Karina Sanchez

@Daeus, Yes! I completely agree.

@kate-flournoy Sorry to disagree, but the villains desire to control the 9 powers seems the most natural thing in the world. If I personally were offered control of the whole world, I hope and would guess I might deny it, but don’t think for a moment it wouldn’t tempt me. Of course he wants power and prestige. Everybody does to one degree or…[Read more]

Exactly @Daeus. Exactly.

Yeah, we just need to be careful that we don’t go to far in the other direction though. What we don’t want to do is accidentally give the idea that if the reader can just make their heart a little better, they will have found God’s purpose for them (or anything along those lines). That is a false hope; it is a hope in one’s self, not in God.…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy, great suggestion! I’m definitely going to work with the plot…what I wrote is by no means set in stone. 😉 I’m definitely going to work out why the villain wants the 9 Powers; it actually drives me crazy in stories when the villain has no particular purpose for destroying things and terrorizing people…he just does because he’s…[Read more]

Exactly! @Daeus 🙂 We can’t avoid the rules in the Bible (kind of like assuming there is a God in novels, it should also be a given that the morals of the Bible are true), but we don’t have to outline them in our stories.

I might— just a quick suggestion. Work with your villain a little. Why does he want to control the nine powers? Is it just because POWER and PRESTIGE? Is it just because he’s SOOOOOO EEEEEVIL?

You can make him more complicated and interesting than that, I know. 😉

@writefury, thanks for the ideas! I’ll have to think about the contradictions idea. 🙂

The story, so far, is about a girl (the MC) who lives in a small town in another land. It’s fantasy, so I’m probably going to set the story in another world (which I haven’t figured out the name of yet 🙂 ). An evil king rules the country in which she…[Read more]

Ads? What ads? I thought those got taken down a long time ago. Am I the only one not seeing these?

By the way @spradlin, has KP ever thought about signing up for affiliate programs to advertise writerly resources (books, courses, etc)? That might be another income stream.

@kate-flournoy Yeah, that makes sense. Of course the bible does lay down a clear right vs. wrong, but I don’t think our job as fiction writers is so much to explain the bible (though absolutely avoiding that could cause serious problems) but more to make people excited about the bible and to want to follow it themselves.

If we are writing solely…[Read more]

Yes, it does makes sense @kate-flournoy 😉 And I completely agree. Nobody wants to be given a bunch of rules to follow *coughmecough* 😛 I think that portraying God’s love (rather than all the “rules”), even in stories, will inspire people to seek God. A lot of people, I believe, think of Christianity as a bunch of rules. But it’s SO much…[Read more]

Isn’t that a little long for a title, @spradlin? 😉

Another thing I noticed about well done Christian fiction, while listening to Focus on the Family’s audio ‘Bonhoffer: The Cost of Freedom’, was… well, it’s a little difficult to put into words.
The conclusions Bonhoffer came to about the Bible, and Christianity, and the duty of a Christian…[Read more]

Yikes, I love it how it is. I honestly don’t think anything could make it cooler or easier to use or— or anything better, really… but I’ll let you know if I come up with any ideas. 🙂

All you guys on the staff continually amaze me with your ability to keep this place up and running like this, and still live your lives! 😛

@sarah-h It is called Rora. It is by James Byron Huggins.

Perfect, @Bluejay. Perfect. 🙂

No, it doesn’t sound weird! It sounds perfectly adorable and very interesting at the same time. 🙂

Alright alright, I admit it @everybody, I can’t stay off here forever.

I wanted to tell you all about this great example of christianity in fiction that I have been reading a about. It’s in this book I’m reading that’s a great piece of historical fiction focusing on the Waldensians. In this book there is one this one small town of waldensians up…[Read more]

And yes, I know what you mean about the fairytales stuff… some of it can be pretty unrealistic. I love the challenge of balancing out the ‘magic’ and ‘fantasy’ with reality though, and using them to show more strongly what is right and what is wrong. See, (as I see it) no matter how many magical powers your characters have, they’re still held…[Read more]

Oh that kind of stupid! Nothing wrong with that kind of stupid. 😛 Yeah, I’ve had a few characters that act like that… 😉 But then it’s so fun to bring them to maturity in the end.
And technically you don’t have to be crazy to be a writer— but most writers devolve into craziness by the time they finish two or three novels. *wink*

Good! Keep…[Read more]

Wellcome aboard! This is colonel Lamb of the army of highly impressive nuts speaking.

Hey, don’t worry about how experienced you are. 90% of writing is stubbornness. I probably don’t have more that a month or two more experience than you myself, so I too am a complete newbie, but I’m stubborn about writing something publishable, so you know, some…[Read more]