Josiah DeGraaf

Wow. Everyone…I don’t know what to say…Just…just…here *hands out ice cream* Thank you!!!!

@graciegirl Yay! I’m so glad you liked it! *salutes you back* What was your favorite line?
@daeus It is the bestistest place on the internet, after all! 😀 And I love that line too. I tried to incorporate your ice cream and scones and raspberries.…[Read more]

Hey, friends, see if you can help me brainstorm for a bit.

So far, about fifty people have taken the reader behavior survey. That’s pretty awesome. Fifty people can show us some neat things about reader behavior, but we’re going to need a lot more need more if we’re hoping for reliable and detailed data.

So maybe my outlook was too limited.…[Read more]

Okay, that has to be the LONGEST post ever. 😛
@daeus @kate-flournoy @kina-lamb @jane-maree @ethryndal @aratrea (this is the frog story) @emma-flournoy @overcomer @audrey-caylin @jess @anyone else looking for entertainment

@Aratrea Arg, I haven’t even been able to think about Theme Mastery for a while because my family’s been in the middle of a really stressful move. Um…okay, I think the 13th or the 14 would work best for me, though I would be able to do the 17th too, if I had to. I have a class on the 17th that’s from 1:30-3, so I probably wouldn’t be able to…[Read more]

Thank you Josiah for giving me the impetus I need to make these characters less flat. 🙂
Allie: She is the princess that I have mentioned over and over again and never named. She inspires loyalty in everyone except herself. She doesn’t want to be a princess and would rather be anywhere else than here. She becomes to Brigen the reason why he fights…[Read more]

This story is more of a novella, so trying to find a set of scenes that weren’t key scenes was impossible. Oh well, here we go! I also just realized that my reaction sequences are rather small, looks like they will have to be broadened whenever I get around to editing it.

Scene One:
Brigen and his friend complete the first part of their mission,…[Read more]

@Aratrea I won’t be able to do any of those. :'( It’s the time, unfortunately. That specific period is really busy for our whole family on any normal day, and with a new baby in the house (yes! New little sister; tenth sibling! 😀 ) I would feel really bad about shrugging my work off on the others, even if only for an hour.
You guys have fun though. 🙂

@Aratrea yay good. 🙂
Yes, my MC sees how ‘in control’ Tain looks about everything and starts leaning toward copying his EiL (and almost does for a chapter or so) before he sees how it ends up.

@aratrea Monday 17th is the best for me. I am around-ish for the other days, but I’m actually at my cousin’s house so I’m not sure how good her connection is to be able to be watching live-streamed videos. I’ll have to check with her, if it ends up being anywhere between the 10th-16th.

@aratrea the 13th is the only one I can make, unfortunately 😛 I have something scheduled during that exact hour on the 14th, and I’ll be in the car with no wi-fi on the 17th. But I’ll manage with whatever is decided 🙂

@aratrea The 14th works the best for me, but I could probably swing the other dates too, if they are picked.

*pantpantgasp* I made it! This time the homework was hard.
The book I am using this time is The Golden Lamps by Ed Dunlop. It is part of The Terrestria Chronicles.
The theme of the book is that the Kings business is more important than our own business.
The background of these scenes is that the village is in the middle of building a castle to…[Read more]

*pantpantgasp* I made it! This time the homework was hard.
The book I am using this time is The Golden Lamps by Ed Dunlop. It is part of The Terrestria Chronicles.
The theme of the book is that the Kings business is more important than our own business.
To give a little background so these scenes, which were taken from the middle of the book,…[Read more]

Alrighty…

Tain: Friend/companion to the Protagonist. EiL: Fight for your freedom. This compares to the protagonist’s original ‘run from anything that threatens your freedom’ (although he begins to switch toward fighting for freedom part way through). Similarities: they’re both outlaws, and both are very stubborn and convinced that their way is al…[Read more]

Alrighty…

Tain: Friend/companion to the Protagonist. EiL: Fight for your freedom. This compares to the protagonist’s original ‘run from anything that threatens your freedom’ (although he begins to switch toward fighting for freedom part way through). Similarities: they’re both outlaws, and both are very stubborn and convinced that their way is…[Read more]

KeePers everywhere!

1,000 strong. That’s my goal.

I am thrilled to announce the launch of the new Reader Behavior Survey. If you haven’t already read through this thread, the Reader Behavior Survey is a survey I put together that asks readers detailed questions to probe into how they think and what influences them. “Why?” you ask. Well, these…[Read more]

@that_writer_girl_99 this is a good question, and @Aratrea has a good answer. I’d just like to add that first, it is possible to write a good romance without experience if you’re looking on it as essentially a really, really deep friendship. Obviously romance is more than that, but it will be easier to let the character’s slip into romance if…[Read more]

@Elizabeth-K this is a good question, and @Aratrea has a good answer. I’d just like to add that first, it is possible to write a good romance without experience if you’re looking on it as essentially a really, really deep friendship. Obviously romance is more than that, but it will be easier to let the character’s slip into romance if you’ve…[Read more]

Thanks so much, @aratrea! I will definitely be reading that article. Thanks for taking an interest in my work. 🙂