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@writerlexi1216 Haha, I know right?? xD Hey, that’s a great word count!! Would you mind if I asked what project you were writing on? We should definitely do a sprint together sometime!!:)
Thank you 😀
Absolutely! I’m working on a book about routine and habit building to have a home base from which you can make significant changes to the rest of your life without feeling like you’re lost or in a foreign land. My goal is to get it published by Morgan James Publishing before Sept, though I’m not sure if that’s possible yet
And yes! I’m starting another sprint for 50 minutes at :00 if you wanna join me 😀
Option 6 is my favorite! The title spirals make me think of space and that one looks the best! 🙂
Wow, the posts on this thread increased dramatically since the weekend xD
Anyhow, this morning’s writing session from 8:00 to 8:50 comes to 796 words!
@mkfairygirl yeah absolutely! It’s about building habits, routines, consistency, and a life foundation from which you can make very significant changes your career and relationships! I’m primarily writing it to our own generation (gen-z) though all the principles apply to any stage of life 🙂
I spoke with the publisher yesterday and my goal is to get it on audible before my 18th 😀
Today’s sprint :00 to :50
Word count: 818
ps. I’m writing every morning at 11:00-11:50 AM EST if anyone wants to join/race 🙂
Thanks, Katherine for referring this to me!
I’m totally down for this, working on my first book (nonfiction) and I’ve already committed to completing it by the end of June
Every weekday morning 8:00 AM Pacific I do a sprint for 50 minutes. My daily allotment is a minimum of 500 words, though lately, I’ve been pulling in around 800-1300 so BRING IT ON fellow penners of kingdoms.
Today’s amount: 1,494 words
@kadotake Alright Grace… I’m about halfway through “What We Found In The Sofa and How It Saved the World” and…
It’s actually quite good and I’m really enjoying it! 😀
My expectations initially were that River, Freak, and Fiona would go into the couch and it is a whole other world within the sofa itself. Boy was I surprised! I’m at the part right now where they are in the hazmat suits in the conference room and it’s really gripping! I’m excited to see how it all plays out 😀
Interesting thought! I guess there might be people who may enjoy that type of story, but I personally like to read books in order to get inside different kind’s of people’s heads, understand their thoughts, feelings, and worldview. I feel like a story that just tells you of events and dates is more like a history book.
But more than that, for this particular book, the real thing that troubled me about the characters’ reactions was the fact that they failed to act realistically and humanly. Thus, they felt like robots and the story flow and plot felt forced and unrealistic.
In brief, it took me out of the story, and that is one of the last things you want to do as a writer.
Haha, I totally agree! People’s emotions, inner thoughts, hopes, mission, and purpose really make a good book, a good book! The same applies to life at large, though it gets much more complex and in-depth because you get to choose every moment and the future holds things that are unknown and don’t have definite conclusions as a book would.
I’d better cut it off there before I write multiple paragraphs on the subject, but it’s super interesting to see connections between fiction books and how people act 😀
@buildsbygideon I know! I just love the line where Holly’s like “great now there are two child geniuses” and Minerva’s just like “GENII”. XD She could’ve been a really great character.
YES! That was the best thing she could have possibly said!!
Haha, I know!! They always make the endings all weird. I’ve actually read the original Little Mermaid, you didn’t butcher it I have a really big book of Hans Christian Andersen’s stories, every single one he ever wrote. I really liked The Emperor’s New Clothes. XD Lolll, his stories are really weird but they’re also good. Heartrending, some of them.
Wow really? You’re the first person I’ve met that has not only heard of it but actually read the big book of fairy tales!! They are weird, aren’t they! Super interesting though 😀
Ahhh, I could recommend books for fifty pages. I will only recommend one, however, and that would be my FBoAT (fave book of all time, I made it an acronym lol). I know it’s supposed to be for people around my age (I’m actually 12 years old XD if you didn’t know) but it is SUCH a good book that ya can’t not read it. I know literally nobody else who’s read it, so I want you to read it!!
It sounds dumb but really isn’t XD, it blends reality and fantasy VERY well, better than anything else I’ve ever read. So please, do yourself a favour. Go and read What We Found In The Sofa and How It Saved The World by Henry Clark. You will 100% not regret it.Oh man, I’ve got it on my list… I’m trusting you that I won’t regret it, just from the cover it doesn’t seem like a book I’d typically read… but, I’ve been pleasantly surprised before so I will be adding it as my next fiction book! And wow, I didn’t realize you were only 12! Excellent writing skills, well beyond your years! 😀
@devastate-lasting Hmm…I guess that kids books from a few decades ago are actually quite good? Is nothing new that I’ve learned, but I think that we don’t really have to read heavy material all the time; reading old books and exploring the themes they hold really can help shape what we write.
Eloquently put Linyang! There’s something about the old classics and kids’ books that have a more meaningful story behind them, they may not be very deep on the face of it, but going in just a little bit further they seem to tell you life principles!
Now for my least favorite thing…The characters’ reactions. Or, lack thereof. Lots of really interesting things happened in the novel, but since the characters NEVER had a single reaction, a single drop of emotion, a single hint of something other than, “okay then, now that that’s over let’s move on to the next plot point!” it never felt like the interesting event even happened!
Haha, maybe it was supposed to be left up to your imagination! I wonder if there are books out there written specifically in the fashion of sharing facts, leaving the emotions and interpretation up to you.
Yes, now that I think about it that was a big disappointment, it really seemed like Minerva would have played a bigger part, even toward the end of the series she doesn’t make an appearance, which is really too bad. I would have loved to see where that relationship went, though maybe it would have spun off and got sidetracked from the original storyline…
Haha, yes it seems like Disney would do so much better if they didn’t name the movies after the classics, they never seem to get it as good as the original (either book or movie). They’re great movies on their own but the second you tie to a book, down the drain it goes!
I’ll have to try that sometime, I’m not sure how it will taste though, olives are a bit too sour for my liking, though then again I’ve only really had the green ones which I’ve heard are completely different from the black. Maybe I need to try those first.
What’s really interesting is if you read the original fairy tales that Disney bases their movies on, most of them are really messed up and have super gruesome endings. For example the little mermaid…
DON’T READ ON IF YOU DON’T WANT IT RUINED… I MEAN IT…
You’ll probably read it anyway, but I gave you fair warning 😉
The original story was where she gave her voice up forever, and each step would feel like walking on glass. Plus if she didn’t get the prince to marry her she would turn into sea foam… When she got on land and finally got to the palace the prince saw her more as a pet than anything else, super beautiful, but he didn’t love her and he ended up marrying another girl, and her last chance to not die was to kill the prince before midnight of his wedding with a special knife, but she couldn’t do it and got turned into foam and the story ended there. Super sad and very well written. I completely butchered it, but it’s still an amazing fairytale to read. I highly suggest 🙂
All of Hans Christian Anderson’s stories are super weird and gory, few with happy endings, but they’re all really good! I think it’s called the Blue Fairy Book with all his stories, a super long book, took me over 2 months to finish them all!
Also, Grace, I need book suggestions, I’m eager to get into another good fiction! It’s been almost a week since the last one and I’m dying for another good one! You know what I like, any suggestions?
@kathleen Out of curiosity, how far are you through the Anne of Green Gables series, and what’s happening?
Also, I need new book suggestions! I’m about finished with a business book and want to read another fiction after it!
@scripter-of-kingdoms Haha no problem Grace! I was late in responding to this too so I guess we’re even.
That’s awesome! I love names in other languages that actually have meaning behind them, I’ve seen a lot of people (and don’t get me wrong, I’m guilty of this too) pick random cool phrases in other languages without even knowing what they mean! I love filling out what I write with small easter eggs or things that might pique people’s interest and it’s fascinating to see what different people catch on to and ask about! Funny thing is, I’ve got a dutch background and I love the language but don’t speak very much of it, and it’s super similar to English so sometimes when I use a word here or there that people think its a typo (see the title of this thread 😉 )
I’m not a huge fan of olives, to be honest, I may have to try them again sometime because I had a similar experience with mushrooms but now love them!
Haha, that’s true, it’s a difficult question to ask the favorite character, for me it’s probably Artemis and butler, such an amazing team though the other characters are so well thought out too!
I was afraid of that, just looking at the trailer completely turned me off to watching it. Yeah, they should have kept to the first book, from what it looked like it had bits and pieces from the whole series. Not to spoil anything, but the later books do have a bit more selflessness of Artimus, but absolutely not to that extent and it’s always a struggle, never a whole giving.
Haha that’s hilarious, yeah the Percy Jackson books were so good and the movie hardly did it justice, it was a good stand-alone film, but didn’t feel like it in the same world.
