Josiah DeGraaf

@mnvalentine I completely agree with you! I love the Harry Potter series, and I think it has a lot of positive themes. I’ve no problems with the HP books, and simply mentioned them because @princessfoo had. Really great thoughts there!

The Twilight books, however, are completely empty of any positive themes. I mentioned that they’re for…[Read more]

@daeus Never.

XD Just kidding. Of course I do!

@Daeus me.

@skredder  Wowza!  I love it.

@ashlyvye  Hello, there!  Have you heard of Pottermore??  It’s pretty neat…I’m a Hufflepuff, by the way.  Anyway, welcome!

You’re right. When I think culture, I think of it on a grander scale, and with an emphasis on the mental/spiritual ways books challenge us to think and act. On that note, you’re right–the Twilight and Hunger Games books present a number of smaller issues that were only escalated due to their popularity. @princessfoo

*sighs* Gryffindor, hm? Guess I could tolerate that. Not as cool as Slytherin, but still cool…

Anyway. I just started listening to Imagine Dragons, but I really like them. What’s your favorite song? I think mine is Thunder, I can’t resist singing it when it comes on. @ashlyvye

@princessfoo As far as cultural impact goes, I’m not sure Twilight or the Hunger Games series had much to give. They were popular, but empty. More for entertainment purposes than to present food for thought.

*raises hand*

@aedesia Welcome to KP!

What do you like to write?

Hello there @ashlyvye! Welcome to KP. If you have any questions about where to find something on the site, feel free to ask!

Ooh, you like Harry Potter? Do you know which house you’d be in? *crosses fingers and hopes for Slytherin*

Well, for me, it’s price… I don’t have a job yet and there are other things I need to be able to pay for…

But also, it’s mainly that you’ve already helped me so much with show don’t tell just by working with me on my book. 😛 So… there’s not much demand on the Snapper side of things. (Unless you were to beta-read all my books. Lol)

@daeus

@introvert_girl I’m not sure if Irish or Gaelic names with work, since the first names are Japanese sounding, like Jax, Takara, and Taro. Maybe if I could find Japanese last names that sounded kinda Japanese and American (if that makes any sense)……

@warrenluther04 here’s the back cover description: <i>An immediate worldwide bestseller when it was published in 1948, Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty. Cry, the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against t…[Read more]

@ingridrd Thanks!
@daughteroftheking Excellent. *evil chuckle* If you want to see more collages, or learn more about the story, I’ll be posting a lot about it starting on the first Friday of March and throughout the Fridays of March on my blog. (And that sounded a lot like advertising. Lol) 😛

@jenwriter17 The funny part is that it fits his…[Read more]

@destiny  I’m guessing you’re looking for fantasy-ish names, but here’s what I came up with…

1. Phoenix, Maddox, Zander

2. Kace, Deacon, Roland

3. Raven, Alessia, Marina

Hopefully these help!

tagging a few more people for help as well @seekjustice @Jane-maree @mariposa @dragon-snapper @daeus

I’m signing off for now. bye! 🙂

@ariella-newheart oh I know! it’s so hard to part with characters! I’m glad those articles helped. 🙂

@rochellaine @waterlily hi, could you guys help me brainstorm last names for a few? At first I was going to set my book in Japan, so I was using Japanese first and last names (but now it’s set in the USA). I think I wanna keep some of the first names, but I think I want to change the last. I’d like to come up with last names that have the same…[Read more]