Joy

@mkfairygirlThanks! Good luck to you too!

@mkfairygirl I’ll try to finish this chapter before I go to sleep!

@typewriter77 Well, are phrases like “she ran like the wind” or “the apple of one’s eye” or “it was a dark and stormy night” copyrighted? Often these things become clichés because they are so frequently used. I don’t believe that three words like so would be exactly plagiarism. However, if you were truly worried about that, I would study sentence…[Read more]

I’ll be around writing for maybe sometime if anyone wants to say anything.

@seekjustice @rochellaine @alia @godlyfantasy12 @nova21 @joy-caroline @gracie-j

Anyone on to chat? I’m just doing random author things. 🙂

@seekjustice Thanks for keeping this going! <3 I’ll be sure to hop on more often. 😉

@seekjustice Awesome! I’ll be sure to hop by often!

@joy-caroline Ey, thank you! I love them!

@joy-caroline Could I request two covers from you? For two story collections…

Title: Flowers Fell Like Rain

Elements: Falling flowers, fell flowers

Title: Long Live the Night

Elements: Nighttime

Thank you!

@e-k-seaver I signed up yesterday! So excited! 😀

@typewriter77 Well, I’m afraid that I’m the type of person who doesn’t know what their own theme is until someone explicitly tells them. I’m that clueless and unprepared, usually. And to me, usually in good literature themes are hard to pick out clearly, but you can feel that it’s there.

I think that each scene and character could show a facet of…[Read more]

@godlyfantasy12 Sounds like Lyn really wants to be their friend. If I were her then I would want to tell them a bit about myself and maybe show them around if they have any questions. Probably the smoothest way to info-dump.

@daisy-torres Mood, mood. At least you wrote something!

@daisy-torres Gonna stop at :23 for dinner with 10.5 pages. Maybe 2625 words?

Have fun!

@daisy-torres I’ll be handwriting for some time! Trying to get as much as I can done…might check back around :00 or so.

@kathleenramm

I must say that I go against the grain and like the powerful villains who don’t have sympathetic backstories and are just evil. Jadis is by far one of my favourite villains because she gives me such chills, particularly in The Magician’s Nephew in the city of Charn. Villains like Mother Gothel from Tangled who are powerful and com…[Read more]

@typewriter77

I think the right theme would emerge once you have a general idea of the characters and how the plot should go. For a short story, perhaps you might want to avoid some of the bigger themes which would require an entire novel to do justice (pun intended).

Since your story is to be a mystery/thriller, one idea that came to me is to…[Read more]

@kathleenramm

Oh yes I love it when the antagonist and protagonist mirror each other thematically.

I like unexpected villains (e.g. killer being a child or sweet old lady). I’m also fascinated by villains that have unique and interesting motivations because the power-hungry, petty-jealous-rivalry, s…[Read more]

@kathleenramm Oo, foils! Gotta love those.

Mine is probably the villain who knows what he’s doing is wrong but does it anyway either for a higher reason or to prove a point. Basically the villain who has a conscience but has higher ideals. Not sure how to phrase it quite right. You don’t see it often.

Also, I like the secondary villain who…[Read more]