Danae C

@emily Possibly. But I don’t even really know what the other buttons do. 😛

@emily Really wants to mess with the last five green buttons XD

I don’t know about the rest of you, but this whole page is showin’ up weird on my screen. 😛

@Dekreel I don’t really have problems in this quarter because I’m very good at just ignoring all my horrible mistakes in a first draft. And I also enjoy rewriting the full novel because it’s fun seeing the massive improvement in it. xD But still, I have friends who struggle with this. Three things you can try:

1: (as Kate said) write in…[Read more]

@Kballen so exciting that you’re doing NaNo!! (I am too.) Like the others have said, having an outline is very helpful, and so is having a group of encouraging buddies who can spur you on in writing. That was one of the things that helped me most. 🙂
K.M. Weiland has a bunch of great advice on NaNo (here’s a link if you want to check it out).

@ingridrd Ooh very nice. I love the colour theme you’ve used.

Out of Time trilogy – Nadine Brandes
Songkeeper Chronicles – Gillian Bronte Adams
The Tales of Goldstone Wood – Anne Elisabeth Stengl
The Mission League – Jill Williamson
Ashtown Burials – N.D. Wilson
Storming – K.M. Weiland

And that’s just scraping the surface of my favourites list. 😛

@Dekreel to tone it down from being so dark, you could change the aspects of fear and horror/dismay that the tree feels, to a sense of confusion and curiosity. That would shift the mood from ‘scary’ to a much lighter feel.

A way to avoid so much of the human terminology you can use similes instead. Saying “I feel a great, pulsing joy in my heart”…[Read more]

@daeus Oh! Cool. 🙂

@daeus Great! And I hope you realise it’s in edit mode rather than suggest mode. I’ll try to just make comments, but suggest mode is really helpful for making edits that you can later accept or reject.

@Dekreel something to think about is that Catcher in the Rye is about a character going on an adventure, and the reader experiencing his thoughts and emotions along the way.
I could list many many books that have this same vague plot. If I look at my bookshelf, there’s half a dozen that I see immediately which I could say had that idea as…[Read more]