Emma Flournoy

@aratrea Hey, Josiah!

I recently started a new novel, planning it, at least. And I can’t pick a theme for it. My plot is sorta laid out already, but I can’t find a theme. What should I do?

@0-0enyali0-0  Thank you! 😉

@dragon-snapper Becaussse The story isn’t done yet! 😛

@emily  Yes, you are in the story! Everyone who filled in that list is in the story

@shannon  Unfortunately I can’t 🙁 #1 Because I have too many characters already, and #2 because you’re on a different planet (But then again, so was Emily, but she gets a ride on @inkling-for-christ‘s T…[Read more]

@dekreel MMMMmmmmmm. 🤐 Whyyyyy?

@shannon I remembered one more thing that’s helped me flesh out characters.

It’s the concept of yearning.

Yearning is different from a goal. A goal is generally viewed in an external light. For instance, the MC of my WIP has a goal of saving the world. His yearning, however, is to live a life that achieves greatness. This is much deeper and…[Read more]

@daughteroftheking I’m putting you in the story along with Reggie if that’s okay. So quick question: What do you want your character to look like? And what’s her name?

@dragon-snapper  I’m not telling you what’s happening! 😛 😛

@dekreel *squints* Hey. I think something happened to the post. What happened to the rest of it? 😛

Seriously though, what’s gonna happen!

@kate-flournoy I’m sorry. *pat shoulder* I don’t know why it has to be stopped, but I’m sorry anyway. There there.

@mariposa  I wrote a Christmas poem once! Even tried to submit it here, but it wasn’t clear enough and it was kind of dark. It’s called “My Arms Branch Out Wide.”

I also like homemade cards! Usually they involve folding a piece of paper in half LOL. I’m not artsy when it comes to paper and 3D stuff 😛

@kate-flournoy  Yes, but do you do that after having fainted in the throne room and had a terrible dream? XD

Why would I kill you?? Or do you mean in the KPA? All right, I won’t! 😉

@Dekreel ooh, that’s an unusually flattering representation of me waking up. It usually involves rolling over at least five times and eventually tumbling off the bed tangled in my fleecy blanket (with static hair flying all over the place) and then crawling my way still half asleep to my closet while splitting my ears with yawning and trying not…[Read more]

@Dragon-Snapper congratulations on branching out. 😉

They’ve covered a lot… the only thing new I have to add is pretty small. You mentioned that you’re tired of writing snarky characters and want to try something different, but had no idea how to go about it…

Why do you like snarky characters in the first place? Is it because they come easy…[Read more]

Hello, @kina-lamb! I don’t know if this is much help, but this is something that I like to do sometimes:

One thing that you could do is organize the overall plot like this:

1. Exposition
2. Conflict
3. Rise of conflict 1
4. Rise of conflict 2
5. Rise of conflict 3     etc…
6. Climax
7. Denoument

I don’t know if that would help with the kind of st…[Read more]

@Kina-Lamb well, that’s pretty sound as far as I can see. 🙂 The only step I might add between the two is figuring out the theme, but I’ve not done non-fiction before, so I can’t say for certain how majorly that would figure in.

In your place, I would just ask myself, What lesson does this story teach me? To have courage? To persevere? To be kind…[Read more]

@overcomer  I understand… It’s just that we goof off and chat on the Writer’s Corner, too! XD

@shannon Okay, I’m back.

First of all, I really like what everyone’s said so far.

I’ve never heard anyone else articulate the way I develop characters, but I think we all do it without noticing it. My big focus, at least for step one, is to hone in on the feel of a character.

You know how when a person comes to mind you get this certain…[Read more]

@dragon-snapper Well, it isn’t easy. I try to write down story ideas whenever I get them so that when I’m done with one novel I can have a basic idea of what the next one’s going to be about.

But, obviously, you want a plot now. Well, I do have one suggestion. One of the best sources of inspiration for me is to read other novels. I don’t just…[Read more]

@dragon-snapper

Hmm

This is hard because I never run out of ideas of things to write

Right now, I have four extra projects I’m planning that I’ve thought of ever since I’ve started the one I’m working on now… usually my problem is not finishing most of what I start and when I do it doesn’t come out masterfully… anyway

Try going to the…[Read more]

@aratrea No need to apologize! I’ve needed quite some time to mull over this arc anyway. 🙂

Oh, a foreshadowing scene like that would definitely help. Thank you! I was planning on her still having trouble submitting out of habit even in the resolution area.

I’ve been thinking a lot about this third EiL… the second one, where she changes to he…[Read more]

Also, what’s that gif from? XD