Beth Darlene

@godlyfantasy12

Girl, I love that the magic in your story comes from God. That’s how I’m doing it in my story as well. 😀 It’s almost as if exploring the question, “What if God created the world to work and be like this?” Anyway, I love how you’re doing it in your story world and magic system!

@esther-c

Wow, that’s so cool that you have a…[Read more]

@thearcaneaxiom Cool forum topic!

Your magic system sounds so cool!!! 😀 I love that it has a chemistry base//chemistry inspiration!

For my current fantasy novel, the magic system is kind of like “powers.” I guess a better way of putting that is that the characters have magical abilities. Depending on what country they’re from determines what…[Read more]

(Note: This is probably going to be long. XD)

I’m going to take a theological approach to this at the beginning. Scripture says two things on the state of man: (1) Man was created in the image of God, as seen in Genesis 1:27, and (2) man has fallen short of the glory of God and no longer upholds that image as he should, as seen in Romans…[Read more]

@whalekeeper *raises hand* I’ve never been published, and haven’t completed a book since circa 2015, and I’ve had an article featured on KO multiple times. You should totally submit one!!

@power Unfortunately I’ve been sick this week, so all inspiration was absolutely banished. *weeps* I shall always remember this glorious contest though! Please tag me if you ever host another!

@joy-calle Hey Joy! Welcome back!! Love the new pen name—it certainly suits you!

Your WIP sounds so cool!! I’m super pumped to hear more about it. Also, if you don’t mind me asking, where or what do you do for work?

@mineralizedwritings Hey, I know you don’t know me very well, but I just wanted you to know that I read your post and am thinking/praying for you. Family stuff is super weird and hard and scary—I think it’s super brave of you to post about it. I don’t know the exact details of your situation, but I can promise that things will get better. Y…[Read more]

@power This is honestly the best contest I’ve ever seen in all my years on the internet. And I’m OLD. (If inspiration strikes me, I shall try my very best to participate.)

@elishevet-pigeon I have literally nothing to help you out with (other than suggesting Fantasy Aloe Vera™️ but idk how much that would help) but my empathy for these poor charries is through the roof 😭 I hope their lives improve after such traumatic injuries!!

@kathleenramm You don’t know how tempted I was to be like: “these articles are the BEST I love all of them they’re all perfect :)” and then just link to all the ones I wrote when I was an intern. 😛

But seriously, I tend to just enjoy whatever the blog puts out. (I’m going to echo @gwyndalf-the-wise’s enjoyment of the movie examples). I suppose I…[Read more]

Praying for you, @mineralizedwritings. <3

Not gonna lie, I read the title of this forum as “What is a good character? Death.” and had to take multiple double-takes. XD

But yes, great thoughts, everyone. XD I’m just going to lurk in the shadows and watch, since everyone’s said what I’d say (especially @gwyndalf-the-wise – lovely list, lovely list).

Yep, I am! Same name and profile picture. (And yep, YWW stands for “Young Writer’s Workshop”, and it’s pretty amazing. XP)

Ahhh, congrats! *throws confetti* This looks amazing! (Wix all the way, in my opinion – I’ve heard that WordPress is great if you’re doing a blog, but I managed to do one on Wix with no problems, and the website design features on Wix are so much easier to use. xD)

I’d say that an antagonist is the opposite of a protagnoist, whereas a villain is the opposite of a hero. The protagonist is the character the reader’s supposed to be rooting for, and that makes the antagonist anyone who gets in the way of the protagonist’s goals. A hero, on the other hand, is the good-hearted, morally-centered character who wants…[Read more]

@devastate-lasting Eyyy, long time no see! I’ve also been pretty absent from the forum the past *checks watch* year I guess, so I’m in a similar boat as you, lol. Good to see you around again! How’s life?

@keilah-h They never really do explain the science, do they? I would definitely have appreciated more of an explanation—no wonder poor Sophie is so confused by it all! Plus, the whole “unmapped stars” business…doesn’t seem very scientifically accurate, no?