Josiah DeGraaf

@salome01w4g No problem! I wrote an article on the subject a while back if you want to check it out: https://kingdompen.org/foil-characters-what-they-are-and-how-to-use-them/ Basically it’s when you create a combination of similarities and differences between two characters (or two situations) in order to draw attention to them as a pair so the…[Read more]

Thanks @shannon Yeah; it’s hard for me to know which was harder–leaving my church or leaving all the college friends I’d been with for four years. God has consistently brought me to great new church families, though, so I trust I’ll be able to find one in North Carolina.

@Salome01W4G Nice! Sounds like a solid premise with a lot of potential for foil characters & situations (which happen to pretty much be my favorite thing if you haven’t seen me writing about them yet. 😉 )

@koryn-koch Yes! That line and the “I’m erasing myself from the narrative” line… Both are so good!

@JosiahDeBoer Man, your name does look like mine. And you’re Reformed too. You sure you’re not a clone? 😉 Anyways, welcome to the site! Who are your favorite fantasy/sci-fi authors?

Welcome to the site @catwing! Glad you found the way to our shores. 🙂 Who are your favorite fantasy/sci-fi authors?

Welcome to the site @warrenluther04! Do you have a favorite superhero movie?

@Koryn-Koch Oooh–that’s the real question isn’t it? xD Burn has to be my favorite, followed by Wait for It and Satisfied.

@celticcailin Neat. Well, you picked a good time to join then since the past month was all about allegories. 😉 When do you think you’ll begin writing one?

@shannon For the past four years I’ve been attending Ketoctin OPC in Northern Virginia. I’m in the middle of moving to North Carolina right now, so I’ll be working on finding a new church family.

Welcome to the site @destiny! That’s really awesome that you do game design work and all. I played around some with that kind of stuff with MIT’s Scratch program, but never got into it enough to get to the level you’re at. 😛

Welcome to the site @joy! We actually have a bunch of articles on writer’s block since it was our monthly topic a couple years ago. You can find a list of them here: https://kingdompen.org/?s=writers+block Hope they help you as you try to figure out what you want to write!

Welcome to the site @Salome01w4g! Glad you found us. 🙂 What’s the premise of your current story?

Welcome to the site @celticcailin! Do you have a top idea for what book you want to write first?

@allison-grace Kate and Daeus already said a lot of things I would say, so the one thing I’ll add to this discussion is that, in my opinion, a lot of it depends on how central the allegorical elements of the story are to the story as a whole. If a lot of your story’s theme and message derives from the allegorical elements (placing it in the genre…[Read more]

Welcome to the site, @koryn-koch! I believe I remember seeing your name around the YWW groups. 🙂 High-five for another Hamilton lover. I listen to that soundtrack way too much. xD What type of fiction do you like to write?

@EpicAddie2 That makes sense; one of the most helpful books I’ve read on that topic is 12 Editors Tackle the 12 Fatal Flaws of Fiction Writing by C.S. Laskin (actually did a review of it here: https://kingdompen.org/kp-book-review-5-editors-tackle-the-12-fatal-flaws-of-fiction-writing-by-c-s-lakin-et-al/) If you get the chance to read it, it should…[Read more]

@SeekJustice The one YA book I’ve read with an older protagonist is Wayne Thomas Batson’s Sword in the Stars. Haven’t seen it done anywhere else, and have likewise read that you shouldn’t have YA protagonists much above college age. That being said, it’s also good for a protagonist to be older than the reader, since apparently younger readers find…[Read more]

@northerner Realm-Makers might be in PA next year?? 😮 That would be awesome! I’ve been wanting to attend Realm Makers for a while and will totally attend if it’s in PA.

@graciegirl The Christian Writer’s Guide has an excellent conference guide (I was paging through it while at the Greater Philly Christian Writer’s Conference this past week) if…[Read more]

Welcome to the site, @shannon. Fun to see another OPC person on the site. 😉 Hope you have a great vacation (or break; or whatever else you’re doing this week)!