Snapper

@dragon-snapper

1. Ditto to what Josiah said — I’d love to follow you on there 😀

2. I don’t really have much experience with FB, to be honest 😛 I connect with most of my readers via Instagram and Twitter. I occasionally do an FB post, but mainly because that’s what everyone else does. *hides* I think @jane-maree and @winter-rose will have…[Read more]

@dragon-snapper well without actually knowing what the story is about or what you are trying to achieve, I think its good. I mean, a little bit of dismal is good for a story. It pulls at the empathy cord in your readers.

HC

@dragon-snapper haha I know. I told him “Ah, but I have a lot of stories.” 😂

Awesome! Ugh, I hate editing. I have half an edited book on my desktop right now. In procrastinating over finishing. I just wanna be an author without the editing. Lol

HC

Thanks! Looking forward to it, @dragon-snapper! And hey, you’re pretty cheery yourself! 😉

@rochellaine These poems are hilarious. Thanks for starting this! 😀 😀 😀

I screeched at Stan

Like a mother bear

But all he said was “Well There

Please keep your hair

I put that hole in your blanket

Now I go for a chair”

@sam-kowal @dragon-snapper NO ONE HAS MENTIONED how funny “Now I go for a chair” is. That is most definitely the best par…[Read more]

Compilations of some of my favorite screenshots of @aratrea and @the-real-kapeefer

@sierra-r  @epicaddie2  @rochellaine  @corissa-maiden-of-praise  @dragon-snapper  @anyone

The Gif Hiders

Part Two: The Bird and her Cake

The Kingdom of Pen did grow weirder and weirder for Jenna, but only gradually. After a few days, ever since she had come, she had met some centaurs, a mermaid, another dragon, a tiger, and even a droid. But the weirdness didn’t exactly just rocket into the air until about three weeks after she had f…[Read more]

@dragon-snapper, uuuuuummmmmmmm.

yeah.

I’m not going to be much help with this, cause I do the same thing.

One of the things I’ve found helpful is, like @daeus said, insert hope. Your characters should be driven by their goals.

Unless your MC is like mine, who is just plain hurting and miserable, and kind of takes it out on everyone else.…[Read more]

@dragon-snapper 😀 😀 😀 Wow.

That is super epic XD.

That’s my official Raspberry Song now.

*walks outside looking for raspberries*

*There’s no raspberries*

*:(*

@dragon-snapper If the problem is just that your story seems too dismal, make sure there’s always an element of hope mixed in with the chaos and strive to focus on your characters’ yearnings/ambitions that drive them forward. If you’ve got that all down, I bout your story could be too dismal. Problems tend to intensify stories. It’s only stories…[Read more]

@dragon-snapper 😀

@dragon-snapper do you mean on a scene to scene basis, like too much reacting, or just in general when you’re describing emotions? Just having one emotion indicator can help, like if your character is scared, only mentioning her rapid heartbeat rather than her wide eyes, her rapid heartbeat, and her clammy hands.

I think it’s still fine to have…[Read more]

@Dragon-Snapper Is this problem arising in the current story you’re working on, or all of them as a whole? Because child, I’m almost finished reading your book, and I honestly don’t know what you’re talking about. If anything, I was going to say that you need to focus more on the emotion, not less. Is this a response from beta-reader feedback, or…[Read more]

@dragon-snapper If you feel like there’s too much emotion bogging your story down, your scene sequel ratio may be off. K. M. Weiland has a series of articles about structuring scenes that may be helpful.
If it’s smaller scale that you’re dealing with, my advice is to write the first draft and then do adjustments in revisions, when you can evaluate…[Read more]

That’s a really cute and funny poem, @dragon-snapper !  😀

Raspberry, frozen raspberry…I think you’re mine…

Love it!!

Are you going to tag anyone with a topic?

@dragon-snapper heyyyyy! Thanks so much.

Well I hope it will be. And yes it is about me. I told an older gentleman in our church who is also a writer and he said, “It seems to me a person of your age wouldn’t have much to write about.” LOL

That is awesome! What are you writing? Cool blog, I skimmed through real quick.

Ice cream is awesome.

HC

@dragon-snapper @sage-g @dekreel @pretty-much-any-other-artists

I have a new character! It’s an elf from my new short story (WIP) called Ualair Fencaryn. He has mid-back (if that’s a word) long blond hair, green eyes, and sharp, angular eyebrows. He has a hawk-like, thin, angled face. He is thin but muscular. He usually wears a green-brown tunic…[Read more]