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Ah yes Dumbo! I had forgotten about that movie! I grew up on Dumbo and Cinderella. If it wasn’t one in the VHS player it was the other. Huh… it’ll be weird when I try to explain to my kids one day what a VHS player is. hehehe 🙂

Great thoughts!
Because of the picture Mr. Lewis is painting here for us, that good works are a part of salvation, there is therefore no picture of accountability and future judgment and everyone has the chance at being received as a son so long as he does good things in this life.
Such a false picture of just and holy judgment. If it was as Mr.…[Read more]

An F.B.I. agent who is secretly terrified of guns.

An elephant who just loves mice.

An army pilot who’s scared of heights.

One little nifty trick that helps me when I think my characters personalities are becoming vague and watered down from what I originally wanted them to be, is to interview them.
Take them out of the story, set them down and figure out their likes, wants, goals, fears, etc. It’s kinda fun to ask your character about their life problems,…[Read more]

@belegteleri Your doctor cracked me up! I never thought before about what really goes on in the mind of those doctors. 🙂

Hi Daeus! Welcome to the bestiest place on planet earth!
Beware, I’m told that we’re a bunch of crazy nuts here.
Always good to have a new face XD

Wait a second… *gasp*… Watson, somethings a’foot here. I was sure I’ve seen that face somewheres before…

“I still don’t know how you talked me into this,” Clara rubbed her arm and checked the ground around her for the hundredth time. I rolled my eyes looking out over the pond filled with millions of little green duckweed; the perfect spot for frog hunting. “I didn’t talk you into this, Mr. Hess our science teacher did. If we don’t catch a frog, we…[Read more]

“I still don’t know how you talked me into this,” Clara rubbed her arm and checked the ground around her for the hundredth time. I rolled my eyes looking out over the pond filled with millions of little green duckweed; the perfect spot for frog hunting. “I didn’t talk you into this, Mr. Hess our science teacher did. If we don’t catch a frog, we…[Read more]

A book where nobody dies.

Sometimes, symbols can be used to actually tell the story.

Hmmm… I’m thinking that this is the whole purpose of symbols anyway. They’re there to tell the story. Just like the blue moon in my novel, or the linder stones in Princess Academy or the ring in LOTR. Their all there to tell us something about the character, remind us about something…[Read more]

That thought, was an inspiring one! @kate-flournoy You almost got me to cry out in agony for the poor mother sitting there teary eyed as she watched the flickering flame go out in a little poof.

I love symbols. Especially when they are something other than a necklace. 🙂 Although I’ve used a necklace before in a book I’m actually working on…[Read more]

I can do my best to explain it to you by my experience in self-publishing. 🙂

So once I was finished with the long and tedious editing process of my novel, I researched the best possible free e-book publishing companies out there. I went ahead and choose to use Booktango because they offered 100% royalties of all sale made on their site. And…[Read more]

A big HELLO and WELCOME to you @anna-brie! So glad to have you on the forum!

Oh Wow! Ya’ll just made my day!

A villain who despises black and so wears lime green all the time.

A Pioneer family moving back East.

A hero who dies. (told through the villain’s perspective)

A scrawny little man with a huge bellowing laugh.

Ah-ha! @kate-flournoy! This is why I love the forum! Your statement Show us several times she sees the Bible, and almost picks it up, then decides against it. I think is what I was missing. (And yes this is Katty’s story 🙂 lovely guess!) I did show her once, shying away from her Dad’s open Bible, but I don’t think that was quite enough to fuel…[Read more]

Oh no! I knew I should have copied and pasted and not tried to type it! Sorry @kate-flournoy!
And thank you @daeus I often need a lot of fixin’.

I must be off for now… but I shall return to the discussion at hand.

I like this discussion. A lot!
@kate-flourney Your points are fantastic and simple. Wonderful observations. It does seem like the writers of classics wrote their books as an overflow of their life as Reagan stated it. (Ben Hur and Little Women are examples of that)
I especially liked your point that The existence of God is a given. If we go into…[Read more]

Wonderful topic here!

@kate-flournoy there are so many people I’d loved to known more about! Simeon and Anna are two and then there is Miriam, Dorcus, Stephan, and Phebe! I guess we’ll have to wait until we meet them later on!

The creation account. It sets the stage for the wonderful “play” of God’s glorious plan of redeeming and sanctifying…[Read more]

Opps! I should have mentioned that you’re allowed to use a time machine!
Otherwise, that’s some mighty powerful lotion! (At last, someone reveals the great secret usage of coconut, clam powder rub :))

Ummmmm…. what to ask???

“What’s the greatest thing you’ve learned as a writer?”