Karina Sanchez

Oooh! I love writhe! Actually that probably comes right before citadel on my list. Another good one is snarl— and eon and amorphous and metamorphosis and morph and weepy. Narrow. Strait. Linear. Galactic. Frigid. Squirm. Honor. Humiliation. Anguish. Dizzy. Laughter. Lay (as in poem or song). Riddle. Rune. Glyph. Jagged. Icily. And… are you…[Read more]

That’s neat Mark. So you think outlining helps with character development? I glanced at some of the links you posted. Are you following a strict outlining process? In other words, do you have a basic novel mold that lets you know basically how your stories going to flow even before you have a plot?

Natalee, somehow I manage to avoid tying myself…[Read more]

Failure. Oh, well.

:neckbeard:
:confounded:
:anguished:
:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Copied and pasted from cheat sheet. Let’s see if it works.

Oh and incision. And schism. And chasm.

Balderdash. Rubbish.

Yep, that’s me all over. Except I don’t purposely daydream— I hatch a plotline while I’m in the middle of another novel, and by the time I get around to writing that plotline, the book is already all written out in my head. The thing is to get it down on paper. And often it will change with the writing— hopefully always for the better. 😛

serpentine

Congratulations! You are now a ghost. You can pass through writer’s block like trees (for a ghost that’s pretty easy).

A thousand welcomes.

antipathy, wend – don’t really use wend unless trying to sound middle english.

“Whither wend(est?) thy way oh scoundrel for whom I feel the strongest antipathy?”

“Whither wend” – ah.

Also remember, Jackson, that the Biblical account of the crucifixion was not graphic in the least. Now, a lot of that may have to do with the familiarity people of those times had with the gruesome punishment of the cross, and so they could appreciate it without context. But even if you are trying to remind your audience of something they are not…[Read more]

Ah… despotism. You’re right, Daeus. It’s so… intellectually cruel.

Another favorite is hoarfrost.

Depends on a couple things. 1, who is judging the contest. 2, who is your target audience outside the judge panel. 3, how you approach the gore. You’re not gonna want to make it appear all fluffy for sure, but too much can get a little sick. I’d suggest giving lots of general descriptions and few detailed descriptions. It is also important to…[Read more]

Serious, veeerrry serious. Well, you’ve come to the right place.

My diagnosis confirms that you have a very serious malady. To use a very long medical sounding latin term, you don’t like parts of your story. The fact of the matter is, you should love your story more than anyone else in the whole world.

Now if I were to guess why you like some…[Read more]

Totalitarian and despotic are better than tyrannical, or at least so I say. I especially like despotic or any of its variations.

I like Paladin, Rosey. Only when you capitalize it like I just did, it looks like a name…:P

Hey you may have something there…how many trees do you reckon he ruined accomplishing that?!

To add to our collection of demeaning and depressing words… pauper. And waif. And starveling. Which means basically the same thing as pauper… but oh well. Differences, you know.
Oh, and another really, really, really good word, especially for a…[Read more]