Daniel Thompson

Hey guys, this warms my heart.

@waterlily The standard way to get around age limits is to use the joint venture approach. Basically, someone older than you (a parent, probably) agrees to be part of what you’re doing. They can create an account on MailChimp and let you use it. If they ever stopped letting you use it, legally that would be fine unless you had signed some sort of…[Read more]

@seekjustice I live in Ohio if you ever have any questions about there.

@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 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]

Hey friends,

Could you pray for a friend of the family? The dad just died in a car accident, leaving behind a wife and ten or eleven kids. 😢

I’m going to the Teach Them Diligently in Ohio here.

One tip: try to match the mood of the tune with the mood of the words to as fine a degree as possible.

@devastate-lasting I’m actually not sure how to get to the resource library without resubscribing to KP, so I’m not seeing whatever you’re looking at. It sounds though like some of the resources that used to be there aren’t there anymore?

I’m thinking they might have gotten moved over to the Story Embers resource library. I know they have the…[Read more]

@ariel-ashira 😀 Great work.

Oops. I mean the Writer’s Rank Advancement Guide.

@kaymart I would check out Story Embers‘ writers’ journey plan. It’s got a whole section of resources on plotting.

@ariel-ashira To scare away the foxes, of course.

@kate-flournoy Well, maybe someday. (You know, like when gifs start working for you.)

@filewriterbase13x I think it would be cool if you could fit my turtles in somehow.

I use K.M.Wieland’s outlining system for outlining my novel. I only do basic outlines of chapters when I come to them. I also keep a long bullet list of random ideas for my story and many of these ideas end up getting woven into the plot.

I love outlining (or, at least I love how it works for me) and I don’t think I know anybody who has tried outlining and been disappointed by it. I also know a couple people who have tried outlining and been happy they did.

At the same time, I don’t recommend outlining everything. Your story needs room to evolve. If you outline too deeply, you’ll…[Read more]