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@ariel-ashira Well, this isn’t really something I think about a whole lot because I tend to have a good grip on my characters so I just always do what feels right for them and it pretty much turns out. I guess though personally, if I had a brother I thought was dead show up alive I would probably rush him and hug him.

@Jenwriter17 pretty much just throwing in all the subplots and more try-fail sequences will fill out your plot a lot more.

@catwing oh, good to know 😉

Rin would probably rather be deaf. Not sure why though.

would your character rather be duct taped to a plane mid flight or jump into Niagara Falls? Yeah this total random craziness 😜

@alia @bekreations  *beam*  Thanks for bringin’ this back, guys!  I don’t know what to add, but…  🙂  *thumbs up*

@ariella-newheart  Why thank you.  🙂  And I love your version of Aspen!!!

@skredder My character (Rin) would probably rather fly. Since she lives in the city, it would come in handy 🙂

@alia haha, well I’m glad you don’t have the same trouble 🙂

@kate-flournoy @daeus Thank you both! I’ve been meaning to get part 2 of the course…. 🙂

@jenwriter17 Yeah, what Kate said is huge. If you have part 2 of my Show Don’t Tell Course, I have a whole lesson on live scenes there, but basically a live scene is the literary version of a camera taking in everything that’s happening in a scene. No time is skipped. An overview is like when someone tells you what happened at their birthday…[Read more]

@jenwriter17 heh… I’ve got the opposite problem. 😛

*scratches head* I would say probably the number one thing that makes my novels so ridiculously long is the crazy amount of time I spend really delving into the layers of chemistry in live scenes. I try to do all live scenes if I possibly can (no summaries, no overviews, no generalizations)…[Read more]

@skredder Awesome! I’ll try to read it tonight 😉

@rochellaine

Good night! 😀

@seekjustice Haha, Hooray! 😀

Got to go!  Goodnight!

@rochellaine

All right, I’ll go with Adelaide, and she’ll come up with some nickname for herself. And Ladle…it’s still making me giggle now 😀

Yes, I’ve definitely done that with character names too. And real people  as well, on occasions.

@seekjustice And in the past few minutes I’ve completely changed my ideas of what those names sound like to me.  So forget that whole list, I guess. 😛

Like I said, though, whatever you choose will end up being great, because the readers will like the character and probably end up liking the name.

But still choose Adelaide and “Ladle”!

@seekjustice I think it can depend on what type of girl she is.  Florence makes me think “Florrie” and so I think of a delicate flower of a girl.  Adeline is a bit harsher, because of the heavy “d” and “i”.  Violet again is delicate.  Harriet sounds like a bit of a stiff, motherly sort of person, and Charlotte hits me the same way.  Flora is beau…[Read more]

@rochellaine

True 🙂 I’ve actually never thought about Aaron and Erin being said the same though. But they are, aren’t they?

Ladle??? That made me laugh out loud 😀 I like Day or Dae though, and I can see Quillon calling her Ladle though, and she’d have some silly name for him as well.

@rochellaine

what about…

Florence Quillon

Adeline Quillon

Violet Quillon

Harriet Quillon

Charlotte Quillon

Flora Quillon

@seekjustice Yes, but when you’re speaking it you can’t tell the difference between Frances and Francis.  It’s sort of like Aaron and Erin.  Though those two are pronounced with a very slight variation, most people can’t tell the difference.

Nicknames for Adelaide?  Adele, Addy, Addie, Lady, Aida, Day, Dae, shall I go on? 😛 (I’ve thought of se…[Read more]