Josiah DeGraaf

@mariposa This is fantastic. 😀

Tagging @the-real-kapeefer for good measure.

@amy-l-klob I’d recommend starting by introducing your protagonist, but I would be careful about having a slow lead-in to the actual story. You want to grab the audience’s attention in the first page. That doesn’t mean you need to immediately leap into the main plot of your novel, but you should be including some conflict and/or intrigue that…[Read more]

@sam-kowal Yeah, Dalinar’s character arc was amazing. Didn’t think Sanderson could top Kaladin’s in WoR, but he pretty much matched it. Yeah, Adolin seemed to get away with that, and I was also looking for some closure on the moral questions being raised regarding the morality of war. I suspect, though, that Sanderson at least plans on continuing…[Read more]

For a first time author, avoid going over 120k; 130k max if you absolutely have to. Once you become published, you can push the limit more (I just finished a 450k fantasy work that topped the NY bestselling list), but publishers aren’t willing to risk those sorts of word counts for unpublished authors.

@dragon-snapper What @daeus said. 🙂 Feel free to pop by again if you have any additional questions after watching it!

@sleepwalkingmk I think that’s a really good idea. Three EiLs are hard to fit into one book, so splitting it into two books seems like a wise move!

@sleepwalkingmk Apologies that I’m just now getting around to this. Glad you’re learning a lot from these lessons. 😀 I like the fact that you’re weaving in a difficult choice for the protagonist into the end of the Venn diagram there. I wonder if you could also include a scene before her character arc which foreshadows that sacrifice scene–but…[Read more]

@sleepwalkingmk Apologies for taking so long to respond to this. I love that story. Aravis’ character arc is probably my favorite in that story, and it’s excellent!

@gh24682468999 Great question! I think there’s a ton of ways you can point to the truth of the Gospel without bringing it explicitly into your story. In my opinion, though, while creativity can help if you want to have a focus on just the Gospel, I think there’s also a valuable place for using fiction to show the truth of the Christian worldview…[Read more]

@0-0enyali0-0 Those are great motivations to have as a writer. 🙂 Huh–that’s interesting. Didn’t know there was a market out there for Christian steampunk games, but that’s pretty cool!

Welcome to the site @0-0enyali0-0 Glad you found us. 🙂 What first drew you to want to be a writer? And what’s Aetherlight? I’ve heard people talk about it, but have no idea what it is.

Welcome to the site @introvert_girl! Glad you found us. I’m also likely a 4w5 (though sometimes I diagnose myself as a 1w2). What’s the premise of your current work-in-progress?

@waterlily Oh; fun premise there! Hope your writing goes well with that story. 🙂

@inkling-for-christ Oh; neat! I lived in Cranberry Township, which is about a half hour north of Pittsburgh, and currently live in Mount Airy, in the north-western part of North Carolina.

Welcome to the site @inkling-for-christ! I totally empathize with the difficulty of continuing as a writer when no one around you understands what it’s like, and hope this will be a great place for you to meet and grow from other writers. 🙂 That’s cool that you’re in Pittsburgh now–I grew up in Pittsburgh and then spent several years in Virginia…[Read more]

@waterlily Welcome to the site! I’m also a big Pride and Prejudice fan, and actually have the pleasure of teaching it to one of my high school classes currently. 🙂

What’s the premise of the sci-fi novel you’re working on?

@emily @epicaddie2 We’ve talked about doing a KP conference a fair bit as a team. We need to get ourselves financially self-sustaining first so we have the funds to launch that kind of thing, but once we do that, it’s something we want to make happen.

@sam-kowal Ikr? Can’t wait till Oathbringer arrives in my mailbox on Tuesday. *crosses fingers in anticipation*

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. ^_^ Figuring out a smart plan for the villain was definitely the hardest part of writing that story as it took me two months to figure that out. 😛 But eventually it came together and once I figured out…[Read more]

@anne-of-lothlorien So glad to hear that she doesn’t need surgery and has been doing well these past three months. Thanks for the update!

@dragongeek That’s hilarious. xD We need more genre-mashes like that, so tell me more about your story–what stories are you planning with that premise?