Faith Kindred

@dragon-snapper Good set of focusing questions and answers there. I like the diversity of answers. I presume you’re defining pride slightly-differently than most definitions in order to defend a positive use of it?

@winter-rose Poor alpha reader. Alright. See you around.

@winter-rose Here. Have some lemonade. *hands you barrel*

@winter-rose Hmm. Hopefully bittersweet, not just bitter?

@winter-rose Yep.

Oh, hey everybody. I’m beta reading now.

@Rachelle WOW. Her dress. How did you make it look like textured fabric??? Textures are the one thing I always struggled with. Good job. That’s… wow. Good job. 😀

@Rachelle WOW. Her dress. How did you make it look like textured fabric??? Textures are the one thing I always struggled with. Good job. That’s… wow. Good job. 😀

Thanks for the questions @audrey-caylin and @hope! I’ll be sure to address them at today’s meeting.

Also, everyone should have gotten the link in your email, but just in case anyone missed it, the Q&A will be going live at kingdompen.org/theme-mastery-qa

Ah. Well then. There you have it.

@daeus
I believe you have it written correctly. This has always been a point of confusion for me too, but I’m fairly certain that the dialogue should be capitalized and surrounded with quotations. 🙂

*is suddenly smitten with doubt in everything she’s ever learned as she realizes she doesn’t know*

@Daeus *chokes on snack* Aaaaaand this is why I don’t normally pick favorites. XD

“Fire is set to devastate the world and you are offering me chocolate?”
“It tastes good, my dear. Relax, would you? It’s only the earth.”

@kate-flournoy You have no respect for small dragons.

@ethryndal That’s awesome. Like I said to Audrey, it’s awesome to have role models you see and interact with on a regular basis–especially when they have to overcome struggles like chronic health problems. Great example!

@dragon-snapper Certainly! Here are three different answers I came up with.

– Pride is simply a way of recognizing your strengths and helps you build a confident persona.
– Internal pride doesn’t affect someone as long as they make sure they don’t act pridefully toward others.
– Pride is always destructive and will ruin all your relationships in life.

@jenali Haha, that’s great you’ve already been applying this to characters. Putting characters in a position where they can see the harms their actions are causing is a great way to induce change.

@jenali Yes; that is the unfortunate truth about what happens when you learn new concepts in the middle of the writing process!

The character arc outline here looks good. I like the fact that you included an example of someone he can look up to in the midpoint arc. Using other characters as examples is a great method of bringing about change, and…[Read more]