Josiah DeGraaf

@kate-flournoy Glad to hear we’ve been able to help you so much. Those kinds of comments make my day. 🙂

@hope Excellent. Very nice use of foil characters and perspective characters there to drive the scenes home.

@kate-flournoy Nice. I like it. Relationships divided by politics like this can have tons of potential.

Welcome to the forum @jason! Glad you’ve found us. Who’s your biggest inspiration as a writer?

@widdrim Hey, another English/literature major! Welcome aboard. 🙂 Have you ever read Owen Barfield’s Poetic Diction? That’s the extent of my knowledge on linguistic drift, and it was a bit speculative at times, but it was overall a very fascinating read.

@kate-flournoy Wait, so the MC and his wife are both fighting on different sides of the war? You’re a cruel author. 😉 So it sounds like both of them are similar in powers and EiL, and the only distinction is what side they’ve chosen?

Ah; yes. Good example of that character type.

@winter-rose Oh; I like that idea. And I’ve seen that in waaaaaaay too many stories.

@gabrielle Oh; I like that idea. And I’ve seen that in waaaaaaay too many stories.

@audrey-caylin I am starting that first book today. ;P

@kate-flournoy Oooh; I like it. Very nice way to alternate between two different perspectives there to create a rich dichotomy and irony. Both supporting themes seem particularly well-mixed in the last section, where morality is tied into hope. Well done.

Welcome to the site, Bella! Glad to hear you were able to find us. 🙂 Great reading choices as well–Pride and Prejudice is one of my all-time favorites. Have you read any other works by Austen?

@audrey-caylin That kind of foil setup can work really well for a story. Do you have any favorite examples of that in stories you’ve read?

@audrey-caylin Yes, @daeus and I like to be a sneaky tag-team like that. 😉 The video on Theme & Major Characters should be coming out by the end of this week.

@audrey-caylin Yes, Daeus and I like to be a sneaky tag-team like that. 😉 Like Daeus said, we’ll be covering that in our video on Theme & Major Characters which should be coming out by the end of this week.

@anna-brie That looks fantastic. I really like how both themes weave together there. Nice work!

Thanks so much for the suggestions y’all! You guys are the best. We’ll definitely add love interest & sidekick to the docket.

@dragon-snapper This is actually for our Youtube channel, not the Theme Mastery course. 🙂 Our first video here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1B1zNr_X-g&t=3s) introduces what character types are, and we’ve actually…[Read more]