Karina Sanchez

I am @Daeus. When do you want to write till?

A little late, but still here. You writing tonight @bluejay, @kate-flournoy, @hannah-c?

@hope awesome! I got 340 words edited.

@hope okay, tag me when you want to stop.

@hope are you still writing?

Haha @Daeus I completely forgot about that! 😀 I need to read this thing…

@kate-flournoy. Yes. It is.

And by the way, I’m using your idea of a despondent jester as one of the resistance characters.

@hope Yikes! Yeah, okay, I agree with you on that one! 😛 Plot twists shouldn’t just be for shock affect— they have to have resonance within the heart of the story.

Just…

Yeah.

Don’t ever make Silvara turn evil.

@Daeus sounds great. No, really. Is this your time-travel story?

@kate-flournoy All good stuff. In fact, I could spin a whole story from any of those and who knows but that I might not.

Unfortunately, the first one won’t work because there is no mentor figure. The second one won’t work because that would totally ruin my ending. The fourth one won’t work either because that’s just not my MC’s character…[Read more]

@Daeus I know! It’s amazing! I heard she was writing a sequel… *crosses fingers* I’m always apprehensive about series and sequels and stuff. :/

Hm, let’s see… the mentor is tempted and falls. The bad guy gets the girl. The hero caves to the bad guy and starts working for him. The hero arcs to ‘perfection’ early in the story, then halfway…[Read more]

Thanks @kate-flournoy, I will. If you have any other diabolical plot twists to suggest, I’ll probably add those in too. I’ve decided to go for the stress factor this time. Murphy’s Law and all that. I still have a lot of planning to do, but I have a feeling it will end up pretty good.

…Ah. Dreamlander.

It. Was. So. Good.

*Deep breath*

Did…[Read more]

@Daeus yes!! Do it! Do it do it do it! I love it! *hyperventilates excitedly*

Can I use an example of this kind of plot twist… Chris Redston’s decision to use the Orimere to bring Mactalde back to Lael in Dreamlander. Yes. You made me read the book, you can’t complain if I pick it apart and see what makes it tick. 😉 That plot twist was perfect…[Read more]

Oh, I totally get you @kate-flournoy. I feel like I need to say everything too, but it is a good point after all.

Another good point is that you should not neglect your thread right after you started it. *
Cough* Yeah.

It was kind of nice actually, because just around the time that article came out about plot twists, I started reading this…[Read more]

Well @his-instrument, I guess just simple tunes. Mostly along the lines of traditional Celtic/Irish/Scottish music— something I can just improvise on my harp, and never remember afterward. 😉 I’ve been playing the harp for… uh… maybe three years now? Possibly?
I’ve been taking a break from it lately due to hearing complications, but once we…[Read more]

Something else I just thought of @Daeus… I don’t know if it adds anything to the discussion, but it may help clarify it a bit.
First, a plot twist is anything that changes the direction the story will take from here on out. Duh. How obvious.
But that means it doesn’t just have to be characters who drive them, though I usually think in that…[Read more]

Hey, good point @Daeus. I hadn’t thought of that. But you’re right. Wow. I’ll have to remember that.

Hey, if anyone writes in the afternoon, I’m doing some editing now.

Ok, and we’re back with the next two chapters of animal farm. I’m here with my copilot Imaginary Bob flying over the shadowy lands of Animaldom and we’ve got a great bird’s eye view. I’m sure you do to, so let’s get into this.

To start off, I thought I’d just mention the big thing that hit me in reading this. It’s the characters. They’re not very…[Read more]

What @hope said. 😀 Also, arcs of any kind. Scene arcs, character arcs, theme arcs, emotional arcs… if they ain’t smooth, I don’t like ’em.