Daniel Thompson

@Aratrea Can a negative arc turn into a positive arc? If a character has a negative arc through the whole of the book and then, after losing everything and completely falling, could he have a brief positive arc (one that might be a chapter or two long) that brings him back to the truth and partial victory?

You’re doing some writing one day when you hear a knock on your door. You open it up to find your arch villain staring you in the face. He looks at you for a whole minute with a cold expression, then says in a dry, somewhat harsh tone, “Why don’t you start the kettle. We’re going to need to have a long talk.”

@ethryndal The Elves in the Silmarillion. Have you gotten there yet?

@audrey-caylin Well, it’s fine to end a scene with a disaster. In that case you’re basically just dividing one scene (with an action and reaction sequence) into two scenes, one with the action sequence and the other with the reaction sequence.

I guess I should have phrased myself a little differently. A scene is a section in your story where…[Read more]

@audry-caylin Well, it’s fine to end a scene with a disaster. In that case you’re basically just dividing one scene (with an action and reaction sequence) into two scenes, one with the action sequence and the other with the reaction sequence.

I guess I should have phrased myself a little differently. A scene is a section in your story where…[Read more]

@audrey-caylin That’s a good point. Scenes are a hard thing to grasp. I really don’t think anyone has a perfect definition of them. One helpful place to start is that a scene is similar to a chapter. By that I mean that many chapters are comprised of only one scene. There are however many chapters out there with two or more scenes in them. These…[Read more]

Saturday, February 25th would work best for me, though I should be able to be there on the other dates if they get picked. And I should be to lesson 8 by that time. 🙂

@rachelle Comics? Cool. Do you have any you could show us?

Hi @rachelle! Welcome to the bestistest place on the internet.

Say, what do you write mainly? I’m sure you’ll find this place helpful. I’ve grown a lot through it. (I’m sure everyone else will agree with me.)

@GracieGirl Haha! That made my day. 😀

Ahem, yes. Him, minus the highwayman part. 😉

@kate-flournoy My amazing dissapearing act.

No, really, I just deleted my post because I saw Rebecca had already answered it. Not really necessary, but whatever.

@kate-flournoy I’m right here. What, did you think I got kidnapped by wyverns or something?

@graciegirl Whew! Get some sleep tomorrow. Lol, I want to be like Rameaux when I grow up 😉 😛

@kate-flournoy From Wikipedia:

A wyvern is a legendary creature with a dragon’s head and wings, a reptilian body, two legs, and a tail. A sea-dwelling variant dubbed the sea-wyvern has a fish tail in place of a barbed dragon’s tail. The wyvern in its various forms is important to heraldry, frequently appearing as a mascot of schools and athletic…[Read more]

@r-j-wordsmith Crime and Punishment is better. *runs off before Josiah can retaliate*

Hi, @r-j-wordsmith! Welcome to the bestistest place on the internet. And it just got even better because we got a new CoMC fanatic with us. (That is my all time favorite novel 😉 )

@Kate-Flournoy Cellphones, is it? Not something exciting like a sword? *scowls* Ah well.

You get a voicemail on your phone. Someone is pleading for help and you can hear your own voice yelling in the background. When you check the time stamp, you see it is dated five years in the future.

@kate-flournoy But you see, now every time someone gets writer’s block, it will remind them to just look at things from a different angle.

@kate-flournoy You’re at a huge book signing when someone comes up to you and points a gun at your head, telling you to come up with a writing prompt or die. Your mind goes blank. The man fires, but the bullet get’s stuck in your writer’s block.

You’re at a huge book signing when someone comes up to you and points a gun at your head, telling you to come up with a writing prompt or die. Your mind goes blank. The man fires, but the bullet get’s stuck in your writer’s block.