Karina Sanchez

Whoa, yikes… I don’t know if I have any tips. I don’t think I’m ever not in the mood to write. Give me five minutes between when the dryer timer goes off and the dishes need washing, and I’ll sit down and type, type, type as fast as I can until I have to go do something else. There’s never a time when I feel like I need to get in the mood to…[Read more]

I cannot make myself procrastinate to save my life.

Wait a minute. You’re the one who needs to be sharing the secrets. I love to write, but I always feel a hesitation to unless I have a solid stretch of time. I feel like I need a while to get in the writing mood before I get serious. I wish I could just sit down at my computer and start typing.

Oh. Drat. I thought it would be something interesting. 😉
Oh well.
Do you mean… procrastination in writing? Oh My Goodness! Wonderful! Will you share your secret? Because I cannot make myself procrastinate to save my life. If I haven’t picked up my writing for twenty four hours I’m absolutely miserable, and when I do pick it up I go so fast…[Read more]

A turtle? What’s the story behind that?

I don’t think I have anything more to say, except that I agree the bitter should not outweigh the sweet.

Any third opinions would be welcome.

Wow… that almost sounded scriptural! I guess what you read really does rub off on your writing…

Yep! Sounds great! I’m too woozy right now to think of anything I can add to that train of thought— that always seems to happen when it gets late.
But I certainly agree about bittersweet endings. There’s nothing emotionally stirring about a…[Read more]

Sacrifice – I couldn’t agree with you more. And bitter sweet endings. I love bittersweet endings. I don’t know If I’ll ever write aught else.

The strange way in which evil seems to triumph from an immediate standpoint, but yet is defeated from an ultimate standpoint, is, I think, not so unsearchable as it may at first appear. The simple fact is…[Read more]

Yay! Well, in that case…
No seriously, I want to read both of them, so I would have done it even if you hadn’t wanted to read the Lord of the Rings. 😛
And while climbing trees is somewhat of a dangerous pastime, I would not suggest giving it up altogether. I still do it myself, even though I’m sixteen and my siblings think I’m nuts.

Okay……[Read more]

Next time I’ll climb a lower branch.

Its a deal. Now you can’t go back on it. Good, because you didn’t need to make the offer to get me to read it. I was going to pick it up from the library this week anyways.

*Is ashamed*
Miss Hannah, permit me to extend to you a warm and friendly welcome to this perfectly sane and normal sight known as Kingdom Pen. I hope you will spend a very profitable time here, and enjoy a great deal of very serious, intellectually stimulating conversation. It is my wish, and I am sure, the wish of every person on this wonderful…[Read more]

Hello Hannah and welcome to the Nut House. Glad to have you here. Are you by any chance a squirrel? Because we seem to have a shortage of those and a surplus of nuts here at Kingdom Pen. A squirrel would be nice for a change.

I think I’ll have to claim that plot. It fits right in with a villain who was really only a vague idea in my mind— heh heh. Sorry. I really need to stop posting novel ideas on a forum full of novelists. It’s bad for my health.

And let me just say, Animal Farm is a GREAT book. I read it, and I was just like ‘ouch’. It was so hard hitting I…[Read more]

Trust Rosey to post those pictures! Oh man… that has got to be one of my favorite scenes in that entire series. Poor Mr. Bush!

Nope. Never mind. It just did text.

I just copied and pasted your profile picture. Let’s see if it works.

Profile photo of Hope Schmidt

That is pretty cool. I don’t think I’ve ever read a book like that. Animal Farm was kinda like that, but not entirely.

And no matter how long your book list is, put Les Mis up near the top (along with the count of monte cristo. My favorite of all). Amazing! … and very long. Think bible long, both of them. but hey, that’s a year’s worth of some…[Read more]

Ugh— the italics setting on these things drives me nuts. I always forget to turn it off.

Eh… the debate was so-so. It’s really difficult to give equal talking time to each candidate when there are so many of them, so it was kind of a confused mess.

I didn’t catch your Les Mis reference, not having read the book, but I see what you’re saying nonetheless. That’s certainly a very powerful way to do it.

But I just had this really cool…[Read more]

Oh, say, ever seen seasons of grey (not to be confused with a similar sounding title). It has the same main actor as beyond the mask. Over all, I think I liked it even better. Its a modern day version of the Joseph story, and its done really well. You really have to stop to realize how its really just a reeling of an old story because it seems so…[Read more]