Karina Sanchez

@His-Instrument excellent example. I’ll just point back to what I said in my first post about consequences for every action, good and bad. Did Jean Valjean save Cosette’s life by assuming a name (and history) that was not his own? Possibly. Very probably.
Could God have saved her life anyway if Valjean had told the absolute truth? Yes.…[Read more]

@His-Instrument yeah. What he said.

@his-instrument

Well, I don’t mean to be excited by your calamity, but this is a really good subject.

I’m not going to express my whole opinion here, because I want to do some research first, but I’ll say a few things now.

First, a Christian family doesn’t always have to do the right thing. In such a case however, I do think it would be best to…[Read more]

@His-Instrument great questions.

My first thought is that comparing the practice of using an alias to protect one’s life to pretending madness is a little extreme. For one, your name is not who you are. It’s just what people call you. ‘By their fruit you shall know them’, not ‘by their name’.
That said, I believe it’s a fair question and…[Read more]

@That_Writer_Girl_99 which one?

@Allison-Grace *sniffs* They already said it all.
I’ll just second what @Daeus said; you can have as many themes as you think will work, so long as they’re all related and complement each other. For instance, if your primary theme is honesty, your supporting themes could be telling the truth in love and/or telling the truth even when it’s ugly.…[Read more]

@allison-grace Absolutely. This is something we cover in our Theme Mastery course.

The one thing you need to understand is that 98% of the time, one of your themes will the the primary theme. You can have other themes that are very very important to your story, but generally these themes will be “supporting” themes to the main theme.

So I…[Read more]

@dragon-snapper *inserts confetti bomb*

@Ethryndal definitely.

@Dragon-Snapper *high fives* GO FORTH AND CONQUER, FELLOW DRAGON. *FIERCE BABY DRAGON EYES*

@Catwing love it! 😀

@Dragon-Snapper *looks at crazy people and pretends she never does this herself, ever* Welp, I’m late. But the one thing I have to add is pretty boring anyway.
Practice.
Don’t just practice, observe. Begin picking style apart and figuring out what makes it tick. Read books whose style you like, then dissect it and find out why. Become a style…[Read more]

@belegteleri

I can’t change it, but it’s possible that @aratrea or @rolena-hatfield could.

Fyi, K.M.Wieland’s posts are also often above 2,000.

I think a large deciding factor is your subject matter.

@shannon Truth is never boring, but variety is the spice of life.

The articles on KP are about that length just for comparison.

@revayah1 Welcome!

*gasp* You’re writing a vengeance book? Those are the best ever.

@dragon-snapper I can see that a bit, but it didn’t really pop out at me. I think overall you have a pretty consistent writing style. I believe that if you work on just generally improving your style and edit your book a few times, the problem will disappear.

@that_writer_girl_99 @shannon Actually, I just came up with a story idea I’m pretty excited about. It just remains to be seen whether all the plot threads will tie together, but I’m pretty sure they will.

If you come up with any great dilemma ideas though, make sure to post them here. They could be great story inspiration for anyone else…[Read more]

@shannon @epicaddie2 @ethryndal @jess @graciegirl @dragon-snapper @catwing @daughteroftheking @that_writer_girl_99 @christi-eaton

Any other ideas? I’m not coming up with anything that’s clicking.