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@daisy-torres

(LOL)

Especially when the reader doesn’t see it coming. Bwahaha!

Yeah, I wasn’t sure I liked it either untill I started researching some stuff, then it sort of exploded. XD For instance, one of my kingdoms uses a lunar calendar, but I when I started working it out I got carried away, so now there’s a separate calendar for each of…[Read more]

Hi! I have randomly hopped on.

@joy-caroline

I’ll have to check that out. =)

@daisy-torres

(Wondering how in the world you’re going to wrap up SaM.)

Favorite tropes? I’m not sure yet. I love absolutely crushing my main carries deep into the ground (but not like most authors), then redeeming them/making something beautiful of their story. (Ok,…[Read more]

@keilah-h

Yes, they’re wolves. It’s still in first draft form, but… I like it. =) Thanks!

@joy-caroline

OoooOooOoo! Thanks for sharing that. I love Q-and-A’s.

I think it ate my thingy. Maybe I made it long. I shall try again.

Its a full scene, not a line, but anyway…

Flickers of light glinted back, caught on gossamers in the murky darkness. Holding the torch as high as the cavern roof allowed, Meyani crept down stairs, counting each crumbling step. Two-and-ten, three-and-ten, four-and-ten…

A heap o…[Read more]

Well, I have been working on this scene for some time now, mulling it over it in my mind, so I finally wrote it down, even though I haven’t gotten near this part of my book yet. Its not exactly a line- a whole scene to be exact. But anyway…

Flickers of light glinted back, caught on gossamers in the murky darkness. Holding the torch as high as…[Read more]

@godlyfantasy12

Ooo! Pitches! I love these things.

1.  You wielded your words with accuracy, letting each strike with full implications. This definitely makes me curious about the story itself.
2. The whole thing is imaginative and makes the reader ask some intriguing questions: who died? What is a circus world? What is going to happen? Why are…

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Oh!!!

Riffles for Watie by Harold Keith

A Little Princess by F. B. Burnett

And if these last two count:

Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan

Scout by somebody-who-I-can’t-remember-but-it’s-a-Dutch-name.

I knew I’d forget some!

@kathleenramm

I know, right? XD As long as we stay on the path I don’t mind if we take time to smell the flowers.

I do love the descriptions. Of course after reading them, my own seem very unimaginative.

Oof. That’s a fun question!

The Chronicles of Narnia, and Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis

Sir Gibbie, The Princess and the Goblin, The Pri…[Read more]

@kathleenramm

Classical. I grew up on it, so the older vocabularies don’t bother me. The depths in story, the mixture of poetry in prose, all the types and shadows… I feel more at home with classics than modern literature.

But I haven’t read much truly old stuff beyond Pilgrim’s Progress, some Shakespeare, and Canterbury Tales (which I do not…[Read more]

@godlyfantasy12

Welp, I love revising. Writing itself is difficult and obnoxious.

Let me rephrase that; I enjoy writing, but I struggle turning off the strong-minded inner editor who then destroys all my work because it’s in first draft stage and therefore terrible. However, as rewriting is my favorite part of writing in general I usually don’t…[Read more]

@keilah-h

Thanks!

And yes, but it’s all for their own good, right?

Wow, how awfully specific. XD That sounds interesting though.

Oh but yes! Back stories are some powerful things. The fire happens before the book too, but much of the story will be coming into those places of fear and shining the Light on them (totally acting like I didn’t just…[Read more]

@godlyfantasy12

Drafts? Ugh.

First, may I say that what you’re doing sounds wonderful? You are writing it out!!! Keep it up!!!

(Okay, that sounded weird. Let’s see if I can explain myself.)

If we are talking novels, and not poetry or essays, then:

I think. The I write. Then I think some more. Then I start a timeline but never finish it, etc.…[Read more]

@kathleenramm

Classics. I love them. In fact, most of the more modern fiction that I read is in the same vein and are often called classics. (for example, The Green Ember. 😉 )

Also, I think that having been raised on them, I am not bothered by slower paced books. (Although, if the author jumps down bunny trails that have almost no connection to…[Read more]

@lydia-s

Welcome! 😊

@trahia-the-minstrel

Definitely a lot of trauma. Enough that although he is only about four at the time, he has some pretty vivid memories.

That makes sense. He will definitely deal with fear of those things, and I think that maybe it’s one more reason he is afraid to help lead in the Retaking; if he associates that horror with “politics”.

Oh,…[Read more]

@elishavet-pidyon

Um … yeah, that would probably be quite a lot of mental trauma. Enough to give him a pretty severe fear of fire, dogs, and soldiers. Children are very impressionable, and having a memory of those things in a tragedy like that would give him a negative association with all of the above.

I speak from half-experience — I don…[Read more]

@godlyfantasy12

I love Phineas and Ferb! And that song with him and Isabella … “What might have been …”

Hello!

I have suddenly found myself feeling some guilt for the trauma one of my characters is going to deal with.

You see, as a young child he and his siblings are narrowly rescued from a burning city. And yeah, I think he suffers some burns. Nothing too bad, but since children are susceptible to heat, he has some nasty 2nd degree burns.

Then I…[Read more]

@trahia-the-minstrel

Thank you!!!! They’re doing such an awesome job of it, I might actually try to watch some when it comes out!

And that probably sounded strange. Explanation; being someone blessed with an extremely vivid imagination I find myself disappointed by movie adaptations of books I perhaps only skim read.

But this looks good, so I…[Read more]