Faith Kindred

Oh, gosh I have the same thing happening. XD Cobalt’s supposed to be the secondary character to Jean and he’s totally taking over and running away with the show.
YES. Though Cobalt doesn’t usually notice when he says something deep. 😛
No, he’s actually in my first book, the sci-fi. I’ll try and get a picture of the cover here:

It majorly needs…[Read more]

@Ezra—oops. Sorry. I thought the new person’s name was Joy…
Forgive me, Ezra, and forgive me, Joy. Ack! I mean, forgive me, Kate! Or which are you, anyway?

@Daeus— well, it’s good to know I”m not alone. 😛

Welcome Joy! And hurrah to the oldie Oyaners! Glad to have on the KP forum! 😀

@David… please don’t be toast. We have too many weird persons around this forum already. 😛

@Rosey— they certainly do steal the spotlight! Denholm is the favorite by majority vote, and nothing I do for my poor real MC will change that. *sigh* Poor darling Harold. Everything conspires against you.
Also those jokers are the kind of characters…[Read more]

Wait a minute, I’m not a OYANer or a coffee drinker either. Especially not the latter. Tea and chocolate for me.

Well… lovely. So’s Denholm. 😀

Well, then. Now I’m even more interested in Denholm. XP Those guys kinda tend to steal the spotlight and become a reader favorite. That explains Denholm’s instant popularity on here. 😉

Kate, Cobalt is your favorite kind of joker. I love those guys, so I just had to make one. XD

Well… lovely. So’s Denholm. 😀 And good point about the understatements. That can really be effective too.

Glad I was able to be of service, Hannah!

@Daeus— the ghostwriter greets you.

@Ezra— me? N….nooooo… that’s not me. I seem to be the only writer here who was never an OYANer and doesn’t drink coffee. 😛

@Joy— how about you, Joy? Do you drink coffee?

Welcome to KP, David! Join the crazies.

Historical fiction, sci-fi, western, humor… and dipping my toes into an obscure genre of fantasy. So yeah. I’ll borrow your phrase that I’m a fiction writer. Good answer. ;P

Hey, you’ve published? I’d love to hear about your experience. Did you self publish or have a publisher? How did you advertise? How’s it turning out?

And say, what’s the historical fiction book on?

*counts on fingers* Looks like we started writing around the same time…
Welcome, Joy! *waves*

Welcome aboard, David! (*looks at my picture* that was oddly appropriate…)
Hope you enjoy it here!
So, what have you written? Book-wise, short-story-wise, poem-wise… what sort of writer are you?

@ezra-wilkinson
Cobalt Girl. I wasn’t around a lot. I’m a friend of silverstorm’s, so I only dropped in to say hi to her, put up a few critiques and ask Josie to do my cover.

Yeah, that’s Kate’s ghost there. She really died back in the 1600s when folks still talked like that, but, well, stranger things happen here.

Gross understatements in conversations actually help the humor a lot. Or just observe the humor you like and imitate it. A good representation of my method of humor in dialog is my story on here “The Day Santa Wore Carhartts”. Mostly between Grant and Rob.
It’s also best to make your characters clash in funny ways. I have my characters Cobalt (the…[Read more]

Ooh… what a deep question. Humor is not my strongest point, but I flatter myself I can do it well enough, so I’ll share some tips. Maybe…
Okay, first tip: inside jokes. Often these are driven home by a look or a secret smile or some subtextual passing of information between two characters.
As a quick example, say one of your characters once…[Read more]

Greetings, O Shadow Hawke. Join us. Our joy is immeasurable. We are immensely gratified that such a one as thou hast seen fit to count thyself amongst us… one of us… in madness and the joy of madness mingled together with laughter, that our fellowship may be the fellowship of all things mad and beautiful.

That… was totally weird. I did not…[Read more]

Five year, wow. You’re far ahead of me. Welcome!