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@aratrea  Yep, @rochellaine is right! Outside of the topic, before Rochellaine posted, it SAID I posted recently, but my post is gone!

Spam?! Hmmm, that makes sense, actually. It’s happened about three times, and all of those times, I remember that the posts were pretty long. This one was long, too.

If it helps, here is another place where it…[Read more]

@gh24682468999 I don’t recommend making your story short just to write a short story. Make the story as long as it should be. A story should be short when the concept, plot, etc are simple enough that a short story is all that is needed; a story should be long when the concept, plot, etc need more room to flourish.

Setting is important for any…[Read more]

@gh24682468999

Heh. You tagged me.

Welp, writing short stories is actually really difficult for me. The only thing harder than writing a short story for me is coming up with a character’s name. XD

But I’ll give you what advice I can from the few successful times I’ve written or read short stories.

So, if you do have a big story world, don’t…[Read more]

@waterlily  This does sound like a neat concept! The only thing that doesn’t quite make sense to me is how the seawyrms could have her family crest marked on them? Am I just misunderstanding? Of course, when you go to write this you can definitely explain in better detail. XD

@aratrea Hm, for some reason I thought I’d posted in here. Both my post in the discussion and here somehow aren’t here anymore 😛

I’m not sure I did this right, but here goes.

Theme: Purpose in life/what to live for

Plot goal: To get back home, back to the way it was (the way she wants)

Thematic goal: To help, doing what she can in the…[Read more]

@dekreel That sounds frustrating–sorry you’ve been running into that! Is there a recent forum thread you can point us to where you’ve had this issue? I’m wondering if for some reason the forum software thinks your comments are spam and is trying to remove them from public view.

Hello?? Anyone home? I’m writing for a while If anyone wants to join me. @seekjustice, @dragon-snapper

@seekjustice, not sure how I missed the notif for your last comment, but yes, I’m homeschooling. 🙂 You too?

@itisastarrynight  Here you go! I hope you don’t mind manga 🙂

@Sam-Kowal I know! Crazy. I love it. 😛

@livgiordano I second what some other people said that I don’t think you can fully do this without mentioning Christ. That being said, I don’t think you need to fully explore a theme or provide a full message within a short story. As long as you explore several true aspects of the theme & message and are pointing readers in the right direction, I…[Read more]

@warrenluther04 I’d like to try Cole Avis.

@jane-maree Yes, well, certainly there can be exceptions, but that’s the general trend. With KP, I know that our emails were read more when we removed all images from them except the picture prompts. That’s with people telling us they liked the pictures in the emails.

I’d recommend split testing it if you’re unsure. Just send out some with images…[Read more]

@dekreel, if you’re happy to. I’d love a few versions. 🙂

@sage-g  That’s so good!!

@clairec  Do you still want me to draw her? 🙂

@epicaddie2  Oh you poor thing…praying!

@sage-g Wow, that’s fabulous! Thank you so much! This is why I didn’t attempt it myself. 😉 I can’t draw like that! :0

@itisastarrynight  Thank you! Yes, she is a believer 🙂

@daeus

Thanks. Finding what matters to him. hmm…

@radically-surrendered

Awesome!!

I was planning on articles, but have found out he thinks they are awful… so we’ll see how a few go over.

I think he’ll grasp it quickly… *if* he cares like you said.