Karina Sanchez

nope, just looked up the plot line though.

I’m really looking forward to Risen. The trailer is addicting. Haven’t seen War Room yet, but I wan’t to.

Oh, yea, and the actor for Benjamin Franklin was Fabulous. He had the best lines. Probably my favorite line in the whole movie, “Oh good, nothing serious then.” Ha!

I’ve just supposed that the bag must have been waterproof, but yeah, a few…[Read more]

Wow, now there’s two debates I haven’t seen. My political awareness is about as good as a groundhog’s. How’d it go?

Despite that, I am having a good day. Don’t expect me to ever give a different answer. Occasionally I have great days, but most of the time I have good days.

On villains: Their opposition to the progress in the reaching of the…[Read more]

Yes! I was actually a theatre captain. In fact, I’m wearing the t-shirt right now. What did you think of it? I could make a few complaints, but over all I thought it was fantastic. I noticed that the first time I watched it, I thought that the redemption theme was well done, but a little shoved to the back of the story. The second time I watched…[Read more]

Of course not! Easy questions are not discussion starters! 😀

The villain, if there is a villain (and there are times you can go without them), must not merely oppose the MC in a physical sense. He must (at least usually) oppose him on a mental/spiritual level as well.

Okay… good. I like that. Let’s take that. Let’s go deeper with that one.…[Read more]

Do you ever ask easy questions? Oh, well.

A strong theme is contrasted with its opposite. It is only realized through intense struggle. It is however, heavily idealized. There ought to be no restraint in the glory of good.

The villain, if there is a villain (and there are times you can go without them), must not merely oppose the MC in a…[Read more]

So what do you think is essential to a good strong theme? How should each role (MC, villain, antagonist, protagonist) serve the theme and make it better? Is it better to do obvious themes, or vague themes with a moment at the end when suddenly everything makes sense?

Oh, and by the way, I don’t think there ought to be a limit as to how many…[Read more]

Sounds good.

Oh yes. I love Ben-Hur too. It’s just all around such a great story, though I might make the complaint that Esther is too perfect— look who’s talking. 😛

Yes, I understand what you mean about taking that approach with fantasy and accidentally presenting a moralist gospel, but for some reason I don’t think that would happen, at least with my…[Read more]

Yeah, I get what you mean. Negative character arches can be very powerful. That can be one example of a well done sad ending. It would take skill though.

I get what you mean about fantasy. The one pitfall in that approach though is that if you are not careful, you may end up presenting a moralist gospel. If you can manage the balancing act…[Read more]

Good points, Daeus.

I will add a few little differences of opinion we seem to have here… when I asked if the theme should be attached to the MC’s character arch or the plot, you said it didn’t really matter. Here’s why I disagree. Oftentimes, if the theme is whatever the MC went through (learning to lead, learning how harmful pride can be,…[Read more]

So here are my follow up questions.

If you were on a blog and you read a few poems, short stories, etc (let’s assume you liked them) and then found that to read the rest you would have to create an account, would you sign up, or just read the public stuff and then move on to something else? If the site allowed you to read all posts, do you think…[Read more]

The idea with rule two was that I would have some stories that everyone could read and some that would be “locked down” and require the user to be logged in to access them. This would require them to form an account which would allow me to keep them updated. The idea is to make them want to form an account.

Thank you for all your suggestions.…[Read more]

None of these are strong opinions, but they are opinions. I have a lot of those.

How many themes should there be in one novel?

Doesn’t really matter so long as they are strong themes. Weak themes are better not there.

How should the theme serve the story and make the story stronger?

I don’t really know. I think its just that having a theme in…[Read more]

Yes! Thank you.

Wow! A composer who doesn’t understand music theory! That makes me feel a whole lot better about where I am right now…

Thank you for those tips. I really appreciate that. And… thanks for keeping them simple. Some ‘quick tips’ you almost need a dictionary to understand. 😛

That sounds great! I’m not sure I know what you mean by “sending out the password to subscribers on WordPress” though. Is there a difference between a subscriber to
Wordpress and a subscriber to my blog?
Anyways, I need to think more about the social media alternative. My dad said if I can get readers to subscribe to me on Facebook, I can post…[Read more]

Thanks guys! Whew… I was afraid this topic had fallen through. 😛
Good advice all around. Thank you both!

This probably isn’t adequate, but much thanks.