Karina Sanchez

@winter-rose Yes, that’s the one I was thinking of, but I feel like there was another one too. Oh, well. The Dreamlander opening was awsome.

@Hope Yeah, he is a great writer. 🙂 Was Magnus Chase good? Have you read the second Percy Jackson series, and if so, did you like it?
@zoe-wingfeather I know, right?!?!

@zoe-wingfeather I’m almost finished. I haven’t had time to read because of school, but I’d love to read your fan fiction after I’ve finished the book!!! 🙂

Interesting. “Clinchers” is what my English teacher always called them, but I guess we’ll go with “hooks.” 😉

That can work, but it can easily lead to what I call POV telling (e.g. “I just couldn’t believe she had died. Why did I have to go through this!” *cough cough* Telling.)

@Daeus Ohh, yes! Great point. I remember my first book I tried…[Read more]

@Daeus drat.

@kate-flournoy Nah, dreams don’t have many rules.

@bluejay you could write a story about a girl who finds a huge golden conch on the beach and takes it home, only to realize during the night that it’s whispering to her. And when she puts it to her ear, she discovers that this shell belonged to the queen of the Lost city of Atlantis… and wants to tell her the story of its destruction.

I’m…[Read more]

Hehee… I gave you the perfect excuse in baking you that cookie, didn’t I @Daeus?
If we’re talking excuses here, I was struggling my way through a present tense dream sequence. Does that count for anything? 😛

@kate-flournoy Well I had to completely rewrite a scene, but I got 594 words done. Of course, we all know I would have gotten 1,846 words except that I was too busy nibbling on my eternal cookie and I couldn’t keep concentrated.

Okay @Daeus, I got 870 words edited. Not too bad. What did you get?

@bluejay You can have half of my cookie. It’s everlasting, so it won’t matter.

I’m sure you’ll think up something soon. Maybe try reading a novel. I get all sorts of ideas reading other people’s writing.

@Daeus yup. Here goes. See ya then.

@kate-flournoy As I nibble on my everlasting cookie, I remember that I should be writing now. Can you go till 9?

Do you mean hooks @gretald? That’s what I’ve always heard them called (though there are many names for everything). You mean some sort of exciting first line/paragraph that really catches people’s attention, I assume.

I guess I’m not obsessed with them, since, of the two books I’ve ever written, my novella started off with a setting description…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy Oh! I’ve never read Pride and Prejudice, so I can’t judge that one, but the opening of Northanger Abbey is pretty dull. It’s a fantastic book, though (except for the beginning). 🙂

I love clinchers, though I must admit I’ve never heard them called that. But if you ever have to step DOWN from a clincher to reach reality, you’ve gon…

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Some of the best authors (like Jane Austen) begin their novels horribly…

What?! @gretald I think the beginning of Pride and Prejudice is one of the very best opening sentences of all time! ‘It is universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife’— what’s left to be desired? 😛
Oh well. To…[Read more]

Oh— and here’s your cookie. *hands you cookie* I doesn’t look like much, but looks can be deceiving. 😉

Ha! You need to take math again

What???????? What did I say? What did I do @Daeus? 😛 I didn’t think my horrible mathematical abilities were that obvious…