Joy

@Dekreel I agree with everything @kate-flournoy and @jane-maree have said so far. Writing on paper is a good idea for the first draft. In fact, that’s what I’ve done for a lot of my novels. I write the first draft in a notebook and then edit it as I type it up.
I know it can be hard to fight those perfectionist urges, but honestly it’s a bad idea…[Read more]

@dekreel Hayo! Thanks. 🙂 (I’m going to answer @christi-eaton ‘s question if that’s alright.) The challenge is inktober is http://mrjakeparker.com/inktober You’ll find more details at that website. But you can put your layout lines in pencils and then ink it. Liquid, pen, fountain pen, markers, anything with ink. You can even do it digitally with…[Read more]

@Dekreel I don’t really have problems in this quarter because I’m very good at just ignoring all my horrible mistakes in a first draft. And I also enjoy rewriting the full novel because it’s fun seeing the massive improvement in it. xD But still, I have friends who struggle with this. Three things you can try:

1: (as Kate said) write in…[Read more]

@ingridrd nope never read them, the Benedict society is very good Historical fiction and modern adventure (Que baker family series)
@dekreel @emily oh phew I’m not alone 😀
@christi-eaton Benedict society ahhhhh, some of my favorites!!!! Mr. Benedict is so sweet, ahh me loves them so much!!

@Dekreel honestly and unfortunately, no. You could outline your novel from the beginning (before you ever write anything) but that still won’t ensure that your story idea won’t change as you were writing it. In fact, it probably will, and that’s a good thing because it means your story is alive.

I’m a perfectionist too. I think I would have been…[Read more]

@dekreel you are most welcome!
I do like newspaper comics. Peanuts, Foxtrot, Zits, etc. But we don’t get the newspaper anymore… 🙁
Also other comics. I have trouble finding good ones. A lot of them have junk. But Squirrel Girl was pretty good [They do have some minor things). But Ben Hakan (or some name like that) has some good ones like Zita…[Read more]

@dekreel Why thank you for tagging me. *hands you feathers*
I do like Ted Dekkar’s books (Though I only read the comics for The Circle and the first two of the Lost Books series. We were moving and I didn’t think I’d have time to read the books. Also I like comics [If they be good!] sometimes.)
Some of my favorite books…
Half Upon A Time Series…[Read more]

@dekreel I’ve actually read the first three books in the Wingfeather Saga several years ago, and enjoyed them quite a bit. I know the fourth one’s at one of the libraries I go to, and I plan to get it one of the next times I go there. 🙂

@dekreel *grabs and shakes you like a rag-doll* YES YES YES. YAY YAY YAY. You will like it better hereafter. SO. MUCH. MORE. And I know how good it is already, even only halfway through. You just wait. The length is so worth it. *pumps your hand insanely* You just wait.

Also, I’ve read Night by Elie Wiesel. It’s so sad, but it’s a good one.

@dekreel Yep! That’s the one!

@Dekreel I see. 😀 That’s so cool you can watch em whenever!
Aso, I forgot to mention in my post over in “Favorite Book?”, but did you see they are making another Wrinkle in Time movie?!? I’m so excited!

@Dekreel Oooh! I loved A Wrinkle in Time too! It was one of the first books I read all in one day so it’s a bit special to me. XD

My all-time faves are:
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
^^^ These three are definitely my absolute faves but…[Read more]

@Dekreel ooh, Night! That is one powerful little book.

For myself… Les Miserables, The Lord of the Rings, Fahrenheit 451, A Tale of Two Cities, The Count of Monte Cristo, A Christmas Carol, Lord of the Flies, the Mistborn Trilogy, The Roman-Britain Trilogy, The Red Keep… and the list goes on. 😛

I have decided to revive this thread and post one I just made.
This is for my WIP.

@emily @dekreel @salome01w4g @daughteroftheking @anyone

@that_writer_girl_99 Fabulous choices. 😉 I am reading The Son of Neptune currently and I like it a lot so far!
I have to disagree about The Cursed Child though. It was well-written, but I despised the story. It was all just so strange. Ah, well. To each his own. 🙂
@dekreel Read them! Read them! Read them! Read them!
And after you’re…[Read more]

@dekreel
My favorites are…
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (but I love the whole series)
The Fellowship of the Ring (but again, the whole series is awesome!!!)
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (I cannot choose just one book. They are all just. So. Good.)
The Penderwicks series (Love, love, love…[Read more]

@dekreel This is a great poem. I love the tree’s voice.
There are definitely some parts that are awkward. I echo what @daughteroftheking said about the line

How I long for a pool of water to the rim

And I also agree with @jane-maree about the dark mood. I felt like the tree was dying and in agony almost the whole time. Maybe turn his…[Read more]

@dekreel How did I not see this? *shakes head at self* Anyway, I liked it a lot. But, I don’t write/know anything about poetry, so… I’m just going to stand here awkwardly. 😉 The line “How I long for a pool of water to the rim” sounds weird to me. But, again I don’t know anything about poetry, so I don’t have any suggestions as to how to change…[Read more]

@Dekreel to tone it down from being so dark, you could change the aspects of fear and horror/dismay that the tree feels, to a sense of confusion and curiosity. That would shift the mood from ‘scary’ to a much lighter feel.

A way to avoid so much of the human terminology you can use similes instead. Saying “I feel a great, pulsing joy in my heart”…[Read more]

@emily Ahh, love those.
@dekreel I’ve heard that one. So good. 😉