Jaybird

@@godlyfantasy12 I have very similar problems with figuring out what my characters want? I would say that your guy might have several goals.
Possible goal 1) He wants to live a ‘normal’ life, and doesn’t want anyone to know about his scars.
As a guy, I can understand this. We tend to dislike and sometimes fear revealing our emotions. Even if we…[Read more]

@daisy-torres

(LOL)

Especially when the reader doesn’t see it coming. Bwahaha!

Yeah, I wasn’t sure I liked it either untill I started researching some stuff, then it sort of exploded. XD For instance, one of my kingdoms uses a lunar calendar, but I when I started working it out I got carried away, so now there’s a separate calendar for each of…[Read more]

Hi! I have randomly hopped on.

@joy-caroline

I’ll have to check that out. =)

@daisy-torres

(Wondering how in the world you’re going to wrap up SaM.)

Favorite tropes? I’m not sure yet. I love absolutely crushing my main carries deep into the ground (but not like most authors), then redeeming them/making something beautiful of their story. (Ok,…[Read more]

@keilah-h

Yes, they’re wolves. It’s still in first draft form, but… I like it. =) Thanks!

I think it ate my thingy. Maybe I made it long. I shall try again.

Its a full scene, not a line, but anyway…

Flickers of light glinted back, caught on gossamers in the murky darkness. Holding the torch as high as the cavern roof allowed, Meyani crept down stairs, counting each crumbling step. Two-and-ten, three-and-ten, four-and-ten…

A heap o…[Read more]

Well, I have been working on this scene for some time now, mulling it over it in my mind, so I finally wrote it down, even though I haven’t gotten near this part of my book yet. Its not exactly a line- a whole scene to be exact. But anyway…

Flickers of light glinted back, caught on gossamers in the murky darkness. Holding the torch as high as…[Read more]

@kathleenramm

Classical. I grew up on it, so the older vocabularies don’t bother me. The depths in story, the mixture of poetry in prose, all the types and shadows… I feel more at home with classics than modern literature.

But I haven’t read much truly old stuff beyond Pilgrim’s Progress, some Shakespeare, and Canterbury Tales (which I do not…[Read more]

@godlyfantasy12

Welp, I love revising. Writing itself is difficult and obnoxious.

Let me rephrase that; I enjoy writing, but I struggle turning off the strong-minded inner editor who then destroys all my work because it’s in first draft stage and therefore terrible. However, as rewriting is my favorite part of writing in general I usually don’t…[Read more]

@trahia-the-minstrel

Thank you!!!! They’re doing such an awesome job of it, I might actually try to watch some when it comes out!

And that probably sounded strange. Explanation; being someone blessed with an extremely vivid imagination I find myself disappointed by movie adaptations of books I perhaps only skim read.

But this looks good, so I…[Read more]

@trahia-the-minstrel

Aha! Where do I find it?

@Tahria-the-Minstrel

Ah those situations are so painful.

@lydia-s

I am so sorry, I almost forgot KP (of no fault of it’s own; life is still nuts).

I have read/listened to all but Lady Susan, Love and Friendship, and I think one other one. I read Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice,  Sense and Sense ability, and Mansfield Park. I listened to most of those and Emma, Northanger Abbey, and… I think that’s…[Read more]

Okay, @faith-q, I have a story for you. Let me tell you of the time I knocked a container with a dozen cupcakes in it on top of a ladies head.

It was my older sister’s birthday. She and I were flying up to Washington state for one of our cousins graduation. My mom, who is a baker, made my sister some cupcakes to take with her on the flight. Well,…[Read more]

I love it when two very powerful (but also very different) soldiers are close friend. “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13

“And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own…[Read more]

@faith-q

WOooOo Imma love this topic XD

I have a few, as it does indeed come from being slightly sheltered that one may say something not as innocent as they thought.

For example, I was texting this friend I had (not too long ago) and we were talking about life and stress and work stuff. And I asked if he was working all the weeknights.…[Read more]

@trahia-the-minstrel

Thanks for the reassurance. Yes, it’s epic fantasy. I have listened to some of Brandon Sanderson’s stuff, and he does do well writing larger groups.

I have around 4-8 “important” characters, and maybe 2 main characters. The cliffhanger advice is good, thanks!

@godlyfantasy12

An animal character! All of my characters are a…[Read more]

@madelyn

Sorry I’m so late in replying. Life is nuts.

That sounds AWESOME! I love good farytales and retellings, some of my favorite authors being George MacDonald, C. S. Lewis, Gail Carson Levine, and Hans Christian Andersen. (Or at least some of his stuff)

I would definitely appreciate a retelling of Rumplestiltskin, especially as that story…[Read more]

@faith-q

We’ll, right now I can’t think of many actually funny stories which would make sense out of context, which is annoying as I know of many.

Err… I just reread your request, and realized you wanted stuff from age 4 and 7… Sorry 😬