Faith Q.

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Hmm. Probably the idea stage. That part when you get an incredible idea or story, or something to add to ur story. Or when you have those AHA moments that ties everything together so beautifully!! Just coming up with characters and those ideas and themes is so much fun and freeing. Especially…[Read more]

@kathleenramm

I will indeed be repetitive and say music XD. I have a very vivid imagination and just listening to music and imagining worlds and characters….it’s just so incredible. It’s a bit hard to explain. It just gives me joy, especially when it’s something your like “OH MY WORD!! That makes sense!!!” Or a brand new character or idea.

Al…[Read more]

@godlyfantasy12 That sounds like a great plan! It’s so helpful to have family members read through things; I have my sister do mine and she absolutely tears it apart, as all siblings should. She is not happy at the prospect of looking through 52 volumes of stuff. She’ll probably quit by then, tbh.

What’s your favorite point in the writing process?

@devastate-lasting Thx! But yea that’s a lot of words and books!

So my plan (I hope it works out) is to finish the first draft of my standalone by the end of November or start of December. Finish my worldbuilding and summary for book 1 of my series before the end of December, and that way I can start outling for the 2nd book in more depth and s…[Read more]

@kathleenramm Yay! I’ll take a cookie any day!

@godlyfantasy12 I’ll take that tea to go with this cookie 🙂

@kathleenramm

K I got some music recommendations somewhere above (or on the previous page) if ya wanna look!

As for 7 books, I knew I wanted it to be a fairly long series, maybe around 7 but I first just planned for 5 as a starting number and then decided “hey let’s go for 7”

Plus that’s better for the story anyway.

I like both of those s…[Read more]

@gracie-j (It’s because I tell myself I gotta do this before Jesus comes or I die. That’s how I manage to get through everything. Deadlines, scheduling, numbers…I feel like that’s one of the better things about myself.)

Anyway, quality vs quantity! Both are good, but really, the stuff I wrote at the beginning was trash. (And I don’t even want…[Read more]

WAIT!!!

change Ara’s! She’d prefer her crush hate her I think cuz she’s not crushing on anyone at this point in time XD.

@gracie-j @devastate-lasting

These questions tho!!

ok. Let’s see.

Ara: Singing in opera

November: Spoon on nose

Jocelyn: spoon on nose

all 3: Ice cream bathing  mmm peanut butter.

Ara: Mistletoe

November: Mistletoe

Jocelyn: MistleFOE

Ara: Soooooo she’d hate the first choice, but if we’re talking main villain she’s a girl. But if we’re…[Read more]

@gracie-j Cool cool. I might stop soon as well.

So for whoever happens to venture here next:

Would your character rather be in the country or the city?

@godlyfantasy12 Ahaha I hate myself for what I make me do  but thank you. It’s nice to have a lot of writing practice. Makes way for bigger and better things.

Yo, I’m sure that the more you write, the better you get! It’s not all about the word count, but logging it sure does help!

@gracie-j Ahem. I feel like I owe an explanation, lol.

It’s not one book. If it was one book I would die. No, it’s 52 volumes divided into 13 series. I started out with the 13 series idea and then decided to keep adding volumes. But 52 is a bit too daunting, so maybe I’ll advertise it as 13 volumes XD.

@gracie-j

So longest I’ve written is a little over 50,000 words (in a first draft of a series I’m not currently working on. And some of those words we me just trying to make the word count so I’d add things 😂😂)

@devastate-lasting

Goodness!!! 3 million?! And 10 years?! Wow!! You are definitely committed!

and nice synopses!

I hope this next…[Read more]

@gracie-j Oh boy. Oh boy. That second one is, uh, a very tempting situation, but as of right now I can’t think of any pairings of hero/villain that aren’t two guys or related. Well, maybe for my other project, where I kinda ship my lawful evil with my chaotic good…

Like, I’m sure that most of my characters are prepared to be rejected by their…[Read more]

@kathleenramm Recently I was looking at a really pretty piece of art and I wanted to write a story off of it but I couldn’t think of one so I set it as my desktop wallpaper and then last week I woke up in the middle of the night with an epiphany of the story I wanted to tell…

But art, watching movies, and listening to music are all probably…[Read more]

@gracie-j So far as I’ve calculated if I’m writing in a 200 pg wide ruled 8.5×11 inch notebook it usually ends up being maybe 60,000, 65,000? But since I’m switching to college ruled next year I can probably get more in, so…maybe over 70,000. Thirteen Ways is currently calculated as going to have over 3 million words, and Mafia is probably g…[Read more]

@gracie-j Both those options sound quite horrendous. I don’t recall if I’ve ever made any character of mine take a bath before either. Hmm, I wonder if they do… Your questions make me add to my world-building. Thank you.

Anyway, probably coffee. It’s hot, anyway. Also Rolo would sell his soul for coffee. Well, maybe not his soul. But…[Read more]

@gracie-j Whoa, those are historical novels that I’d read.

I might have given synopsizes for my things, maybe not. But here goes nothing. (I’ll make up new stuff as the old ones are outdated. Let’s see how well I can do when put on the spot.)

Thirteen Ways to Infinity:

Magic Users. The most blessed and most cursed of all those created…blessed…[Read more]

@gracie-j

Nice and awesome summary!!

Goodness your writing just in that is incredible!!

I have a summary for my standalone (or synopsis. Whatever lol.) and a logline. They aren’t perfect obviously.

I have a sorta logline for the first series book too, and a working series name (just so I can call it something other then #SecretProject, which i…[Read more]

@gracie-j James would babysit two kids, Christopher would rather housesit for a hoarder, Ghost would rather change her full name.

Would your character rather be best at balancing a spoon on their nose or the best at high opera singing?