Hannah Whatley

@i-j-anderson Welcome! (to the bestistest place on the internet specifically)

That’s awesome you live on a small scale farm. Those are the bestistest. Btw, you don’t happen to know about permaculture, do you?

Hey, you really should post one of your poems. Do you have a favorite poetry style?

My preference? I’m not totally sure, but I think I tend toward third person, particularly omnipotent.

Now from what you’re saying, it sounds to me like you’d do best with a deep third person story. It could be confusing to use first person for multiple POVs (though who know? Might be the next thing.) If you’re used to first though, you might…[Read more]

But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give an account of it in the day of judgement. For by you words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned. ~ Matthew 12:36-37

@jess are you still going?

Must be a pretty thick Bible with all those notes.

Not really. The pages are super thin, though durable.

And there’s three great things about the NET (New English Translation). First of all, it’s a solid translation. I’ve read through their rules and philosophy of translation and it’s all very good stuff. Second, although it’s a literal translation which means they try to translate the actual words of the text, rather than what they think the meaning…[Read more]

@emma-flournoy Er, well, I don’t know of any word that’s wrong simply because of form. Damn, for instance, is a perfectly legitimate word, it’s only wrong when it is used with the wrong intent that it’s bad.

Now, I guess I should go ahead and explain my thoughts on the second half of the verse. I actually don’t like the NKJV rendering of it…[Read more]

There’s no rule against posting a whole story on here, but there are reasons not to do so. First, if it’s just for entertainment, this isn’t the most convenient place to read a story. If you want editing help though, there are much better ways to get edits (email the document to those interested or use google docs). However, I should mention that…[Read more]

@mark-kamibaya Sorry. Nothing to attack. Well, at least, I don’t disagree with what you said. If you read through all the comments though, you’ll find my reasons for why I don’t think it is not necessarily wrong to write something that might cause a particularly sensitive person to stumble. The reason is it’s practically impossible to avoid…[Read more]

Ok, folks. How about I complicate things more for ya?

So I was thinking about the whole audiobook dilemma and suddenly this verse popped into my mind (memorizing verses is dangerous). It was Ephesians 4:29. You’ll probably recognize this verse. It’s the one that talks about not saying corrupt stuff, but being edifying. Now, without going all…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy Alright. I’ve decided to take tonight off myself, but I’ll be back next week.

For anyone else though that wants to do a write-athon tomorrow, I’ll be doing it. I just can’t remember what Kate’s normal times are, so I’ll be making up the schedule as I go.

@Daeus just thought I’d let you know I won’t be write-a-thoning tomorrow— no success hunting today, so I’m going out again tomorrow. I did get lots of outlining done though. 😉

Now??? @winter-rose. Send your email address to @spradlin and she’ll forward it onto me (please Sarah) and then I’ll send through the story to you. Does that suit?

@winter-rose I’m done editing. It was good to get that out of the way, although I’m at a bit of a sticky spot as I’m unsure what to do with it now. If you care to read it I could always use new beta readers… 🙂

Thanks @nataliemarie it has just been published on KP if you want to see it in its proper shape. 🙂

@winter-rose I’ve got some editing to do, so I can join you. 🙂

@daeus I didn’t think that yours would have that problem either! I’ve just seen a lot of similes used to make fun of Scripture and it’s not good.

@rolena-hatfield Ah, yes. I don’t think any of my smilies have that problem, but it’s a good point.

If it’s not too confusing to jump back to the topic of similes… 🙂

I think the important factor for me is that when using similes (or analogies for that matter) that they are clearly not mocking God or the Bible.
Similes have a very dramatic pull to them when used and I think are very effective is done properly, with respect for God and His…[Read more]