Hannah

Welcome, dear madam, to our community. 🙂 Delighted to have you.

True… True…
We have Dropbox. I might just have to use it now. 😛

Since I self-published, all my actual, finished book files are one lulu.com. Other than that, a thumbdrive is pretty reliable. I don’t think Daeus’s hypothetical situation is very likely to happen. 😉

I’m not really sure; I’ve messed with the idea of some fantasy elements in our world…like time travel and book characters coming alive and yelling at their author (two different ideas). I’m not very comfortable with aliens, though I wouldn’t mind having a sifi space story that just takes place somewhere with no mention of earth… Perhaps part…[Read more]

Okay. I agree. But why? What makes it that way? After all, there is no verse in the Bible that forbids it, is there?

Or is there?

Hm… this comes pretty close. ‘Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him. Do not add to His words, lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar.’ And that’s… in Proverbs,…[Read more]

Good thoughts. I especially like the idea of setting up your own small government in a dystopian world. That could be a thing— imagine a book with that as its plotline. A few devoted advocates for law in the midst of a vast sea of anarchy, struggling to bring some order without becoming as tyrannical as the anarchy they are trying to replace. I…[Read more]

Oh that’s good. I may take you up whenever I need a beta reader after all, Hope.

I know. I’m so mercenary. 😛 🙂 😉

Warning: all who enter this forum do so at the risk of their own sanity.

Okay, I’ve filled my obligations. 😛

Welcome just the same, Ivy! And yeah, fantasy is awesome. That’s primarily what I write. What genre do you most like to write?

Ah, thanks, @ivy-rose. Not sure if I quite deserve it considering the earlier drafts you read…though I do (quite humbly, of course) claim to be a pretty good beta reader when it comes to plots, characters, and emotions. 😉

Welcome, @ivy-rose. 😉 How is Never Alone coming? Will I get to read it through again? Also, um, what’s indie publishing?

Wow— that’s quite a word, Tatiana!

I thought of two other good ones, and I think Ezra Wilkinson would agree with me on this one. Existential.
And Crisis.

Ha! Right. Don’t get me started on the illogicality of the Big Bang theory. I could go on for hours and hours and hours.

Yes, as I worked through this argument on my own several months ago, I realized that really the only logical way to set up a system of powers is the way it happened in our world. Imagine that. One supreme power that created…[Read more]

No one said Dualism was logical…and it’s not as if something being illogical ever stopped people in believing in something. 😉 In normal, real life terms, it’s the belief in two gods or principles, one good, one evil. Both are eternal and in conflict. Drawing from that for fantasy ‘magic’ I’d say it would probably be portrayed as two…[Read more]

Hm, that sounds like an interesting one. I don’t know that I’ve encountered that one before. I do definitely think I’d disagree with such a system, from what little you told me about it. It’s not Biblical. It’s not even logically sound.

How can there be two opposing forces within one world, both of equal power? Did the creator of the world…[Read more]

That makes sense with your definition of the Force.

Oh, so the Inheritance Cycle are the Aragon books…I did read the first one. I guess point 4 might better fit that type of magic.

And then there’s also magic (again, one I’m a bit leery of and which is basically dualism…I only know these names because I’m going though a theology course…[Read more]

Right— there are things about the Force that I don’t think fit with a Christian worldview. That being said, I disagree (and I love Star Wars, by the way) that because the Force is just a force that anyone can use, that makes it bad.
My objections to the Force lie in that it is not a non-intelligent entity that’s just there for anyone to use. It…[Read more]