Emma Flournoy

@jenwriter17, I got a pitiful 76. couldn’t seem to write

@jenwriter17, alrighty

@jenwriter17, indeed.

wanna word war? 10 minutes?

@jenwriter17, ah yes, youtube and pinterest. how rude of them to always distract us while we are writing.

@jenwriter17, I’m trying to finish chapter five of my book. and write the blog post for this week. what about you?

@jenwriter17, I’m still here. my computer is having problems so if I disappear its probably because of that

@jenwriter17

you writing?

@seekjustice, so far yeah. I only got to the wedding though. then the computer crashed.

well, I have to go now.

@jenwriter17, I might be

@seekjustice, I’m working on my book while at the same time trying to write a character interview for my blog.

oh, and I started listening to Tale of Two Cities today

anyone on yet?

@seekjustice, @rochellaine, @jenwriter17, @ariel-ashira

@ariel-ashira Well, this isn’t really something I think about a whole lot because I tend to have a good grip on my characters so I just always do what feels right for them and it pretty much turns out. I guess though personally, if I had a brother I thought was dead show up alive I would probably rush him and hug him.

just saying, still here

@Jenwriter17 pretty much just throwing in all the subplots and more try-fail sequences will fill out your plot a lot more.

@seekjustice, @rochellaine,

I don’t know if anyone is on, but I’m here

@jenwriter17 I think Daeus and Kate got it. Basically, make things more complex. A longer story, more in depth themes, more characters, conflicts, obstacles to overcome, and more live scenes. That being said, you can’t just tack that stuff on to a story that is short at its core. Otherwise the story will drag. Layer things on, and see how in depth…[Read more]

@bekreations, you brought it back! yay

“Woah, woah, slow down,” the man says, as he strides over to me.  I glare at him.

“My name is Brek.  This bag carries machine that, although it looks like a glowing rock, it is incredibly dangerous.”  Brek pauses.  “As for your friends, they are individually separated into rooms such as yours…”  Boom…[Read more]

@jenwriter17, sadly I don’t know. I try to write a short story and it becomes a series…

@jenwriter17 Yeah, what Kate said is huge. If you have part 2 of my Show Don’t Tell Course, I have a whole lesson on live scenes there, but basically a live scene is the literary version of a camera taking in everything that’s happening in a scene. No time is skipped. An overview is like when someone tells you what happened at their birthday…[Read more]

@jenwriter17 heh… I’ve got the opposite problem. 😛

*scratches head* I would say probably the number one thing that makes my novels so ridiculously long is the crazy amount of time I spend really delving into the layers of chemistry in live scenes. I try to do all live scenes if I possibly can (no summaries, no overviews, no generalizations)…[Read more]