Daniel Thompson

@perfectfifths As for emails, you could have either Sarah Spradlin or me act as a middleman to get it out to everybody.

It looks like you have yet to do the love interest or sidekick.

@winter-rose No, actually we’re both gone. Sorry about that.

I’ve actually only read one chapter of Milton, so…heh heh.

@kate-flournoy Oh, good it was only your laptop. I was worried you might have met an untimely midlife demise.

@Aratrea Well… Hmm. I wouldn’t say the lessons have been focusing on physical conflicts rather than mental conflicts. It’s just the matter of tying the theme to the conflict. Something like your example of fear and courage is pretty easy to show through conflict. You can show a character running and hiding at the beginning, then standing up and…[Read more]

@northerner True. Well, I like Milton, so I’m good.

@northerner Excellent. Now I just have to be a romantic and my life will be meaningful.

@northerner @kate-flournoy 448. Not a lot, but I’m liking my story, so that’s what matters.

@northerner That’s just what’s so frightening. It did happen at eighteen.

@kate-flournoy Having your midlife crisis already? That’s another thing that happens at eighteen.

@kate-flournoy This is what happens to your brain when you turn eighteen.

@northerner EST

@kate-flournoy @dragon-snapper @winter-rose @graciegirl @others I’ll be writing till eight.

I wrote an ok 105 words. It all adds up though.

@overcomer @dragon-snapper I’m gonna try to squeeze in a fifteen minute session before dinner.

@kate-flournoy He deserves to be a favorite, the poor guy.

And… I’m not going to use my trilogy for this lesson. It needs major thematic work and I’m not worrying about it right yet. Well, I am, but not here… Anyway, this is for the other novel I’ve mentioned. The one with the positive character arc where the MC’s experiment in living is…[Read more]

This is for my trilogy again. I’m only plotting the points of the disillusionment arc part of it this time because I’m not quite sure of all the details of how I’m matching the plot with the positive character arc yet. (Do you have a lesson about how to weave themes into a story that involve mental and emotional conflict more than physical…[Read more]

@dragon-snapper Daeuses take great care to specialize in their villainy.

@kate-flournoy I’ll just dispose of them. That fulfills the villain stereotype.