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@Joy perfect! So glad it was helpful. 😀

@jane-maree @cindygreen Thanks so much!

This is such a sweet, sad, and fitting poem, Corissa <3

@daughteroftheking Aren’t all writers secretly time travelers? 😉

@christi-eaton Thanks! (Also, side-note, I’m finally “officially” joining you in the theater department- I’m playing Mother Gothel in a brief comedy sketch with some friends for a 4-H competition 😀 )

@aratrea *grins* I’m glad you liked it! And change definitely gives a new…[Read more]

This is the sweetest thing. 🙂

@daughteroftheking Thanks!

Also, maybe I should clarify that he’s not leaving leaving… mainly he’s stepping down from editor-in-chief; he’ll still be on the forum sometimes. There’s a post about it on the main KP website. 😉

Hi @spradlin! Ghosts are cool.

Tagging my bestie @sierra-r because she actually doesn’t know how amazing and lovely she is and I really want her to know how much I love her and how much I want to shove ice cream in her face to prove it.

<p style=”text-align: left;”>@rochellaine – Yes. Sorry for my tardiness and Forum fumbling. :D</p>

*splutters* You beat me to writing this poem! 😀 Oh my gosh, it’s hilarious. And no, there’s no real poem that Brianna based her part in the newsletter off of. This is great 😀

@gh24682468999 It doesn’t sound too complicated. I can’t just take this limited information and guarantee it will work, but I think it can. One question: what’s the antagonistic force in this novel?

@dekreel These keep getting better and better.

@slylilhuntress Read Brandon Sanderson (crazy amazing fantasy author). Also, Cry The Beloved Country (not fantasy, but very deep and heartfelt. The best Christian novel I’ve ever read). Oh, and read Dreamlander too! It’s amazing.

@Sam-Kowal ha! Well, remind me, and I will. ;P

And YES. Depth is everything. If you can boil your entire world down to a single deep, resonant core story/concept, so much the better for you. Hard to stress enough how important that is. Focus on what you have and make it so magical you don’t have to go look for other things to distract you.

@Daeus I’ll have you know I was racing to get that typed out before you posted and said all my stuff for me. XD

No, good points though. Maps are important… I have them… in my head… XD Allegorical and historical elements too. Oooh ooh, in fact @Joy, I actually have a cool thing for you. Four ‘pillars’ for you to figure out, that’ll give you…[Read more]

Oh, drat. Kate just stole my secret fire. 🙁

@joy

Fantasy, more than any other genre, is about the past, so the most important thing to nail down is the past history of your story world. Allegorical aspects are good to nail down early too if you want to have them. If you’re going to have magic, nail that down early. Oh, and nail down a map of all the lands included in your story, so you…[Read more]