Alia

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Hey, friends, see if you can help me brainstorm for a bit.

So far, about fifty people have taken the reader behavior survey. That’s pretty awesome. Fifty people can show us some neat things about reader behavior, but we’re going to need a lot more need more if we’re hoping for reliable and detailed data.

So maybe my outlook was too limited.…[Read more]

@Alia thank you. 😀 She was lots of fun to draw. I love red hair.

KeePers everywhere!

1,000 strong. That’s my goal.

I am thrilled to announce the launch of the new Reader Behavior Survey. If you haven’t already read through this thread, the Reader Behavior Survey is a survey I put together that asks readers detailed questions to probe into how they think and what influences them. “Why?” you ask. Well, these…[Read more]

@Alia well, here she is… I decided to break out the colored pencils after *cough* ten years and as a result the picture ended up looking a little scratchy… but here you are just the same. 😉

@Alia I want to try Hadassah Lin. 😀

@Northerner I have no idea where my first post went. Here. Have it again.

Okay guys.
@Hope gave me a book with three of G.K. Chesterton’s novels in it as an early birthday present, and though I have only read one of them so far it completely blew my mind.
It was The Ball and the Cross.

Has anyone else read it? If so, can we please discuss how…[Read more]

@alia All the time. Most certain characters have a coherent wardrobe, style wise. But sometimes, especially if they have a very bubbly or diva-like personality, their wardrobe can always be different. I stick to the same color palette most of the time. Blondes tend to wear light blues. Girls with dark hair but colored eyes match their clothes to…[Read more]

@alia Yeah, I do that sometimes when figuring out exactly what they’re wearing, especially when they have many layers, like coats and cloaks and shirts and skirts 🙂

@alia How do you mean, like off the character like designing their wardrobe? if so, yeah, I do that sometimes.

@hope Is this Captain Tor dude from a sci-fi or fantasy kind of place?

@Alia, what Kate said.

I like to compare magic (supernatural power used by humans/humanish creatures) to words. Words are used, if you think about it, in a lot of the ways magic is. You can use words to change the way people think or act, for example. Now, some people use words to do bad things — to tear people down, or to get people to do bad…[Read more]

@Dragon-Snapper I would disagree. The definitions are wrong. Sorcery in our world is demonic power, and since our fantasy worlds should be copies of God’s nature and God’s creation, sorcery should be bad in fantasy worlds as well. Spells and dark incantations and witches and the like should always be portrayed as bad. I do not think you…[Read more]

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*stares at laptop for really long time* Um…
Well, I had once written half a book of a highly magical fantasy wizards/magicians type story; the MC had magic and the Antagonist had magic etc. However, I was convicted against using such elements in my stories when I read about how much God hates sorcery (Galatians 5:20) I was convicted and…[Read more]

@Alia ha! I feel ya. 😛 Not a problem. 😉

@Alia this is such a lovely discussion that we already had it. 😀 Check out this topic here. Please add your thoughts and ask your questions. It’s a huge discussion, and the more opinions we can get on it, the better. 😉