Joy

Oh, I forgot to tag people! 🙂

Let’s see… @jenwriter17 @catwing @dragon-snapper @skredder @alia @ariel-ashira @dekreel (I’m tagging people even if they’re on hiatus because the conferences are in real life, not on KP. 😉

If anyone can tag more people please do so!  Thanks.

@epicaddie2 Cool you have a blog! It looks great! I can’t think of any questions at the moment (I’m sure I’ll think of a million as soon as I submit this post), but I thought I’d tag some folks so they knows about your blog 😉

@jane-maree @catwing @seekjustice @rochellaine @skredder @ingridrd @dragon-snapper @dekreel

@skredder, haha. No I don’t know that reference. At least I don’t think so. It does sound familiar, though. Of course, I included you. You asked me too didn’t you? 🙂

@kaya-young, thank you and you’re welcome. Yes, I suppose it does. 🙂

Oh, welcome back @dekreel, oh and she’s gone again. Yes, I would live to add you. I am definitely overstocked…[Read more]

@dekreel I don’t think you turned the sharing on, just copy and pasted the link. There’s a blue button in the top right corner that says share, and a little thing will pop up where you can add emails to share it with. And right above that (I believe in the top right but I’m not 100% sure) there’s an option to turn link sharing on. Turn it on and…[Read more]

Unfortunately my character has stolen my next part. Thanks Kay.

Part Six
In Deep Waters (Hello, reader people :P)

/I could’ve done better./ I stared at the old bearded man lying motionless on the ground. His friends watched where the Catwing and narrator had vanished. /The doctor was a nice touch. But this death is too dull and failable./ A…[Read more]

Ooo, interesting topic, @dekreel.
I want to expand a bit on something @notawriter said – often bullying comes from family life. I know this firsthand; I know many small children who are bullies in some way. They usually act differently around adults, or at church, if they go. But family problems is a huge thing, especially if it is the father (and…[Read more]

@dekreel

I think the others have already given some very good responses so these are just my two cents:

#1: Think of other reasons for your bully to torment people apart from the cliche weakness, jealous or insecurity. For example, some usually nice people that I know unintentionally become bullies when a new person intrudes on the comfortable…[Read more]

@dekreel well i’m not actually gonna say most of what I was gonna say as it’s already been said (probably with more eloquence)

But I think a huge part of what might cause someone to bully has to do with them just not understanding how to handle their destructive emotions. Where those hurtful feelings come from could be anything- but I think a…[Read more]

@supermonkey42 Good point!  Bullies don’t have to be boys. 🙂

@dekreel I can’t think of anything to add to what has already been said.  They nailed it!  Helped me, too.

@dekreel Tricky question. I have a bully in my current novel who plays a fairly small role, but it was hard to figure out how to write him without making him feel cheesy. This is what I’ve found

First, recognize that a lot of bully cliches are cliches for a reason. These things are true in real life, so they should be true in a book. This isn’t t…[Read more]

@dekreel I agree with @sam-kowal on the motives of a bully.

For a not-cliched bully, here are some ideas:

• The bully is actually very intelligent and uses that fact to bully others (maybe his parents think he should stop reading and such all the time and learn how to do something “useful” instead, so he bullies less intelligent kids to make him…

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@dekreel Well, one cliche for bullies is that they are actually weak and pick on others to make themselves appear stronger. I once heard a really cool quote that was along the lines of “The weak hurt and bully. The strong protect.”

Other motives is that they are bored, they’re trying to strike out in rebellion, they truly hate the person they…[Read more]

@dekreel Oh, and… cliches. Personally I think having bullies be physically brawny/thuggish is a cliche, and also having them be unintelligent. They can be different from that

@dekreel 😀 Hi

I think the motivations of a bully are usually a) to feel good about themselves and feel powerful and b) to try to put down anyone who might threaten them or make them feel bad.

This is because, I think for the most part bullying comes out of insecurity. Bullies are insecure about themselves, they don’t get enough love from…[Read more]