfortunately, I don’t think I have a concrete answer to lay out in so many rules and statistics.
You can tell you’re missing something— that’s very good, that’s an enormous start. Now to figure out what that something is. 😉 😛

I think one of the things that makes this conversation so difficult to…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy: Yes! *rubs hands together* I love discussing things. 😉 😛

EXACTLY. Both of you. 😀 Both very astute observations.

Normally I wouldn’t use that word… (astute)… but I think I can on a forum of writers who will actually know what it means. 😉

Actually, Kate, it’s using quite a bit of the method we decided was the best for writing christian themes. Write from a solid moral base and the outcome just naturally is something solidly moral and good. 😛

Soggy pancakes.

I think… I just lost my appetite.

And indeed, @Daeus, that is the logical progression of the argument I’m making— with him, (you and I apparently both know who him is 😉 😛 ) because I couldn’t see him as anything other than noble, I couldn’t sense him feeling anything other than noble. I mean, it was there a little bit, but…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy: As a relatively new writer, I really appreciate that you’re willing to share mistakes that you made early on. If you hadn’t said something about this topic, I probably would have made the same mistake. Not that I’m not going to make my own mistakes… 😉

@faithdk: Yeah, seems like it! So how many goats and chickens do you have? We’ve had chickens for quite a while now, but just this year we decided to try raising sheep. It’s been interesting…(we have no idea what we’re doing 😛 )

@faithdk Haha, yeah.. you’re way ahead of me on the farm thing. We mostly raise thwarted attempts. (Chickens- eaten by eagles. Sheep- attacked by dog. Cows- running away.) So, awesome job keeping goats and chickens going! *thumbs up*
That’s cool about your articles! Quite a variety of newspaper locations, too. Howdja pull that off?

The first one made me shudder. The last one was pure inspiration.

@Daeus