Elly

Well…all of it. I have the characters. I have the villain. I have ideas about how to develop the villain’s character. I have the setting.
What I don’t have is much of a plot. I have ideas, snippets, bits of dialogue…but not a full-blown plot, and I’m getting to the point in my WIP where it’s time to stop introducing the characters and time to…[Read more]

Well, I hesitate to give advice on anything of this sort–someone can always make it sound better–but here goes: Don’t make it easy.
Conflict is good. Conflict propels people forward, generates realistic reactions that create character and give insight into character personality.
Don’t make it easy. Life happens. People are rude. Well-meaning…[Read more]

I know. Kate usually helps me work through these things, but she isn’t on right now, so I sit. And sit. And think. @winter-rose

It’s my own fault, really. I’ve focused so much on introducing the characters that I’ve forgotten to figure out where I want the plot to go. @winter-rose

@kate-flournoy Are you on?

It’s my own fault, really. I’ve focused so much on introducing the characters that I’ve forgotten to figure out where I want the plot to go.

@kate-flournoy Are you on?

Hello! How’re things on your end? @winter-rose

Ugh. I take back what I said earlier. I’m just brainstorming at the moment. A little stuck, actually.

*taps microphone* Anyone here? I’ll be writing for the next 45 minutes or so. @winter-rose

@graciegirl Yes, yes, and yes!

I’d definitely recommend WordPress. Lot’s of pros use WordPress and recommend it. I use WordPress and recommend it. Finally, one or two people on here have moved from something else to WordPress and been very happy that they did. I really don’t think there’s anything you can’t do on WordPress. It’s amazing.

Poor @f5a8c3e92, only getting the leg. You could at least give her a finger too. 😛

This

Ok, I think this will work.

@Anne-of-lothlorien Aw, come on. You’d do great. You cannot tell me that mine doesn’t partly look like a warped Radagast.

@Aratrea I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU ACTUALLY DID IT. Whoa. I feel…famous.

@ethryndal It actually grows on me the more I see it. Looking like a Russian novelist has always been a partial-dream of mine. 😀

@anne-of-lothlorien This will probably just be temporary, but I’ll at least do it for a week. 😉

@ethryndal It actually grows on me the more I see it. Looking like a Russian novelist has always been a partial-dream of mine. 😉

@anne-of-lothlorien This will probably just be temporary, but I’ll at least do it for a week. 😉

@ethryndal It actually grows on me the more I see it. Looking like a Russian novelist has always been a partial-dream of mine. 😉

@Anne-of-lothlorien I’m so glad you entreated us artists to draw that—it was the most fun I’ve had in a loooong time. @aratrea, I’m sorry I had so much gleefully villainous pleasure at your expense. XD

@Hope The evil henchman frog. 😀

@aratrea See, I’ve done you a service by drawing you as a scraggly old man. 😀

@graciegirl Propensity 😉 (though I like proness)