Josiah DeGraaf

Thanks, @aratrea ! That’s one of my all-time favorite books, so I’m glad you think so. 🙂

I’m really enjoying this class. 🙂 I’ve learned so much already, and I’ve barely even started. (Sorry about that, by the way.)

@Aratrea ah, my mistake. I see now. Thanks. 🙂

Me too, @aratrea . 🙂 Here is my homework at last! (Sorry for the wait, but I’ve been busy writing, so … not too sorry.) 😉

Picking this story, I was a bit nervous that I would fail to do it justice, so please let me know what you think. 🙂

Book: The Magician’s Nephew

Theme: Desire and Justice

Focusing Question: Is doing wrong worthwhile i…[Read more]

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Well… listening to the video I was enthusiastically raking my entire cast together against the protagonist and now you tell me I can only pick three!? *sigh* Life is hard.

Denholm: Harold’s friend and nephew. The one guy who stuck with him through everything and wholeheartedly believes that the world is worth saving and can be saved,…[Read more]

@Aratrea I thought so too. 😉

@aratrea This might be a little too late, but I just though of one. The arrogant, rich city boy that is stuck by catastrophe and learns humility or something like that. Like Tony Stark, Steven Strange, Lightening McQueen, etc.

Ok, so these three scenes are from Fidelyon, the fantasy novel with the theme of identity (and subthemes of faith and responsibility)

1. The MC, Ethaniel has fled with a jester’s apprentice into a haunted forest to escape a general who has already killed the original bearer of the riddle to find the shield. They’ve figured out the current riddle…[Read more]

@graciegirl Thanks so much! I was anticipating that! 🙂 No, actually. Sir Malcolm and the Missing Prince is medieval but the other books are not. I have a couple other favorites that are medieval, though I am always on the lookout for other good, historical fiction books set in the Middle Ages. Thanks for the book recommendation! No, I haven’t…[Read more]

Thank you all for the welcome!

@dragon-snapper I love Star Wars! The next episode of Rebels is going to destroy me. What’s your favorite era? Another piano buddy! I also do voice.

@Daeus Howdy! Right now I really enjoy high fantasy and magical realism/urban fantasy. How about you? Widdrim isn’t my real name, but it would be an epic one.…[Read more]

@Aratrea thank you.
I know I’ve said this a gazillion times but guess what I’m going to say it again.
KP IS AWESOME. You guys have literally been everything to me in my writing journey. That is factually accurate; not an exaggeration. I didn’t know anything or anyone until I found you wonderful people. So thank you.

Yeah.

*ducks out of the room*

@Aratrea thank you.
I know I’ve said this a gazillion times but guess what I’m going to say it again.
KP IS AWESOME. You guys have literally been everything to me in my writing journey. That is factually accurate; not an exaggeration. I didn’t know anything or anyone until I found you wonderful people. So thank you.

*ducks out of the room*

@Aratrea yep. And you’re not the first person to tell me that. 😛 It’s a little more complicated in that they had no choice in their marriage to each other; it wasn’t for love. But yes, they are on opposite sides of the war, and yes, that is their primary distinction. (She’s the twin sister of one of the villains. It’s… complicated. 😛 )…[Read more]

*squeaks* Just two?! :’D

Okay.
1. Arianwen, MC’s wife and also the only other person in existence who has the kind of special power Harold does, though hers is water. Classic, I know. EIL: That however corrupt the world has become, it’s still worth saving, and man can save it.
Catch? She… um… she’s on the wrong side. 😛 Hers is also a…[Read more]

@aratrea haha….

Out of Time series???? 😉 (book 3 has a really good one)

I’m sure there’s more, but I’m working on Biology right now 😛

Okay… *deep breath* I should have done this directly after listening to the lesson, but life, so oh well. Here goes.

‘Nother note… *facepalm* I rearranged the theme of this story AGAIN because I realized that the supporting themes were not as much Morality and Truth as they are Morality and Hope. What does man hope in? So. Just bear that in…[Read more]

@aratrea are foil characters allowed to have character arcs? I just realized how many foil characters I have and how most of them are main characters with their own arcs.

I finally went and did this again. It’s a little incoherent because I still haven’t separated my two main themes. but hopefully it makes some kind of sense. I’m particularity uncertain on the resolution
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Characteristic moment: Natalia is ridiculing or flirting with some young men. Refuses to see any of the as marriage prospects.
Mash 1:…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy Gotcha. Thanks again! 😛
Okay then. Definitely the Mentor, and maybe the Evil King (if that exists).
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@kate-flournoy Gotcha. Thanks again! 😛
Okay then. Definitely the Mentor, and maybe the Evil King (if that exists). Huh…I’d even say all of them but I think that the episode would end up being an hour long then. 😛
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@aratrea So glad I’m doing this course. I have no clue as to what and Archetype is. 😛