Karina Sanchez

@lifeofkatie

Ok, my top recommendations are these:

The Count of Monte Cristo — my all time favorite novel. It’s huge, but well worth every page. It’s historical fiction and high drama.

Cry The Beloved Country — The best explicitly Christian novel I’ve ever read. It’s very deep and very moving. It’s got heart for sure.

A Tale of Two Cities –…[Read more]

Thoughts:

The imagery here is good.

First line: wakes works better than awakes.

“No longer free does flow” doesn’t flow well off the tongue.

“the earth had”: “the earth was” works better, I think.

“To warmer weather flee”: Took me a moment to figure out what that meant.

“through flowers flit”: I love the sound of that 🙂

The rythm wasn’t…[Read more]

@Anne-of-Lothlorien the first is beautiful and the second hilarious. XD

@Anne-of-Lothlorien what @Daeus said. 😛

@AnneofLothlorien what @Daeus said. 😛

@Anne-of-Lothlorien I don’t see anything to pick at, but there’s not much more than externals here. Here are my questions to get to the heart of the story.

1. What’s the girl’s inner longing? e.g. she wants her parents to be reunited.
2. What’s the girl’s story goal? e.g. get back to her parents. (it’s best if her longing and goal can be closely…[Read more]

Hmm. Somebody added me to their facebook group. That might be neat to attend. We’ll see.

@his-instrument Cool! I shall have to check these out.

(@aratrea You’ll have to add these to your list of potential partners.)

Signing off. I edited half a chapter.

@That_Writer_Girl_99 in general. I know I sort of left you hanging in the middle of a brainstorming session, and we were going to do that character exercise thing too, and I still want to do that. I just wanted to let you know I hadn’t disappeared off the face of the earth. ;P

@dragon-snapper @daughteroftheking I’m joining in.

@That_Writer_Girl_99 I’m not ignoring you, I promise. 😛 Life got really busy. I’m helping my little brother sell some of his hand made walking sticks at a festival and also selling some jewelry I made, and making more, on top of every-day busy-ness with everything else our family does. Things should slow down by next week though.

Just fyi. 😉

@everyone OK, I’m signing off too. Did pretty well. See you tomorrow, I hope.

@winter-rose @that_writer_girl_99

Um…maybe I shouldn’t say this and don’t take it as an absolute that is going to happen, but on the retreat we actually did put it in the plan to host a nationwide KP conference at a time in the future which I should probably not reveal lest we not be able to meet the deadline. Very likely though, it will become…[Read more]

@winter-rose I can excuse myself by saying I’ve spent the last three days at Josiah’s house with a lot of other people from the KP staff. I hope you won’t melt me for saying KeePers are even more wonderful in person than online. Seriously. We’ve got a great staff.

@dragon-snapper @that_writer_girl_99 @winter-rose I’ll join you till nine.

@delightinlife Yep. 🙂 No date set yet, but I believe I’ll plan to reach out to people we want to be on the panel this week and then the panel will probably happen something like two weeks later.

I like this idea. We do already have a KP flyer, but a smaller version might be nice.

@dragon-snapper Well, I pretty much just stick to editing, but I might work on the next book a bit. That’s probably more of a J thing, but it doesn’t have to be so.

@dragon-snapper Do tell.