Faith Q.

@Emily, hey! Yes, I’m here!

@lady-iliara Les Mis is awesome. I thought the movie was pretty good too! Have you ever read the book?

@sarah-anson Welcome!!! I actually think I’m prepared for NaNo. Maybe, kinda… I’m in Australia, so it’s actually started for us here!!

@that_writer_girl_99 NEWSIES!!!!! I also do like Dear Evan Hanson. 😀

@lady-iliasa Ooh, Mary Poppins is pretty cool! I got see it several years ago at the Australian Capitol theatre, which was awesome. I love Sound of Music as well, but I don’t really like the musical aspect of it? Which I know doesn’t make sense, but I love the story and think the music and songs leave something to be desired. 😀 Have you ever…[Read more]

@Emily no worries, I’ll be here around 11:30ish, no idea what that is in your time, but a bit over an hour from now. 😀 I couldn’t remember who was doing NaNo, so I just tagged the usual people. 😀

@emily @kballan @catwing @everyoneelse! NaNo is upon us!!!!! Or upon me, I don’t know about you. Would anyone care to join me for a writing spree in two hours or so? Anyone is welcome!

@lady-iliara greetings from a humble infp. Since we’re talking about it, I think i only scored between 60-70 percent introverted, but i feel a lot more introverted than that.
Ooh, you like musicals? Me too! Which ones?
I think i vaguely remember the Mistmantle chronicles. Did it have a squirrel MC called Urchin?
Wow all those writing projecta…[Read more]

@daeus I would definitely pick that book yp based on the cover. Its really cool 🙂 i approve.

@ethryndal tests are a big one. Also magical items, cruel stepmothers/wicked enchantresses. Also grusome endings. People being turned into animals. The kings third son being better than the rest. Plot points that make no sense and great coincidences. Those are some of the things I think of.

Okay, so that didn’t work. anybody know why?

May I just say that this thread is amazing!! Why have I never bothered to post on it before? I do lots of collages for my novels. I probably spend too much time on them, to be honest.
@dragon-snapper lovely work. It’s so aesthetic (I love aesthetics!) and sci-fi-y.
@ingridrd nice work! I love it’s cold feel.
@Emily ooh, lighthouses! I love…[Read more]

@kballen sorry it’s taken me so long to reply to you! I’m doing NaNo this year. What’s your name on the site? I’ll add you as a buddy. 😀 The best thing I can recommend (I haven’t done NaNo before but I did Camp NaNo in April and got 50,000 words) is 1. plan. even if you prefer just winging it, make some sort of outline or plot. Do exercises to…[Read more]

@dekreel, The Bible is my favourite, but other than that my top ones would have to be
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (its technically one book, so that saves me from choosing which of the three is my favourite)
Little Women by Louisa May Allcott
Through Gates of Splendour by Elisabeth Elliot

But I do have…[Read more]

@Dekreel I agree with everything @kate-flournoy and @jane-maree have said so far. Writing on paper is a good idea for the first draft. In fact, that’s what I’ve done for a lot of my novels. I write the first draft in a notebook and then edit it as I type it up.
I know it can be hard to fight those perfectionist urges, but honestly it’s a bad idea…[Read more]

@catwing I do like easter eggs (of both the dairy variety and the hidden one). I often put them in my own stories!
Good night (sounds so weird saying that. Its lunch time here ) good job! I FINISHED MY OUTLINE! I’m very excited!
All right, signing off now.

@catwing well i can’t read the sexond book till I’ve read the first!

@emily you write hf? I love historical and I write a lot of war stories, it was kind of an obsession.
@catwing make frogs happy?? *frowns to herself* what? I am really anxious to read this now!

@emily I’m currently editing but once I’ve done half an hour of editing I’ll do some outlining for my NaNo novel.
It can be really hard to finish a project, especially when its something so long and time consuming as a novel, but the feeling of havinv finished it is absolutely amazing. Its definitely worth pushing through even when you don’t like…[Read more]