Josiah DeGraaf

Welcome to the site, @gh24682468999! Glad you found us. 🙂 Looks like everyone else is already asking the questions I normally ask, so I’ll just sit to the side and avoid overwhelming you with more of them. xD

Welcome to the site, @epicaddie2! Glad you found us. 🙂 Where do you want to grow the most in your writing?

@graciegirl I think a mixture of conscious and unconscious EiLs is fine because that’s the way people act in real life. Some people know exactly why they do something, and other people don’t. Given that, it’s actually probably preferable that you mix it up some, since that will give you more to work with as you continue to use these EiLs later on…[Read more]

Hey @Rjk! Glad you found us. I see you’ve preemptively shot down my normal first questions on what WIP/genre you write in. 😉 What are some of your favorite books?

@Allison-grace Yeah, sorry–I’m one of the weird folks here who doesn’t have their tag matching their display name. =P Yep–being able to make up your own histories and cultures without having to get tons of books from the library to research is a huge plus. Right with you on that.

Welcome to the site, @allison-grace! Glad you found us. 🙂 Our monthly topic for September is going to be about fantasy, so we should have a bunch of articles that month that you should find helpful. What attracts you the most to the fantasy genre?

@graciegirl

Sorry it took me forever to get to this! I really like the thoroughness of your work here. Yes–a group can definitely all operate under the same EiL… I think I address that in the lesson on theme & major characters. My main comment I think is that #4’s EiL seems more to do with ethics in general than it has to do with bravery in…[Read more]

@StephanieJ Welcome to the site! Glad you found us. 🙂 What’s the premise of your current work-in-progress?

@seekjustice Yep! It’s basically six different retellings of the classic story that are trying to make the story more plausible/realistic. Very entertaining.

@winter-rose Woot! Way to go. 😀

Welcome to the site @countryjournalist2002! Glad you found us. Let me know if you have any questions about navigating and using this site and such. 🙂

And congrats on finishing a manuscript! That’s a great milestone to achieve. Do you have a revision plan mapped out for the book yet?

Welcome to the site @countryjournalist2002! Glad you found us. Congrats on finishing a manuscript! That’s a great milestone to achieve. Do you have a revision plan mapped out for the book yet?

Welcome to the forum @seekjustice! Did you ever read Vivian Vande Velde’s retellings of Rumpelstiltsken? That’s one of my favorite fairytale retellings…

Welcome to the site @radicalglitter! What’s In the Heights like? I’m a huge Hamilton fan, but haven’t listened to anything else Miranda has done.

Also tagging @christi-eaton for the musicals mention. 😉

Welcome to the site @radicalglitter! What’s In the Heights like? I’m a huge Hamilton fan, but haven’t listened to anything else Miranda has done.

Also tagging @christi for the musicals mention. 😉

Welcome to the site @Devastate-Lasting! Looks like I’m late to the party, but I’m glad you found us and look forward to seeing you around the forum. 🙂

Welcome to the site @Devestate-Lasting! Looks like I’m late to the party, but I’m glad you found us and look forward to seeing you around the forum. 🙂

@graciegirl Wow; yeah, you are a pro.

I will mention that one of our goals for this year is to make the site mobile-friendly, and quite possibly doing a bit of a redesign along with that. So hopefully mobile-accessibility happens within the next 3-4 months.