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@ Tatiana Lyric is such a neat name! Very creative. I also really like Kadira.

*sigh* I feel so sad now that I know all your character names and I don’t know their stories! 🙁

@ Daeus Do you have a pronunciation key for Piercot Archambault? hahaha. I love it, but am botching the pronunciation I’m sure. Also the more you’ve talked about Edwin…[Read more]

Ooo I love Button Smallwood. Hahaha! Cracked me up! And he’s a police inspector. Very nice!

Well it’s official then, Mr. Burton is a great villain name on account that two great minds where thinkin’ alike. 😉

My Mr. Burton is a futuristic technician, for his villainous gang.

Does this book have a villain? Does the villain have anything personal against these two sisters that would make him want revenge? Or is there someone who would take the younger sister to lure the elder sister in and use them both for their evil plans?
Any chance that there’s a not so friendly neighboring country that despises the two sister’s…[Read more]

Nice Daeus, very nice! It’s just so that you don’t have to be an expert to share what you’ve learned in order to help other writers learn. You should link the videos to the Scratching Quill. Ooo and will you take writing questions in the future to be featured on your 1 minute blurbs of writerly knowledge? 🙂
Keep it up! I love the idea!

Ooo very neat answers! I suppose I should answer my own question though…. tehehe 🙂

Like some of you it’s hard to narrow down because to some extent, Rolena is behind each of my character’s thoughts and reactions, but if I were to choose just one, I would say my most recent protagonist Katty Henning.
She has close ties to her family, has a…[Read more]

Welcome Joy! So glad to have you on the forum!
Out of curiousity… do you and Hope have any more sisters? (Like a Faith or a Charity? 🙂 ) I love your names! (Joy’s my middle name)

My younger brother contributes… Grumpy Cat Inn.

The Blustery Gale

The Viking’s Horn

Well at the Hilltop

The Sneezing Pirate 🙂

I think my favorites so far are, Traitors’ Rest and The Snoozing Boar. Y’all are very creative.

The Rickety Rocker

Really great discussion ya’ll!

One thing I was thinking on as I read through this topic is that we shouldn’t forget the “big picture”. By that I mean, say you’re writing a book that you’re considering if you’d like to add a torture scene. We could stop at that scene and discuss for hours whether it would be right or wrong for the characters to…[Read more]

Why hello little brown dog! So nice to meet you!

Oooo a ranch! How many horses do you have? And what’s the mare’s name?

For me, the One Year Adventure Novel has been the best writing resource I’ve had so far. I did it when I was a Jr. in high school. I would say it’s way past the basics of writing. One of the things it did for me, was caused me to ask some of the hard questions about structuring my novel, ones that I would typically ignore because I thought they…[Read more]

Thanks for all the ideas Daniel. I really like the parachute in a belt one. Hmmm, now if only one of my characters would have the chance to fall off the top of a building or jump out of an airplane :p

Does anyone have any suggestions for cars? So far I’m planning on them driving regular looking vehicles so that if they have to drive through an…[Read more]

WOW! Thanks guys for all your fantastic ideas! You have my thought juices flowing here. I like how y’all are helping me think about what is practical and what isn’t. (that’s good for me cause usually I just shrug and write about something that isn’t practical anyway 🙂

Alrighty, so hacking… yes. Good idea. I think I shall plan on getting some…[Read more]

Speaking of children’s books… did anyone ever read Cork and Fuzz?

Oh I love Amelia Bedelia! Those were the best books for reading to younger siblings cause if I was real dramatic about how I read them, I could get my younger siblings rolling on the floor with laughter. 🙂

I was about 9 when I wrote my first story that was literally one page long. I know I still have it somewhere around here… I could never bear to throw any of my stories away, no matter how awful they were 🙂
Anyway, my first story started out with this line “A mother loon flew over a shimmering moon lit lake…” and it goes on to tell about a…[Read more]